Stud Tool - Ratchet

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Has anyone used the Oliver Townend ratchet for studs?

It looks an amazing tool - does it actually does what it says on the box!
They claim it will do any stud shape - is this true? Anyone used one? Any thoughts? I am really tempted by one as £15.

It could be the answer to my poor bashed up knuckles!
 
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Never heard of it, but sounds amazing - will have to have a look. Would go nicely withe my new magetic stud tray - don't know how I coped before! :)
 
How is it different from a standard universal ratchet wrench?

You do have to be a bit careful with ratchet drivers as they produce a lot of torque (the point, obviously!) so it can be easy to strip/over tighten, but otherwise they do make life so much easier!
 
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TarrSteps said:
How is it different from a standard universal ratchet wrench?

You do have to be a bit careful with ratchet drivers as they produce a lot of torque (the point, obviously!) so it can be easy to strip/over tighten, but otherwise they do make life so much easier!
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It's like a tube with a hole in the end that goes over the stud, not like a conventional ratchet spanner. It's made by Draper, who are tool manufacturers, not equine 'stuff' manufacturers so I have been searching and searching to see if you can buy one elsewhere.

I wonder if you would struggle with getting the studs in - just because if the tool isn't exactly at 90 degrees to the shoe I can see how cross-threading would be easy to do. That said, it looked like a potentially very useful tool....
 
Hmm, okay. I'm still confused why that's not just a regular socket wrench. Mine IS like that, in that it is a socket wrench not a spanner, but much larger, with an "arm" and a selection of sockets so not really the same. But I've definitely seen the "T" ones around. I do know they are quite tricky though, as you say, because you have to have the tool at right angles to the surface while you're using it or risk cross threading because you're using so much force, relatively speaking.
 
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Hmm, okay. I'm still confused why that's not just a regular socket wrench. Mine IS like that, in that it is a socket wrench not a spanner, but much larger, with an "arm" and a selection of sockets so not really the same. But I've definitely seen the "T" ones around. I do know they are quite tricky though, as you say, because you have to have the tool at right angles to the surface while you're using it or risk cross threading because you're using so much force, relatively speaking.
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I think it is! I just cannot for the life of me find it on the Draper site, that's all. That was the conversation I had with LEC when we saw it - I was really skeptical that Draper, being a tool manufacturer, had branched out into stud ratchets, and suspected it was more likely that Townend Online had realised you could use them for studs and were selling on at a markup, hence I have been searching for them since - I wanted to know two things, one, how do they fit 'all sizes of studs' (because all our socket wrenches have interchangable heads depending on the size you need), and two, can you get them elsewhere for less than £15 (which seemed likely as most standard socket wrenches from somewhere like Tool Station are about £8....and if they are a standard Draper tool, then I reckoned you could find them on eBay for less than £15). I just haven't had any luck tracking down exactly which one it is - which either means I am wrong and they are made for Townend Online, or means I have been looking in the wrong place (just as likely TBH!).
 
What they could be is a combination of two products - T wrenches usually have a very long handle, but the T grips are very common for screwdrivers so maybe they put the socket on a screwdriver handle.

Aren't studs all the same size? Otherwise it wouldn't be possible for a farrier to tap the shoes without knowing the exact size and the small spanners most people have in their kits would need to be adjustable or a set. The "business" end is immaterial - I bet they're all made on the same die.
 
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What they could be is a combination of two products - T wrenches usually have a very long handle, but the T grips are very common for screwdrivers so maybe they put the socket on a screwdriver handle.

Aren't studs all the same size? Otherwise it wouldn't be possible for a farrier to tap the shoes without knowing the exact size and the small spanners most people have in their kits would need to be adjustable or a set. The "business" end is immaterial - I bet they're all made on the same die.
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The threads are - but am I being particularly dim - surely on a socket wrench the size of the thread doesn't matter, as it is the 'stud' bit which has to fit in? I know I have 3 different spanners in my stud kit to fit the different sizes of stud I have....I assumed it would be the same on a socket ratchet? I'm clearly missing something reasonably fundamental about how they work! Thank god the OH is the engineer and all I have to do is count wildlife to pay the bills!! ;)
 
Or the OT ones are not really "universal". I've just been lucky and all the studs I've ever used work with the same spanner (except for metric vs Imperial) or I've been using an adjustable one so didn't notice.

It looks very much like a socket permanently attached to a multi-driver tool. (The screwdriver kits usually have socket options, too.) I've been looking and the only truly adjustable ones have some sort of adjusting mechanism. I just find it really hard to believe they would have designed some "one size fits all" socket mechanism for studs and not marketed it for all their other uses - I'm sure anyone with a box full of sockets would be interested!
 
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Or the OT ones are not really "universal". I've just been lucky and all the studs I've ever used work with the same spanner (except for metric vs Imperial) or I've been using an adjustable one so didn't notice.

It looks very much like a socket permanently attached to a multi-driver tool. (The screwdriver kits usually have socket options, too.) I've been looking and the only truly adjustable ones have some sort of adjusting mechanism. I just find it really hard to believe they would have designed some "one size fits all" socket mechanism for studs and not marketed it for all their other uses - I'm sure anyone with a box full of sockets would be interested!
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Exactly! Hence my confusion. I specifically asked the girl on the stand if it fitted all studs, and she said yes, but I know my supastuds need at least 3 different sized spanners, so how?! HOW?! See I thought perhaps I was being dim - maybe I am not? I must show OH, he will know what they are and where to get one. My travel blanks, for example, are bigger than the dressage studs I've been using mostly this season, which are different again from the big points I occasionally use....
 
I had a look on the Townend tack shop and his studs all look the same style not the square ones so I wonder if that is why it works for them. She said it was a good tool which I can imagine it being but I cannot imagine it being universal?
 
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