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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: DaveBB on May 06, 2017, 07:27:35 AM
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What is the general consensus of the one size fits all socket? The type able to adapt to multiple sizes by being filled with numberous small rods that recess to conform to the head of the bolt. It seems like everyone would be using them, but I don't see a lot of people using them. Thoughts?
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I highly doubt you could put much torque on those things without slipping, bending a rod, etc
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I made one of those in the early 1980s and found that the balance of brittle/soft in the pins is super important meaning sourcing the material is pretty costly.
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I was never impressed with them. Too loose fitting, kinda like using a metric on a non metric nut.
Theres a reason they are so cheap.
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I was never impressed with them. Too loose fitting, kinda like using a metric on a non metric nut.
Theres a reason they are so cheap.
Same,I would rather use a visegrip and just replace the fastener. Just get a proper socket set!
:salute
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Low torque, easier to round the nut/bolt head. More trouble than they are worth.
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I got one just to prove it was junk to my younger co workers, broke it on the first try.
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I got one just to prove it was junk to my younger co workers, broke it on the first try.
:rofl :rofl :rofl
Did you send them off to get a lefthanded monkey wrench and half a dozen skyhooks too? :devil
:salute
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:rofl :rofl :rofl
Did you send them off to get a lefthanded monkey wrench and half a dozen skyhooks too? :devil
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No, but the metric adjustable wrench never gets old or the good ole' inverted Allen socket.
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Blinker fluid gets them every time.
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Prop wash...
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They are cack. The adjustable golf club was a better idea :old:
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Junk...
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Love to see how one would hold up to my 1/2inch snapon impact.
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Love to see how one would hold up to my 1/2inch snapon impact.
Just make sure you're wearing a face shield or welding mask when you do it. :devil
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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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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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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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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.
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What is the general consensus of the one size fits all socket?
I knew a woman that had one of those once.
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I knew a woman that had one of those once.
:eek: :rofl
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I knew a woman that had one of those once.
:rofl :rofl :rofl
Blew coffee straight out my nose...
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Nice Dred
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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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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci2jjBYscW8
It was originally called the Gator Grip and came out in the 90s.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci2jjBYscW8
It was originally called the Gator Grip and came out in the 90s.
Yep, and they are still trying to figure out how to sell that original inventory.