I'm looking at making a couple bigger ones for pipe taps, and I am leaning towards a 4 piece. Two pieces of round bar threaded on one end and two drilled pieces of square bar with a V cut in the middle. Its not as fast to make as a simple two piece, but for most jobs a tool another tool would not be required to change taps.
What's Your Favorite Style Home Made (shop built) Tap Wrench
Oct 27, 2019
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The two bar version with thumb screws doesn't need a wrench either. Like this, in my local hardware store.
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I like the custom look of turning only the edges off the square stock handles, leaving a flat down the center that blends into the square on the working end, and a hemisphere at the outer end, which you can turn with a corner rounding end mill in a boring bar holder.
That tool is a two bar brake line nut wrench that clamps around the mangled nut and swages it back to hex shape as it loosens it. It was in the little bag of home made goodies that got me the job at Segway.
Ya gotta love the pricing: $0.36 + $9.25 shipping
Pic, please. It sounds interesting.
Yessir. I sure would love to see that. I was picturing how it was made until you basically said it can securely hold a square object or reshape a hex shaped object. Then my brain went Bzzzzzzt!
The opening between the bars is a 3/8" hex. It also clamps on and loosens 7/16" brake fittings better than a flare wrench but doesn't reshape them as well as 3/8". The end mill has just enough clearance to mill one side of the hex without cutting into the corner of the opposite side. \_/
I once posted it on Picasa. Since it closed I haven't created an account on another service and practice describing things in text, which is a challenge because I'm one of the engineering types who "talks" with a pencil or chalk.
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