BILLINGS 1/2" FEMALE DRIVE 5" STUBBY RATCHET

[Ken W.]

I found this at a garage sale today. It's a Billings 5"  1/2" drive stubby ratchet with a piece of square stock for a drive with cloth around it. I just had to have it.

[Ken W.]

I found this at a garage sale today. It's a Billings 5"  1/2" drive stubby ratchet with a piece of square stock for a drive with cloth around it. I just had to have it.

[gibsontool]

Cute little guy. If it's just ordinary square stock the cloth is probably to hold the socket on.

[bill300d]

That drive plug looks like it's just a piece of 1/2" square stock. The cloth is to tighten it up so it doesn't fall out.

[Bill Houghton]

Clever field solution when the original part ran away to join the circus.  If it's like one female drive ratchet I own, reversing the ratchet direction is done by flipping the side on which the male insert sticks out.

Obviously for use with really big sockets to apply major force in difficult situations.

[Ken W.]

After looking into this ratchet , I think it's a shortened cut down ratchet. On AA they show a long version of this. Whoever shortened it did a pretty good job of it. I just wish I could find an original or vintage drive plug for it. I just gave away a Williams drive plug a few months ago that most likely would have worked for this.