A look inside the torque multiplier and why it failed

[@SJWolf-yf8sy]

Thank You For Taking The Time To Tare It Apart And Show Us The Cheapness Of This Product. As Always Great Video!!

[@Maine307]

i dont know know who his grandkids are.. but they got one hell of a grand dad! teaching life skills and learning about true quality of work!! great video! lesson learned to all!! cheers!

[@JohnVH-diy]

Great vid as always. I bought one a few years ago just for roadside emergencies but have used it quite often in my shop. The first time using it I felt grinding. When I took it apart there was no grease. I cleaned it well and packed it with good grease and it has worked well. Mine had sloppy gears too. Definitely not made in the USA.

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

Not made here but the specs are from here and it's made to order. It's not the Chinese factory's fault, it's the U.S. buyer's fault for asking for that kind of quality to sell cheap and fast. I did some research on that and found that China has some of the finest quality products in the world but not readily available in the States. The "Chinese junk" is mostly made to order from companies here.

[@dblood8529]

@@GordonRobertsonDIY this the most underrated comment I’ve ever read on the internet. We’re so quick to call it “Chinese Junk” myself included. Before reading and understand this comment I thought China just pushed junk and sent it to the USA but I didn’t realize that American companies sends specs and order them that way. Wow. Thanks for the insight.

[@joshyandt8443]

Thank you Mr. Robertson.

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

Thank you for watching Josh.

[@dalebabbitt6185]

I'm so glad you made this video. I was about to buy the Cheater Wrench based upon your video several days ago using the Cheater Wrench. It looks like they are trying to compensate for the chineseium raw casting by packing it with heavy grease instead of properly machining the gearing. I understand this is what makes the price low. I'm glad I procrastinated. I'm thinking I'll try the one offered by Northern Tool. Thank again Gordon!!!

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

I'm glad you didn't get that one too. I think the Klutch is the better choice.

[@dalebabbitt6185]

@@GordonRobertsonDIY Happy Thanksgiving Gordon

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

Thank you Dale. Happy thanksgiving to you as well.

[@DebSidera]

I got the black one. I can feel it the whole case/leg twisting while I’m torquing on the input shaft

[@Greenmachine305]

Difficult to believe how poor the quality is. Shame on the manufacturer. Excellent video.

[@ckeckthis]

Thank you, from Germany, I appreciate it

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

Thank you for watching

[@FuriousGriffin]

Great video, I work on hydraulic motors and drives for excavators and bulldozers. They are the same idea as the drives I work on with the center gear being the "sun gear" then the "Planetaries" and finally running around the "Ring gear". Of course the ones I work on are far better machined and WAY bigger. :P I enjoyed watching, thank you.

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

Thanks for commenting Bill. I just take my drive motors to Bobcat and let them do them, I do the cylinders at home though and I have done the hydro motor on my stump grinder at home.

[@gdp2291]

Excellent job buddy.. nicely explained.thank you

[@wymershandymanservice9965]

Definitely a real case for buy once cry once. Great content showing you get what you pay for 👍. OTC used to sell a decent torque multiplier. . Used to work on a lot of Mack camel back springs.at 1800# of torque. Only way to get trunnion bushing to last was at the proper torque.

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

I can't find a good one on Google, I'm still looking.

[@cameronduff884]

@@GordonRobertsonDIY I found a Alkitronic mounz eliminator that looks like it might be what they copied,but it has a ratchet built in that makes it confusing for wheels. (I broke the shear pin trying to back it off) otherwise OK.

[@envisionCamusa]

Good video as always Gordon. I bought torque multipliers years ago and have used them frequently and haven't had any problems. I think they are all cheap imports anyways so it's probably a luck of the draw on getting a decent one.

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

Well now you know what's in it and the kind of quality you get.

[@jtqthetieman]

Why not reload the grease while you have it apart, especially since you removed some grease? Gotta lube.

[@ambiorispuntier945]

Great vid. Thanks!!!

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

Glad you liked it!

