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[JRHaelig 197]

5 hours ago, padgett said:

" using two combination wrenches for more leverage" I just drop a nut in the joined box ends.

Is that because you exert too much leverage?😉

[Matt Harwood 12,700]

[Matt Harwood 12,700]

[padgett 2,448]

Generally I use a 24" breaker bar with a 1" galvanized pipe that slips over the handle. Also have sets of hex (SAE and metric) sockets.

[Bush Mechanic 190]

4 hours ago, padgett said:

Generally I use a 24" breaker bar with a 1" galvanized pipe that slips over the handle. Also have sets of hex (SAE and metric) sockets.

 

As Ernest Hemmingway said, 'Always use enough gun'.

[Frank DuVal 1,170]

21 hours ago, padgett said:

" using two combination wrenches for more leverage" I just drop a nut in the joined box ends.

 But one box end is already on the nut/bolt to be turned. This leaves one box and one open end at the intersection of the two wrenches, since two open ends do not mate at all.....🤔

 

 

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If you've ever owned your own business, been an entrepreneur, or wondered what it's like doing so, this is as close to reality as it gets.

The IRS suspected a fishing boat owner wasn't paying proper wages to his Deckhand and sent an agent to investigate him.

IRS  AUDITOR: “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them".

Boat  Owner: “Well, there's Clarence, my deckhand, he's been with me for 3 years. I pay him $1,000 a week plus free room and board.  Then there's the mentally challenged guy. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of Bacardi rum and a dozen Budweisers every Saturday night so he can cope with life. He also gets to sleep with my wife occasionally".

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   Boat Owner:   “That would be me. What would you like to know”?

[padgett 2,448]

Not if one is a flare nut wrench. OTOH you never hooked a box end and an open end together ? Don't need the nut then.

Edited September 16, 2020 by padgett (see edit history)

[Bush Mechanic 190]

4 hours ago, Frank DuVal said:

 But one box end is already on the nut/bolt to be turned. This leaves one box and one open end at the intersection of the two wrenches, since two open ends do not mate at all.....🤔

 

 

 

 This American spanner talk has left me a little confused, Guys.

 

'Box End' is possibly an Aussie 'ring spanner', closed circle at each end.

 

Open ender is of course the one you use to round off nuts.

 

'Flare nut wrench'?  Could it be an injector spanner, a ring spanner with a cut-out to slip over the injector pipe?

 

And what do you call your sockets? Umm, those individual short round tube spanners with a square shaft drive. The back-bone of the tool-box.

 

To lengthen a spanner, standard practice would be to use a ring/open-ender, with another ring spanner hooked into the open ender. Which is, no doubt, what you guys said, but the terminology left me behind. And thank you for your patience with us Aliens.

[padgett 2,448]

Pulease, you have never done this ?

 

 

[Jim Bollman 780]

[Bloo 1,828]

4 hours ago, Bush Mechanic said:

Box End' is possibly an Aussie 'ring spanner', closed circle at each end.

 

Open ender is of course the one you use to round off nuts.

 

'Flare nut wrench'?  Could it be an injector spanner, a ring spanner with a cut-out to slip over the injector pipe?

 

Yes to all of that. The flare nut wrench might also be called a tubing wrench.

 

4 hours ago, Bush Mechanic said:

And what do you call your sockets? Umm, those individual short round tube spanners with a square shaft drive. The back-bone of the tool-box.

 

Six point sockets and 12 point sockets. 12 point sockets are used for rounding off nuts. Nobody knows why they are still made. Tool kits usually come with an abundance of them. 6 point sockets are used for taking things apart.

 

[Fossil 567]

3 hours ago, padgett said:

Pulease, you have never done this ?

Your not a man if you haven't. 😉

[Bush Mechanic 190]

4 hours ago, padgett said:

Pulease, you have never done this ?

 

 

  As stated in my post above. 

 

'To lengthen a spanner, standard practice would be to use a ring/open-ender, with another ring spanner hooked into the open ender. Which is, no doubt, what you guys said, but the terminology left me behind'.

 

It seems my terminology also left you behind, Mr. Padgett. I'm well aware that us Aussies speak differently, and that our humour and irony is often completely missed on the US forums, but the cultural differences help to keep it interesting.

 

 

[padgett 2,448]

Whatever you want to think..

[auburnseeker 4,983]

9 hours ago, Bloo said:

Six point sockets and 12 point sockets.

Six point sockets are for working on cars in the Northeast and 12 point are made for working on cars in the south west.  Since they don't know where the kit will be sold,  they just fill it with both.  

[JACK M 2,379]

Pretty sure everyone reading this has run into a nut that can only be screwed 1/12 of a turn at a time.

The ones that take all day.

[padgett 2,448]

Why there are fine gear ratchets. Gearwrench makes some "The ratcheting box end needs as little as 5° to move fasteners ".

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[billorn 427]

[Jim Bollman 780]

When just have to have a truck

 

[bdc 324]

On 9/17/2020 at 11:53 AM, billorn said:

 

Tower: you are cleared for take off 

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On 9/16/2020 at 6:46 PM, padgett said:

Pulease, you have never done this ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doesn't everyone?

 

  Ben

[padgett 2,448]

Corvettes make poor airplanes. (Don't ask).

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[capngrog 922]

35 minutes ago, Mark Gregory said:

 

 

I'm already practicing the wine part of this, but the orgy bit will have to wait until the 6 ft. social distancing rule goes away. 

 

Cheers,

Grog

[Jim Bollman 780]

[edinmass 13,665]

On 9/16/2020 at 7:46 PM, padgett said:

Pulease, you have never done this ?

 

 

I sure wouldn’t do that with cheap Chinese tools! Snap On! 👍

[Ben Bruce aka First Born 3,731]

1 hour ago, capngrog said:

 

I'm already practicing the wine part of this, but the orgy bit will have to wait until the 6 ft. social distancing rule goes away. 

 

Cheers,

Grog

 

 Complaining?

 

  Ben

[billorn 427]

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[Frank DuVal 1,170]

On 9/16/2020 at 6:36 PM, Bush Mechanic said:

To lengthen a spanner, standard practice would be to use a ring/open-ender, with another ring spanner hooked into the open ender. Which is, no doubt, what you guys said, but the terminology left me behind. And thank you for your patience with us Aliens.

 

That's it! You passed your American English as a second language test!  😉  Just like Padgett's picture.

5 hours ago, edinmass said:

I sure wouldn’t do that with cheap Chinese tools!

 

Works just fine.....  China, India, Taiwan, Japan, Germany, Canada (Snap On sockets), Britain (King Dick Tools!😁) and the USA are all represented in my tool boxes.

[Fossil 567]

6 hours ago, Mark Gregory said:

 

My Grandson is going to love this one. 

[JACK M 2,379]

16 hours ago, Jim Bollman said:

 

Just about when you thought you knew every dirty trick.

That's a good one.

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[padgett 2,448]

Mark: Do you live in Palm Beach ?

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