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Turf Central | Julius Liptak | Turf Central Article
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"Don’t lose another socket in your
mower... Link Tools locks everything in place while you
work…which results in increased efficiency, as well as less
damage to machinery. I’m a big fan…I would buy every kit they
have."
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"My
favorite Link tool is the Palm Wrench. I can get into anywhere with it and I
don't have to squeeze my fingers. The Link u-joint keeps me working. I don't
have to worry about losing the universal socket when I'm in a tight spot. I
have lots of tools but now that I have Link I use them all the time because
they make it easier to get into places and get the work done."
- Julius Liptak
Mechanic - Beverly Country Club
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Don’t Lose Another Socket in Your Mower
LINK Tools locks everything in place
while you work
By Marcia Passos Duffy, Turf
Central, November, 2003
Tim Johnson never wastes any time looking for
lost sockets inside the movers he uses at the Royal Fox
Country Club in St. Charles, Ill., where he works as an
equipment technician. It’s not that he’s just good at not
dropping sockets or extenders, but he has the help of a unique
tool system that locks extensions and sockets to the ratchet –
and won’t come apart until Johnson pulls a ring to take them
apart.
“In turf equipment, there’s a lot of
places to reach down, and nine times out of 10, you’ll lose a
socket or extension that falls into the machine,” Johnson
says.
Johnson, who is also president of the
Turf Equipment Technicians Association, uses LINK Tools, an
innovative set of tools with a “no dropped sockets” guarantee,
which results in increased efficiency, as well as less damage
to machinery. LINK Tools in the first tool kit to feature an
automatic locking system that instantly locks every component
of a socket wrench – functioning like a solid tool from hand
to work - while still allowing easy, one-handed quick release.
The system has been cited as “outstanding” by
Popular Mechanics, Sailing, This Old House and AAA Motorist,
and is the first tool kit to receive a “Q-Mark” rating for
quality and ergonomics from TUV Rheinland, one of Europe’s top
approval organizations. The LINK Tools system has been used by
companies such as American Airlines, Amtrak and NASA.
What’s different about the LINK system? “Plain
and simple,” says Don Garlits, auto racing Hall of Famer who
has endorsed the product, “when you attach the extensions and
sockets to the ratchet, you can’t take them apart unless you
want to. When you’re working in tight places, inevitably
you’re going to bump into something and knock the socket off.
These tools are different. You have to pull up a ring to take
them apart. So you can’t accidentally drop it into the frame
or into the wheels or somewhere else where you can’t find it.”
As with turf machinery, it is not unusual for an auto mechanic
to spend 20 minutes looking into every crevice for a lost
socket, Garlits says. “These tools save a lot of stress,
because it’s always in the back of you mind, ‘what if I drop
this socket?’”
The secret to the LINK Tools
system is its locking pin, says Ted Weldon, vice president of
marketing for the Chicago-based LINK Tools International.
“Other tools (extensions) have ball bearings, which are the
largest offender of accidentally disconnected and dropped
tools,” notes Weldon. LINK Tools uses a pin – instead of a
ball bearing – to lock the tools in place, which makes it
impossible to fall apart, unless the user releases the lock.
Another feature of the LINK Tool system is that
it locks into all quality brand sockets or socket-mounted
bits, allowing users to utilize their existing sockets, as
long as sockets have detents (small dimples inside the
sockets), which most sockets have. (However, some ¼-inch do
not, so Weldon suggests users check sockets first.) “If you
don’t have detents, you can buy our sockets or sockets from
another manufacturer that does have the detents – this is
necessary in order for our pin system to work in locking
everything together.”
“If I didn’t already have
23 years worth of tools, I would buy every kit they have,”
says Tim Johnson, who owns a LINK Tools ¼-inch drive set. “It
goes without saying, I’m a big fan.”
The Link
Tool system is sold exclusively through the company’s Web site
at www.link-tools.com
or by calling their toll-free order line 1-888-433-4234.
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