Best Socket Adapter? 18 BRANDS: Milwaukee, DeWalt, Makita Gold, Ryobi, Hart, Irwin

i really like using impact drivers instead of impact wrenches because they're a lot lighter especially on smaller fasteners but if you're going to do this especially with the socket you're going to need an impact adapter that's up to the task today we have about 18 different brands to test so let's get the testing underway and see which brand is the best in the first test we'll measure how much torque each brand can handle we'll see if impact rated adapters perform better than ones that are not rated for impact we'll also find out if adapters with shock absorbing zones like the makita and the milwaukee can outperform those with a hex shaft like the dewalt and the irwin finally we'll see how much impact each adapter can handle before it breaks at a price of only three dollars for the entire kit the torx smith brand is by far the least expensive brand we'll be testing the sock adapters are made of chrome vanadium this torx smith brand is made in china torx smith brand is not designed to be used with impact tools in the first test i'll be using a digital torque adapter to measure the amount of torque each brand of impact driver can handle i'll also be using a half inch to hex adapter to lock each adapter into the proper position i'll test the quarter inch adapters for each brand first at only one dollar the torq smith brand looks to be fairly well built for a tool that costs 85 percent less than the most expensive brand wow 816 inch pounds very impressive for a low price tool and the torque smith even though it's not impact rated did not seem to be too brittle at all and experienced a lot of twisting before it finally snapped at a price of only four dollars and 28 cents is this hyper tough brand the second least expensive brand we'll be testing just like the torq smith brand the hyper tough brand is not designed to be used with impact tools chrome vanadium steel made in china torque smith put up a really impressive number of 816 inch pounds let's see if the hyper tuff can beat it 717 inch pounds for the hyper tuff which is 99 inch pounds less than the torque smith just like the torque smith the hyper tuff twisted quite a bit before it finally broke in a previous video on step bits the teemo brand did extremely well so i thought we would test out their socket adapters at a price of only a dollar and 45 cents per adapter the teemo brand is the third least expensive brand we'll be testing the teemo brand is impact rated i couldn't find any information available on where the brand is made the torq smith is still in the lead at 816 inch pounds and the teemo brand moved into the lead with 825 inch pounds and a price of 5.99 for this four piece kit or just dollar fifty each for just the socket adapters is this nico brand chrome vanadium steel used with power drivers and drills the nikko brand is designed for use with impact drivers the niko brand is made in taiwan the teemo brand is the brand to beat at 825 inch pounds and the nuclear socket adapter broke at 666 inch pounds which is quite a bit lower than the other brands tested up to this point if you shop at walmart you might be very interested to see how the heart brand performs at 4.88 this heart brand is very competitively priced for an impact rated socket adapter set made in china and the heart brand snapped at only 454 inch pounds which is by far the lowest of all the brands tested yet instead of twisting the narrow area of the shaft which is supposed to absorb the shock of the impact driver broke at 4.88 or 1.63 per adapter is this performax brand now it's the same price as the heart brand it'll be interesting to see if it can perform just as well the performance brand is sold at menards made in china and the teemo brand is still in the lead at 825 inch pounds and a performance brand actually did a decent job at 772 inch pounds but that's not enough to take the lead at 4.97 or a dollar 66 each is this ryobi impact rated socket adapter set made in indonesia the ryobi brand just like the heart brand has a narrow shock absorbent zone let's see if he can do any better at 490 inch pounds the ryobi just didn't do very well compared to the competition just like the heart brand the adapter broke in the narrow area of the adapter if you shop at harbor freight you're probably very familiar with the warrior brand this three-piece kit costs 4.99 or a dollar 66 per piece heat treated chrome vanadium construction the packaging does not indicate that these adapters are designed for use with impact tools made in china the teemo brand is still in the lead at 825 and the torque master is in second at 817 and the harbor freight warrior broke at 770 inch pounds which is actually a pretty good performance at a price of two dollars per socket adapter is this irwin brand the irwin brand is designed for use with impact tools made in china so can the irwin beat 825 inch pounds and move into the lead over teemo 749 inch pounds is actually a decent performance but not enough to move into the lead the bauer brand which is sold at harbor freight cost 6.99 or 2.33 cents each heavy duty guaranteed premium alloy construction made in taiwan instead of using a hex shaft the bower uses a narrow round design 604 inch pounds is well short of the 825 with the teemo costing 7.99 or 2.66 per adapter is this ar es socket adapter set made in taiwan heat treated chrome vanadium steel construction designed for impact use the ares uses a hex shaft design which seems to be doing better in this showdown than the adapters with the shock absorbent zones 760 inch pounds for the aris which seems to be about the average we'll be testing two sets of impact adapters made by makita the first set costs the same amount as the aris brand at 7.99 or 2.66 each impact x makita is made in taiwan the makita has the narrow shock absorbent zone like the heart ryobi and bauer 741 inch pounds is well short of the 825 needed to take the lead but 741 is a solid performance the same price as the aries and the makita brand is this hercules brand at 7.99 or 2.66 per adapter torque point maximum strength shock absorbent zone impact rated professionally made in taiwan for hercules tools the hercules looks nearly identical to the bower and uses the narrow round shock absorbent shaft design 652 is better than the bower 604 but still below average overall at a price of 9.99 is this milwaukee brand up to 30 times life shockwave impact duty custom a76 steel maximizes resistance to wear and shock professionally made in china for milwaukee tool the milwaukee shockwave also uses a narrow round shock absorbent zone 689 is quite a bit short of the leader's 825. at 3.97 per adapter the master force brand is the fourth most expensive brand we'll be testing impact rugged made in china sold at menards the