What is "flank drive?"
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What is "flank drive?"
What does "flank drive" mean. I keep seeing this term on the Snap On website, especially in reference to wrenches and sockets. Then they also have "flank drive plus" wrenches?
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Flank drive means the wrench or socket use the flat areas of the nut or bolthead to loosen or tighten it , not the pointed corners like some tools do. Flank drives don't strip nuts and boltheads as easily .
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I once had a set of flank drive Snap On wrenches. They will even take of power steering lines that you can't even hardly get the wrench to. Best set of wrenches I ever had. Too bad someone found them too nice and had to steal them. If I was still working on my own car all the time, I'd have to get another set though. A+ rating in my book.
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Is there much of a difference between the "flank drive" and the "flank drive plus" (except for the extra $$$)? I am mostly curious about the 10 piece (10mm-19mm) combonation wrenches.
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Originally Posted by Jeffs99SS
Is there much of a difference between the "flank drive" and the "flank drive plus" (except for the extra $$$)? I am mostly curious about the 10 piece (10mm-19mm) combonation wrenches.
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