Which Universal Joints (impact-rated Socket Adapters) Brand Wins?

(heaviest of the standard-price brands at the point it was tested)

(lightest of the double-jointed group)

(least of any brand at the point it was tested)

(least of any brand at the point it was tested)

(the most of any brand in the video)

the best clamp load of any 3/8in brand tested

'less than 100 lb behind the Showman [Showmemy]' - per the closing recap this is 12,534 lb, 2nd place in the 3/8in clamp-load ranking

a clamp-load figure of 11,397 lb appears in the transcript attributed mid-sentence to 'the Duratech' moving into second place, but the surrounding sentences ('the Workpro is making torque quickly just like the Duratech... just like the Workpro, the Duratech is hitting really hard... at only 10.6 degrees of slop, the Workpro held up really well') strongly suggest this figure actually belongs to Workpro, with Duratech's own clamp load already separately stated as 11,386 lb; treated here as Workpro's true 3/8in figure per the brand-testing-order gotcha, but the transcript's own mid-sentence brand swap is preserved as a flag

(see Workpro's entry for a separate, possibly mislabeled 11,397 lb figure attributed to 'the Duratech' moments later in the transcript)

described as 'performed better than average'

('around 400 lb less than the Workpro')

described as struggling to make torque

the weakest 3/8in clamp-load result of any brand explicitly given a number

('about 2,700 lb less than the GearWrench')

described as having 'way too much impact energy dissipation'

('almost 1,000 lb behind the EPAuto'), despite having the best (least) starting slop of the video at that point

('about 1,300 lb less than the EPAuto'); described as suffering the 'Harbor Freight death wobble' after about half a second

less than half the torque the Milwaukee wrench delivered through a socket alone (20,407 lb baseline)

started 8.2 degrees, ended 12.5 degrees - but per the closing recap, Proto has the least slop overall (8.7 degrees is credited to Duratech instead; see that entry for a transcript inconsistency note)

started 9.4 degrees, ended 10.2 degrees - 3rd best (least) slop of the 3/8in test

started 8.9 degrees, ended 12.2 degrees

started 8.9 degrees, ended 10.6 degrees

started 12.1 degrees, ended 14.5 degrees

started 7.5 degrees (best yet at the time), ended 8.7 degrees - per the closing recap this 8.7-degree figure is the least slop of any 3/8in brand in the whole video, though the recap sentence itself names the brand 'Duralast' rather than 'Duratech'

started 20.5 degrees (a tremendous amount), ended 23.1 degrees

started 13.5 degrees, ended 17.7 degrees

started 11.9 degrees, ended 12.8 degrees

started 11.2 degrees, ended 13.7 degrees

started 11 degrees, ended 17.1 degrees - the largest slop increase of any brand in the 3/8in test

started 9.8 degrees, ended 12.5 degrees

started 19.6 degrees, ended less than 2 degrees higher (per narrator, 'held up better than the EPAuto and the Pittsburgh with less than 2 degrees of additional slop')

started 11.6 degrees, ended 15.5 degrees (almost 4 degrees of extra slop)

started 8.1 degrees (the best yet at that point in testing), ended 11.2 degrees

started 28.1 degrees (same as EPAuto), ended 39.9 degrees - the largest slop increase of the standard clamp-load test

started 28.1 degrees (worst starting slop, tied with Pittsburgh), ended 30.3 degrees; one of the pins was noted as about to fall out during testing

started 2.6 degrees (same starting point as Snap-on), 2.9 degrees after the first stage, 3.9 degrees final (only 1.3 degrees of additional play) - the single most durable universal joint in the entire video

started 5.7 degrees, 7.8 degrees after the first stage, 11.3 degrees final

started 4.3 degrees, 5.9 degrees after the first stage, 7.9 degrees final

started 4.3 degrees, 5.1 degrees after the first stage, 7.3 degrees final

started 4.9 degrees, 7.1 degrees after the first stage, roughly 11.1 degrees final (the transcript states '10 second rodeo caused 4 degrees of additional play' but does not explicitly restate the resulting total; 11.1 is derived by adding that 4 degrees to the 7.1-degree reading)

started 4.4 degrees, 6.2 degrees after the first stage, 11.5 degrees final

started 6.9 degrees, 8.3 degrees after the first stage, 12.9 degrees final

started 4.1 degrees, 5.6 degrees after the first stage, 6.8 degrees final - held up better than most

started 6.3 degrees, 8.2 degrees after the first stage, 11.7 degrees final

started 6.3 degrees, ended 11.4 degrees after the full 10-second test (no intermediate reading given)

started 15.3 degrees, 18.4 degrees after the first pass, 23 degrees after the full 10-second abuse test ('did stay together, but it is a handful to manage')

(almost 14 lb) - moved into the lead at the time, finished 2nd overall at 13.84 lb behind Stanley Proto

stated in the transcript as 'just under 6 pounds' though 3,420 g actually converts to about 7.5 lb; the gram figure is preserved as spoken and the pound conversion is flagged as inconsistent rather than corrected

confirmed true figure is 'over 6 kilograms or around 13 pounds,' by far the best result at the time it was tested, finishing 3rd overall in the closing recap at 13.29 lb; a separate, much lower figure ('really struggled in this test at only 1,396 grams or about 3 pounds') is also attributed to Workpro later in the same test segment but directly contradicts this confirmed 13.29 lb closing-recap figure, so the 1,396 g reading is flagged as an unresolved brand mislabel rather than assigned to Workpro

a figure of 3,236 g ('moves into third place behind the Pittsburgh') is given under the name 'Duralast'

'about the same as a Craftsman' (unclear which Craftsman SKU is meant)

'just under 2 kilograms or just over 4 pounds,' described as struggling

'close to 3 and 1/2 kilos or about 7.71 pounds,' described as about average

stated in the transcript as 'very close to 7 pounds' though 3,722 g actually converts to about 8.2 lb; the gram figure is preserved as spoken and the pound conversion is flagged as inconsistent rather than corrected

(about 9 lb), 'held onto the socket like a pro' - the best result at the point it was tested

(4.8 lb) - the weakest result at the point it was tested

described as moving into the lead at that point in testing (later passed by Workpro and Snap-on)

3rd place in the 1/2in torque-efficiency ranking

('good enough to move into second place' at that point in testing, later passed by several brands)

tentatively 16,958 lb, from a data thread that says 'just like the 3/8 Craftsman universal joint, the half-inch Craftsman is pretty loose at 14.9 degrees... performed better than average at 16,958 pounds... now at 15.6 degrees... the most of all the single joint adapters at 17.1 degrees'; assigned to this (impact-rated, presumably single-jointed) SKU rather than the non-impact-rated 3-piece SKU, but see notes for an unresolved third Craftsman data thread in this same test

'performed better than average'

credited to the brand's larger size advantage

'just under 18,000 lb,' moving into 2nd place behind Workpro at the point it was tested (later passed by Icon and Snap-on)

no exact figure spoken; described only as 'easily made it past 16,000,' referencing Icon's and GearWrench's marks