master force uses a hex shaft design 754 inch pounds is a decent performance but still not enough to take the lead from teemo at 4.58 the third most expensive brand we'll be testing is this makita gold tilts 15 degrees made in japan makita gold looks extremely well built and uses a hex shaft design wow 951 inch pounds puts the makita gold 126 inch pounds ahead of teemo very impressive the second most expensive brand costing four dollars and 63 cents each is made by dewalt impact ready rapid load the dewalt indicates that you can use their adapter with any impact driver that delivers up to 2 000 inch pounds of torque the dewalt adapter is made in china the 951 inch pounds put up by the makita gold is going to be very hard to beat and the dewalt made 861 inch pounds which isn't enough to take the lead but that's enough to move into the second position very impressive and the most expensive brand we'll be testing at six dollars and 43 cents each is made by bosch the bosch brand is impact rated there's no indication on the packaging where the bosch brand is made can the bosch beat makita's gold 951 inch pound performance 894 inch pounds isn't enough to take the lead but the bosch does move into second place unlike the other brands the bosch didn't seem to twist too much but rather disintegrated when it snapped so the makita gold came out on top bosch second dewalt third teemo fourth and torque smith fifth what's very interesting is that the top ten brands all use the solid hex shaft design and the bottom four use the narrow round shock absorbent zone this seems to make sense more metal should equal more strength the size of the round torque zones varied somewhat however i did the math and the area of a quarter inch hexagon includes 23 percent more metal on average compared to the adapters with the round shaft design so it makes sense that all the hexagon shaft adapters provide on average around 25 percent more strength impact tools deliver a sudden burst of energy instead of a slow steady twist like the first test so on the next test we'll see how the socket adapters handle impact i'll start the test in low impact mode once the adapter stops making progress i'll move on to the medium impact mode and finally the high impact mode i built the next test rig in order to measure the tightening torque of impact tools it's a pretty simple setup with two 20-ton hydraulic rams sandwiched between two thick pieces of steel the tester will measure the clamp load to help ensure accurate test results i'll be using a premium synthetic grease throughout the test testing the torque smith and the torque smith actually did very well finally breaking at 1 400 psi testing the hyper tough and the hypertuff gave up pretty quickly on this test at only 675 psi in fairness to this brand the hyper tough is not rated for impact duty testing the teemo brand 1400 psi is the number to be the teemo came very close to beating the torque smith at 1 350 but that's not going to be enough testing the nikko and the niko which is designed for impact use did far better in this test than the last the adapter tolerated the impact very well taking the lead from the torque smith with a 1 675 psi finish the heart really struggled in the first round of competition it is designed for impact duty so it should do fairly well in this round of competition and the heart brand snapped at only 400 psi testing the performax brand 925 psi with the performax brand so the niko stays in the lead the ryobi really struggled in the first round of the competition it is rated for impact duty so maybe it will do better in this round and the ryubi broke at only 375 psi testing the warrior brand 675 psi is the number to beat and the warrior which is not rated for impact duty broke at only 700 psi testing the irwin and the irwin is designed for impact duty and broke at 925 psi the irwin actually didn't twist much at all before breaking while the irwin tested in the first round did twist quite a bit i could tell during the test that the long narrow shaft of the barrel was really absorbing the impact and it took a long time to build pressure it finally broke at 1225 psi which is above average the ars did a decent job in round one at 760 inch pounds and the ares broke at only 675 which is below average just like the irwin the ar es did not twist before breaking the makita did a decent job at 1050 psi the shock absorbent zone was the failure point once again for the makita the hercules and barrow are both sold at harbor freight and the hercules did slightly better than the bauer in round one once again the hercules outperformed the bauer at 1300 psi compared to 1225 for the bauer the milwaukee seemed to struggle a little bit in round one of the competition and it also seemed to struggle in this round only making 700 psi before braking the master force did a decent job at 754 inch pounds in the first round of the competition and the master force broke at only 850 psi which is slightly below average the makita gold did by far the best in round one it broke at 1 250 psi unlike most of the other brands the shaft didn't seem to twist too much before breaking the dewalt did extremely well in the first round of competition but can it handle the impact as well as the nikko which did an amazing 1 650 inch pounds and the dewalt seemed to be enjoying the test a little too much as the needle approached 2000 psi wow and the dewalt crush this test putting up the best number yet finally breaking at 2 000 psi very impressive it all comes down to the bosch which actually beat the dewalt in round one but it was very close the shorter shaft seems to be helping the boss deliver the torque 1875 very impressive finish by the bosch moving it into the second place and the dwalk came in first bar second nico third torque smith fourth and teemo fifth all the five torque adapters have the hex shaft design without a shock absorbent zone the baron hercules which have the narrow round shock absorbent zone actually seem to perform better in this round than the last the shock absorbent zone on the short impact adapters doesn't seem to really help too much it only seems to become the breaking point however on the longer drivers such as the bar and the hercules it definitely seemed to help dwan's not kidding when they say their adapter is impact ready very impressive performance however it is pretty expensive the makita gold also did very well especially for non-impact use if you're really looking for a low-priced budget item that can still hold up fairly well the torque smith is hard to argue against because it's only three dollars for the entire kit all the videos on this channel are viewer recommended so if you have a video idea i hope you'll take time to leave a comment thanks so much for watching the video please take care and look forward to next time

