Why would you put more than 200lbs on a hand ratchet? That's what breaker bars and torque wrenches are for....noone in their right mind would use this to, let's say break a bolt torqued at 150lbs+
i remember the time i had a chinese wrench on the end of a 5 foot pipe with a rust welded bolt, it ofcourse held up for a while but then i sayed "fuck it lets break a good one" and pulled out an old craftsman and it actually worked, . . .now that i think of it i didnt have much to lose cause i could have gone to smears and reafed at em till i got a free new one
i forgot the part where i broke off the end of the chinese wrench but yea, you get what you pay for but it wasnt bad for what it was, and now it got made into a shank with a 15mm round hole wrench on the back end and it sits on my desk for me to look back and remember the good old times times in the shop i fussed and cussed hoping it would somehow help loosen the bolt on whatever home made mechanical incest abortion i was torturing for the day . . .I PIECE OF SHIT ASS BIKE!!!. . .I HATE THIS GAY WHORE LEAFBLOWER!!. . .memories
220 pounds on a 3/8 inch drive ratchet and calls it a test I guarantee you he doesn't show these videos to Lowes when he takes Kobalt wrench back for the 100% guarantee I actually spent 9 Minutes of my life listening to this guy
Roman, nice torture test man. I enjoy watching these and the rest of all your videos due to the fact that you have already done the homework and now is viewers know what to buy for our hard earned money. This kobalt ratchet I thought was a disappointment... Thanks again for the great video and please keep them coming...
Gearwrench 120XP next! Ha. Thanks for the video man. I definitely saw that outcome coming... you say the finish on the Kobalt is nice, but it's only nice for a week or two. I can't stand the Kobalt. Carlisle is definitely great stuff.
I love my Pittsburgh pro ratchets 😃just keep them well lubricated. Mostly every ratchet cheap expensive Pittsburgh,kobalt snap on etc comes from the factory poorly lubed. As soon as I purchase my ratchets I take the time to open them clean out whatever if any of the factory lube that’s already in them and re-lube with SUPER LUBE. The key is not to over do it with the lubrication like this one TH-camr demonstrated in one of his videos. He was packing the daylights out of his ratchets in grease with a grease gun smh 🤦♂️ I use my finger tip and apply it just to cover the teeth and a light film on the front and back of the gear and the pawls and wherever there’s metal to metal contact. Btw SNAP ON includes a tiny tube of SUPER LUBE in their rebuild kits but I’m sure you know this,anyway don’t mind the Haters I understand why you do these videos and I appreciate that. Thanks 🙏 for the video.
Also the Pittsburg pro cr-mo impact sockets are just as good as any other company that makes them. Anybody that believes different is a moron. People think because you spent 6 times the price that makes them better quality lol. If you believe that then your a fool lmao.
Nice review.But to do it right,since u invest so much in this,You should use a torque measuring device and show on camera at what torque each ratchet breaks
That kobalt ratchet is a great deal. $30 and it takes a ton of abuse to make it fail. That would be hard to break under normal to severe duty. Very impressed with the value you showed this ratchet has. Definitely proves that you don’t need a $200 ratchet to work professionally.
i read somewhere that very early cobalt tools were made by snap-on, but before that i remember seeing them at lowes and thinking "these sure look and feel like snap-on" wtf, but not so prices!
breaking into cars is really easy XD especially if they're old. if they're like 2,000 and older you can usually get them open with a shaved key and you can even start them too LOL. but i have a newer truck, you get tired of waiting hours and paying 55$ every time you lock your keys in the car, so all you need to do is keep a little wedge 1-2" wide and a coat hanger in the bed of your truck j.i.c. and wedge the top corner of the door open and stick the coat hanger through the gap and reach down & grab the door handle and just pull it open and it will unlock the door and open it. it works best with 2 hangers strapped together because it takes a little force to open the door when it's locked, and sometimes the hangers bend. i've locked my keys in the car several times. this used to take me hours. the first time i did it it was at work... and i worked at a grocery store and it was like 10 pm and it looked like i was breaking into a car on the edge of the parking lot lol... took me 3 hours to finally open it. i can do it in 10 minutes now XD... i keep a spare key in my wallet also though even after having to do this 3 or 4 times, the shit gets old... real old.
