Possibly useful - 33:1 gearbox

[ChuckDickerson]

Originally Posted by Dick Linn

Harbor Freight has a hand-cranked lugnut remover with a 33:1 ratio on sale for $16.99. It's a little heavy, but it has an aluminum case and you could throw away the steel handle and pivot and cut off part of the mounting arm. It's sloppy, but might be very useful for a high torque, low-speed application like raising an arm, aiming a device or raising and lowering a retractable caster wheel. Item # 93645. Just a thought.

Do you have the complete item number for the $16.99 sale price? It comes up at $29.99 on the HF website and the sale price in the latest catalog I have it $19.99. I am heading to HF sometime this weekend and if they have them I might pick one up for the $16.99 sale price and open it up to see how it looks inside. The local store will match the $16.99 sale price if I can print it out from the website.

[Dick Linn]

The item is in a printed flyer I just received in the mail. Item 933645 is all it says. The local store should have a bunch of the same sale flyers. Sale ends 9/25. You could call a store and check price/availability. As I say, these are sloppy and definitely something for a slow speed actuator or similar task. If someone needs a 15:1 gearbox for a reasonable price, check this: http://www.surpluscenter.com/item.as...ame=powerTrans
it's for a lawnmower, so it should handle some power. A bit heavy unless you cut off a lot of the shaft.


Harbor Freight also has digital voltmeters on sale for $3.00 Great for loaning out to people who check voltage using the resistance range

[Richard Wallace]

I got one at my local HF store for $16.99. It didn't appear on the sale flyer (or at least neither the store clerk nor I could find it there) but the sale price did come up when they scanned it at the register.

Does anyone have photos of the gearing inside?

[Dick Linn]

It's $19.99 in the Aug sale flyer, $16.99 in the Sept sale flyer. There might be a picture or gear description in the manual (on line).

Check the on-line manual at Harbor Freight. Perhaps it has an exploded parts diagram. My Acrobat reader decided not to work at the moment...

Others are selling this as the "EZ-Lug" for $50-$60. I wonder if there's any difference in quality?