3/4 drive sockets for home use and EMT

Attaboy, Bob!

--Winston

Good trick! There's a couple of sockets that often bottom-out on me. If I could just remember which ones they are, I'd make deeeep ones. Otherwise I'll just hope that I remember this trick when I need it.

Thanks, Bob

Bob isn't the first to come up with that idea , us Harley guys been using one like that for years to get at the sprocket/front pulley nut on Big Twins . Mine's made with a piece of 2" pipe about 3" long . It was a pure bitch cutting that socket in half on the lathe , burned a couple of HSS cutters before I figgered out it was tempered steel .

What then? Grinding disk or a cut off wheel on a dremmel?

(just in case I need to do it one day!)

Or anneal in the oven, then back on the lathe?

--Winston

Actually I did it years ago to do the clutch on my Electra Glide. Still have that socket too, and use it from time to time. That socket I used a piece of rigid conduit for the extension. I cut them in half on the chop saw. I was just posting a play on past group topics.

Fiber blade chop saw works pretty good. The cut is not perfect, but if you orient the pieces on your extension tube the same its works out well enough. In this case I threw it on the no name Chinese mill/drill mill and squared off the cut end before welding in the extensions tube.

I imagine a slow cut saw with a tounrey blade might be better, but I don't have one.

Recently used a 1" drive socket-reversed- with a 4" extension plugged into the splined end and a breaker bar on that to attempt to turn out a 2" clean-out plug with 1" square male drive in my home plumbing. Too tight of course-idiotic plumbers reefed in in so tight it permanantly seized. JR Dweller in the cellar

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Thanks - its a good idea to get out of a bind.

I just slowed the lathe way down and switched to an M42 cutter . Turned out it was just a bit harder than the "normalized" 4140 I use for stuff I make for Harley suspensions , and the heat from cutting too fast was causing it to harden more . Lesson learned !