I have this same ratchet and I've put it threw alot of abuse with torque and it's held up well. the harbor freight however broke the first day in the shop.
Ive seen a Pittsburg pro ratchet break loose a bolt that actually snapped a Snap On ratchet. The teeth wore out on the Snap on then it just kept skipping the teeth. I think some of the Pittsburg pro stuff can be a hit or a miss.
in my opinion if the tools break beyond their rating point then they've done their job. A $20 ratchet can work as good as a $200 ratchet. If you have to use a pipe+your body weight as leverage then you need a breaker bar.
Now that you've tested nearly all of the tools little boyz use to change the oil in Mommy's Prius while wearing a rechargeable heated hoodie...AHEM. Bust out some SK and Wright and lets continue ;-)
trouble is who will fund it? snap on are not always going to replace their items, i know ive had more than one refusal to replace honest broken tools, which entirely put me off them, in fact ive had several companies refuse to comply with their own warranty on tools i did not abuse, so i buy from anyone these days not expecting anything like 'service' because everyone is just a middleman putting 400 percent on the price of a container full from china
This ratchet is great. I put a 3 foot cheater bar on it pushing 200-230 pounds at the end that's around 600-690 pounds and it didn't break or bend on me. I think you got a defective one or the new made in china one.
I don't see the point of this test. No one would ever use this tool to put their full body weight on it. Anybody with any sense would use a breaker bar. So the mid grade breaks the gears and Snap on breaks the quick release 40 or 50 lbs later for something you shouldn't be doing anyway - for 10X the cost.
Just broke my Kobalt 24" 1/2 drive ratchet.. 2 months old.. junk! Took it back for a replacement..but.. Lowes can't order one and can't stock one.. Craftsman is taking over.. I was able to get in store credit.. Guess Kobalt is done..?
to be honest ive put 200 plus lbs on a cornwell and havent broke it. but it does happen and i hate when people say u wpnt put that mich weight on a ratchet. alot of professional mechanics dont use breaker bars.
I'm pretty sure that rachets have a pounds per pressure limit depending on which one is bought. I've got all different kinds of ratchets from Duralast to MAC. I've never broken a ratchet because there are specific tools for each job desired like when loosening train wheels, you wouldn't use a ratchet if you had one big enough. why? because a ratchet has many parts and for that specific job you'd need a SOLID tool, but I guess I was taught smarter than a lot of peaople, and that is sad if that is the case.
+1 for the gearwrench 120xp ratchet I abuse (use) the shit out of mine daily and have in some situations backed up bolts and ran them on with my snap on mg725 @ 145 psi not a failure yet going on two years now
My Kobalt 1/4 broke trying to get a seized bolt off. I couldn't have had more than 50lbs on it. Time to warranty, put it in a back up bin, and forget about it. They should feel ashamed charging what they do.
Any ratchet will last in the torque limits that it's designed to... meaning don't use a quarter inch ratchet to tighten your lug nuts.. don't use a half inch ratchet as a breaker bar... use a breaker bar ... they're all adequate to do the job that they were designed to do... so if you want to spend $200 on a Snap-on ratchet I'll spend $12 on a Pittsburgh ratchet and as long as they're both being used within the limits they were designed to be used they will both last the same amount of time...
well it did pretty much hold your weight, i tested a couple of no-name 3/8 ratchets that probably came with cheap kits from the 80's, before china was in on it, so very likely taiwan. i got nowhere near my weight, i put them in the vice to pull on them, probably 60lbs of effort twisted off the (non quick release) solid end, it was a very soft failure, like unhardend steel. much less effort than i was expecting and you felt it going as it twisted. another no-name long 3/8 ratchet jammed inside the head using it for wheel nuts (yeah i know! lol) but at least the jam meant it got the job finished
I dont see the point doing this "torture tests" whats the point? In my huble opinion, you have cheap, best, and better ratchets. depends on how much you want to spend. right? most of rachets have decent type of quality controls. CHeap I would say. Duralast, HF, etc, Better, Tekton, Mac Tools, Gearwrench and Better of Best. SK, Snap On, Carlyle among others. Either is by money or preference and what kind of use youre going to give to the tool. Im no expert my any means. just given my own opinion. Thanks!!!
