I feel emasculated

"Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen" (distraxi) 09/14/2019 at 19:54 • Filed to: None

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I don’t have a big enough spanner or socket to tighten the 40mm pivot nuts on my tractor’s grader blade.

I had to borrow a 2ft crescent off the manlier men in the tool room at work .

2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 09/14/2019 at 20:01

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Big NUT

facw > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 09/14/2019 at 20:44

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Big tools can be dangerous:

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 09/14/2019 at 20:46

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I tried to do a brake job thursday but was stymied because the biggest allen key I had was 1mm smaller  than what I needed

subexpression > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 09/14/2019 at 21:34

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I have a 1.5in socket and an adapter to put it on my torque wrench. I bought them for one specific nut on a trailer hitch .   I have never touched the nut, the adapter, or the socket again , and, more importantly, I have never actually used that hitch . Sometimes b orrow is a better move than buy .

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 09/14/2019 at 22:46

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Can't tell whether you were spannered or nutted by this job...

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/14/2019 at 22:53

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Use the head of a bolt with two nuts on the other end of it. 

shop-teacher > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 09/14/2019 at 23:12

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Yeah, bit now you have an excuse to buy more tools.

MOAR TOOLS!!!

Clown Shoe Pilot > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 09/14/2019 at 23:26

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40mm is pretty dang big. I’ve got a fairly serious collection of metrique and it tops out below 40mm

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > facw 09/14/2019 at 23:46

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Ever read “Command and Control” about The Damascus Incident?

What a fluster cluck from start to finish. Those poor damn techs going down in the silo in haz mat suits and little else. Wow. And a few clue-free generals calling the shots from hundreds of miles away.

At least the Permissive Action Locks worked on the device itself...

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 09/14/2019 at 23:47

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That Harbor Freight Mega 3/4" Socket Set doesn’t come out often, but it does make short work of such dilemmas...

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > Clown Shoe Pilot 09/15/2019 at 02:29

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Ditto. I run to 36mm. The only other time I’ve ever needed more was for the halfshaft spline  nuts on my Citroen, which were 50mm and needed a 3ft crescent with a pipe on the end.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > shop-teacher 09/15/2019 at 02:34

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My general rule is “if you need it once, buy it, because you’ll need it again”. But I can’t envision needing this particular one again - or at least not urgently enough to not be able to borrow from work  - and big stuff is expensive stuff.

shop-teacher > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 09/15/2019 at 09:12

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I generally agree with you, although after needing something really big, that I didn’t have, for about the third time ... I decided to take the plunge on a Harbor Freight 3/4" drive socket set. I think it was about $40 or $ 50 with coupon. I've been on the lookout for a decent used 3/4" drive ratchet since then.