Socket on a stick

Yeah, give me about 30 years for that one! ;->

Jon

I have a set of crowfoot ratcheting tubing wrenchs for many years. I don't remember the manufacturer but they were of high quality and took a lot of torque. Another way around the problem of reaching a buried fitting is to get a regular tubing wrench and bend it to the proper angle to reach the nut. I have a bunch of these special application tools that I made. The ones that I use most today are the long extention allen wrenches, longer than the ones you can buy and more side clearance than a socket set of allen wrenches.

John

Joseph Gwinn wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.giganews.com:

Something I would have killed for as a yout'.

"Jon Danniken" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:

An older buddy has let me use his back garage for the last few months. As I've weatherproofed and generally, cleaned it up, I found five of those flippin' wrenches. Sheez

"Sano" wrote: Something I would have killed for as a yout'. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What's a yout'?

Didn't you see 'My Cousin Vinny'?

Nope , is he missin' ?

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Didn't you see 'My Cousin Vinny'? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yes. How do you think I was able to quote that line? :-)

Local dialect (somewhere) for "youth". :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:20:04 -0600, the infamous Sano scrawled the following:

Serendipity found me last month when I found one of those in the weeds behind the house I was working on. I needed it that day to install a new faucet in the kitchen sink. A little bit of oil got the button working so I could telescope it, and the thing worked like a champ...to break off the "fingers" on the plastic nuts which had both apparently been crossthreaded all the way up to the sink. I ended up dismantling the faucet and cutting it into 3 pieces, then snapping the plastic base into many pieces, so I could -finally- drop the 2 brass fittings through the holes in the sink...and be done with the old one. That was good for 2 solid hours of fighting. To top it off, one of the copper tubes I cut in two decided to cut back. My thumb is almost healed now.

When you need a basin wrench, they're _damned_ handy.

Yes, since 1992.