Had a Hazet 1/2" drive socket set for nigh on 40 years until it got badly annealed in a workshop fire. ![Cry :'(](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xcry.gif.pagespeed.ic.tehjCtKixU.png)
Bloody good stuff !
Stahlwille rings are good stuff too and open enders nice and slim but a little weak for heavy stuff.
Look at Dowidat too.....beautifully fine rings for tight spaces.
I'm not sure I agree with the need for power driven stuff for things like wheel nuts, though.
I've almost always found that my relatively puny "upper body strength" is enough, aided sometimes by a length of galvanised water pipe to obtain more leverage.
On the odd occasion that it wasn't, the Spaghetti Monster has endowed me (& most everybody else) with a pair of considerably stronger appendages which can be used to supply more force.
This, of course, may be one of the reasons I now have a "pretend" left knee! ![Grin ;D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xgrin.gif.pagespeed.ic.QVVz6XIT20.png)
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Well remember having this argument with my now dear departed pop not long after we got our first truck, a 8 stud 900/20 wheeled TK Bedford. We'd just done some tire work on it and he'd tightened the 1 5/16" wheel nuts with just a 18" 3/4" drive ratchet which he insisted would be quite tight enough rather than use bodily weight on an additional 3 ft length of heavy waterpipe.
Having done nearly a year in a logging workshop bouncing on 6 ft lengths of pipe on wheel nuts I let him have his say and do it his way due to the discussion becoming heated and left next day for a day in the truck well knowing wheel nuts would need tightening again at close of day.
Pop, can you check those wheel nuts I asked come the end of the day and buggered off and left him to it.
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Needless to say when I checked the extender pipe for the ratchet was not exactly where I'd left it previously.
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The subject never was given air again.
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Still, nearly 30 years on I still miss the old bugger.
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