man, last saturday i was working on my car with my ratchet and it fell apart. Thanks to you it's alive and fully functional again. Thanks from Argentina!
Thank you for the video! I opened my ratchet upside down and I couldn't put it back together until I found your video here! I was about to throw it away!!!
Hey man! I don’t know you but you earned a like, a comment and a subscription just for saving my tool! I was working with it and it fell apart, parts flew away but i was able to recover them, thanks to you i could put them back together. Thanks from Puerto Rico!
I was just about the throw my wrench out cause it was working. So I took it apart and just made it worse, this video showed me I was missing the springs so I was able to find them and fix my wrench. It's working just like new now, thanks
As I understand it, S-K uses the same Super Lube in their ratchets. I picked up some vintage S-Ks and took them apart and lubed them up with that stuff and - WOW - the improvement in the action was amazing. Those ratchets were dry as a bone when they arrived, but now I am sure they will last for many decades to come.
Thank you for the upload. I have this and the 3/8 and 1/4 which all came from a socket set. Unfortunately the plastic part is quite delicate and the 1/4 became inoperable. I understand there is a warranty and Stanley will replace it but I paid a little more and replaced them all with Gearwrench.
i use mine with a claw type oil filter wrench and it gets regularly soaked in oil and it seems to love it lol :P no problems at all with the selector, slipping, or anything and runs smooth as butter and ive never had it open
RJ-- Thank you! I was able to fix my exploded wrench thanks to your video. By the way my wrench is the exact same but it is a Husky 22800 (you might add that to your title or description... may get a few more views). Thanks again man.
I think adding lubrication to the release button/ball bearing mechanism is important. I've had extensions (they just had a spring with a ball bearing, no release mechanism) actually rust enough to make the extension hard to use, and ever since that I've added a bit of lubricant to them. It's kind of a shame that Stanley moved over to the plastic mechanism inside the ratchets, I actually remember when they did that, it was only about 3 years or so ago. Before the components inside were all metal. They must feel comfortable making that piece plastic though, they still have lifetime warranties which is nice.
I have a toque wrench where the ball got rusted and stuck inside, so it wouldn't hold the socket on. Dousing it with penetrating oil and Tri-Flow, I got it loose, now it works great again.
Surprised you didn't use a magnetic bowl for the screws and bearings. Those things have a habit of disappearing even when they're right in front of you.
I just disassembled my 91-930 and springs and ball bearings went flying. I wish I had seen this video before, but I managed to figure it out. Except for the ball bearing springs....which were on the floor.
These Stanley ratchet (that all metal mechanism serie) are excellent ratchets. You can get them on sale quite often and if you keep em out of humidity / freezing / rust and grease em up they are lifetime tools.
My Stanley 89-818B 3/8 inch pear head ratchet fell apart and now I'm missing one of the two screws. Does anyone know where I can find a replacement? I am desperate because the only other option is to completely replace the entire unit... thank you
You are maybe bumping the lever. Or the spring is weak. Or the mechanism is gunked up and not holding well. Try cleaning and lubing it and see it that helps.
Yo "nunca pondría sellador a los tornillos como he visto, y quisiera ver cuándo tenga que volver a hacer alguna reparación o mantenimiento de esa llave, cómo se le van a arruinar los destornilladores o romper esos tornillos "pegados",al querer volverlos a sacar.
I can’t be bothered to go out at night and get a torx to open mine up so I watched this and realised what a shit design it is. The ratchet head is very sloppy and there’s a lot of play. That plastic thing holding the pawl to it isn’t under a lot of compression. Compared to my other ratchets which are tight as a nun’s nasty this Stanley is driving me nuts
