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28th March 2010, 02:54 PM #1
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If its not available -make it
There are times when you can't buy the spanner you require.
As in where the school senior cherubs lost the tube spanner for the friction saw. Naturally the retailers don't keep spare tube spanners for friction saws on hand.
As usual I am expected to come up with a quick solution.
The bolt head is a 17mm hex head. I visited my friendly local fastener supplier who had a suitable cap socket head bolt at 17mm ID AF of the hex and parted with 37 cents. Some work with ,hacksaw ,file and welder and the result as below.
Grahame
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28th March 2010, 04:59 PM #2
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Grahame its probably a better tool than the original. A while back i lost the socket handle for my boat winch i made another using a 19mm ( ithink) socket welded to a handle ,it turned out a way a lot better than the original
john
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28th March 2010, 09:44 PM #3
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Sounds like my old man, a child of the Great Depression: " If you need it and can't afford it, go without or make it!"
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28th March 2010, 10:32 PM #4
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I tried it on my GMC friction saw lock nut which happens to be 17mm and it works well.
The other way would have been to forge some tube to the hex profile of the 17mm hex nut.
Its more of a demonstration to the troops -the interested ones anyway, that its not necessarily a buy it at the shop mentality-but how its possible to think out of box and solve those problems that arise every day.
With the other's, it would be nice if they could just think !
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29th March 2010, 03:18 AM #5
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My dad was a mechanic and over the years made a lot of custom tools for specific jobs. Some of which you just couldn't buy. He made up custom spanners for bolts which were impossible to reach by other means and that sort of thing as needed.
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29th March 2010, 08:17 PM #6
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What they said.
My GrandPa was one of those mechanics too. Maybe I inherited some of his smarts. Here's a nifty fix for almost inaccessible bolt heads: Cut a piece of cardboard to reach the target area. Punch a hole to hold the bolt, and place into position with one hand, tighten with the other. When the bolt is well engaged, tear away the cardboard, and continue tightening.
Cheers,
JoeOf course truth is stranger than fiction.
Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain
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