[@northmanlogging2769]

goes to show, sometimes more expensive isn't better, been thinking on picking one of these up for awhile, but at $200 I was leary, the Northern tool version is under $100 after shipping... seems like a slam dunk, Proto makes a couple different types, but they want a lot for em

[@DIYSEMI]

I bought a cheap one a year ago for $80. Used it once so far. I guess if I get a couple uses out of it its a cheap lesson learned. Better than some of expensive lessons I've learned...lol.

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

I hope you don't have anything as tight as my trailer was or yours might break too.

[@chrischiampo7647]

Concept Is Great But Execution Was Lacking 🥺🤕😳 Thanks For The Teardown And Review I Also Love Failure Analysis Diagnostics 😀👍🏼👨🏼‍🔧🧰

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

I just received the 78:1 and will be having a look inside to see if I like the way it's made. I need to have one in my truck and one in the shop. I'll decide which one will go in the truck after I compare them.

[@ismailyakubu8474]

Chris Chiampo o

[@wisfull11]

try Wurth for one of these

[@lolacazam]

NUT BUDDY makes a good one. I’ve got one in my toolbox in case a 1”impact won’t take off a lug nut off.

[@geneduclos4003]

Another great china product... thanks for sharing.

[@petemoss9693]

Hi Gordon - Thank's for sharing this video with all of - as you know everything now a days is made in China sad to say - you get what you pay for right . " Happy Thanksgiving "

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

Thank you Pete. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.

[@macspud28]

Or not, the $70 one was better quality than the $250 one.

[@simonlloyd7557]

We (our politicians) in the West have made a huge mistake but destroying our manufacturing base and getting the Chinese to make everything. Now we are their slaves and they are on the way to becoming THE most powerful nation of Earth...Then they give us Covid 19 which is ruining the global economy and costing millions of lives..and who supplies the PPE?? Im making it my personal mission to not knowingly buy anything from China.

[@kamleshchaudhari7545]

Konsi website pe gear milega

[@fishyhobby3697]

Great information and video.. seems like they're just light duty junk..

[@markrob9752]

Hey Gordon do you have a video of removal of Top Plate on Eaton Transmission. Need to reach that piston inside mines leaking causing air to seak thru

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

No Mark, I don't. I would be talking to the man at the transmission shop if I had to do that.

[@Tosh.O]

ive owned a snap on torque multiplier for 3+ years now and it has never failed on me one time. Buy cheap stuff it breaks, buy quality stuff it lasts for life.

[@dangerdavefreestyle]

maybe there is some policy against shipping grease

[@banzaii6285]

Please post a link for whatever one you think is the "better" cheap torque multiplier : ) May just be a crap shoot whether it breaks or not. Thanks for the review.

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200732635_200732635?cm_mmc=Bing-pla&Bing_PLA&Hand%20Tools%20%3E%20Wrenches&Klutch&msclkid=81dfc0d7a4f215fa0c789d024fa1f8d7

[@banzaii6285]

@@GordonRobertsonDIY Thank you...

[@ashkanmahouti858]

Why’s the inside painted?😅

[@robotech1990]

Mr. Robertson DIY i just love your vid´s. Thank´s for the teardown. Just wondering..Why can´t america make these tools with good quality and affordable price??I would be happy to spend my money in good tools. I still have a german made HEYCO set of wrenches my dad inherit me...i love them . Have another set of DOWIDAT...never failed. Why americans buy trash from China?? " Merry Christmas"

[@MrUbiquitousTech]

Great postmortem Gordon. Did that orange one even have a bearing on the out put shaft? As sloppy as it flopped around it didn't look like it. It's apparent that what these companies did is spec their tolerances so wide that they could assemble with raw castings to keep the cost down. Machining all of those parts would have made it more precision and reliable, but really driven the cost up. Off topic, my jacket looks _exactly_ like yours. Many years ago our company bought us managers at different locations jackets with our names and company logo on them. A few years later myself and a couple of other managers were at a meeting with the company president (who originally bought us the jackets) and one guy from a southern operation was wearing his as was myself. My jacket was worn, torn, and greasy. His looked brand new. I saw that and thought to myself that it was kind of obvious who's actually doing the work....

