Williams SNP31023 3/8"Dr. Locking Ext Bar 3"

The Williams SNP31023 is a 3/8 inch drive locking extension bar, 3 inches.

Locking is the specification and it solves a problem everyone has met and nobody talks about.

A standard extension holds a socket with a spring-loaded ball detent. That detent is a friction fit — it holds the socket well enough for normal work and it lets go under a few specific conditions: pulling the tool off a fastener at an angle, a socket that has gripped a rusty nut tightly, or simple gravity when working overhead.

When it lets go, the socket falls. Into an engine bay, down a frame rail, into a gearbox, into the bottom of a machine — and retrieving it costs half an hour with a magnet and a torch, or it does not get retrieved at all. In aviation and turbine work, a socket that goes somewhere unrecoverable is a foreign object event rather than an inconvenience.

A locking extension has a positive mechanical lock: a collar or a pin that engages the socket and holds it until deliberately released. The socket comes out of the engine bay attached to the tool.

At 3 inches this is the short extension — the one for clearing a shallow obstruction while keeping the ratchet's feel.

Note the source data is minimal. Verify the locking mechanism and finish against Williams' specification.

Brand

Williams

SKU

SNP31023

Category

Hand Tools

Weight

0.19 lbs

Dimensions

2.00 x 1.00 x 1.00

Price

$34.95

Availability

In stock

Rating

4.5 / 5.0