Wright tools

[dlundblad]

Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
Originally Posted By: dlundblad
How do you know if they ARE out of time?


The detent ball of the extension will go past the centerline of the detent in the socket before the extension comes to a stop; much like if your car's tire went past the line on the concrete before the front bumper touches the wall.


This explanation makes more sense.

I guess that would make for a wobbly socket.

 

[Merkava_4]

Originally Posted By: dlundblad
This explanation makes more sense.

I guess that would make for a wobbly socket.


No not wobbly. What it does is after you put it on an extension, the socket will spring back at you if you press down on it further; this is because the socket detent is out of time with the stop. On a normal socket, when you pop it onto an extension, the extension stops and is not allowed to travel any further into the socket. At that same moment in time that the extension stops, the detent ball is centered perfectly into the socket's detent.

On a GearWrench socket, when you pop it onto an extension, the detent ball of the extension will travel past the detent in the socket before coming to a complete stop; but being that it's only half a detent ball's width out of time, the detent ball will go past the detent and then get pushed back into the detent by the force of the detent ball's spring. Very annoying.

 

[Merkava_4]

Picture your car's tire rolling into a pothole and then stopping in the pothole. If you put the car in drive and bring the tire half way out of the pothole and have the center of the tire resting on the edge of the pothole, your tire will stay there sitting on the edge of the pothole as long as you have your foot on the brake, but as soon as you put the car in neutral and let your foot off the brake, the car's tire will roll back into the pothole until it becomes centered into the bottom of the pothole.