- Are you ready? - Oh, I'm so ready.
Here we go.
- Three, two, one drop it.
- [Both] We're testing sockets today.
- We got a brand new set right here.
- We got a 50-year-old set right here
and a 100-year-old set right here.
Our dad's always said they don't make 'em
like they used to, but is that true?
- Are dad's right or wrong?
- I don't know, but today we're gonna find out.
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Jobe. - Yes.
- Let's get back to the show. - Let's.
(calm music)
All right so today we're gonna be testing
half inch ratchets and socket sets from over the year.
This is one of the most common sets of hand tools out there.
These are used
for tightening and loosening fasteners on your car.
- And testing old verse new is good
because you may have gotten your tools
passed down to you from your father
or your grandfather.
Or it might just be a hipster
trying to use some old stuff to look cool.
- [Jerry] Right, but then that cool rich kid down the block
he has all new tools and he's just like,
"Oh, look at all my new stuff."
- Can you get away with a hand-me-downs set of tools?
- Can you walk down and go to Bryce and say,
"Hey, Bryce, my tools are better.
Watch this video."
- Yeah. Suck one, Bryce.
- If the old ones are better,
we don't know yet. - Maybe you suck one Bryce.
- Maybe suck one.
Maybe, maybe don't show this video to Bryce,
we don't know the results yet.
(Jerry giggling) (upbeat music)
Let's talk about what we have here,
and what do we have here?
The fanciest set of them all.
- [Jobe] This is the fanciest set.
This is brand new, hot off the Craftsman show floor.
The V series half inch drive.
Everything we have here is V series.
- [Jerry] V series has been around for a while.
- [Jobe] Up next, our second oldest set.
These are about 50 years old.
Now what range did they make these from?
- [Jerry] The 60 seventies, eighties, nineties.
- Okay, so realistically they could have come
from time in there, but they're up to 50-ish years old.
This thing has been around forever.
I think I've probably had
10 of these ratchets over the years.
- Then our third contestant, we got a 100-year-old
half inch ratchet and socket set from Craftsman.
Well, this is a forged ratchet and also made in the USA.
This looks a little different,
I've never seen a ratchet that quite looks like that.
Different mechanics in there for sure.
We're gonna have to take these apart and take a look.
- Okay, so first on our list is the brand new,
hot off the press Craftsman V series set.
(ratchet teeth clicking)
Oh, hear that.
Oh
Really smooth, nice handle.
And it's gotta extender, 'cause you know
you gotta have an extender dude, another extender.
And then we have various sets of socket sizes for,
different size bolts.
- Yeah, and these are all standard sockets across the board.
(bell dings)
This is another V series socket set.
How half inch ratchet, a little bit different in terms
of style than that one got a nice assortment of sockets.
One lone, six inch extension, and a spark plug socket.
- They proudly say that this is forged in USA.
These are not. - Made in USA.
- Yeah. - Forged in USA.
These are made in the States,
but basically a pretty standard socket set,
12 point sockets.
And just like these are, pretty complete set.
Nice tin case, (metal bangs)
that's been around forever.
Great patina, Nolan would love it.
I mean I'm all for patriotism,
but the fact is, good things can be made anywhere
and bad things can be made anywhere.
- So true. - So,
we're gonna have to find out
whether or not it makes a difference.
So today we're gonna be putting these tools
through a series of tests to determine their practicality,
their usability, their durability, and their toughness.
- Figure out if the old is as good as the new.
(upbeat music)
So our first test, Jobe,
how about we take these ratcheting wrenches
and take 'em apart,
see what the guts look like on the inside.
- Yeah, I wanna see what's going on in here.
But we can't take this one apart.
- Yeah, this is a non serviceable item right here.
We can't pull this apart.
- Well it better work forever then.
(upbeat music)
So a lot of ratchets come apart,
like the two that we're taking apart right now
and that serves two purposes really?
So this is how they're put together when they're made
and as you use the tool,
you know these kind of tools
are meant to last the rest of your life when you buy 'em,
especially the upper echelon, the V series, right?
You can imagine over 20, 30, 40, 50 years
of working in a shop,
you're gonna get a bunch of gunk in there
and you're gonna wanna be able to take this thing apart
and clean it out, and put some fresh grease in there
and get it working like it did when it was new.
