Homes went full Voultar with that lube...😂😅😂 For serious, though, I've been looking at doing the same type of upgrade for a micro-ratchet I got recently, so it's good to see that the process is as easy as I was hoping it was. Thanks for putting this out there.
Nice upgrade, doing the same to an SK ratchet myself. But really I'm leaving a comment to ask how that beauty of a black fingernail is doing. Still holding on or has it jumped ship yet LOL.
S-K still makes this ratchet. You can buy it from their distributors or off their website. They have released new-style pear-head ratchets, and they're OK. But nothing is as good as their good old trusty round-head design. I have nearly the same ratchet as the one in this video and ordered an upgrade kit just recently. I am really looking forward to putting the new mechanism in and using it on an engine rebuild scheduled for early Spring.
I probably would've put in 1/4 of the amount of grease for fear of less than perfect engagement/contact between the teeth/pawl interface. Nice upgrade though! When I think of SK innovation, it's their swivel head ratchets. I believe they invented it.
Nice thing about this upgrade, and the reason you can swap a new mechanism for an old one is that they went to a double pawl versus the old single one. This means they didn't have to make the teeth smaller. Which means that you can use more lube. On some of the ratchets that he mentioned with 90-100-120 teeth, they made the teeth smaller to do it. Too much lube can affect the operation as you mentioned when the teeth are so small. Another reason to stick with the good old S-K round head ratchet. I have never known one to fail. I am sure they do occasionally, but no one I know has ever managed to break one.
While you are technically correct I believe the pawls are slightly offset so in have the swing it would normally take to get to the next tooth the second paw is engaging thus acting like double the teeth without actually changing tooth count. That’s how those 120xp gearwrench ratchets get their high tooth counts I believe.
@@shawnwest3779 Ive done the 3/8 and the 1/2 upgrades and I gotta say you both are right. On the 3/8 noticed that it will go a tooth and a like half step, like a longer travel then a shorter one. The half inch kit seems to mainly be the same but somehow less backdrag than the 3/8 version. When you go really pulling on it to beak a bolt loose/tighten a lug they both engage, it really makes me feel better than the standard mechanism when putting lots of force on them. I would highly recommend the 1/2 kit! For the 3/8 kit I did my standard ratchet with the DT80 and just did a stock rebuild on my rotohead. The 3/8 backdrag is stiffer but nothing compared to a 800/900 series snap on, even felt less than a GW120 I felt in the store. Maybe do one 3/8 standard and one with the DT kit, the 3/8 ratchets go cheap online. Hope this helps guys, the DT100 upgrade really made me like my long 1/2 SK alot more.
Tell that to the marketing department of literally ANY tool company. They've all been pushing this lie for years. Always gotta look into anything with a respectable tooth count to see whether it's the real thing or not. I'm pretty sure there's nothing advertised above 90 teeth that isn't dual-pawl. That said, being dual-pawl doesn't automatically mean it's bad. All the higher-count Ko-ken's do it and good luck finding anything bad to say about those. There was one I saw recently that only went for a 1.5x increase and supposedly got some really good results for cheap that way.
Homes went full Voultar with that lube...😂😅😂
For serious, though, I've been looking at doing the same type of upgrade for a micro-ratchet I got recently, so it's good to see that the process is as easy as I was hoping it was. Thanks for putting this out there.
Nice upgrade, doing the same to an SK ratchet myself. But really I'm leaving a comment to ask how that beauty of a black fingernail is doing. Still holding on or has it jumped ship yet LOL.
S-K still makes this ratchet. You can buy it from their distributors or off their website. They have released new-style pear-head ratchets, and they're OK. But nothing is as good as their good old trusty round-head design. I have nearly the same ratchet as the one in this video and ordered an upgrade kit just recently. I am really looking forward to putting the new mechanism in and using it on an engine rebuild scheduled for early Spring.
I probably would've put in 1/4 of the amount of grease for fear of less than perfect engagement/contact between the teeth/pawl interface. Nice upgrade though! When I think of SK innovation, it's their swivel head ratchets. I believe they invented it.
Nice thing about this upgrade, and the reason you can swap a new mechanism for an old one is that they went to a double pawl versus the old single one. This means they didn't have to make the teeth smaller. Which means that you can use more lube. On some of the ratchets that he mentioned with 90-100-120 teeth, they made the teeth smaller to do it. Too much lube can affect the operation as you mentioned when the teeth are so small. Another reason to stick with the good old S-K round head ratchet. I have never known one to fail. I am sure they do occasionally, but no one I know has ever managed to break one.
But is the selector switch made of aluminum? I recently dropped a williams one that broke.
It still has 50 teeth, it may act differently because the 2 pawls but it doesn't change how many teeth are in there.
While you are technically correct I believe the pawls are slightly offset so in have the swing it would normally take to get to the next tooth the second paw is engaging thus acting like double the teeth without actually changing tooth count.
That’s how those 120xp gearwrench ratchets get their high tooth counts I believe.
@@shawnwest3779 Ive done the 3/8 and the 1/2 upgrades and I gotta say you both are right. On the 3/8 noticed that it will go a tooth and a like half step, like a longer travel then a shorter one. The half inch kit seems to mainly be the same but somehow less backdrag than the 3/8 version. When you go really pulling on it to beak a bolt loose/tighten a lug they both engage, it really makes me feel better than the standard mechanism when putting lots of force on them.
I would highly recommend the 1/2 kit! For the 3/8 kit I did my standard ratchet with the DT80 and just did a stock rebuild on my rotohead.
The 3/8 backdrag is stiffer but nothing compared to a 800/900 series snap on, even felt less than a GW120 I felt in the store. Maybe do one 3/8 standard and one with the DT kit, the 3/8 ratchets go cheap online.
Hope this helps guys, the DT100 upgrade really made me like my long 1/2 SK alot more.
Tell that to the marketing department of literally ANY tool company. They've all been pushing this lie for years. Always gotta look into anything with a respectable tooth count to see whether it's the real thing or not. I'm pretty sure there's nothing advertised above 90 teeth that isn't dual-pawl.
That said, being dual-pawl doesn't automatically mean it's bad. All the higher-count Ko-ken's do it and good luck finding anything bad to say about those. There was one I saw recently that only went for a 1.5x increase and supposedly got some really good results for cheap that way.