Milwaukee's New Line Wrenches vs Professional Tools Mac, Snap-On, Proto 

Not sure why sorting bumped the Proto to the bottom when we got to the final ranking, with 9.13 that puts it 3rd overall. We added a card at that point to see the top 10 and updated the rankings correctly for those of you with our rankings. For its price it is a stand-out worth highlighting. Options have been added to our list of tools that don't suck: www.amazon.com/shop/torquetestchannel

Watching this at work now, hope I can convince the boss it’s market research 😂

As an apprentice in Australia (2006-2010), a common job was fuel filters on BA-BF falcons, notoriously soft flare nuts, over torqued AF from factory. I bought myself some Sidchrome (a brand known for being good when they were locally made) flare pipe spanners, used them twice, then got the snap on ones. No regrets. Flare nut spanners are meant to remove flare nuts, not flare out at the slightest sign of resistance.

Seems like the Proto is the way to go for me on this set. Sick of my Gearwrench flexing.

Proto has always been an overlooked quality tool brand. All of my 3/4” & 1” drive impact sockets as well as large wrenches are Proto.

I have the old old Snap-On double flair but wrenches that my grandpa passed on to me. They’re amazing!

What grinds my gears: stickers on everything. To manufacturers everywhere STOP IT! Put the 0.1% you save from omitting stickers back into your products material quality.

For the little tiny flare nuts I encounter (bikes), I use a Park Tool 7 & 9mm (unknown Taiwanese maker) and Stahlwille (German, obvs) 8 &10mm. The Stahlwille was AUD$80 (USD$50), but I use it the most often, sometimes on steel nuts seized into delicate aluminium calipers and master cylinders, so a good fit and strength over a small range of movement and size is important.

proto looks like the real winner when looking at price to performance, really impressive

Thanks for confirming what I've been telling people for a long time: MAC line wrenches fit better than Snap-on! I even mentioned this in the comment section of your first flare nut wrench video Keep the videos coming 👍🏾👋🏾

I’ve had a set of Proto flare wrenches for 18 years. Never felt the need to replace them.

I’ve been hooked on Proto for about 5 years now. Can’t beat ‘em for the money.

For those who don't know, Milwaukee just built a big factory outside of Grenada Mississippi. Maybe they are going to start bringing tools back to being made in the USA, They were on a hiring spree, if anyone is close to that area and looking for a job.

I have a Snap On and it's excellent . Yes just a 16 / 18 metric . On the Proto , if you look closely , it only contacts a hex nut on 4 corners . I think they would increase performance if they change to a 5 corner contact , like their competitors . Combined with the close tolerances , it would rival Snap On . I have old Craftsman from the 1970's and it has 4 corner contact . But overall , the Milwaukee is a great value .

I have their standard and metric combination wrenches. I love them and use them every day.

I’ll keep my Snap-On set but it’s really impressive that Milwaukee can hang with wrenches that cost 4x the price.

Video idea: A somewhat outdated conventional wisdom was to buy 12point socket sets so you could handle both 6pt and 12pt bolts. Now people typically recommend 6 point sockets. But are there any 12point sockets that could serve as a primary socket set without increasing the incidence of rounded off bolts? Brands of interest, all of the usual suspect plus Koken Japanese made sockets.

Cornwell has the best line wrench i have used

Good stuff as always! That's a lot of work gathering tools and going through all those fasteners.

Perfect timing, going to be doing a ton of fuel lines on my truck here soon!

Buy the Snap-on, use them for 10 years or more, sell them for what you paid or more. You owned the tools for free. No other brand can compete. I know, as I'm a retired mechanic selling Snap-on tools I no longer need and they are returning more than I paid and I used them for 20+ years.

With flare nut wrenches I would say snap on, mac, matco, or proto all the way the Milwaukee is a ehhh just my opinion As a mechanic

Cornwell would have been a good one to try.

I love my Milwaukee wrenches. I got like four sets. But If I could do it over I’d get Proto hands down.

Very notable is that the Proto is of the old 4 corner design instead of the apparently better 5 corner design,yet it placed very well.

I love my older craftsman tools, but there's something about my S/O flare nut wrenches that really makes them a joy to use. I've taken off some REALLY boogered up fittings with those things, even after someone else has mangled the flats with an open end wrench before handing the problem off to me. 😂

Just a note, the green text is harder to read on your chart. At least on my screen. Great testing love you did the wrenches.

Just happy to see my SK brand still in the top 10 lol

"Professional Grade"... so it's a rebadged Chevy with more chrome...

