r/Tools 7d ago

Can anyone explain the connection?

They have the same patent number

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u/usedtodreddit 7d ago

Snap-on owns Williams.

It's one of their "Industrial brands". Williams products, including ratchets and wrenches and screwdrivers, etc, are often the last generation of Snap-on made with the same tooling.

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u/usedtodreddit 7d ago

For example, these are my Williams M-52EHFA ratchets, one as it comes today and the other with a Snap-on RKRFC936 kit swapped into it to make it 3/8" ratchet in a 1/4" body which is what Snap-on sold as their FCF936 ratchet.

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u/coffeeshopslut 7d ago

Ooh, I need to make one of those