One Very Portable Socket Set
By Nate Bezanson
This odd-looking ratchet from Nebo Tools not only pivots from straight to 90-degrees — locking into nine angles in-between — but also holds six sockets nested within a plastic carrier that slides into its handle. (The seventh socket remains snapped on the drive tip.) That’s a lot of sockets in a small space!
I saw one of these at Gander Mountain and it seemed sturdily built, but it doesn’t exactly seem low profile when pivoted into right-angle mode. I’ve also had trouble locating these online. Neither Google Product Search nor Amazon turns ‘em up, though a standard Google search does return a few hits.
Do any of you own this? If so, where do you use it? And has the ratchet mechanism held up?
Nebo Tools Ultra Socket Set [Google]
May 4th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Plus, the truck stop at the Nebo exit off I-40 is some gooood eatin’
May 4th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Have had one for about a year, it has eld up well for a knock around set. I use it for Lawn mower maintenance, bike maintenance and the like.
The handle absorbs a bit of oil, but other than that, it has worked as advertised.
May 12th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
I’ve got one of these, it’s been very handy as a stashed toolkit in a data-center rack; unfortunately, I haven’t put it to any serious use, so I can’t tell you how it handles heavy or extended wear.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I own one - it was an impulse buy at the local lumber yard (Vesta Lee in Bonner Springs, Kansas)
It lives on my tool belt, has never had a problem under a very nearly abusive workload and is worth its weight in platinum.
Get one; you’ll have no regrets.
Russ Bixby, geek of the plains