Craftsman Ratchet Display

[woodland_hank]

Here's another display I made. While it's different than the Williams display board I posted recently I wanted something small to show a group of Craftsman ratchets off. I machined a bunch of misc Chinese sockets I had laying around in order to make the ratchets removable from the display in case I needed to use them. The frame is welded steel and the base is white oak.

[lptools]

Nice job!!!!!!!

[gibsontool]

Good idea, it looks nice.

[Papaw]

Very good idea, it looks nice and neat!

[turnnut]

 A-plus, makes it easy to study & compare them.

[Yadda]

That is a museum quality display. 

[woodland_hank]

On another forum it was brought to my attention that the oldest ratchet, on the far left, was assembled backwards.  Every ratchet I buy gets disassembled, cleaned, greased and reassembled. For what ever reason these wrenches and their internal works intrigue me so very much. Very possible that I put it back together backwards. Still works though!

[Bad 31]

That's the first time I've heard of a good use for Chinese Sockets. Great job.

[thiggy]

I have an old Craftsman 1/2" ratchet similar to the one on the left in your 2nd photo.  It too has a 1/2" square hole, but is riveted, rather than screwed together.

[bonneyman]

Fabulous!

That's nice enough to put on my desk as a conversation piece.