People dont intentionally break tools they take care of them now you want stuff tougher get Wright or Mac or Williams vintage Craftsman and Snap On is not as good as MAC
Hey RomanAutomotive if you have one and get the chance could you torture test the pittsburgh 1/2 extendable ratchet? Ive been using one professionally just for fun and it has exceeded my expectations. www.harborfreight.com/12-in-drive-extendable-ratchet-62311.html
Too much time spent taking about opinions Just break them and let them speak for themselves. Damn 16 minutes of just talking I just wanted to know how they compared.
I don't think that bolt will ever come lose. You've broken like 10 ratchets now. Time to use a sledgehammer
hahhaa
Or round off.
Lucky singh Time 2 use heat
Why would you put more than 200lbs on a hand ratchet? That's what breaker bars and torque wrenches are for....noone in their right mind would use this to, let's say break a bolt torqued at 150lbs+
yeah roman
I like ur videos but damn its gust a 3/8 lol I don't even like lows
i remember the time i had a chinese wrench on the end of a 5 foot pipe with a rust welded bolt, it ofcourse held up for a while but then i sayed "fuck it lets break a good one" and pulled out an old craftsman and it actually worked, . . .now that i think of it i didnt have much to lose cause i could have gone to smears and reafed at em till i got a free new one
i forgot the part where i broke off the end of the chinese wrench but yea, you get what you pay for but it wasnt bad for what it was, and now it got made into a shank with a 15mm round hole wrench on the back end and it sits on my desk for me to look back and remember the good old times times in the shop i fussed and cussed hoping it would somehow help loosen the bolt on whatever home made mechanical incest abortion i was torturing for the day . . .I PIECE OF SHIT ASS BIKE!!!. . .I HATE THIS GAY WHORE LEAFBLOWER!!. . .memories
Fuk a breaker bar, I always whip out the 3/4" drive and use a cheater pipe
220 pounds on a 3/8 inch drive ratchet and calls it a test I guarantee you he doesn't show these videos to Lowes when he takes Kobalt wrench back for the 100% guarantee I actually spent 9 Minutes of my life listening to this guy
Jesus dude you had some steam to blow off and you did it all on that ratchet. Usually your torture tests are more tame than this.
Lol Good Lord This Guy's In Terrible Shape
I love the torture tests dude. I appreciate the entertainment!
I didn't realize how long it was. Sorry.
Man! You really gave that thing hell! I'm surprised it took that much abuse. Looks like Santa needs to bring you some breaker bars to torture test.
Roman, nice torture test man. I enjoy watching these and the rest of all your videos due to the fact that you have already done the homework and now is viewers know what to buy for our hard earned money. This kobalt ratchet I thought was a disappointment... Thanks again for the great video and please keep them coming...
I'm almost a little ashamed of how excited I was for this video...
When she asks “are you done yet?” & you reply “ baby we just getting started” lol hahaha 😂
I feel like this guy just gets all his aggression and rage out on these ratchets lmO
how did it feel compared to the locking flex-head matco 88? I just purchased one.
did you do those warm up practice welds next to the screw that look kinda ok, but then when you got to the screw you just blew it?tf happened man?
Gearwrench 120XP next! Ha. Thanks for the video man. I definitely saw that outcome coming... you say the finish on the Kobalt is nice, but it's only nice for a week or two. I can't stand the Kobalt. Carlisle is definitely great stuff.
