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Re: One size fits all socket
« Reply #15 on: May 07, 2017, 10:07:49 PM »
Even if it worked as well as advertised (which I doubt) most nuts or bolts you'll find in places where that big thing wouldn't work.  On the aircraft I work on everyday, I'm struggling to think of ANYWHERE that would work.  Most nuts and bolts are in such a place that that simply would not fit on them.  Same thing goes for the multi-sized "dog bone wrenches" I've seen.

There is a reason why the big tool manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to make the walls of their box wrenches and sockets as thin as possible.  As a professional mechanic, in addition to all my standard tools (and this is common) I've still got a whole drawer of "custom" wrenches and sockets which are ground down and/or bent in one way or another to get in, or on, or around tight/restricted spaces.
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Re: One size fits all socket
« Reply #16 on: May 07, 2017, 11:34:00 PM »
I've still got a whole drawer of "custom" wrenches and sockets which are ground down and/or bent in one way or another to get in, or on, or around tight/restricted spaces.

LOL.  The IA that signed off most of the work on my airplane had a drawer like that. Wrenchs that had been cut and re-welded, ends ground super thing, etc.  Also "special" tools such as the tiny screwdriver made from a #2 bit inserted into the splined shaft of a defective vacuum pump.
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Re: One size fits all socket
« Reply #17 on: May 09, 2017, 08:05:26 AM »
I smile every single time I need something from my A&P wife's toolbox.  Before, not having something meant a trip to the store and forking out some dollars on a new tool.  Now I just go to the on site Snap-On store.

And one of these cheap POS gimmicks isn't in there.

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Re: One size fits all socket
« Reply #18 on: May 09, 2017, 04:37:47 PM »
you won't find this particular *ahem*..."tool" in a tool box carried by a serious professional who makes their living with their tools.  That is all I needed to know about this thing.
The real problem is anyone should feel like they can come to this forum and make a wish without being treated in a derogatory manner.  The only discussion should be centered around whether it would work, or how it would work and so on always in a respectful manner.

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Re: One size fits all socket
« Reply #19 on: May 09, 2017, 08:24:40 PM »
What is the general consensus of the one size fits all socket? 

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Re: One size fits all socket
« Reply #20 on: May 10, 2017, 01:04:34 AM »
I knew a woman that had one of those once.

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Re: One size fits all socket
« Reply #21 on: May 10, 2017, 09:16:55 AM »
I knew a woman that had one of those once.
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Re: One size fits all socket
« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2017, 09:36:05 PM »
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Re: One size fits all socket
« Reply #23 on: May 11, 2017, 03:36:14 AM »
Just been on the phone with DrBone. He quit flying and now works on the Patent Office Suicide Hotline. Apparently the bloke that designed this tool read this thread and topped himself. It's a tragedy. Sorta.

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Re: One size fits all socket
« Reply #24 on: May 11, 2017, 05:27:26 AM »
Just been on the phone with DrBone. He quit flying and now works on the Patent Office Suicide Hotline. Apparently the bloke that designed this tool read this thread and topped himself. It's a tragedy. Sorta.

I heard he used a one size fits all super soaker snow has come clean on the out of control joke tool he designed.
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Re: One size fits all socket
« Reply #25 on: May 11, 2017, 03:07:46 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci2jjBYscW8

It was originally called the Gator Grip and came out in the 90s. 
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Re: One size fits all socket
« Reply #26 on: May 11, 2017, 03:24:38 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci2jjBYscW8

It was originally called the Gator Grip and came out in the 90s.

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