Finger Tip Nut Wrench?

That looks sort of interesting, but I think it would be more useful to have hex recesses in the end of a thimble. Even better, would be to have the th imble magnetized, so you could stick the nut in place and reach behind/into /around to the place where it goes with the nut on the tip of your finger r ather than on the pad.

This would be a piece of cake for a jeweler to fabricate, and a simple stam ping to produce.

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I'll use a dollop of gun grease as the holder to the finger tip for small stuff...can still feel the projecting bolt and it keeps it in place.

Erector set wrenches. They were not THAT small.

Check with Lee Valley. I believe they used to carry them??? Just checked - they now have a plastic multi-fit one.

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Magnetic would make it auful difficult if the wrench stuck to your work, or to metal parts righr NEXT to where youwanted the nut - - -

Or just tape a small "ignition wrench" to your finger if you don't need to bend it much - -

For the small stuff like that, I used to put a piece of tape over the back end of a wrench to keep the nut from falling out. I've also used a grinder to hack off everything from a 14" crescent wrench (4" end length) to a 10mm box end wrench (30mm end length) down to usable length for especially tight spaces radially.

And I used a blue wrench to bend box ends 90 degrees and welded extensions on to make my own carburetor and distributor wrenches. (Screw SnapOff w/ their $60 wrench price.)

Other box or combo wrenches got ground to thinner profiles (top and bottom, removing the radiused edges) to fit into very tight spots axially.

Since I usually had several of each size, modifying some didn't hurt. The latter two links show what look to be nylon items which will break over the course of months to years. Wrenches I hacked off in 1973 are still perfectly usable by me in 2016 and beyond.

Perfect! I wonder if they still sell those. I have an old set of Crapsman combos (very nice) and another old (early/cheap) Japanese set of open ends which were stamped. Both proved very handy, especially for distributor point nuts.

"distributor point nuts" Good GOD, you're OLD!

Yeah, must be from very long ago. I was especially appalled that the out-o f-date people here were still talking of using "dial up" a month or so ago, here. That, or people just don't get out that often any more. I mean cel l providers let you plug right into a computer's USB jack. That's why they call it a universal jack. Its supposed to replace everything. No more pho ne jacks or wires. Not even for the re-charger. Even that's wireless, now. But maybe these guys don't get out much, anymore. I can imagine, especial ly with all that talk about serving in Vietnam. You guys must be in your e ighties or so now.

Anyway, I've never heard of distributor point nuts. Then again, I've never worked on engines or motors (in a day job at least). My work was mostly co nstruction/remodeling/installation/repair behind walls or in ceilings of va rious properties, not on a shop floor. So I wouldn't bring anything like t rade or metric sized car mechanic's tools around with me like with maybe HV AC, electricians', drywall or plumbers' ones. Except, maybe for that telesc oping pen magnet for tough to reach lost screws.

On 02/26/2016 10:20 AM, snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com wrote: ...

You clearly aren't in a rural area where there is not yet a wireless network option...and, yes, those areas still exist in the US of A.

Be not the first by which the new is tried nor the last by which the old has died.

I live 10 miles from the nearest town in a clearing out in the woods . I have a 6Mb/s down and 768Kb/s up ADSL connection ... and I'm pretty sure that hughes.net is available virtually everywhere . I think they use the same satellites as the TV providers .

I just bought a set off ebay a few months ago - not as good as the older Craftsman set I had (1969 vintage)- but a lot better then the stamped crap craftsman carries today.

I still get to work on stuff that uses them every once in a while. Not as old as dirt yet, but getting there. (work on cars a a hobby now instead of for a living)

Places where a cell phone is only a paper weight too.

Including New York City:

Aren't WE, though?

Then again, I'm still a 19 y/o in a 62 y/o body with a 90 y/o back.