I just hate how chunky they are. Chunky. Wrenches never serve any points. They don’t add strength. They often limit the spots they can get into.

Curious how westward does. I know back in the day (80s to 90s) My dad swore by them for the price performance they offered, and the full warranty. Not sure how they do now, probably like the new craftsman stuff hahaha Jet and Gray tools are other brands that Id be interested in seeing done Great job again guys!

I have a 30 year old set of the Mac wrenches and I can attest to the quality. They’re still my go to line wrenches.

Can you measure the difference in clearance after use? Sure some material from the wrench will be removed, squashed or it will spread but won't return to new. Interested to know if heavy use makes them worse overtime and more likely to slip

are you ever planing on torque testing a hydraulicly powered impact

Anyone who's dealt with what they thought was an impossible task that was effortless realizes the snapon flare wrench is unbeatable. You will use it rarely but it will never fail you when you need it. A snapon flare wrench has never ruined a fitting for me. It will spin the connector and destroy the line before it strips the fastener

Never tried any of their wrenches or ratchets but I picked up a set of their impact sockets awhile back and really like how they do the lettering on them. Now would that inlaid white paint last very long in a mechanics bay, I don’t know but for a weekend wrencher it’s nice how easy they are to read.

Can you test the Milwaukee combination wrench set? I havent seen these tested among the other combination wrenches on other channels and im very curious! Thanks!

I have some very old Mac ones I bought at a yard sale as well as some metric Stahlwille ones I bought in Germany. I also have some special application ones made of billet 7075 aluminum that my friend made for me at the machine shop that are specifically for AN hard lines which have aluminum nuts. Cut with waterjet then finished, and all different thickness as well for different size AN lines. The Macs get the most use as most of my cars have had SAE fasteners only. The custom ones also get a fair bit of use and the Stahlwilles mostly get used on my 79 subaru although slowly but surely the metric brake hardware on that car is being replaced with a combination of SAE hard line fittings and AN hose. Just much easier to find around here. Metric to AN brake fittings are almost impossible to find where I live, and I really hate buying fittings online. It's less work to just convert most of the fittings to SAE. But with both the Mac and Stahlwille, if it didn't move it wasn't going to move without destroying the nut anyway.

Cornwell , wright tool flare nut wrenches next?

I’ve had my MAC sets in SAE and metric since 1988 and have really misused them with zero problems.

I just bought a couple set of ratcheting combo wrench of theirs for 79 a set, I'm actually surprised how nice they are. I haven't ratcheted anything yet, but they do feel nice in the hand.

Still eagerly waiting to see testing on those new Texas made Craftsman wrenches whenever they come out

Please review gray tools out of Canada

Great video as always. Thanks for everything you do their.(try out the Texton brand)

Good to know. Milwaukee for home & if that doesn't do it, I'll bring the snappy from work

I really like your channel. It's helped me choose what tools to get. I would like to see you test Cornwell flare nut wrenches. I would like to see how they compare to the ones you've tested. Keep the great videos coming.

They need undersized ones for rusty fittings, like a 11.75 for a rusty 12mm. These only work well on new or pristine ones that dont see winter salt....

I really wish their was a better selection of Brick&Mortar stores that sold tools .

How significant is Milwaukee's struggle on the partially rounded nuts? Many wrenches below it maxed out.

Thanks for covering these, good info for further purchases! Keep up the good work! 💪🏻💪🏻😎😎🛠️🛠️

would love to see the crows foot style flare nuts in these comparisons as well!

Will you do a video like this but with Milwaukee's sockets both the shockwave and the chrome ones VS Snap-on VS Craftsman VS Icon ?

While shopping for an electric mower I noticed torque is one of the main things they advertise. You gotta figure out a way to test them!

MORE EDC GEAR TESTS. Been watching y'all for a very long time

I have the 33" 4 drawer cart and I wish I would have got one like yours.

Milwaukee is professional grade and good for the price it seems like ! In australia theres heaps less brands around unless you go to some botique shops, or want to order things in without being able to see it first. I just wish more companies made spanner sets that were gapless and the full range eg 6 to 32 in a combo spanner. and not skipping

My dad bought a set of Mac Tools back in the early 80's and I'm not aware of any of them breaking and dad's definitely not afraid of a cheater bar.

