Lowes Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

On Black Friday I got an email from Lowes about a $14.98 deal on this Direct Drive ratchet wrench and sockets. Regular price is $29.98. Well, with everything else going on that day it went right over my head. Sometime later when I thought of it I checked it out.
As some of you may know, there are coarse toothed ratchets and fine tooth ratchets. Of the 2, fine tooth ratchets are usually preferred as they allow the wrench to ratchet with less backward motion to engage the next tooth. This “Direct Drive” wrench in effect has infinitely small teeth to alow ratcheting in tighter spaces. IF it works, this could be a very useful tool.
I have been watching the display since BF and the have NOT been selling, At All! They were reduced to $19.98 and still they didn’t sell. Now I see that they are at $9.98 so I picked 1 up to play with.

Yes, in “effect” but there’s no teeth or paw used. If there were, they’d be so fine, that they’d fail under load. It uses a one-way clutch like in most motorcycle starters (spring-loaded rollers on ramps). If you don’t have one, get it.

It is what you describe and pretty much what I expected. First thing I did when I got it home was take it apart.

Great deal alert dchomak. I use ratchets probably more than any other tool. All mine are the old style with standard teeth. Really like this direct-drive concept.

Unfortunately, those don't appear to be in the stores around me.

Will be keeping an eye out for them now though.

Actually my Lowes app says there is 142 in the Newberry store.
item #607975 NOT #607976

Between this and the HD thread you cost me a lot of money dchomak hahah.

I picked up 3 of the ratchet sets. One to play around with and two to fill in for nephews Christmas gifts, their flashlights are staying with me instead haha.

You know it’s funny, I know I said I picked up 1 to play with. I lied! I also picked up 3, one for me, one for MY nephew and one for a friend. The really funny thing is that when I went to check out the cashier asked me “why is it everyone buys three of these?”

It’s the rule of 3 I guess. My store has em marked at 19.98 but they scanned at 9.98.

Thanks dchomak. That did the trick. I'll be picking up a couple tomorrow. One for me and one as a gift. That is, unless a 3rd jumps into my shopping cart while I'm not looking.

I bought 2 Saturday night. The display was about half empty so they're selling well @$9.98. Thanks for the alert.

Picked up a couple this morning. I can tell I'm really going to be appreciating it when I have my arm deep in a transmission tunnel trying to remove a 5 foot long, fine threaded bolt, and there is like 1 inch of ratchet movement space.

Dang it! Now that it's posted on BLF I can almost be assured there won't be any left by the time I get there! Oh the power of BLF!

-Garry

Garry,
I will be Direct with you. You need to Drive over Lowes right now and Rachet up your efforts on this to get one before it’s too late!

LOL, it’s almost as though Dchomak is giving us subliminal messages, because now I feel like I need to go to Lowes.

:open_mouth:
That’s a heck of a deal!!!

Breaking news, this just in……
I told a friend of mine of the Direct Drive Rachet deal at Lowes and he just called me from his store.
It seems that item #607976, the item # that ImA4Wheelr was unable to locate is really the pairing of the set we got, #607975 and the Thumb wheel rachet. He got both for the $9.98
EDIT: He showed them the page below from Lowes.com on his smart phone. This deal just got even better.

None available in my area for either store pick-up or delivery. The palm driver looked good but was $9.98 on it's own in-store.

Same here. Not available in any of the stores near where I’ll be for Christmas day either.

You guys misundertood what he did. He got them to add in the extra separate item, the thumb drive, to the set they have, to equal #607976. In other words he got them to throw the thumb drive in. :slight_smile:

Sweet. So he got them to include a 607977 with the 607975 because the store didn't have any 907976's on hand. Oh, I gotta try pulling that off tomorrow.

By the way, the Lowes I went to today still didn't have the marked down price posted.