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Default Another tool rant

On Mon, 29 May 2017 23:06:41 -0400, Bob Engelhardt
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On 5/29/2017 6:43 PM, rangerssuck wrote:
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The friggin' wrenches don't fit. They are in 1/8" increments, and the two sizes it turns out I need are 1 5/16 and 1 7/16. Totally useless, they are. Near as I can tell, HF doesn't sell those 16th size at all.
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In a pinch you could take the next smallest & grind the faces. A 1-1/4
becomes 1-5/16 with a 1/32 off each face.


+1 for that. I have one drawer in my rollaway which contains all my
modified wrenches. Some ground wider, some ground thinner, some bent
90-degrees, some welded to extensions, 12" Crescent with 1.5" trimmed
handle, some box wrenches made into line wrenches, etc.

Each one was made to fit some application, and all took the place of
$40-150 SnapOff or MAC$ equivalents. While I did break down and buy a
Chevy distributor wrench, I so seldom did the Toyota trucks that my
modified (thinned, bent 90, extension) wrench was fine both times I
used it. My thinned, cutoff 7/16 wrenches worked better than the
expensive SnapOn equivalent for carb nuts.

Thank Crom for grinders, welders, and a wee bit o' savvy.

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