are you still impressed with the wrightgrip? and would you recommend it?

Better than your palm did 😆

My money is still with Pittsburgh brand. For the money you pay who cares it brakes or bends. You can always run down to your local Harbor Freight and replace it. Plus I don't think I would ever put that kind of torque on my wrench but it's nice to know when it will give. Bear, how come Harbor Freight don't put out Harbor Freight t-shirts or hats, I would gladly wear their merchandise. Great videos, keep up the good work. You'll get to a million subscribers soon enough!

@@xephael3485 - That was "paw." ; )

shoot me a email it's in my description

Thinman I have a set It's rewarding to buy American

Thinman True.Wright caters to a different market than automotive. Great tools but not much of an impact among The automotive trade. Near imposssible to find anywhere.

@@craigjorgensen4637 I buy them on eBay. Often they are gov't surplus.

Craig Jorgensen They have a online catalog that’s easy to use. Get the part # then call Harry Epstein’s. They have a web site where you can make a purchase or to get there number. I’m old school so I always call. Nice people= very helpful

Thinman Their impact sockets are USA made and tougher than a woodpecker’s lips. Priced about the same as the Taiwan stuff flooding the market.

True that

also very impressed with the torque adapter! what brand is that??

True story there along with the adapters.

The Den of Tools kkkk

This was the reply I came to make lol! Maybe get a Titan wrench vs Titan hex key!

Cami Crocs are mandated by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures as required footwear by certified testing officials.

Not when you write down the wrong numbers. 1528 is actually 152.8 ft lbs. This guy shouldn't be reviewing tools.

That's all I think through this whole thing. It was driving me crazy watching the back leg lift up.

Youd think it would be common sense :p

Not to mention he is shaking his hand and saying ouch every time because common sense didn’t tell him to grab a thick towel to absorb some of the rigidity of the wrenches.

Their customer service is unbeatable! Been using them for 2 years now and no matter what happens, i always have a new tool within 3 days. They're gonna be a top brand VERY soon!

I was in a pinch some months ago, and needed some 3/8 metric sockets. Ordered a deep and shallow Tekton sets. Thoroughly impressed with them. Would buy again.

The Tekton screwdrivers are USA made and have a very useful triangular ergo grip. Very nice value.

I started buying Tekton tools - I'm addicted now!

You will love them and customer service is the best. I was doubtful when I first started putting together a 2nd tool chest for my other shop but could't be happier. You will get a lot of flack from the Snap-On, Proto, Mac, SK fan boys, but you will be happy and if anyone is building an extensive set of tools they will have enough for a nice vacation left over, lol.

my thought as well

Good point!

You didn't know the bear used to compete in strongman challenges? He rolls cars for fun! 🤣

As I stated I didn't have much faith in the accuracy but in repeatability it was accurate enough for comparison testing

Agreed, the numbers are off by at least a factor of 10. Can't apply that much bending with a two foot pipe either.

@@denoftools non accurate repeatability, sounds accurate smfh..

I have some Wright, very well made. I'm also an S-K fan. I found a SK ratchet on the road, called them up, got a repair kit in 3 days and in 10 minutes, I had a working ratchet. No questions asked.

My personal favorite.

Curious to see who you go with.

DwightM S agreed!

Yes this was a useless test! If you're trying to break lug nuts with a wrench. Then you need to go buy more tools and you deserve your knuckles to be all beat up. Sorry I'm done

Exactly. Which 10mm wrench will fit into a tight place on your engine to remove a bolt or nut? That's the tool you need.

....or if you want to make a chrome boomerang. :-)

Also probably easy to get replacement after you do.

Custom offset, you may need just that angle one day. Ring broke, she's in the scrap bin. Bend is better for many reasons.

Back in college, I needed a distributor wrench and just took a cheap 9/16 and bent over the combo end with a ball peen hammer. I did that right up against the curb in the parking lot. Worked great.

I use Pittsburgh exclusively for all my DIY. All my tools work great and never failed despite the abuse I gave them

@oShane Kasper they aren’t that bad, honestly should be the standard for garage mechanics and DIY mechanics. But as heavy equipment mechanic, they don’t hold up. So professionally, I wouldn’t recommend HF tools.

I have pounding with a sledge hammer will do the trick. heating to make a curved wrench doesn't work to good on them.

LOLL

That’s not how steel works. Learn about yield and tensile strengths.

You can generate 900 foot lbs with your hand? Complete opposite impression: Correctly hardened steel snaps, rather than bends. To *science* it speaks to the hardness and WEAR resistance of the tools. The ones that bent will wear faster, and will spread the jaws more. Its not an opinion, its physics.

