Pat Dolan
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First of all: DO NOT slip a pipe over top of your breaker bar or worse yet a ratchet handle. Get a larger bar, as the tool is designed for the force you could apply to its handle on your own, not the double, triple or more from a snipe.
Ratchets of any kind are not meant (by any competent toolmaker) as breaker bars, but a long handled ratchet will definitely deliver more torque than a shorter one, and will be designed for same. They are useful tools, but the long stroke means they are not convenient for running most things off.
The ONLY way to get a breaker bar is with a swing head. The reason for that is that if you are trying to break something REALLY tight loose, you need to be able to turn the handle down to the same plane as the bottom of the head of the nut or bolt you are on. Staying above it (straight bar) or worse yet using a deep socket and rigid handle means you are putting a considerable bending load on the socket - that can then tip off of the fastener risking your knuckles AND the fastener head. I just went through this on a job on Saturday night. Had to remove 9 brass hex plugs with 1 5/16" shallow heads (about 3/8" deep). Screwing them up was a non-option, as it could mean tens of thousand$$ of cost in a hurry. Tech from branch tried his 12 point stuff and it slipped off once before we caught him.
Site guys brought a 6 point deep impact socket and rigid bar. I had to make them get local tool store on emergency callout to buy a 30" 3/4 drive swing bar and a shallow 6 point impact socket. They b1tched and moaned a bit about the price (Jet tool, $106 plus $40 callout) and time, but when we managed to remove and replace all 9 (including the one with the damaged head) with no more damage and no real drama (keep in mind, they took well over 500 lb/ft to remove - that was two big guys, one pushing one pulling - to break them loose) the cost was instantly a non-issue.
What is a breaker bar and what are breaker bars for? Sometimes you need a particularly heavy-duty tool to loosen a fastening. Enter the breaker bar, which &#;breaks&#; fastenings open, hence the name. Breaker bars are much longer than a standard spanner: Breaker bar sizes may be as much as 300mm to 600mm longer than a typical wrench.
This extra length enables the user to generate much more torque with the bar with a similar amount of force, meaning it can unfasten even very stubborn fastenings quickly (often loosening them enough in just a half-turn to enable a spanner to subsequently be used). Using a breaker bar can prevent a situation where your spanner or ratchet is damaged because of a particularly tricky fastening.
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