(Nanowerk News) The ratchet mechanism is a fascinating energy-conversion system that converts disorderly or random motion into orderly, directed movement through a process known as spontaneous ...

Forget that headline. Comparing a product to a container for an alcoholic beverage isn’t politically correct on a website that’s concerned about trucking safety, as this one is. But I wanted to get ...

Last week, I posted my review of Milwaukee’s M12 Insider Ratchet, which genuinely impressed me. For those of you who don’t know, it’s an extended-reach, low-profile, cordless ratchet with pass-through ...

I had been eyeballing a set of Craftsman ratcheting box-end wrenches for quite a while, thinking they would come in awful handy when working on the confines of a motorcycle. They were on my list, but ...

Until I bought my latest truck a few years ago, one with an automatic transmission, I’d always been a manual-tranny guy, preferring to be more directly involved in the power delivery of my ...

The proposed ratchet mechanism utilizes the asymmetry in surface wettability between the smooth and rough faces of the teeth of a geometrically symmetric gear to achieve ratcheting motion. The ratchet ...