I love my Pittsburgh pro ratchets 😃just keep them well lubricated. Mostly every ratchet cheap expensive Pittsburgh,kobalt snap on etc comes from the factory poorly lubed. As soon as I purchase my ratchets I take the time to open them clean out whatever if any of the factory lube that’s already in them and re-lube with SUPER LUBE. The key is not to over do it with the lubrication like this one TH-camr demonstrated in one of his videos. He was packing the daylights out of his ratchets in grease with a grease gun smh 🤦♂️ I use my finger tip and apply it just to cover the teeth and a light film on the front and back of the gear and the pawls and wherever there’s metal to metal contact. Btw SNAP ON includes a tiny tube of SUPER LUBE in their rebuild kits but I’m sure you know this,anyway don’t mind the Haters I understand why you do these videos and I appreciate that. Thanks 🙏 for the video.
dang that was quick to give out, can't wait to see the if the snap on is going to give out like Carlyle one
Don't shit yo pants now. Lol
Also the Pittsburg pro cr-mo impact sockets are just as good as any other company that makes them. Anybody that believes different is a moron. People think because you spent 6 times the price that makes them better quality lol. If you believe that then your a fool lmao.
Where have you been man!? You make fun videos!
you should do this with the craftsman version of the carlyle ratchet
i had a hard time understanding, the one with the broken teeth is snap-on? and the broken square drive is duralast or other way around?
What's better in your opinion husky or Kobolt??
Nice review.But to do it right,since u invest so much in this,You should use a torque measuring device and show on camera at what torque each ratchet breaks
That kobalt ratchet is a great deal. $30 and it takes a ton of abuse to make it fail. That would be hard to break under normal to severe duty. Very impressed with the value you showed this ratchet has. Definitely proves that you don’t need a $200 ratchet to work professionally.
i read somewhere that very early cobalt tools were made by snap-on, but before that i remember seeing them at lowes and thinking "these sure look and feel like snap-on" wtf, but not so prices!
Do it to a craftsman 3/8 flex. I use mine at work everyday and it works fine. Thanks for the vids keep the good work up
You should try that new Craftsman flex head rachet from Lowe's kinda wanna see one of those get mangled
Snap on used to make kobolt until 2002
Globalism my friend, get used to it. We already have global government.
@@RomanAutomotive we still do just don't realize it lol
breaking into cars is really easy XD especially if they're old. if they're like 2,000 and older you can usually get them open with a shaved key and you can even start them too LOL. but i have a newer truck, you get tired of waiting hours and paying 55$ every time you lock your keys in the car, so all you need to do is keep a little wedge 1-2" wide and a coat hanger in the bed of your truck j.i.c. and wedge the top corner of the door open and stick the coat hanger through the gap and reach down & grab the door handle and just pull it open and it will unlock the door and open it. it works best with 2 hangers strapped together because it takes a little force to open the door when it's locked, and sometimes the hangers bend. i've locked my keys in the car several times. this used to take me hours. the first time i did it it was at work... and i worked at a grocery store and it was like 10 pm and it looked like i was breaking into a car on the edge of the parking lot lol... took me 3 hours to finally open it. i can do it in 10 minutes now XD... i keep a spare key in my wallet also though even after having to do this 3 or 4 times, the shit gets old... real old.
NEVER KNOCK ANY TOOL THAT IS LIFETIME WARRANTY
Roman, how about a Matco ?? did you made a torture video of it ?
I have this same ratchet and I've put it threw alot of abuse with torque and it's held up well. the harbor freight however broke the first day in the shop.
you wouldn't need to put that much torque on a 3/8 ratchet that's why there's breaker bars
So on a budget just working on my own car what would you suggest
eddiekytia Gearwrench
Can you try Tekton/ do you have any experience with their tools?
I'd like to see that.
Ive seen a Pittsburg pro ratchet break loose a bolt that actually snapped a Snap On ratchet. The teeth wore out on the Snap on then it just kept skipping the teeth. I think some of the Pittsburg pro stuff can be a hit or a miss.
