My favorite 1/2" impact is the Snap-On AT 5500. I just bought a heavy duty MAC AR777 3/8". I prefer their butter-fly 3/8" impact, their 3/8" regular impact and I have 1/4", 3/8" pawl drive Snap-On ratchets. These may be one of the best wrenches ever made. I still use these occasionally when I need a 12 point socket.įor those times when I need a very thin but strong wrench, I keep HAZET. Dad used these tools for decades and when he died they were left to me. On the day I was born in December 1945, my Dad bought a set of SK twelve point, 1/2" drive sockets with a ratchet, an extension and a breaker bar. I keep a few popular size Snap-On in 12 point. All of mu sockets in 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2" short and deep are SK 6 point. All of my combination wrenches are SK and I have these in stubby, regular and long. On the other hand if you're able to pick up a like new condition F80 in the $40 or so price range you certainly won't be disappointed with it. I'm know I've put my 1/2" HF breaker bar and extendable ratchet through things I fully expected would break them and it hasn't so. Are the Snap-on ratchets made better? Probably, but are they 4x the cost better? probably not.
I know that sounds like blasphemy, but it's the truth as I have experienced it. In practical everyday use, if I were blindfolded and handed a snap-on ratchet vs a HF fine tooth ratchet, other than the on/off selector being backwards I probably wouldn't notice much difference. Of the 50 or so ratchets I own (yes it's an addiction) probably 1/2 a dozen of them are Snap-on, but I think I'd be disappointed if I ever paid full price for a Snap-on ratchet. The first being the hard handle instinct screw drivers which I still believe to be the best screwdrivers in the free world.
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