Hazet 916HP 90-tooth Ratchet 

I agree totally. That Canuck dude AvE does have an entertaining schtick, but it gets tiring after awhile. The guy knows enough that he really could get away without all the stupid puns and "keep yer dick in a vise" stuff.

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Karl Napp could you link me to where it’s sold that cheap

Jose Veliz check Amazon De

@@pancho1682 Hit the german ebay.de , you will find everything you need.

It’s a common theme. Gedore, Hazet, Stahwille have always been 200-300% the price here. Wera progressively caught up to them, too.

TexaCajun DIY Try Ko-Ken for low back drag! Low tooth count put some people off. But they pride themselves on low back drag. Love mine.

Is yours with the metal handle?

Indeed

Is locking/quick-release required for anti-FOD ratchets? My Stahlwille's are all Quick release but I noticed that Snap-On's FOD ratchets aren't.

They are less expensive too.

So you think it is the same chrome applied to the rest of the ratchet? I supposed it could be machined surface that was chromed and thereby looks different. I would have expected it to look a bit more matte even if the underlying surface was grounded.

Yeah, I've noticed most German tools are matte chrome. They usually don't polish the tools smooth before chrome plating, so it's amusing that one surface was polished to achieve a dual matte/polish chrome.

Both are equally good. but teeth mechanism is smoother in stahlwille ratchet 80 teeth design.

I was just speculating, giving my best guess. Is the part underneath the switch lever not machined? I could have sworn that the inside of the ratchet had a matte chrome finish as well. Maybe that particular surface was machined separately?

German Tool Reviews The part you mention is forged. the only machined surface needed here is the thickness of the head, and you are right, is machined apart of the ordinary-all matte chrome. Hazet this time has machined the "visible" or front part. Everything else in the exterior is forged, sanded, sandblasted and chromed.

It says on KC that it is chrome plated with a polished head

Beat me

I only have a couple, I used to play in a competitive league but haven't had time for years. Some of the guys I played with had 20-30 machines. I bought them at a time when they weren't that expensive compared to today. There are still places you can go to play them depending on where you live.

The family owned pizza parlors that been around here for years have them, Walerys my favorite place has a Terminator T2 machine thats like my favorite machine ive seen to look at besides a old kiss one. Did you get that knipex box off amazon.de? Theres another one just like it for a lot less www.amazon.de/STIER-Werkzeugkoffer-ABS-Kunststoff-Kofferschale-Werkzeugtaschen/dp/B01EN5U3V8/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=diy&ie=UTF8&qid=1536510718&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=knipex+werkzeugkoffer+leer&psc=1 and then are these for the inside of this the same box? www.amazon.de/Knipex-00-21-19-Werkzeugkarte/dp/B06X95QXL8/ref=sr_1_3?s=diy&ie=UTF8&qid=1536510662&sr=1-3&keywords=knipex+tool+box

Me too, I started drooling

Stahlwille, bitte nicht vergessen.

Und ich transportiere die Werkzeugwagen bei Hazet ALLE:)

That's a lot of dough. How much for a similar Snap-On? Seems to me their trolleys go for a few grand for the small ones, so it might be in the same ball park. Their socket sets and ratchets are ridiculously expensive.

@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 a similar snapon should be 8-9K USD

@@gplusgplus2286 I was just looking at SO chests. Insanely overpriced. Or maybe I'm just getting old and inflation has taken over.

Amazon / Hazet Tools

He also said they used it commercially. Who knows what they did to it...

I have the the longer version of this ratchet and I use it daily as a diesel mechanic I use it hard and its holding in their with my snapon dual 80 1/2 ratchets

It weakens the square. Since they were going for "strongest ratchet ever made" they left it out of the design.

German Tool Reviews true. Same with snap on

Yeah they feel like metal, but I'm guessing some aluminum alloy. They definitely aren't metal. I was not a fan of their plastic lever switches either.

@@GermanToolReviews so the direction selector is aluminum not plastic? If it's aluminum I'm buying one!

They are some kind of metal not plastic atleast.

Socket to ‘em!

But adding a pipe over the handle will get that 1000 NM taken care of ;-) and don't tell me you've ne er even been *tempted* to do that....

Yeah I calculated 900 pounds of force at the middle of the handle. Maybe they will release a long version, just extend the shaft another 250mm.

Yeah a longer handle would be perfect.

I'm wondering if Hazet is following the same strategy as Stahlwille from when they rolled out the 80-tooth ratchets. First just standard, short handled ratchets in 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" then after a year or two introducing other variants (long/flex/1/4" bit, etc.)

The handle doesn't prevent the typical employed mechanic to put on a pipe. Who cares if your employer's tools break?

Who cares? The mechanic will care when their employer fires their dumb ass for destroying the molded comfort grip handle of a $150 ratchet.