expiredniki4h | Staff posted Nov 25, 2024 01:37 AM
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expiredniki4h | Staff posted Nov 25, 2024 01:37 AM
4-Piece GearWrench Flex Handle Ratchet Set
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I noticed the Gearwrench 120 vs 90 vs 84 variations and thought having an 84T and 90T seemed odd, so I looked around for testimonials from folks that had at least 2 of these. From what I remember, the 120T seemed the least liked (lots of returns despite expecting to like the "upgrade" according to forum posts) and the 84T the most liked. Almost all said that they wouldn't return an 84T to get a 90T, or vice versa, but they found themselves reaching for the 84T more often. In general, it came down to "feel".
Most of the feedback was on car forums and specific to the 3/8 inch non-flex head. I'm not a car guy, so I focused more on woodworking and furniture stories. The non-locking flex head was universally disliked - I saw very few people defending its design and most returned it. It seemed folks didn't like the locking flex heads either, but those people didn't seem to like flex-heads overall. I had a hard time finding complaints about any of the 1/4" and didn't put a lot of weight in the 1/2" (rarely my use case).
In the end, I figured that if so may daily users didn't have a major preference between 84T and 90T, it wasn't going to matter which one I went with.
(I ended up going with a 3-piece Neiko 100T fixed head set for $30 and have been totally happy with it. I'm not going to be stressing them much, so my main criteria were arc swing, back drag, and direction switch resistance (and price). I had a DeWalt set and never liked it. The Neiko was on sale and I have a couple other small tools from them and have always been surprised by their quality despite the low price. I think they tip the warehouse guy in China an extra $20 per 1000 units to get the products that weren't dumped from a cargo plane at 20k ft. I've gotten stuff off AliExpress that was identical, but fell apart in a few days, while the Neiko variant is still fine after years.)
Meanwhile our parent company is making Apex, Crescent & SATA branded versions of the same tools.
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I noticed the Gearwrench 120 vs 90 vs 84 variations and thought having an 84T and 90T seemed odd, so I looked around for testimonials from folks that had at least 2 of these. From what I remember, the 120T seemed the least liked (lots of returns despite expecting to like the "upgrade" according to forum posts) and the 84T the most liked. Almost all said that they wouldn't return an 84T to get a 90T, or vice versa, but they found themselves reaching for the 84T more often. In general, it came down to "feel".
Most of the feedback was on car forums and specific to the 3/8 inch non-flex head. I'm not a car guy, so I focused more on woodworking and furniture stories. The non-locking flex head was universally disliked - I saw very few people defending its design and most returned it. It seemed folks didn't like the locking flex heads either, but those people didn't seem to like flex-heads overall. I had a hard time finding complaints about any of the 1/4" and didn't put a lot of weight in the 1/2" (rarely my use case).
In the end, I figured that if so may daily users didn't have a major preference between 84T and 90T, it wasn't going to matter which one I went with.
(I ended up going with a 3-piece Neiko 100T fixed head set for $30 and have been totally happy with it. I'm not going to be stressing them much, so my main criteria were arc swing, back drag, and direction switch resistance (and price). I had a DeWalt set and never liked it. The Neiko was on sale and I have a couple other small tools from them and have always been surprised by their quality despite the low price. I think they tip the warehouse guy in China an extra $20 per 1000 units to get the products that weren't dumped from a cargo plane at 20k ft. I've gotten stuff off AliExpress that was identical, but fell apart in a few days, while the Neiko variant is still fine after years.)
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