The Auto Wrench: a HUGE Missed Opportunity from Black and Decker

[@davidsee3553]

You inadvertently answered the question immediately. The reason why there are so many unopened ones floating around is because they did not have the cutting disk technology we have now.

[@magoodada]

More is more! Milwaukee!

[@austinpage4361]

and the fact that we all universally accept that a die grinder is a reasonable tool for opening these things.

[@hugegamer5988]

How are you able to open the package with just an angle grinder and a box of cut off discs? Why it completely rejected my attempts at using a 20kW fiber laser welder.

[@dustinandtarynwolfe5540]

​@@hugegamer5988do you mean 2 kw? Do you have any clue what a 20 kw fiber laser could do?

[@PenguinKnightilia]

Well, I guess I just found a Costco version of Avé. The sausage fingers aren't sausagy, but he does have hairier arms. Plus, the jokes are finally a millennial can understand. And since he's poor, he actually has to put things back together. i might subscribe

[@ucitymetalhead]

I swear I was gonna say the same thing. 🤣

[@geniferteal4178]

I believe the similarities are intentional😊

[@geniferteal4178]

You just wasted twenty bucks to make this video😅

[@carlosg1165]

😂😂😂😂😂 I have one it sucks 😊😊

[@daviddavidson2357]

AvE Channel used to be k own as Arduino vs Evil way back when.

[@garmack12]

Come to think of it. It’s amazing he was able to fling a wrench into a toilet and not crack the porcelain.

[@criley2723]

Your prognosis of who bought these are spot on. Me and my grandma got this for my grandpa one fathers day.

[@patrickrouintree6942]

When I was a little kid, my friend's dad had one and we would squish spiders and bugs with it. It was awesome at that.

[@magictugboat507]

"Now you tell us where the rest of your spider friends are hiding or we'll put the Auto-Wrench to ya!" ...wimpy winding noise

[@MikeStavola]

A long time ago, I redesigned one of these for an electromechanical engineering project. Was fully forged using the jaw and gear from an existing wrench design, had a microcontroller to sense when the amperage went up on the motor to shut off, had a lower gearing, and had a 2 level rocker switch to pulse the jaws open or closed if pressed gently, or fully running when you pressed harder. I think the total cost was like 3x more than this, but the apparent profit margins for this were already really high.

[@mmuller2402]

? And it never got to the market? 😮😢

[@yucannthahvitt]

@@mmuller2402school projects usually don’t…

[@komitadjie]

Too bad that never had a chance to make market, I'd pay for a good version of this concept. A good one-handed adjustable wrench that actually tightens down well blind would be pretty darn good.

[@erichill7560]

If people will pay $20 for a Gator Grip, they'll pay whatever it takes for this.

[@felixjohnson3874]

Maybe I'm missing something but what you're describing sounds like 5-10 dollars of electrical parts and a wrench. A prototype/project version being expensive does not imply a mass market version of the same thing would be.

[@FZXTCHR]

The actor in the tool ad was the guy that played “Gale” in Breaking Bad.

[@evanjames6473]

Came here to say this! That blew my mind noticing him

[@vanguardcycle]

and the editor from The Sun on The Wire

[@silkroad1201]

If you look closely in Breaking Bad, you can see a Black and Decker auto-wrench sitting on a chair when Gale is setting up the lab for Gus (Not really, but that would be funny)

[@alext8828]

Holy Shit, you're right. The wives ruined that show. Gives all the money to her boss. "Thank you, dear!"

[@TheErikM]

jesus titty fukking christ on a bike your right. thumbs up for you sir

[@zendell37]

These didn't fail hard. These sold out regularly at Sears stores across the country for several Christmases in a row.

[@RandoWisLuL]

i was gonna say what was he smoking lol Both BD and Sears sold a ton of these for a few years. all the suburbanite white collar dads got them. Then he shits on the wires like it needed 5-gauge wire to push 1.5 volts lol The whole product was made for the aforementioned people i was talking about above. So reviewing it as a serious tool is odd

[@nickm9102]

his point was as a serious tool it failed hard, he even mentioned this was very much the Christmas/Father's Day purchase that was kept not for what it was but for who bought it.

[@imJohnnyCox]

I agree. What are you saying is essentially you'll never find these in a plumbers or mechanics tool bag. But rather left up in the attic or in some dusty shelf. ​@@nickm9102

[@AberrantAberrant]

@@RandoWisLuL Using like 28 gauge wire as they usually do is deserving of some shit talk Just because you can do bare minimum doesn't mean you should. This reduces serviceability of the device and makes it more fragile so that the manufacturer can save a couple cents of copper.