I scrolled past an article the other day, I don't remember which site so I probably won't have luck finding it again, not that the article would have much relevance to anything here, but the topic of it was metal 3D printing wrenches. Which now makes me curious, with metallic additive manufacturing quickly becoming a thing, and with metal blends definitely being a thing, I wonder if additive manufacturing could eventually find optimizations that forging, or even cutting sheet stock, lacks. I also believe that additive manufacturing will provide highly accurate tolerance, as there's not really a tool to wear out, at least not at the time scale that forge tools and routing bits wear at. Manufacturing scale may also be an eventual benefit given that build volumes, especially for 2.5D (stepped z axis layers, not true 3D movement), can be fairly small and easily stacked, while individual piece times might lack bulk manufacturing times could easily excel, and while initial print farm costs might be high they also don't need individual tools for each piece nor a wearing tool like subtractive manufacturing has; 3D printing farms for various plastic parts are already showing viability for this method of manufacturing scale, have for some number of years now. Give it another decade and I wouldn't be surprised if there's some brands taking this approach at a reasonable scale, assuming they're not stuck in the past and are actually willing to accept newer manufacturing methods.

Please test impact air ratchets. Loving the content.

You could hear that mac wrench was really hard when you dropped it in the beginning of the video. The higher pitch the ring is when dropping or striking steal the harder it is usually.

I think I would lean towards the Williams based on the performance on a rounded fastener over the Milwaukee.

I got a Harbor Freight set that’s done fine keeping saltwater trailers brake systems functioning

Wow at the Mac breaking

Need to add Wright unless I missed it somewhere

Yet another video that makes me want to tryout Proto...

I've run into several line nuts lately that I cannot get a wrench on some of the sides because it was previously rounded.... Leading me to NEED a looser fitting line wrench... grr

Icon icon ICONNNNN 😂we want to see the whole line tested

Is it just me or the audio is audibly compressed? I hear artifacts quite quite clearly. Otherwise great vid as always

People sleep on Proto I use there tools over snap on all day and there warranty has always been amazing

I’m not a mechanic and just the other day I used a cheap 10mm line-wrench I had in a drawer to loosen a rusty brake-line… Thrash ! Was better off using my open, old school craftsman

Why does the Proto disappear from the final ranking chart?

Blackhawk line wrenches are usa made and pretty good and a good price.

Proto is good. I use a lot of their stuff and even their cheaper brand blackhawk is decent

Test the new tekton crow foot line wrenches

I say cut the handles down by two inches on the raptor and test it.

You need good line wrenches, get the tool truck ones IMO or Proto.

Invalid test. Test results skewed due to addtional adhesive left on the Williams. 😅

"Turny turny tallying"😂

Honestly, at the price, the Milwaukee is the best prosumer option.

I'm curious how the duratech ones would perform on your testing. They have really good reviews and the price is hard to beat at under $50 for a 10 piece set.

I have the Blackhawk set by Proto..not cheap but worth it... 10:20.. where's the Proto on the final list with a 9.13?...Proto should be 3rd..it's not listed..you have Millwaukee at 3rd..

What about Cornwell. I don’t see those on here much or at all.

Thanks for the detail!

I thought Proto and Mac were one in the same both under SBD

Proto 3rd!

Been waiting on these.

According to rankings it looks like, if you're starting out and are regularly using them for work, they are a great option. If you keep in mind that if you are trying to truly max something out, maybe try a second wrench and or borrowing a snap on or mac, if you can only fit one. Although I wouldn't be shocked if the owner makes you leave your phone or wallet as collateral.

I got a set of Anbull ratcheting flexhead flarenut wrenches, so far have been very very useful when I need them. I'm very curious though on what kind of performance they have.

any idea who's manufacturing the milwaukees?

Fantastic, as always

Unfair error: around 8:30 with the hard steel adapters you had some line wrenches facing the wrong way.

Why isn’t Proto in 3rd?

I LOVE Milwaukee tools, but damn, I've been through 3 of their mowers in 6 months.......AND their string trimmer quick is amazing at small applications but for this spring bloom of weeds the poor guy can't keep up, I'm burning through batteries like a crazy person and the trimmer overheats all the damn time after more than 5-10 min of sustained use.

What about testing Milwaukee hex impact bits and what's their breaking point vs other brands they r on sale btw $19 for a 45 piece Milwaukee set at home Depot

Great job man!

Im curious how their v groove wrenches hold up compared to others. Theyre in a weird price point.

Is Proto China ? Or USA ? So confused. I have them coming today

Flare nut? Go with Wright.

Hey the flex mid torque is out and available from acme(600ft lbs and 750 breakaway). Also I’m curious if the high torque makes more with stacked lithium. I have a 6ah battery if you wanna use it.

Your Etsy page is sayin SOLD OUT. Is it just a set of login credentials to a online spreadsheet? Not sure how that can be sold out. Are you discontinuing doing it?