- They get gross and so you wanna restore them
to their brand new working conditions.
- But yeah, that's pretty simple.
The only thing that I notice here is that it's kind of big
these arms in here take up a lot of space.
So over the years they figured out how to make this smaller,
more compact, which gets you into tighter spots
and you know, makes the tool more useful.
- We have snap-ring pliers?
(bell dings)
I'm so mad, you're already got yours popped out
and I can't...
- [Jobe] Yeah, well, hurry up dummy.
- Well, I can't get this snap-ring out.
Come on baby. - I know.
I'm just kidding.
That's why I picked this one.
(all laugh) (upbeat music)
- So now that we've serviced them
let's hear what they sound like.
(ratchet teeth clicking)
Ooh.
That's nice.
- Oh, ah.
All right, so what is our winner, Jobe?
- Well, it's gonna be this one, five outta five.
It comes apart super easily.
- You don't need a second person.
This one's second, obviously.
And this one, we can't take it apart.
- Zero.
So two out of three are serviceable.
This one is not, but I think another important thing
that we need to talk about
is the warranties that come with these.
- Lifetime baby.
- If you took this in,
they wouldn't replace it with one of these.
They might be forced to give you a new one
but that would be okay.
I think, you know, these all sort of expensive
or were in their day,
but with a lifetime warranty, that's kind of worth it.
(upbeat music)
Now that we know that...
- [Jerry] Let's actually use 'em.
- Yeah, let's take these tools to a car
and see if they do the job they're meant to do.
- I think I have the perfect vehicle for this.
- Ah, for these vintage tools, a vintage vehicle.
- Nolan's Imperial.
- Here we go, Jobe.
Nolan's Imperial.
- [Both] Ooh
- It doesn't run.
Now we're using Nolan's car because this is gonna have
standard or Imperial inch-based hardware fasteners.
Pretty much everything else is metric nowadays,
but all the socket sets that we got are Imperial.
- Is that why they called this car The Imperial?
- I don't know, but it's a hell of a coincidence if not.
- So the first socket we're gonna use
is the nine 16th on this intake runner right here.
So, Ugh. (ratchet teeth clicking)
Oh, that's nice.
- Didn't seem to give you any trouble now, did it?
- Gave me no trouble.
- Sounds like he's got some nice action.
- Nice action.
Yeah. Okay.
Okay. Now let's put it back on.
See our tightening.
(ratchet teeth clicking)
Aw. That's nice.
You wanna get in there with your older boys?
- Let me do it.
All right, this is the 50-year-old Craftsman ratchet
and 9/16 socket with a six inch extension.
No big deal.
I will say the teeth aren't quite as tight.
You know, like I could hear yours.
You had so many teeth clicking.
This is a little bit looser feeling, but it did the job.
Now let's go with the 100-year-old ratchet in sockets.
Oh, like butter.
Ooh.
Head seems a little bit loppy on this one.
- [Jerry] There's a lot of play in that, huh?
- But the action I'd say pretty good.
- Pretty good.
- I could tell with the new one
you had a lot of teeth clicking.
- Yep.
- Now with this old one
it doesn't have as many teeth in there on that gear.
And so I don't get as many teeth clicking
when I go the same distance as you,
which when you end up in a tight spot
can make it a lot harder to use a tool.
I'm already noticing that that new one
might have some some stuff that's worthwhile.
- All right, so they all took a bolt (laughs) which...
- Who would've thought? - Who would've thank it.
that they would all work?
(bell dings) (upbeat music dies out)
But you know that little wiggle there
and the number of teeth clickings that you heard.
That got me thinking,
maybe we should actually go quantify that
in a more appropriate test setting.
- You got any ideas?
- I got something in the shop.
- Let's go do it.
- Let's go.
All right, Jerry, what do we have here?
- What we got a little device set up here
that can measure the angle of the throw
for each of our ratcheting wrenches.
So when you're in a real tight space sometimes
you don't have much angle to work
with before that tooth clicks over
and gives you some more leverage
to pull it back the other way.
- But with a nice ratchet, they got a lot of teeth.
So you can click over in tight spots
and keep your job going.
- And this one right here,
the newest one has the most number of teeth,
that has 50 teeth.