Snap-off There are many ways of hardening. Case hardened parts can retain a lot of ductility. And when was the last time you wore out a combination wrench? That is pretty funny.

@@LTVoyager Anyone with any experience with older *real* "chinesium" wrenches has seen a 12 point box end strip out on a hardened fastener. Case hardening is for knives or other items you WANT to be able to withstand bending. You don't want wrenches bending. The wright was made correctly and had the correct failure mode. The funny part is "hand in a cast". Hex bits and torx bits are made of s2 steel, even harder, even more brittle, for the purpose. . . . of wear resistance, Even properly hardened CR-V or CR-MO will *wear* down at the points of those bits.

Snap-off You can believe what you want, but brittle failures are almost always bad. A ductile failure is almost always preferred, particularly when a human body part is what is applying the force. This is why reinforced concrete has both minimum and maximum amounts of rebar. In the early days, people figured more rebar was better. Then after a few brittle failures of reinforced concrete beams, it was decided that having some ductility and warning of impending failure was a much better deal. Same with wrenches. Once the wrench has exceeded the maximum torque it is designed to apply, a ductile failure is by far the preferred way to fail during over stress.

@@LTVoyager Ok you can believe you're saving yourself from non-existent injury, and I'll believe wrench failure injuries are never a failure on the part of the wrench but rather a failure of understanding on the part of the operator. Breaking is never a concern for me, because all my 10mm combination wrench needs are far less than 900 ft lbs.

Would have been interesting to see how a Snap On 6 point would have done-(if they have that size)-although I think they are slightly thicker at the corners than their 12 points----yes they do have 10 mm.(found mine!) (of course 12 point are more convenient and usually are plenty capable in the real world unless you are dealing with RUST or already rounded nut

A non-ratcheting 6 point box end will be bad in tight spaces. You’ll need a 60° opening

Decimal points, metric or imperial...not that important. Just ask NASA 🤣

xephael Yup $125 million dollar error no big deal for NASA however there probably was a decimal point error in that reporting😂🤣

Well as I said I didn't have faith in the overall accuracy of the stork meter but instead in its repeatability that's making it useful as a comparison tool even if the foot pound rating this off it's usually off across the board at the same amount

The Den of Tools Totally under stand but 749 is not seven hundred forty nine. It’s really 74.9 which is all I’m say. You keep say numbers in the hundreds when they are tens and thousands when they are really hundreds. That meter is consistent just won’t do the high numbers you said in the video.

ClientGraphics You sure that’s right? In the beginning he was pushing down by hand with most of his weight and getting 300+. So you’re saying his weight pushing down on a 5 inch leaver only created 30lb of torque??? Not bashing. Just seems like 300lbs, not 30lbs, sounds correct in that scenario.

Same here. To heck with the wrenches. What would it take to make that socket fail?

Glad you enjoy it I really love mine

The Den of Tools Even skeptical husband is very impressed with the new high grade stuff at HF. I was told they are only getting 2 or 3 of these miter saw stands at a time and they sell out the day, or day after, they arrive... (and the other models of stands go unsold. Our store has sold zero of the new budget stand... zero!) We lucked out, had the money available and just drove over to buy it... It was the last one in the store, .. part of a batch having just arrived earlier in the day.

It beat mac too!

Joe Smith those Mac knuckle savers are junk and overpriced. The precision torque wrenches are much stronger

To be fair if you look at the sk wrench at the end of the video it’s BARELY bent, I think the ups guy let go of it a little sooner than our host would have, who would only stop after they were very bent. I think he would have wrung higher numbers out of it, in comparison to the other wrenches.

Now sk is Chinese owned....you can almost see how that's going to go...

How do you remove those big plugs in tanks that are like green loctited in? Is a drill, sawzall, and hammer/chisel the only way?

@@snap-off5383 heat and a lot of force. Impact drivers or you drill and tap them clean. End of the day, if it jams , force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing any way.

Yes! Ken i think your rite

I AGREE! I think it was inch pounds and a mistake has been made.

Old craftsman screwdrivers are the toughest I've ever used. I abused my dad's set back in the 80s when I was a kid and they Are still good to this day.

You know you want a big shinny set of Tektons Justin!

Yes it's not terribly I could pass that but it is consistently inaccurate which makes it still usable for comparison testing

LOL, like armwrestling your dad. Titan: "you can go any time you want my young cheater pipe."

None of these made it to 600 to 700 ft lbs. There is a decimal point missing. The numbers that say 672 was actually 67.2 ft lbs. If anyone here thinks a 10 mm wrench made it to 600 ft lbs they don't know much about being a mechanic.

