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pff 120ft/lbs is nothing. Try 650ft/lbs on a normal socket. They don't like it, but King Dick ones can take it repetatively, from experience.
In terms of working on rusty items, i havea fair experience in this from working in power stations. You want a mix of 6 sided and 12 sided sockets. The 12 siders can be abused a bit and knocked onto bolts that have rusted until the 6 sided ones spin. As everyone has emphasised, get decent sockets though. Ratchet wise, I like Britool but they aren't cheap @ about £40 for a 1/2" drive.
I can also tell anyone to steer well away from Kennedy Tools. I've broken 2 jaws on stilson wrenches from them within a week and that was just me pulling on them, no "leverage" as we sometimes have to use. It's what our company issues as standard tools and they're woefully bad for heavy use.
One thing I can't emphasise enough if you're working on rusted stuff is make sure you get decent release oil, personally like Plus Gas which is about £4 for an aerosol can, you can get big tins of it for pumps though. Hundreds of varieties of this stuff though, so stick with what you find works
In terms of working on rusty items, i havea fair experience in this from working in power stations. You want a mix of 6 sided and 12 sided sockets. The 12 siders can be abused a bit and knocked onto bolts that have rusted until the 6 sided ones spin. As everyone has emphasised, get decent sockets though. Ratchet wise, I like Britool but they aren't cheap @ about £40 for a 1/2" drive.
I can also tell anyone to steer well away from Kennedy Tools. I've broken 2 jaws on stilson wrenches from them within a week and that was just me pulling on them, no "leverage" as we sometimes have to use. It's what our company issues as standard tools and they're woefully bad for heavy use.
One thing I can't emphasise enough if you're working on rusted stuff is make sure you get decent release oil, personally like Plus Gas which is about £4 for an aerosol can, you can get big tins of it for pumps though. Hundreds of varieties of this stuff though, so stick with what you find works
kickass! 