Channel: Project Farm

Views: 1,785,445

Keywords: project farm, Impact socket adapter, Socket adapter, socket adapter test, Milwaukee shockwave impact adapter, Milwaukee, Dewalt, Makita Gold, Makita, Ryobi, Hart, ARES, Neiko, Irwin, TEMO, Bosch, Performax, Torquesmith, Hercules, Hyper Tough, Bauer, Masterforce, ¼ inch socket adapter, 3/8 inch socket adapter, ½ inch socket adapter, socket adapter set, makita gold socket adapter, dewalt socket adapter, ryobi socket adapter, hart socket adapter, Irwin socket adapter, Bosch socket adapter

Id: nMQoM6drzLs

Length: 13min 58sec (838 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 29 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/CPOx]

I don’t know why he’s spelling out A R E S instead of... ya know, Ares the god of war.

[u/[deleted]]

I like project farm, but his testing missed the mark on this one.

Would a 1/4" hex impact driver that these adapters are meant to be used with break or damage any of these adapters? I still don't know after watching the video.

Torture test/breaking point videos are fun and all, but I'd rather see which ones held up to something like driving 100 lag bolts with a common 1/4" hex impact driver.

[u/Sabnitron]

Hey, I'd like to say that I really love all of you and also I love the discussion this has spawned. You guys are are the shit. Hearts.