[@mikefule]

Sounds like it succeeded as a marketed product (they sold lots and made a profit) but it failed as a tool (because it was no good).

[@spikereynolds8615]

So much wasted potential in this idea. Give this idea to TTI and we'd have a Ryobi version that could actually handle something, and 5 years later we'd have a Milwaukee version that was brutal.

[@AmaroqStarwind]

TTI?

[@bastian1847]

One of these made it into our family at a white elephant Christmas many many years ago. Ever since then, my brother and my dad have been gifting it back and forth each Christmas as a joke 😂

[@NC944er]

I had a similar “ZipWrench” version circa 2004. As stated, it was a “gift” (curse) and came in Billy Mays “as seen on TV” packaging. The slop was so bad it couldn’t be reliably used on any fitting. Thanks for the flashback. 👍

[@DanteYewToob]

I actually used to have one of those except it didn’t use electricity… It had a spring and a latch, and you just push a button and it automatically adjusted to the nut size and then reengages the worm gear when you release… I actually loved that tool and apparently someone else did too because it went missing. It had a few flaws, like occasionally it wouldn’t reengage on its own if the teeth and worm gear weren’t properly aligned but all you had to do was wiggle it a bit and it would lock into place. The biggest flaw was user error, the way I tended to hold it, it would hit the button when tightening and the wrench would unlock, pop open and I’d slam my knuckles into something. That was my own dumb ass though, admittedly. Fool myself fifty times and I’m a moron who will get fooled again. Haha It was perfect, no need for electrical nonsense, it still worked normally even if the spring mechanism wore out or stopped working for some reason and it made working on awkward things out of reach really simple. I’ve looked for another one but don’t remember the brand and I can’t find it on Amazon or anything… if anyone knows, hit me up! I’d like to buy another one.

[@fuckoff5893]

Did it look like a regular adjustable wrench? With an exposed worm gear? I’ve been looking at wrenches online for like 20 now lol. I’ve found ratcheting ones, self adjusting pipe wrenches, vice grip locking adjustables, slide adjustable, but I don’t think you mean any of those. I want to find it too 😭

[@felixjohnson3874]

I couldn't find anything that had that sort of spring-lock mechanism, but I did find quite a few 'auto adjusting' crowfoot wrenches that look like they might also fill a similar niche. Not hugely into mechanical stuff myself, (more software stuff by trade) but IMO this is one of the big reasons to try to use open-source and/or DIY-able stuff anywhere you can because then you know, for a fact, you can always keep using it. (Even if it gets lost, stolen, destroyed, etc. you can just get the exact same thing again) With the recent price plummets of things like metal 3D printing you can actually get quite complex parts made quite cheaply to whatever design you can dream up in CAD (which itself has also become more available, Freecad 1.0 will be coming out any day now) so in the next 5-10 years I'd wager (or at least, hope) that we'll actually start seeing tool designs get shared around open source online in a way we really haven't ever seen yet. The one issue is the near-nil overlap between people techie enough to want to design their tools in CAD and share them open-source online and the people mechie enough (for lack of a better phrase) to want custom tools like automatic wrenches and such. If enough people cared we could absolutely have things like open source engine management units and such, but the overlap between the people that want that sort of mechanical sovereignty (largely rural 40-50+ grease monkeys) and people digitally inclined enough to want to make it software controlled/see the benefits of digital control (largely

[@foxotcw30]

No matter how well it works, the most obvious problem with it is that it's big. The best, most expensive wrenches are always lithe and elegant looking, and no larger than needed. Every extra millimeter means more places where the tool just won't fit.

[@patrickshaw8595]

I got six carboard boxes of wrenches sockets ratchets + scrap metal I have cut up and welded together over the last 50 years. I always dance a little jig when I get to fish one of them out and use it again making the job easy/possible.

[@WarneD1]

I think this wrench won an invention of the year award in the 90’s. It was invented to be used on the space shuttle, the motor driven adjustment was meant to be used with the gloves of an astronaut suit.

[@Jaffjv]

I feel like it would be a terrible idea to use adjustable wrenches during a space walk, even if it was automatic. They’ve using expensive torque wrenches and sockets that fit properly

[@nickm9102]

And if it was made like it would be used on the shuttle it would have been useful but this quality level wouldn't make it on a Chinese Space shuttle.

