Hi there, Another eBay item......
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FA: Snap-On 11mm Socket, 1/4" drive.
Nov 05, 2007
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Minimum cost including postage 2.50. You can buy a good make for less.
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Thanks! Perhaps I'll buy it for my 'GF' to show her I care. And it's useful too. She's always asking me for something to undo 11mm nuts and bolts but she won't have any doings with 1/2" or 3/8" drive tools, that's girls for you I guess!
Yes, but this one's pre-war!
WTF would anyone buy bi-hex Snap-on anyway? My socket rails are Snap-on (Facom ratchets though), but that's because they were one of the first to do a useful flank-drive hexagon. If you're just looking for low-torque bi-hex sockets (and not aerospace bi-hex nuts), then you can use anything a notch better than junk and get almost the same performance.
Surely a Halfords Pro socket would cost less than that one, incl. the packaging?
Why would anyone buy Snap-on? It all costs a mint and there are plenty of others offering lifetime guarantees on tools.
The flank-drive hex sockets will cleanly remove a bolt that lesser sockets will round off instead.
For some of those, you need it. The point with Snap-on is that you generally don't. I've munched plenty of 1/4" hex bits, but very rarely one of their sockets.
With Snap-on I can use 3/8" drive and not break them. Before that I used to have to use 1/2" drive.
I've never broken a socket. But then I always make sure the effort is restricted to rotation - as much as possible. It's using sideways force that breaks them.
I've burst a 1/2" drive 19mm socket on a rusty vauxhaul wheel bolt. 4' bar & a new facom socket finally shifted it.
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