And if you were to take 360 degrees, divide that by 50
you get 7.2 degrees.
So that means in between each click
you go 7.2 degrees, but that's theoretical.
- Right, now there's gonna be play
in these tools and between the socket and nut.
- So we need to do actual values.
- Yeah, let's see what these things in reality
take to click over one click.
- [Jerry] Okay, here we go.
Okay. Right there.
That looks like it's anywhere
between nine and a half to 10 degrees.
- Okay.
- Yeah, let's do it a couple times.
(ratchet teeth clicking)
It's doing it right about nine and a half, 10 degrees.
That's how far you gotta go until you get
a click that you can then bring it back.
So not bad.
- [Jobe] Yeah. Not too bad.
- So now we're gonna test the 50-year-old one
which has 32 teeth, which is approximately 11.25 degrees
between each tooth.
50-year-old, let's see it's swing.
Actually, I think it clicked, but I didn't hear it.
Is right there, 18 degrees - 18 degrees.
- [Jerry] Okay, let's do it one more time.
Yep. So quiet, right there.
Yep, we're around 18 degrees.
- [Jobe] Okay. So 18 degrees, the 50-year-old ratchet.
I'm interested to see
if the 100-year-old puppy does better or worse.
- Okay, so our hundred year old baby has 26 teeth
That is a fun sounding (ratchet teeth clicking)
ratchet right here. - It may be my favorite.
- What do you got?
Like what? 19, 20?
- 18 and a half. - Yeah, 18 and a half.
So it's closer than the previous one,
but it's still not that great.
All right, so I think we have a very clear winner here,
the brand new Craftsman takes the cake
and then I think these guys are tied, right?
- [Jobe] Yeah. I'd say so.
They were slightly different,
but not enough to really make a difference
in the real world.
So I don't know.
It's looking like that new one might be better
than the old ones huh?
- Right, I mean, yeah.
That's part of it.
But I think like one of the things,
when it comes to the old tools is they're just built better.
They're just tougher.
So how about we test to see how tough they are?
- Ah, let's.
Okay, well, we've got a super scientific smacker test here
where we're gonna drop the pointy end of a Fireman's ax
onto our tools and see which one is damaged the most
which one's damaged the least just to give us an idea
of how durable these tools are
in terms of the material they're made out of.
All right, y'all ready for this?
Okay, we're gonna go from vertical
and just kind of flop it over.
(intense whooshing) (wood bangs)
(slow motion whooshing) (glass breaking effect)
- I think we hit it. - I think we did too.
Look at that.
Look at that little dent,
that did pretty dang good man.
- Yeah, and we hit it nice and square.
I thought that might be tough, but we got it at first try.
- I'm gonna say that did pretty good though.
All right, now we got our 50-year-old ratchet
taped to this piece of wood,
about to get hit with an ax, see what happens.
- Okay, three, two, one.
(slow whooshing) (metals bang)
How's that looking?
- I'd say a little more damage.
It's a deeper dent, wider dent.
I would really put that in the same category
in terms of damage as the new tool.
But now let's see
how that a hundred-year-old ratchet handles this.
- I'm so ready. Here we go.
- All right. - Count me down.
- Three, two, one.
Drop it.
(slow whoosh)
- [All] Whoa.
- No damage whatsoever. - What?
- Well maybe a little bit.
- [Jerry] Oh dude.
I barely put a Nick in that thing.
Barely nothing at all.
- It took me a second to even see it.
- I mean, I'd put this in a slight first place.
They're all very similar, very durable,
I mean, this is a six-pound head
coming to a point getting dropped onto this.
That's pretty painful.
What do you agree?
First place?
- First place, tied for second and third.
- Tied for second and third.
100-year-old, took the hit and just can't quit.
(upbeat music)
What are we gonna do now?
- Okay, how about,
you really like cranking all these things.
Maybe trying to get a wheel nut off a log.
- Yeah, or maybe like you have a nut
that's welded to a piece of angle iron that can't move,
but you wanna try to anyway.
- Yeah, see how much torque you could put
on it before it goes to failure.
- Yeah, that sounds fun.
- Now maybe the most important test
of this entire episode is the strength test.
Right, Jobe? - That's right.
So we've got some angle iron
and in there I welded a bolt.
