Pricey New Snap-On & Matco Ratchets vs Milwaukee & DeWALT

Today we test the latest from Matco & Snap-On in cordless ratcheting including Matco's Sealed Head 16V MCL1638SR and Snap-On's CTR861 to see if the extra coin these cost is justified in performance and features.

~We earn from qualifying affiliate links here ~

As always, the creator of this channel works in product development for Astro Tools, who don't make cordless ratchets, but always consider multiple sources when looking as a tool!

[explosivebody]

Just went and purchased a Milwaukee high speed yesterday due to your testing! Many thanks for all the time, effort and money that's put into this testing!

[B]

Can’t wait to see the new Milwaukee thru socket ratchet

[IanNubbit]

I have the long head and higher speed snap-on. Man, what a huge upgrade from my m12 high speed. Wouldn’t have imagined it would have been that better.

[Bouldergoat]

I’d like to see the new Hyper Tough cordless ratchet. I know it’ll get smoked, but it’d be cool to see how a $40 dollar ratchet/battery combo stands up. Especially with extra 2ah batts being $15.

[ToolDeals]

I suggest for kicks and giggles the Walmart Hyper Tough Extended Reach. That thing is so cheap, would be interesting to see how it performs.

[james]

still have the chromed head snap ratchet ctr761-117and going strong many years later in a truck shop. not sure if i have been lucky or not but it has outlasted the other brands guys have had in the shop. dont spin it up and hit the bolt head and seems to last for ever.

[rolandm]

Notice how none of the pro brands use the the dumb paddle design? Yeah, wish Milwaukee would notice that too, lol. I think the paddle is merely a throwback to mimic an air tool but the thing is it's not really what you want when you don't need to have that. Most other companies have discovered that, but Milwaukee just keeps on truckin' with it...and puts it on Ryobi ratchets too. The odd part is, the Ridgid ratchets have a trigger and it's *way* better as mentioned. So they know, but they just think it's cool or something to keep using this paddle nonsense 🙄

[FusionKota]

I love my Snap On ratchets. I have both the short and long 3/8s the the long 1/4 inch. Which I'm curious if you guys would be interested in testing as the rpm is much higher on the 1/4.

[flannel]

Wonder if they’ll come out with a transmission for the high speed. Put it in 4Low

[keirbourne]

I got my first electric ratchet, the Milwaukee extended high speed. I've had it a month and i absolutely love it.

[adamwilson]

Can confirm on the 'unmeasurable' torque of breaking a bolt free with the tool truck rachets. I have milwaukee and my lead tech has snapon. Mine takes bolts off "quicker", but it doesn't really matter when I have to break the bolts free by hand first. That being said, the snapon ones a knuckle buster if your not paying attention

[xavierleonard]

Milwaukee's 2569 ratchet would be a good contender if available. I own both the high speed and the 2569. I more often reach for the 2569 since the longer slim head can make it more places without the stubby body being in the way, and it's even faster than the high speed. You've also got the long body to ratchet free whatever is needed. Would be cool to see how it stacks up on the leaderboard. Ty again for another great video!

[MrMega]

I'd love to see a round of Amazon cordless ratchets like Alloyman 20v(75ft-lbs), Prostormer 12v(55ft-lbs), Wisetool 20v(44ft-lbs), and the S-Long 12V extended head(40 ft-lbs). On another product category I'd like to see the advertised 370ft-lbs of the Prostormer 20v Cordless Impact Wrench tested to see if it is true because if so the advertised price of $69.99(Nice) is a amazing deal for a kit product. On that topic, I saw SeeSii brought out some more powerful cordless impacts recently and a right angle impact.

[FERNANDODELAROSA]

I would love to see head size dimensions added as part of the rank scoring might be important for automotive applications. Also test out the the long neck brute version of the snap on slower rpm but higher torque.

[romflo]

I have the high torque extended reach M12, thinking of maybe getting the high speed as well, but most places you can usually reach stuff with an impact driver. In this way you can have something with really high speed and great torque and then use the slightly slower M12 for those few hard to access bolts and nuts.

[randallsensenig]

Excited to see the new dewalt sealed head when it comes out!

[thejo]

I actually appreciate the "elastic" limit of the snap-on's manual torque. Like it's warning the user not to push harder. Seems like they put some sort of effort into the overall system design of the tool to make that happen. I have a weird feeling that more users will break the Matco ratchet because of its rigidity, able to withstand the torque 100% until the pawl fails catastrophically like a similarly sized 3/8ths ratchet.

[Thebassguru]

Snapon is hands down the best. I’ve used them all and always come back to snapon. Say what you will I don’t care!

[beardedgaming]

i own all of snappys, something you should know - if you prespin those ratchets they have WAY more break away force. hold the trigger, get them going, then drop them onto the bolt and they will break away with out torquing out as easily.

[jonathonlyles]

Yes been itching for a new video please test out the non fuel impact driver vs the other budget level brushless models