[@andiralosh2173]

It might be designed to open and close without taking gravity into consideration. That would explain... the closure failure

[@Jaffjv]

@@andiralosh2173 not really, the force of gravity on a mechanism so small is negligible compared to forces of actually using it

[@andiralosh2173]

@@Jaffjv did you watch the video? That's why it doesn't close on the metric side

[@TheRealXyzven]

Oversized Dremel to open a plastic shell and blatant disregard for open terminal wires touching (till they do?). A real life Tim the tool man, Taylor! SUBSCRIBED!

[@Fridelain]

Replace the AAs with a lithium cell from a discarded vape. Some even come with USB-C for charging. That will give the motor some extra oomph. And not leak.

[@unclejohn5012]

Needs two 14500 cells😎

[@patrickshaw8595]

@@unclejohn5012 I killed the motors in both of my wrenches using 18650s.

[@AmaroqStarwind]

Ah yes, street lithiums

[@shockwave_3146]

Found one of these at a garage sale a while ago, figured id try it for the couple bucks it was priced for while not expecting much. Surprisingly mine works well, much better than the one you have. Granted i dont use it on anything that needs a proper gronking but for most things it works well enough.

[@TylerSnyder305]

They actually sold these for quite a long time surprisingly, I remember seeing these in a center isle display at Walmart maybe 15 years ago. It never seemed like a good idea to me, but there was a time where I almost bought one of those adjustables with a with a slider that you run with your thumb.

[@shawbros]

I bought one of those with the slider, 2-3 decades ago at a flea market for cheap. It was seized up, and I had to clean and oil it to get it working again. It works now, but I still prefer to use conventional adjustable wrenches. I would probably choose the slider one over the battery powered one though.

[@michaelduttry182]

I got one years ago as a Christmas present. It sits in the bottom of an old toolbox in my pickup. It's the last tool I would ever grab to use.

[@Redneck0784]

This tool would be decent if you gear drove it and threw in alittle over engineering but then it would cost $250

[@juststuffwithwolfe4482]

1:22 the only correct way to open that packaging lol

[@rfarevalo]

I own one. It comes in handy when you need to adjust a nut or leveling feet of a machine and can't see the fastener. When the accessible opening is tighter than an open vice grips would allows. I use it to get behind a panel in a privately owned submersible craft.

[@tomn8tr]

Stockton Rush - is that you???

[@oradaz]

This video is on point. I got one as a gift before I was adept at turning wrenches and quickly learned it was an excellent toolbox caliper. The motor didn't have enough ass to tighten so combined with the slop it was a reliable bolt and nut rounder. I can't recall what happened to it, probably the pop of doom with a cheater pipe. I had completely forgotten it existed until now

[@takeohtyme]

My grandfather has one of these. I used to use it to slightly tighten bolts and nuts before using it to find the right sized box end to finish the job.

[@paulmcgrath2175]

I intentionally bought one just because it was so over the top ridiculous.

[@coondogtheman]

I have one of these wrenches and yes it is lacking in power but I do use it to tighten and remove the hose from an LPG tank.

[@helidude3502]

As an aircraft mechanic mechanic for much of my career and minor in various other trades, I know the value of a quality tools made to do a task correctly. I have also learned that many lower end tools can successfully perform a task without a high cost or flashy appearance. I have also found that random cheap tools can be used as is or modified to do something they weren’t designed to and accomplish a variety of things. Sometimes they only work once, others routinely speed up installing a fastener in a confined location while the final torque is with the proper tool. I remember looking at one of these when they came out. I couldn’t think of a single task that I would bother to use this for. The cheapest pair of knockoff vice grips would be more valuable than a truckload of these,

[@mrbyamile6973]

I got one for Christmas or father's day. I did actually attempt to use it. It was about as useful as this video suggested.

[@shawbros]

"The cheapest pair of knockoff vice grips would be more valuable than a truckload of these" I doubt it. Imagine selling a truckload of these, at $1 each.

[@kitchenasmr6876]

I still have the one that was gifted to me back when these first hit the scene. I have never changed the batteries. They died very early on. I have used it many times over the years as just a regular wrench. And also as a hammer.

[@BrockHerrin]

Wonder how many patents were wasted on this.

[@magikben]

Hmm, I actually have one and used it in anger.

[@CousinBumbleF]

On more than one occasion the ad for the auto wrench came to mind. Always wondered what happened to it. Thanks for making a video about it

[@evanbrown4820]

I have one, and I actually kind of like it. My dad and grandpa both got one for Christmas one year, and after my grandpa passed I got some of his tools, including this one. And I do occasionally find uses for it. The one complaint I do have is the size, it's got a much larger profile than the meat powered adjustable open end wrench, so it doesn't really fit in tight spaces as easily.