Could you do the gearwrench 120xp ratchet!
in my opinion if the tools break beyond their rating point then they've done their job. A $20 ratchet can work as good as a $200 ratchet. If you have to use a pipe+your body weight as leverage then you need a breaker bar.
How was the kobalt warranty? If the warranty is good then it's fine to me.
Please try a Gray ratchet, they have low tooth count, made in North America. Mine has taken a hell of abuse.
try a new pittsburgh 1/2in flex handle in this same test
Dude, save your milk, put a pipe on the ratchet handle.
Im impressed with that ugly weld on that bolt
Did my guy really pour a drink early into this video?
Lol bro gimme your address I'll send you a breaker bar..
Thumbs up for that michelada
Who is torturing who? Lol. Good video, thanks for sharing.
try using a breaker bar that should get the bold loose looks to be rust welded maybe a little penetrating oil and u won't keep breaking ratchets
Now that you've tested nearly all of the tools little boyz use to change the oil in Mommy's Prius while wearing a rechargeable heated hoodie...AHEM. Bust out some SK and Wright and lets continue ;-)
trouble is who will fund it? snap on are not always going to replace their items, i know ive had more than one refusal to replace honest broken tools, which entirely put me off them, in fact ive had several companies refuse to comply with their own warranty on tools i did not abuse, so i buy from anyone these days not expecting anything like 'service' because everyone is just a middleman putting 400 percent on the price of a container full from china
do some proto,wright,sk,williams and Armstrong test
This ratchet is great. I put a 3 foot cheater bar on it pushing 200-230 pounds at the end that's around 600-690 pounds and it didn't break or bend on me. I think you got a defective one or the new made in china one.
I was actually kind of hoping that duralast would hold up better. Seemed like a decent ratchet. Too bad it is coupled with weak teeth.
I don't see the point of this test. No one would ever use this tool to put their full body weight on it. Anybody with any sense would use a breaker bar. So the mid grade breaks the gears and Snap on breaks the quick release 40 or 50 lbs later for something you shouldn't be doing anyway - for 10X the cost.
I agree, ratchets are to make slow jobs faster, not hard jobs easier. use a breaker bar.
Test a gearwrench ratchet! I have a set of 84 tooth (1/2, 3/8, 1/4) flex head ratchets by gearwrench and love them never hear anything bad about them
Just broke my Kobalt 24" 1/2 drive ratchet.. 2 months old.. junk! Took it back for a replacement..but.. Lowes can't order one and can't stock one.. Craftsman is taking over.. I was able to get in store credit.. Guess Kobalt is done..?
I own a 90 tooth quick release Kobalt and it’s life time warranty son knock it if you and when if ever mine breaks I will return it for free 😂
have u done S-K TOOLS
I know a ratchet that would snap that bolt, a 3/4" drive Proto with a cheater bar
see if the straight head duralast ratchet gives the same outcome, that flex head is way too sloppy for regular use ( imo )
No Scientists harmed during the making of this video.
Zedword I was actually waiting for something to shear and jab him in the nuts. Maybe next time.
Why is this guy grunting so hard? Lmao
hes about to bust his wad
to be honest ive put 200 plus lbs on a cornwell and havent broke it. but it does happen and i hate when people say u wpnt put that mich weight on a ratchet. alot of professional mechanics dont use breaker bars.
Who slams on a ratchet like that? Serious anger issues
I wonder how a Cornwell would do
I'm pretty sure that rachets have a pounds per pressure limit depending on which one is bought. I've got all different kinds of ratchets from Duralast to MAC. I've never broken a ratchet because there are specific tools for each job desired like when loosening train wheels, you wouldn't use a ratchet if you had one big enough. why? because a ratchet has many parts and for that specific job you'd need a SOLID tool, but I guess I was taught smarter than a lot of peaople, and that is sad if that is the case.
