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RE: uses for 8 pt sockets

To: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>, shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: uses for 8 pt sockets
From: "Mullen, Tim (IIS)" <Tim.Mullen@ngc.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:14:46 -0700
> I've got square nuts on my <...> plumbing caps, but who 
> wants a socket for those?

Someone that is tired of rounding off the over tightened pipe plug of
the transmission fill plug on a car - tight quarters, boxed end and
twelve point sockets tend to round things off.  Crescent wrenches aren't
much better...

Tim Mullen






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