So we just have a bolt head sticking out
that can't be turned and we're gonna put torque on it
which we're measuring
through this little digital torque angle gauge.
I'm gonna stick this here,
Jack handle on it for a bunch of leverage.
And we're gonna take these things to applied failure.
- So we both think that these are gonna fail
probably around 400.
So let's try to take 'em to 400 foot pounds.
See what happens.
All right, so for this test,
we're only gonna slide about halfway up the handle,
like, you know, as if you were using it by hand.
All right, a hundred, 200, 300,
(tool snaps)
370, 400, 444, 454.
Whew.
- That's pretty freaking good, man.
This is still true.
- Oh, not that.
- Yeah, I don't think we've even stressed her out.
Is there any bend to the handle?
- Not at all.
- So the bar has been set 454.
Let's see if we can get to 454 with these other tools.
Ready? - Yeah.
We're ready.
- 50-year-old? - Yep.
Okay, here we go.
(machine beeping)
- [Both] 467. - No big deal.
- You tweaked her a little bit.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, you tweaked her a little.
- Did it bend.
- It is bent, right? - Just slightly.
- Just slightly. Nothing crazy.
- Just a degree or two.
- But to be honest, you would've never noticed that.
Okay, one more to go and then let's see-
- The oldest one. - Okay, here we go.
(metal snaps)
- (giggles) We skipped a gear immediately.
- Did it?
- Yep. Yeah, we got it.
It didn't even read.
Why didn't it go to pick up?
- Okay. All right.
60, Oh, not good.
I think she's hurt.
We're gonna pop it apart.
Just like we had at the beginning
and see if there's anything obvious.
- Oh no, we got chipped tooth.
- We rounded up baby. - We chipped the tooth.
- Yeah, there you have it.
Got some, what would you call it?
Spalling? - Spalling, chipping.
Yeah. I mean, that's a shame.
- So we took it apart
and made sure that these three screws are tight.
It's now 100% as good as it can potentially be.
I'm gonna try it one more time.
See what happens.
(machine beeping)
- [Both] 464.
- Well, those teeth are working.
- Is it bent at all?
- I don't think so.
I don't even think of a lick man.
- To be honest I'm kind of impressed with this one.
- Well, I gotta put this in first place.
No bend, no damage whatsoever.
Just took it in stride.
- 50-year-old one, I think it take a second place.
- Slight bend. - Slight bend on the handle.
And then this one kind of a fluke,
obviously there's no bend in the handle
or anything like that,
but because the gear's a little bit worn out
- [Jobe] She takes on some off the path.
- Still an honorable third place.
- Yeah.
So what all have we looked at here today?
- Well we've looked at serviceability,
we've looked at swing arc that each one of these had.
We've shoved freaking ax on 'em
and we've put 400 plus foot pounds of torque
on each and every one of these
to see if they'd go to failure.
- They're all honestly,
in a pretty similar category, this one inching ahead.
- And I think the reason that one inches ahead
are two things for me personally.
One, the number of teeth in throw angle is the smallest.
So if you're using that in the real tight space,
super crispy.
And then the second thing is,
if that thing breaks you just go return it
and get a new one.
- Yep, they're still making these,
it's got a lifetime warranty.
- You know, when you're actually using tools
and you're working on stuff,
you just want something that's as easy as possible to use,
and that is reliable. - Reliability is the key.
And for us today, this guy.
Instead of old reliable I guess we got new reliable.
(upbeat music)
(angelic music)
(box shuts)
(angelic music)
(upbeat music)
You know for me, it's a little bit of an upset
but I don't think we have any major losers here today.
- There are no losers here today.
- If you just so happen to have a set of these
you got 'em from your dad, garage sale,
or you're hipster- - Great.
- Yeah, they'll work.
Old tools do do the job,
but I don't think our dads are necessarily right.
I don't think they're necessarily better.
(mimics machine beep)
- Hey dad, the only loser in this test is you.
- Sucker.
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- I have to fight for March and Jesse.
- Oh, who would win that fight?
Probably Jesse, no Nolan.
No Nolan would.
- Nolan's not very strong though.
He's pretty weak.
- You say Nolan? - Yeah.
- He's got so much rage though, dude.
(Jerry laughs)
- He does rage.
He's a rager.
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