Tusk Mini Ratchet

Bought one of these, small and lightweight, figured it would be good in the tool pouch. Not impressed. Stripped the ratchet trying to undo a tight bolt. My solution was modifying a standard 1/4" ratchet by sawing off 2/3rds of the handle and filing smooth the cut. Basically the same size as the Tusk ratchet, but able to handle a lot more torque.
I believe Motion Pro has the same style of mini ratchet, not sure if it's better quality than the Tusk model.

http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/p...40&webCatId=22&brandId=294&prodFamilyId=13901
 
got one of those when they had them on sale for $2 or something. So far it has been working OK. I've not tried it on anything tight though. It pretty much saved me when I had a carb jet come loose and fall out. It made the tight job of getting the carb float bowl screws out pretty easy.

It does seem cheap. I would not have it if it was not really inexpensive. I would never try to apply more than a few ft-lbs of torque with it. Maybe you got a bad one.
 
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