PRODUCT REVIEW SAMPLE: Inside Look at World's Best Ratcheting Screwdriver

I'm always on the lookout for good screwdrivers. The world has a lot of screwdrivers in it, and many of them are not very good

This, so far, the Mega Pro, is the best ratcheting interchangeable screwdriver I've used so far

I'm going to show you why I think that. The handle has a storage compartment here for bits

Snaps shut. The handle is very comfortable. There's what they call an overwrap here

The body of the handle is made of a hard plastic, and then there's this softer, rubbery-ish kind of plastic here for grip

The top swivels so that when you're driving, it doesn't rotate on your hand

And then this is the ratcheting mechanism here. That's ratcheting one way, not ratcheting at all, and then ratcheting in the other direction

So it just works really well. That's the bottom line. The ratcheting action is very fine. That's the first thing I noticed about it, was that it's not a coarse thing. It's quite fine. It's easy to use

And as I said, when you use it, this cap here is swiveling in your palm, so it's exceptionally comfortable

What I wanted to know, though, was what's going on inside? How is this thing made

So, I took a power hacksaw, and I cut one apart. And you can see here, this is the bit holder that slides into the handle

I cut progressively further down the driver until I got to something interesting

So, here we have this part, and towards the nose of the driver, it starts to get more metallic inside

What I was really interested in finding out about was how the ratchet mechanism worked

And this is what it is here. There are these pieces of metal here, and depending on which one is pressed down by the rotating cap

you either have one or the other engaged with the splines inside

It's actually more heavy duty than I thought. And when you take it apart, here you can find..

It's kind of hard to get off now. Here we go. This is a very important part of the ratchet

It looks just like a small piece of fairly thin metal, but it's actually hardened

I mean, the file will mark it, but it's not like a piece of mild steel

This is hardened to some extent, and interlocks with the splines here, the drive mechanism

to actually make the ratcheting happen. It's quite a heavy duty arrangement

As I said, I was more impressed after I cut it apart than before

These are made in North America, when I say that. The line has different models, and some of them are made in the U.S.

some of them are made in Canada. The head office is in Vancouver

And it's just a pretty impressive screwdriver, and as I said, it's currently my favorite ratcheting driver

I've never seen anything that works quite as well as this