Having a good screwdriver set on hand is one of those small things that makes a big difference, especially if you regularly ...

Home Depot is offering a Zero Degree Gearless Ratchet that has proven to be a fairly popular item, but is is impressing the ...

A common ratchet from your garage may work wonders for tightening hard to reach bolts on whatever everyday projects around the house. However, those over at [Chronova Engineering] had a particularly ...

It's one of the most irritating situations when working on cars, whether the object of your affections is old and poorly designed or new, tightly packaged and made to be assembled once on the ...

The proposed ratchet mechanism utilizes the asymmetry in surface wettability between the smooth and rough faces of the teeth of a geometrically symmetric gear to achieve ratcheting motion. The ratchet ...

Convenient though they may be, [Trevor Faber] found some serious shortcomings in shifting spanners: their worm gears are slow to adjust and prone to jamming, they don’t apply even force to all faces ...

Plus, their ratcheting mechanisms allow you to maintain contact with the fastener to quickly tighten or loosen—offering plenty of torque without resetting your grip between twists. Choosing the best ...