Socket on a stick

Bah, that should have said SMAW. Stick welding.

Jon

So like a crow's foot, only a lot weaker?

(Ignore the snarkiness -- that's just to keep in shape).

Like a crow's foot, but a lot easier to use, can't slide off, and engages the nut in more positions.

Jon

A 12 point crow's foot with a handy shoulder to keep it on the hex. I like it! Lisle Tool pays for ideas like this.

Mother of invention, great job. It seems there's always something of a similar problem with most plumbing jobs.

You could upgrade to a $1 impact socket, if you find the right pawnshop. I'd HAVE to upgrade, my welding skills aren't up to 'turkeyshit' bead quality...

Is it anything like a Jalapeño on a stick ? :-)

Looks like a better basin wrench.

Joe Gwinn

Only if he named it Jose ...

That's a good rig. I've built some odd tools like that.

Here is what less creative people use:

Nicwe job but wouldn't it have been faster/easier just to buy a basin wrench?

And requiring a lot less clearance -- remember, that was one of his constraints.

I'm pretty sure that would break one of the groups rules. Karl

"Jon Danniken" wrote: (clip) (yes my welds look like turkeysh*t, but they will function in this

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm not qualified to comment on the appearance of your turkey droppings, but they look better than mine would have.

But I do want to comment on the photographs. Excellent macro-photography. Sharp, well composed, uncluttered, well lit.

Nice, I've got a few custom by chop saw and welder sockets myself. So a basin wrench wouldn't fit?

When I was younger I always looked for that in a girlfriend.

"Bob La Londe" fired this volley in news:hl83g8$3kb$1 @news.eternal-september.org:

Basin wrench? BASIN WRENCH? They make something to DO that job?

(Also -- oxygen sensor wrench; fuel line fitting wrench;... ad nauseum)

LLoyd

Swagelock has had such a wrench for ... at least a couple of decades. It's not clear how well it would work for heavy torque, but it's a nice item for brass compression fittings. I can't find it in their current catalogue, though. The principle is to use springloaded teeth so they bear the force in CW rotation, retract into a well in CCW rotation. Flip the wrench over to unscrew the joint. I recall cylindrical teeth, axis parallel to the pipeline, sliding on their circular end surfaces.

I've got two or three of them.

Don't have one of those. (Maybe I do and didn't know what it was called.)

Yeah, its called a bone wrench. I have a whole set of them.

ad nauseum)

Well, of course. Harley makes a custom deep socket for EVO clutch nuts too. I cut a socket in half and welded a piece of pipe in the middle for mine.