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$85.90 | 34-Piece GEARWRENCH Standard & Stubby Ratcheting Wrench Set, SAE & Metric (85034) at Amazon
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One) Regular combination wrenches traditionally have a 15° offset on the box end of a wrench. This 15° offset has been the industry standard for decades and decades, and is considered the best middle ground for accessing bolts with the box end. It allows for space for your fingers when holding the wrench. With a non-reversible ratchet wrench you can't have the offset because you have to be able to flip it.
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Two) if you were backing out a bolt with a non-reversing ratchet and wrench, and that bolt runs into an obstruction, now there is no way to reverse directions because you need to flip the wrench, but you can't get the wrench off of the bolt because of the obstruction. You might be able to bring the ratchet end down the shank and then get another open end wrench in there to manually drive it back in, but if that's not possible, you have to cut the bolt to get your wrench back.
I personally ran into this situation and ended up breaking a $40 sensor to get my wrench back because I preferred that to cutting the bolt. It permanently soured me to non-reversible ratchet, wrenches.
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