At 07:39 AM 23/10/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Not to pick on Ron, but I have been following this thread for a couple of days
>and am somewhat mystified by one thing: why are you guys fussing about broken
>tools? I have been working on cars, trucks, tractors, gardening equipment, and
>constructions machinery for 40 of my 55 years, and I only broke one metric
socket
>while trying to remove the wheel bolts on an Audi 100 using a breaker bar
and 2'
>pipe.
I'm with you - the right tool for the job (keeping in mind that sometimes
destruction IS the right tool!). I use 1/4 sockets for 7/16 and down, 3/8
for 1/2 to 5/8, and 1/2 drive for bigger, up to where I have 3/4" adaptors
stuck into the really big sockets! I have both 12 point and 6 point
sockets, long and short, and use the 12 points (husky, as it happens) for
just about everything except when working on rust enhanced fasteners;)
But then I have 7/16 - 1/2" drive 12 points for the ARP head stud and
bearing bolts, other weird sizes for the odd jet nut that I see, some ground
down sockets to fit the rod bolts on one of my engines, a set of really
cheap impact sockets for use with the impact gun or the really long
pursuader pipe, and so on...
I've never broken a good tool unless I knew going in that either the part or
the tool would break, and I hoped the part went first! Like I said,
destruction is one of the techniques I use in things like exhaust system
work, and parts car stripping ( once pulled a Mini motor in 10 minutes with
liberal use of the flame wrench).
Brian
Brian
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