MAXCRAFT 60255 3/8-Inch Drive Lighted Socket Adapter

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Price: $10.08 $5.95   

Product Feature

• LED Light Shines through Socket to Illuminate Work Area
• 3/8-Inch Drive (M) x 1/2-Inch Drive (F)
• Use with 3/8-Inch or 1/2-Inch Drive Ratchets - Includes a 3/8-Inch Drive (F) to 1/2-Inch Drive (M) Adapter
• Professional-Grade Chrome Vanadium Steel Construction
• Uses Three LR44 Button Cell Batteries (Included)

Product Description

LED Light Shines through Socket to Illuminate Work Area, 3/8-Inch Drive (M) x 1/2-Inch Drive (F), Use with 3/8-Inch or 1/2-Inch Drive Ratchets - Includes a 3/8-Inch Drive (F) to 1/2-Inch Drive (M) Adapter , Professional-Grade Chrome Vanadium Steel Construction, Uses Three LR44 Button Cell Batteries (Included).

MAXCRAFT 60255 3/8-Inch Drive Lighted Socket Adapter Review

I was shopping at Menards today and these were on sale for $10. I impulse bought a bunch as stocking stuffers. It's been more than once I've been working on something and needed to get a socket in but due to the angles or whatever couldn't get a light in to see so I was working blind. Plus when you are working alone lots of times your only light source is a flashlight in your mouth, and your mouth can't go all the places your hands can...

It's the kind of thing you'll pretty much never use, but when you need it, it will seem like a life saver.

Strictly as a socket, it seems about as well built as all the rest of the sockets coming out of China (which is decent but not superlative) and within spec.

Number one issue is the switch. This comes with batteries installed and a spare set of batteries in the package and a "Try Me" hole in the packaging so you can operate the light and see how neato it is before buying it.

Since I was giving all but the one I'd keep for myself as gifts, I wanted to test them to make sure they worked and probably 50% of the ones I tried at the retail stand weren't working. I thought maybe they were old stock, or a rash of bad batteries, or the switches had been bumped in shipping and the batteries got drained.

I got 5 working ones in my cart, checked out, went home and opened up the one I was keeping for myself to play with it.

And the light didn't work.

Hmmm I'm sure I tested this... on off on off on off on off... still no light. We'll, I guess I'll just go ahead and change the batteries, since they gave me a spare set and all lets see how you do that.

In order to change the batteries you remove a screw which holds the switch in place. I start to back the screw out - suddenly, light!

So I futz with the screw and see that by turning the screw I also turn the switch. And I examine how the switch makes contact, and it's not the best design there needs to be a bit more spring or padding or something behind the contact.

By cranking down the screw pretty hard, I got this into a state where about 75% of the time when I turned it to "on" it would come right on, and the rest of the time it would come on dim (partial contact) or not come on at all (bad contact).

When I had partial or bad contact if I just wiggled a little bit back and forth, eventually I would get light.

Given this problem I have low expectations for durability if used more than rarely, socket wrenches aren't exactly known for being babied. Also if I've been working in the dark and having a problem getting to a fastener in conditions that would benefit from this light, by the time I've get to the point I decide to walk to the tool box to get it I'm probably already more than frustrated and rapidly approaching super pissed off, and when I try to turn it on and it doesn't come on and I've got to sit and fiddle with it I'm just going to get more mad.

Probably at the exact moment I'm trying to use the tiny fiddley movements to make the damn thing turn on and it still isn't just happening and I'm wondering if I should go ahead and change the batteries or keep messing with the switch my wife will come out to the shop and inform me that "It's getting late" and ask me "When I'm coming in" and I'll look at the dark light in my hand and throw it back in the toolbox and start screaming at the top of my lungs that I'll be in whenever the damn job is done and I have no idea when that will be because I'm trying to get to a fastener in a dark place where no flashlight can go and all I have is this damn thing that isn't working and now you want to stand there and bother me about it well you go right the hell to bed if you want I've got things to do.

And that my friends, is why god invented alcohol.

But still a cheap novelty stocking stuffer for the tool guy who "has everything" and something to keep handy in your tool arsenal despite it's shortcomings.

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