I was thinking the exact same thing. As he said "If you are reaching for a cheater bar your reaching for the wrong tool". So any of these wrenches would have held up to normal pressure by hand, however over time the softer steel would have worn away faster like you said.

False, harder steels don’t necessarily have greater toughness than softer steels

@@matthewwaskosky9242 Who the hell said anything about "toughness"??? Since you apparently want to get pedantic here, allow me.... Steel alloys contain iron and other metals that create interstitial point defects in the metal, which are basically breaks in the formation of the crystal lattice structure; these create shear points which raise the strength of the alloy. The more of these (ala "high" carbon steel vs "mild" carbon steel), the harder and stronger the alloy becomes. This is desirable to a point, at which ductility and toughness become a concern for practical use. So, while the metal gets stronger, you lose ductility and toughness; and run the risk of a brittle fracture. You can compare the point of failure using whats known as Youngs Modulus and following the modulus of elasticity... ...so because these cheaper tools are typically made with lower grade steels; they are more ductile and tough, but are far more prone to undergoing plastic deformation, which can deform and ruin the tool; causing it to operate outside its defined operating range; this is why monkey wrenches are often misused and round over bolts. So yes, these cheaper tools are certainly more "tough"; they have a much lower elastic limit in tradeoff. That better mate? That what youre going for? I'd go into temperatures effect on youngs modulus but that seems a *bit* out of the scope here, dont ya think? Cheers ;)

@@JgHaverty yes, smaller carbon atoms fill the spaces between the bulk element atoms to create an alloy stiffer than the bulk atoms alone while generally decreasing the amount of strain energy that can be absorbed by the material. If it were me I wouldn’t want the “strongest” tool in the tool bin, because I’d rather have a 20% lower yield strength if it means I am avoiding sudden brittle failure and a potential for injury.

@@matthewwaskosky9242 ...no.... I literally said it in the previous post. When steel is heated to a certain point it becomes eutectic, and the carbon atoms are free to create interstitial defects in the crystal lattice of the steel; they dont "fill tiny gaps". Thats just a completely inaccurate way to look at that. When you quench the steel after heating, the lattice freezes and the carbon atoms get locked in place. This DOESNT make it unable to take more straining force; this means when it does strain it has less ductility so wont undergo plastic deformation like a lower quality steel will when its stressed over its elasticity point. Saying you want "lower yield strength" shows that you have a really incomplete understanding of this. Furthermore, when these cheaper tools do get strained at much lower forces; that strain causes the metal to work harden; so the tensile strength of them winds up going down leading to that "dangerous brittle fracture" you seem to be so worried about.... Anyway,. Im an engineer dude... Im sure you're used to people "google fighting", but this stuff is ABSOLUTELY my wheel house lol. Pulling an arbitrary "20%" out of your butt is also silly. All that aside, the only tools you're EVER gonna "brittle fracture" are long handed tools youre going to have a lot of leverage on, and .... if youre able to manage to "hurt yourself" like that, then... maybe dont use tools...... In memory, the only tools I've snapped were cheap (and small) crap sockets that werent hardened properly; or the steel wasnt made right. Either way.

Most Milwaukee products are made in China. They are using any cashflow they get to build their military, intimidate the rest of the world, and steal our technology. I choose not to participate in supporting that nation and resist the temptation of their currently unrealistically low prices.

Yeah was a complete waste of time. Doesn't show anything.

His leverage was off for every wrench

Lol, the numbers were less with him wincing in pain.

Chinese plating and metallurgy is subpar. I don’t trust anything from that country. Even their stainless steel rusts after a short time.

john remington a regular Snap on flank drive plus will out perform any flare nut wrench for some reason. I’ve had dozens of guys in the shop ask me to borrow mine after rounding trans lines. If you can afford them, get em

Nobody does

@Jomama None will break under -Normal Use- They all come with a Warning to "Never use a Cheater Pipe" I have put Wrenches to the test, & if I have an Inkling it's pushed to the limit (trust me I don't want to lose an Eye either) I switch to a Socket & Johnson Bar or Heat the thing up & try again with the Wrench, but not lean on a Pipe. (-Snap- followed by me crashing into something not my idea of fun at work either) Broken a # of Nut & Bolt Heads in the past but only broke 1 Socket & widened Wrench Jaws.

Wright beats my older Craftsman which is sort of O.K.

I agree, the last digit must be a decimal

Yep

In a 10mm it depends on if its 8.8 or 10.0.