[@sailawaybob]

i have one it's mounted on a long bolt that holds my other adjustable wrenches, it's the back wrench so i use the two in front first which means i rarely if ever use it .

[@zaxdadeer23]

Petition to make it a federal crime to refer to anything manually actuated as “meat powered”.

[@GRRR1148]

I still have mine, it gets used regularly and works well (as long as you keep replacing batteries). My mother bought it for me as a present.

[@JDeWittDIY]

Have you figured out what to do with your shop floor yet?

[@thedoubtfultechnician8067]

Yup! I’ll be posting an update video.

[@mheermance]

I loled when you used the grinder to open the package. The MS Edge burn was great too.

[@KouuToriProductions]

I would actually love to see Milwaukee put out an improved version of this. I'd buy it.

[@peterxyz3541]

NASA use a similar wrench in space. It’s for use while gloved in a spacesuit

[@CT5555_]

My grandpa had one of these electric crescent wrenches from Black & decker, and it worked for approximately 3 seconds.

[@BetterBiomedChannel]

Use vinegar on those corroded battery terminals then follow it with alcohol to flush. The vinegar neutralizes the leaked alkaline.

[@SolarCookingGermany]

I have a Sheffield mechanical adjustable wrench that works with a slider. You operate it with your thumb, much faster than this, it doesn't need batteries and the build quality is really good. I wonder why I don't see them more often, they work good.

[@hachi-rokuperformancegroup3987]

My dad has one. He was a mechanic and had all the tools he needs so me and my brother would buy him all the gimmick tools that he would use and say how great they were just to show he was grateful for the gifts. He still has the wrench and still struggles with the dog bone wrench

[@chadbreton4951]

❤the fact that the wrench was unopened is hilarious and speaks volumes. And you are correct about nickelback. I do not hate them however I do not like their music whatsoever

[@1pcfred]

I'm proud to say I can't name a single nickelback song but I have a sneaking suspicion that if I heard one of their popular ones I might have heard it before. I've definitely heard of them.

[@RaidonChrome]

I used to have thos wrench, and it was loved and abused to the point where the metal part cracked and broke off. Still my favorite wrench, because it was so easy to grab when you had to unscrew a lot of differently-sized nuts.

[@PredatorOmnivore]

That leaking battery puss is alkaline (basic) and is easily properly cleaned away using (gasp) ACID. Simply use Q-Tips dipped in vinegar (acid) and the alkaline puss is neutralized by the acid and absorbed by the Q-Tip cotton pads. Then use Q-Tips dipped in rubbing alcohol to dry out the area.

[@ryanomalley430]

My grandma got my grandpa one back in the day, he never used it and it stayed in the package until we sold it at a yard sale.

[@Nebulax123]

Have had much better luck with mine got one from my wife when they came out and been using it since for low torque jobs it opens and closes better too. I did see right away it would not be wise to push it too hard.

[@securi-t]

I bought one for myself! Of course it was in the WalMart clearance aisle for $5 and me, being like 19 at the time, was like "Genius! I"ll never need another wrench as long as I live!"

[@Eric-yt7fp]

This is one of the funniest tool review videos I've ever seen. Good stuff, definitely going to subscribe

[@Rose_Butterfly98]

Actually yeah, adjustable wrenches rarely work as well as a proper one, this is great for figuring out which wrench first try every time. Although, if we wanted that, a laser would be better

[@paulwalsh2458]

Someone bought my Dad that for Christmas or something and I found it to have too much play. The one gimmick tool of that time I really appreciated was the small robogrips. They worked great. The large ones not as much. Even with my hands the grips were pretty far apart.

[@patrickshaw8595]

I bought a cute little 65mm electronic calipers ('absolute encoder equipped" I might add!) for $28 off The Bay and IT tells me what size wrench to grab. PS - all my sockets and wrenches got their ACTUAL SIZES IN DECIMAL INCHES (to .001") engraved in them. Why? Because a LOT of times an 11mm wrench fits the rusty wore-down 7/16" heax-head better than the "right" wrench does! 19mm sometimes gets used on 3/4" 22mm sometimes gets used on 7/8" and so on. Once in a while I even have to use a 9/16" on a wore-down 14mm hex.