+1 for the gearwrench 120xp ratchet I abuse (use) the shit out of mine daily and have in some situations backed up bolts and ran them on with my snap on mg725 @ 145 psi not a failure yet going on two years now
The only thing worth a damn at HF is Icon
My Kobalt 1/4 broke trying to get a seized bolt off. I couldn't have had more than 50lbs on it. Time to warranty, put it in a back up bin, and forget about it. They should feel ashamed charging what they do.
Any ratchet will last in the torque limits that it's designed to... meaning don't use a quarter inch ratchet to tighten your lug nuts.. don't use a half inch ratchet as a breaker bar... use a breaker bar ...
they're all adequate to do the job that they were designed to do... so if you want to spend $200 on a Snap-on ratchet I'll spend $12 on a Pittsburgh ratchet and as long as they're both being used within the limits they were designed to be used they will both last the same amount of time...
This wretched ratchet did not do so well. I break it at the 5:30 mark. Definitely a disappointment to me.
well it did pretty much hold your weight, i tested a couple of no-name 3/8 ratchets that probably came with cheap kits from the 80's, before china was in on it, so very likely taiwan. i got nowhere near my weight, i put them in the vice to pull on them, probably 60lbs of effort twisted off the (non quick release) solid end, it was a very soft failure, like unhardend steel. much less effort than i was expecting and you felt it going as it twisted. another no-name long 3/8 ratchet jammed inside the head using it for wheel nuts (yeah i know! lol) but at least the jam meant it got the job finished
Hi, if you want to I can send you some German tools to use/test/break. My email is melu89@gmx.de
vrsca89 I will contact you. I will show if I like them.
Can fix duralast head by taking off chrome finish
snapontheleft
29 doll hairs
Do gearwrench next 120 xp
Hay roman. do not. work on my car. my airplane. my submarine or my girl friend. etc etc. ECT. .
Take the wobble head problem away
more of these!
want to see the titan extra long 14', curious to see it vs the hf
2 pairs of gloves really
I dont see the point doing this "torture tests" whats the point? In my huble opinion, you have cheap, best, and better ratchets. depends on how much you want to spend. right? most of rachets have decent type of quality controls. CHeap I would say. Duralast, HF, etc, Better, Tekton, Mac Tools, Gearwrench and Better of Best. SK, Snap On, Carlyle among others. Either is by money or preference and what kind of use youre going to give to the tool. Im no expert my any means. just given my own opinion. Thanks!!!
To see where it fails.
CUZ ITS FUCKING FUN TO BREAK SHIT!!!! DATS WHY!!!
jack handle
left is duralast because of thr break on top of it
I give this a 4 and I’m being nice 😅
snapon is on the left
You bouncing around on it I bet you put 300 lbs on it.
So it's a good ratchet to me.
Stahlwille, Gedore.......?
I'll do them all if I get a chance to warranty them.
lol you're gonna be a tool torture test channel.
People dont intentionally break tools they take care of them now you want stuff tougher get Wright or Mac or Williams vintage Craftsman and Snap On is not as good as MAC
About what id expect from a big box store focused at home owner grade tools... not professional.
DYI GUY...JUST DONT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT.A TOOLS GRADE BUT ...I DO NOT LIKE CHEAP TOOLS AT ALL.. MID GRADE.DO IT FOR ME
Try a craftsman professional.
Carlyle are juck
torture test a breaker bar 3/4 inch
#longdickstyle
😂😂😂😂😂
I like my Cornwell ratchet
Hey RomanAutomotive if you have one and get the chance could you torture test the pittsburgh 1/2 extendable ratchet? Ive been using one professionally just for fun and it has exceeded my expectations.
www.harborfreight.com/12-in-drive-extendable-ratchet-62311.html
I have broken one of those before, but I like you so I'll buy one break it to pieces on camera, and let you know how I like it.
your a good man
Too much time spent taking about opinions
Just break them and let them speak for themselves. Damn 16 minutes of just talking
I just wanted to know how they compared.
Wow what a croc. The kobalt ratchet head should be made thinner since its not strong
Lol I buy yolo ratchet
junk..
wow now that's junk. thank you