@@ifitsnotbrokenfixit1193 Grade 8 ~ 10.9

grade 8 is for SAE bolts. I just did the calculation. An M6 bolt has a 10mm head and a dry non-plated Class 12.9 M6 bolt should let go at 22 ft-lbs lol XD

Grade 8.8 is around 65.0 ft-lbs and Grade 10.9 is around 95.0 ft-lbs on course dry threads. These numbers are general numbers and not precise.

@@ClientGraphics Did you post for an M10 bolt? M10 doesn't have 10mm head. I just did a quick search and first 3 charts were www.dansmc.com/torque_chart.htm/ www.imperialsupplies.com/pdf/A_FastenerTorqueCharts.pdf cncexpo.com/MetricBoltTorque.aspx Failure calculated out to about 170% of suggested torque. Those torques are way high for little M6 bolt.

Agree 100%, I 've busted my knuckles bad using my older gearwrench open ends and hated them. I ended up getting a set of Snapon flank drive plus and it made a world of difference, I'm getting the Proto Anti slip ratchet wrenches next and giving the gearwrench away.

@anonymous they say both carlye and napa on mostly all their tools

ElmoZ71 LS1 I have the sunnex impact socket set too and they’re great. They’re the same as Matco’s ADV impact sockets. Their air hammer is also one of matco’s older discontinued air hammers and it hits hard!

Reckless entertainment I forgot we also use the sunnex 1 inch drive sockets on class 8 truck lugnuts and never an issue. The Matco dealer in my area has pretty much been run out of town for swapping Matco stuff for gearwrench and other shady things. Ignersoll rand is my go to for air tools,

Are they different countries of origin? Do you happen to know where the wrenches are made? I'm pretty sure the sockets are made in taiwan in the "blue point" factory.

Snap-off the sunnex wrenches say “drop forged China” on one side and the size and brand name on the other. The impact sockets say Taiwan

Sunex hand tools have a nice polished chrome finish, unfortunately they are useless JUNK. Bought a cheap set of Sunex box wrenches new in package. I didn't keep the receipt and didn't register the tools because who is going to bother with going through that kind of trouble for a cheap set of box wrenches? First time I attempted to use the wrenches the 13mm was just not getting any bite on the bolt. I took a good look at it only to discover that the the 13 mm ring HAD NO TEETH! It was just a round hole. No, the points weren't sheared off, there weren't any. To the credit of Sunex, the chrome inside the ring was perfect. This wrench-like thing was very nice to look at, but I couldn't actually use it to...you know...loosen or tighten nuts 'n bolts. I also couldn't get it replaced because I didn't have the receipt and didn't register the tools for warranty service. I took all 4 and tossed them, even the 'good' ones seems to have a lot of slop when on the bolt. Sunex, please just go away.

Correct, of the USA brands Wight Tools are tops and cost WAY less than the Wrencher Status brand like "Snap-On".

Yep! Wrightgrip2.0

Often infinity if the guy doesn't want to come just to warranty a tool he might not even have sold

I have tools from all three. Mac is usually quickest followed by Matco then Snap-on

Or you can just go down to the Harbor Freight store and have your replacement the same day.

Mike Frech then you’d be doing it a lot depending on which field you work in. I’m in a diesel shop so my Pittsburgh’s didn’t last long although I was hoping they’d last longer. Switched to tekton and they’ve been great

Oh HELL YEAH. High five for best tool video idea EVER. Warranty race!

@Paul Hopkins industrial, commercial, government/military. USA company. Illinois. Can usually find new on eBay.

Jeff Norbert Wright is in Ohio. SK in Illinois

Harold Dossett The Quinn meter is rated for a Torque range of 29.5 to 147.6 ft. lbs. Notice how I have decimal points in my numbers so does that meter so all the numbers need to be divided by 10 to be accurate. I’ve used a torque meter thousands of times. I’m even doing a NIST Calibration lab tour and test next week that I hope to do video on!

Hey, did this on the video but the accuracy of that meter and high pressure is suspect however it is accurately inaccurate is it makes sense in other words it's inaccurate across-the-board thus making it still viable as a comparison tool

Indeed, just remember powered paragliding is not the safest recreational activity around.

The newer mac wrenches with the precision torque basically flank drive plus design and the I beam grip area are 10x better than the knuckle saver he tested no one I've ever known who bought the knuckle savers liked them but the precision torques are amazing yet quite expensive in my opinion I don't care what torque the wrench fails at I care more about at what torque does the open end fail or spread. On a small side note you can also get the precision torque style wrenches from proto as well same exact wrenches, same thing with the newer ratcheting one I cant remember what they are called but still about the same price either way.