[@xaytana]

My problem with adjustables is that they're the last tool you use before you run to the store to pick up that missing wrench size, but the issue always ends up being that you can't sinch the worm tight enough for the thing to not slip off the fastener. I have a set of old Craftsman Robo-Grip pliers that do the job better, though the teeth do mar up the fasteners, I also have some other Craftsman odds and ends, a sliding adjustable with hex jaws (don't know the name), and a rotating adjustable with six individual jaws (again don't know the name) that also gets these kinds of jobs done faster. I think adjustables would see more use from me if there was a flare nut variant, where you can sinch down on more than two faces, though I wouldn't be surprised if the worm (often with a loose jaw) would still be problematic. As for measuring bolts, I just use some calipers, easier plus I get to see tolerance between a bolt head and socket, I've encountered too many over-torqued fasteners with loose tolerances to know not to get bitten in the ass by them; same reason I don't like twelve-points. The tool was before its time, we all remember how cheap and wimpy even a drill motor was back then, but I think this idea will always be doomed to be a gimmick due to lack of holding power and the fact that adjustables are just overly large for most applications; again, they're a last-ditch tool before you go buy the proper tool.

[@itsm00t]

Hey…my mom bought me one of those for Christmas one year😂😂😂 stuck it in the BBQ grill to assist with propane bottle swaps. Worked till it didn’t…then she was disassembled and scrapped. A for design concept, F for execution…

[@shawbros]

"then she was disassembled and scrapped" You disassembled and scrapped your mom?

[@itsm00t]

@@shawbros I think that sleeping in my BBQ grill took a few years off her life😂

[@DeadKoby]

I actually had one of those.... I didn't think it was terrible. It'd adjust 90% of the way with the battery, and then you could snug it with your thumb.

[@Tubbytube6]

I talked my dad into getting one when i was a kid. That thing was completly unuseable. Even at that age I knew it was utter garbage. It was the first poor quality tool I've ever held. Good times.

[@hkr321hkr]

I've been struggling all this time to open stuff and now I see I need my angle grinder 🤔 thank you for the videos ❤

[@1pcfred]

Aviation snips works on that kind of packaging too. If the snips are heavy duty and sharp.

[@Shadow_Hawk_Streaming]

if it was built more like an older style wrench with the nut further down the handle then you'd have room for a good motor and gearing, but also I definitely think a belt is a wise choice because you don't want it to have a catastrophic failure from overtourquing

[@minilathemayhem]

What's wild is this could probably actually be better than a standard adjustable wrench if the bean counters hadn't limited the hell out of it. Imagine, if you will, it having a little "hold" button on the side of it where it makes the wrench use the holding torque of the motor to keep the worm drive from walking.

[@zlcoolboy]

I use crescents at work all the time, this would be useful if it had tighter tolerances.

[@Ian.G256]

I love that the AVE school of opening tools is still alive and well.

[@garbo8962]

I was fortunate to be able to work with best in class mill Wright mechanics, welder, & machnists while an apprentice. Millwrights took my adjustable wrenches from me because they said only halve ass people use those nut rounders. They only used a 6 point socket or box wrench to tighten or loosen hex nuts or hex headed bolts. Mine are collecting dust in one if my top chest.

[@1pcfred]

Well, I was fortunate enough to purchase a Bacho while they were still being made in Sweden. It is the God level adjustable wrench. They put a subtle inwards pitch on the jaws so when you tighten the wrench down onto a fastener it grips it and won't come off. Super precision. It ain't your Daddy's Crescent wrench, that's for sure. Which all those knob gobblers you were working with knew about.

[@hugegamer5988]

Wow! I got THREE of them new in box from my uncle when he passed. Still have them new in box for some reason….

[@tbcarleton]

Maybe if he put the oil on the screw instead of the handle, he wouldn't have dropped it in the toilet, and he would have been able to adjust it with his thumb without the toilet water rusting the thing up.

[@libertarian1637]

I’m a man and I bought one for myself.

[@remcovanvliet3018]

Turn in your card, former Sir. I've had a word with the Commission, and you have been disbarred. I would say that henceforth you are only allowed to drink Bud Light, but that would be cruel and unusual punishment. And, let's be honest, you probably prefer Whiteclaw, anyway.

[@brantgentry1463]

​@@remcovanvliet3018lmbo

[@Dutchmandrifts]

You're right about the Nickleback thing...

[@Naedlus]

Hell, maybe even if Black and Decker sent it over to their DeWalt half, they could at least get it to open and close on its own... At a price that would make everyone else clutch their nut-rounders harder. That said, Stanley's vice-grip enabled adjustable wrench was surprisingly solid, except for pins that slid out overly easily.

