{"id":213,"date":"2012-01-27T01:58:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T06:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2012-01-27T01:59:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T06:59:35","slug":"snap-on-fhlf80-ratchet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Snap-On FHLF80 ratchet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I received a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snapon.com\">Snap-On<\/a> FHLF80 ratchet.  Like all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snapon.com\">Snap-On<\/a> Dual80 ratchets, it&#8217;s smooth and slender.  It is a 3\/8&#8243; drive, long handle, flex-head model with soft grip.  I prefer the soft grips due to the arthritis in my right hand.<\/p>\n<p>It comes with a red soft-grip, which I replaced with an orange soft-grip (part number FH936-12O).  Here&#8217;s a picture of it with the red grip:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/Hand-Tools\/Snap-On\/Ratchets\/FHLF80\/7799.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And one with the orange grip:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/Hand-Tools\/Snap-On\/Ratchets\/FHLF80\/7814.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And closeups of the red and orange grips:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/Hand-Tools\/Snap-On\/Ratchets\/FHLF80\/7803.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/Hand-Tools\/Snap-On\/Ratchets\/FHLF80\/7815.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One thing to note about the Snap-On soft-grips: the grips are slimmer than Matco soft-grips.  This is a blessing and a curse.  The Matco are more comfortable to me, but the Snap-On are slightly easier to fit between obstructions in a modern engine compartment.  I haven&#8217;t taken the grip off of a Matco yet, but I suspect the shaft is thicker under the grip than the Snap-On.  While I&#8217;d argue that&#8217;s good for strength, the reality is that I&#8217;ve never bent one of the Snap-On handles and warranty would cover it anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I received a new Snap-On FHLF80 ratchet. Like all the Snap-On Dual80 ratchets, it&#8217;s smooth and slender. It is a 3\/8&#8243; drive, long handle, flex-head model with soft grip. I prefer the soft grips due to the arthritis in my right hand. It comes with a red soft-grip, which I replaced with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snap-On FHLF80 ratchet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,3,1],"tags":[71,69,70,10],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hand-tools","category-tools","category-uncategorized","tag-dual80","tag-fhlf80","tag-ratchet","tag-snap-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}