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

The red one has no bushing on the output, I didn't check that far on the black one. I just received a 78:1 today, I'll be looking inside of it real soon. I need a good one for my truck and another one for the shop. They have no excuse for making them so poorly, anyone would gladly pay $200 or more if it were made with machined parts and a close tolerance. Not hard to do it right. A winch motor is done that way, maybe I should make my own from one of those.

[@markkiser9329]

file test to the metal will tell alot

[@georgedoorley5628]

got one like your red one only in black ................worked ok till i put a crescent wrench on the input side one day ........heard a snap ...............3rd set of gears bust .......... the few sockets that came with it are all thats left now ..........!

[@garyhoward3123]

Made to sell, not to use. Klutch is 80 dollars. You can't get much quality or machining for that. Klutch does have a 1 yr warranty. Thanks for the review.

[@dchawk81]

I figured they were probably all made by the same company so I went with the cheapest on eBay @ $36. This way I can consider it disposable. It's mostly just to procrastinate buying a bigger compressor to run my 1" gun properly.

[@cameronduff884]

If you can afford it, torcup, you won't need so much air

[@C.O.SBurpees]

I bought one of those on ebay been using the same one for years now it was like 40 bucks

[@donald1056]

The black one is not perfect but it's the better between the 2 of them by all account and it didn't break and it took off the lug nuts on your semi - that's the reason you bought it

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

That's right Don.

[@geneduclos4003]

do you know of a good torque multiplier that doesn't cost 100's of dollars? i'm still looking.

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

Northerntool.com less than $90.

[@gavnonadoroge3092]

looks like a good example of chinee quality

[@wilcandou]

Looks like someone's been using a rattle gun on it. ...naughty, naughty!

[@wilcandou]

Impact gun damage

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

never happened, just cheap Chinese junk.

[@bpetnoi1472]

Harbor Freight??????

[@carpenterfamily6198]

Damn - Gordon please let us know if Chester Wrench honors the warranty. Of course that doesn’t help when you’re broke down in the middle of no where.

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

I haven't had time to send it back yet but I plan to do that soon.

[@Imwright720]

The original cost close to 300 bucks. Quality isn’t cheap

[@AlenaziCompany]

Thanks for showing us the negative of this tool, this is poor machining . I wish if good machine company in USA take over manufacturing this with good metal ....

[@kumarpankaj7992]

Praec

[@cactusjack1806]

Looks like its made of chinesium.

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

I don't know what that is. I guess it's not that good.

[@JonDingle]

@@GordonRobertsonDIY Chinesium is a term used by AvE to describe cheap Chinese quality materials. His channel is really good. Just search AvE, sit back, learn and enjoy!

[@unkwm128]

probably made by the same prisoner

[@martinmarin841]

U get what u pay 30.00 dollar

[@garagekeys]

When you are a Cheapo you buy cheapo tools then complain.

[@Boot_185]

If you want a machined one you know how much they would cost? These companies now cast everything to get quantity over quality

[@GordonRobertsonDIY]

A winch motor is machined and doesn't cost much more than these. It's a scam because they know you won't use it more than a couple times if at all.

[@kyrifleman6176]

most likely made from the rejected castings bought in bulk, why there are so few honest, quality, legitimate manufactures in business these days. Normally the marketplace would weed out low quality junk over time, that competition would lower consumer price as well and over time only affordable stuff that actually worked would persist. No one should get away with ripping off consumers like they do. When buying the higher priced tool doesn't even get you any better quality then there is a serious problem.

[@thelonerizla1]

You have to understand that these slopey multipliers will develop stupid torque but if the input torque is any more than your 4yr old daughters best arm it will strip . Snap-on, on the other hand, are out there on fkin Mars with their price . Where have the Germans gone and the Brits ffs?

[@Boot_185]

"made in china"?

[@martinmarin841]

Very sloppy

[@walterwhitaker1395]

WHY do people buy tools from Horror Fright and then bitch about the poor quality! Street Hooker or Bunny Ranch? you pay your money and you take your chances! LOL!

[@moonrider19681]

give us the name so I dont buy this trash

[@1dedoe]

There is just no excuse for that coat bud....