[@77cobraii89]

i got mine from my sadly now passed pop-pop new as well. but it def fore makes light work saving time on the bolt/nut size! and that is it! never even tried to wrench with it lol

[@wolfgartom]

I collect bolt rounders. I gotta get one of these!

[@gmac123]

I noticed you called it Stanley Black & Decker... this was pre-Stanley! The good ole days

[@HDXFH]

Happy meal toys are now made in vietnam

[@madeintexas3d442]

My grandma got one of these for my dad back in the day and it was absolutely useless. It had so much backlash that you would strip any fastener you tried to tighten or loosen with it.

[@TerryClarkAccordioncrazy]

When using an adjustable wrench who doesn't think "this'd be more convenient if it were bulkier and heavier".

[@HDXFH]

Braun shavers used those motors

[@societl]

i think the most impressive thing is that they included batteries. I haven’t bought something that came with batteries for atleast 5 years

[@callancollins7708]

just got into tinkering with thinks in my shop. subscribed.

[@herzogsbuick]

they're new in box because at the time, no one had invented the angle grinder yet -- hence it was impossible to remove them from the steely grip of packaging

[@1pcfred]

Angle grinders have been around for a very long time but they weren't as mainstream as they are today in the past. The high-speed angle grinder was invented in 1954

[@dfwrider3830]

some tape around the adjuster screws drive pulley may increase the torque ratio a bit for you

[@Novous]

You should make a wall powered one. Nothing safer than live mains in your hands holding a metal wrench. And no pesky recharging!

[@merikatools568]

I'm a large engine diesel mechanic and this is the only wrench I use

[@mikekristin7201]

I worked at Sears back in the early 00 when these came out. Couldn't give them away. They all went clearance and still couldn't given them away

[@TheQcjoe47]

Looking at this video right after I lost the dang spring from the plunger needle on the carb of my chainsaw...

[@ghostmantagshome-er6pb]

I remember when this were introduced at an invention convention. People thought they could be used in space.

[@andrewr6861]

That wire stripper sucks just as bad.

[@1pcfred]

The only autostrippers I like are Speedex. But Speedex aren't the auto adjusting kind. They're like regular wire strippers with the cutouts for wire gauges but then they have the gripper bit too. I've seen folks use decent auto adjusting strippers. I've never had them myself though.

[@andrewr6861]

@@1pcfred I'm not a fan of auto strippers the 1 time you need it not to damage the insulation it always does.

[@1pcfred]

@@andrewr6861 I've seen folks use some that seem to work. I got a cheap pair that's absolute junk.

[@alext8828]

Mine works fine. Maybe because I didn't try taking it apart and wrecking it.

[@erichill7560]

Contrary to what many of our parents told us, taking something apart doesn't automatically break it!

[@1pcfred]

@@erichill7560 that would depend on who's taking it apart. Their parents may have been right.

[@tomji3148]

Great vid man, keen for more.

[@jacobishii6121]

Yeah,I was around the mortgage industry and saw what the crash was caused by.The people that took bad loans knew they were bad.So many signatures required to proved that you been warned if you BS you may loose it

[@doom4067]

I bought one for myself. It was good while the mechanism worked.

[@willtay3016]

I remember as a kid about 15 years ago this was given to my dad at some point during a Christmas. I broke it

[@Cr125stin]

I think the last time I saw something come out the box with name brand batteries was 2006. Unless PKcell counts as name brand hahaha

[@kingnull2697]

*PKCELL*

[@JessicaFEREM]

I remember my dad having this in his tool drawer and him not caring when I took it

[@mech0p]

honestly a modern one would probably be pretty good now days especially if proper made

[@Name-ot3xw]

Neat toolbox lock, very unlikely to accidentally pop open.

[@cierrahrosesmith2789]

My dad had one of those, loved the thing

[@davedemo8229]

inch and metric.woooooo too cool. next look for the old craftsman NiCad electric ratchet. that was a low torque winner too.

[@thedoubtfultechnician8067]

I have to crap on tools with discretion. People get mad sometimes!

[@davedemo8229]

@@thedoubtfultechnician8067 just tell them “lighten up Francis “

[@97TheWatcher]

If this worked really well it would be so handy for changing parts in some boilers or tightening up bath taps with

[@svgPhoenix]

Did they not bother putting a plastic tab between the batteries and contacts?

[@hansangb]

@5:05 LOL. I'm a firefox guy, but I see what you did there.

[@Novous]

Odd thing is a simple lever press could do the same thing without a motor and be more reliable