On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 05:33:08 -0500, Dean Hoffman
wrote:

On 6/10/18 9:04 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 19:59:03 -0500, Dean Hoffman
wrote:

On 6/10/18 7:44 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:

You can check the precision of the ratchets, and can see the quality
of the forging - but you can't see the quality of the steel and it's
heat treatment. For light duty use they are often more than adequate
but I'd be a bit wary of using them near the "design limits" in an
application that put my knuckles or other body parts in jeopardy.

This extendable ratchet seems fairly tough. I've had a cheater pipe
on it without causing any damage to it or me.
https://www.harborfreight.com/12-in-drive-extendable-ratchet-62311.html
How much backlash in the ratchet mechanism?

I really can't give you a good answer. I usually have so much
open space to
work that it isn't an issue for me.
It becomes a real issue when the backlash excedes both the amount of
swing room and the distance between "clicks" in the ratchet.