2012 - Volume #36, Issue #3, Page #37
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"Handle" Put Onto Ordinary Ratchet Handle
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“My wrist starts aching after about an hour of using an ordinary ratchet. But with this homemade handle, I can work all day and my wrist won’t ache at all. I’ve used it to tighten tens of thousands of nuts, which I wouldn’t have tackled without it.
“I took a nut big enough to fit over the ratchet handle and cut out one side of it. Then I welded on a small nut and also welded on a short length of smooth steel rod to the other side, making sure the rod is positioned perpendicular to the original ratchet handle once it’s clamped on.”
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