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Offline hickory n Steel

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What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« on: May 09, 2019, 06:05:09 PM »
My smallest is a Craftsman 4mm.
I never really looked, but I didn't really thin sockets went that small till I got it.
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Re: What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2019, 08:46:17 PM »
I have a SO 1/8" drive set that has a 3/32" socket. I think my SO 1/4" in also a 4mm.

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Re: What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2019, 11:43:06 PM »
I have a SO 1/8" drive set that has a 3/32" socket. I think my SO 1/4" in also a 4mm.
Man those 1/8" drive sets are so cool, I don't exactly know the purpose but they're cool.
If I ever find one on eBay cheap ( in my dreams ) I'll swipe it up.
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Re: What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2019, 02:29:00 PM »
As far as I'm concerned the 1/8" drive set is useless. My set is eye candy. They made a socket rail for these.  That's what I'm looking for.

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Re: What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2019, 03:56:59 PM »
I have one of those micro sets you can buy on Amazon, it has a 2.5 mm socket (just over 3/32")  I actually used that socket to fix some frameless glasses.

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Re: What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2019, 05:43:09 PM »
I have one of those micro sets you can buy on Amazon, it has a 2.5 mm socket (just over 3/32")  I actually used that socket to fix some frameless glasses.
Is that sockets or nut drivers ?
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Re: What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2019, 05:57:28 PM »
 
As far as I'm concerned the 1/8" drive set is useless. My set is eye candy. They made a socket rail for these.  That's what I'm looking for.
Now am I mistaken or don't they only offer 4 sockets in 1/8 drive ?
I've only ever seen the 5pc set with a handle and 4 sockets, never any kind d of other sockets or extensions...ect
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Re: What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2019, 07:29:07 PM »
Yeah. Four sockets and a driver in a plastic tray.

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Re: What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2019, 08:35:38 PM »
 
Yeah. Four sockets and a driver in a plastic tray.
And they made a rail for these when this is all they offered ?
I can't believe they want $182 for the set and $52 for just the drive handle, that's a lot of money for a handle and 4 small sockets.
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Re: What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2019, 10:38:24 PM »
I think the socket rail was offered in the early 1970's.  Don't quote me on this. I've only seen a pic of one on the net.

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Re: What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2019, 11:05:42 PM »
I think the socket rail was offered in the early 1970's.  Don't quote me on this. I've only seen a pic of one on the net.
That's a possibility.
They were making lots of cool interesting stuff back in the day that I can't even begin to know about.

The little kra149 and xpl 996-4 boxes are as deep as I dive into looking for desirable vintage SNAP-ON anything, I don't need to set my sights on anything else when finding one of those two boxes at a price I can swing is hard enough so I've tried to ignore stuff as best as I can  :)
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Re: What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2019, 11:21:54 PM »
I got my 1/8" drive set in a trade.  There's no way I would spend that much for something so useless.

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Re: What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2019, 08:16:34 AM »
As far as I'm concerned the 1/8" drive set is useless. My set is eye candy. They made a socket rail for these.  That's what I'm looking for.

that's because it is sae. everyone knows sae is useless and unneeded.  ::)

if it was metric you would use it every day.  ;)
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Re: What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2019, 10:27:17 AM »
The most useless socket I’ve seen was a 1/8” 1/2”drive impact socket no name.

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Re: What's the smallest size socket you have or have seen ?
« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2019, 10:28:19 AM »
As far as I'm concerned the 1/8" drive set is useless. My set is eye candy. They made a socket rail for these.  That's what I'm looking for.

that's because it is sae. everyone knows sae is useless and unneeded.  ::)

if it was metric you would use it every day.  ;)
Must just be with regards to mechanic work, because I use SAE much more than metric. ;)
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