38MM Ring Spanner

[Paul in NZ]

Long story and you wont care BUT I often have to swap out the tow ball on the car. Trailer uses the smaller one and the bike rack is way better with the bigger one AND needs a little flat plate under it to stop it moving about so you cant fit the trailer on anyway...

Uses a 38MM (or close to it) nut...

Repco/supercheap don't usually go up that big so any other recommendations???

Cheers

[neels]

How much do you want it?

https://www.nztools.co.nz/products/combination-spanner-38mm

You could always put a changeable towball on the car instead...

http://www.supercheapauto.co.nz/Product/Tow-Ball-Duo-Fit-3500KG-1-/339108?menuFrom=1021408

[Paul in NZ]

I think a solid towball would be safer than a Chinese changeable one.. Besides the weird base plate for the bike rack under the towball means I need to change it anyway...

I don't mind the $$ for the spanner..

cheers

[bmwilly]

Cheaper to buy a 38mm socket .

[Grumph]

Don't you have secondhand tool shops up there ? An inch and a half ring is close as dammit the same...

[Paul in NZ]

Cheaper to buy a 38mm socket .

I've got a bit fuck off 38mm socket... Its one of those heavy impact driver types and that's a prob as its nearly impossible to use solo - I need 2 hands and a 3rd to stop the ball rotating... LOL

[Paul in NZ]

Don't you have secondhand tool shops up there ? An inch and a half ring is close as dammit the same...

Oh - good point - theres a place out Petone I think. Shit - if I go there Vicki will come along and there will be clothes shopping and lunch... Feck - could get expensive....

[OddDuck]

Petone: WR Twiggs, just inland from the car dealer's at the big dodgy cross intersection in the middle of Waione St. They do Saturday mornings.

There is a secondhand tool shop in Petone (railway station end of Jackson Street), go there if you want to see good gear but at eye-watering prices.

[Grumph]

Oh - good point - theres a place out Petone I think. Shit - if I go there Vicki will come along and there will be clothes shopping and lunch... Feck - could get expensive....

Down here another place worth looking at is the local pawn shop...Some of the imported labour have expensive drug habits and it does a good trade in tools....

But ours has a very good jewellery section.....

[pete376403]

Cash Converters - lots of tools that don't really look like home handyman stuff but might have been found on a building site or engineering shop.

[Madness]

Try D&S Sharpening Services on Kapiti Road for something closer to home. You might be surprised at the breadth of their product range.

[Katman]

You might be surprised at the breadth of their product range.

He wants to remove his towball - not make sammichs.

[Madness]

He wants to remove his towball - not make sammichs.

I should hope not, he's married!

[husaberg]

Long story and you wont care BUT I often have to swap out the tow ball on the car. Trailer uses the smaller one and the bike rack is way better with the bigger one AND needs a little flat plate under it to stop it moving about so you cant fit the trailer on anyway...

Uses a 38MM (or close to it) nut...

Repco/supercheap don't usually go up that big so any other recommendations???

Cheers

A dirt old Cresent.
I am picking you have never been a farmer:laugh:
Failing that just try an engineeering shop they usually sell singles
Actually so does Mitre Ten. just checked only up to 32mm though
Just find the koken van.
Have you looked on trademe they have plenty

It actually sounds to me you would be better off with a detachable tow hits
We always had them on rangers and toyotas so we could fit the AG couplings
330205330206

[BMWST?]

an aquaintance across the road from my work has the snap on man visit regularly.Let me know and i will see if he can get one.WR twigg also has converitiballs ie a 1/78 ball and a 50 mm ball fir onto the same shank

[awayatc]

Pipe wrench....

[Paul in NZ]

A dirt old Cresent.
I am picking you have never been a farmer:laugh:
Failing that just try an engineeering shop they usually sell singles
Actually so does Mitre Ten. just checked only up to 32mm though
Just find the koken van.
Have you looked on trademe they have plenty

It actually sounds to me you would be better off with a detachable tow hits
We always had them on rangers and toyotas so we could fit the AG couplings
330205330206

No - alas I was raised by a mechanic - one with an aversion to adjustable wrenches although on a nut that big it does not matter so much..

Trying to avoid detachable fittings as probably look a bit weird on the back of the car we have now.

Yes - found one on line so if I cant get a used one - I will purchase there... Good point though, Vicki is an expert on local Op Shops etc - I will just set her off on the hunt LOL....

[Honest Andy]

Yeah, pipe wrench.
I used to have to change the towball on my van all the time, until I finally got a new coupling for the horse float.
I used an old 12 inch crescent with a short length of pipe for more leverage. When you put a pipe on it you gotta use a good adjustable spanner like "Crescent" or "Stawillie" or you break it.
You gotta do it up TIGHT and make sure the spring washer is in good nick...
Doesn't matter much for your funny bike rack but you never know when you're gonna have half a tonne of builders mix on your trailer!

[Taxythingy]

No - alas I was raised by a mechanic - one with an aversion to adjustable wrenches although on a nut that big it does not matter so much..

Are you knocking the venerable reputation of the Swedish nut lathe?

Though I do understand. I've been using one for years on gas cylinder regulators with no ill effects. Was away for a couple of weeks and a colleague changed the cylinder. Surprise, surprise, there are a bunch of dents in the nut now.

[jellywrestler]

Oh - good point - theres a place out Petone I think. Shit - if I go there Vicki will come along and there will be clothes shopping and lunch... Feck - could get expensive....

that's the one in jackson street? long gone dude

[jellywrestler]

i've got a huge amount of old spanners which i make coffee tables from, there's bound to be one in there, or one of a smaller size that's worn and can be filed out to fit betterer as, or you can but the whole table....
let me know as i'm heading north this weekend maybe
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1306494711&ed=true

[HenryDorsetCase]

i've got a huge amount of old spanners which i make coffee tables from, there's bound to be one in there, or one of a smaller size that's worn and can be filed out to fit betterer as, or you can but the whole table....
let me know as i'm heading north this weekend maybe
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1306494711&ed=true

that is cool as hell. Kudos!

[Paul in NZ]

Doesn't matter much for your funny bike rack but you never know when you're gonna have half a tonne of builders mix on your trailer!

Well I'd rather loose some builders mix than approx $20K worth of mountain bikes... Its a four bike rack and $5K is an average trail rig these days...

[Paul in NZ]

i've got a huge amount of old spanners which i make coffee tables from, there's bound to be one in there, or one of a smaller size that's worn and can be filed out to fit betterer as, or you can but the whole table....
let me know as i'm heading north this weekend maybe
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1306494711&ed=true

Cool as coffee table.... I really need a ring spanner on it though ;-)

[Paul in NZ]

that's the one in jackson street? long gone dude

Bugger....

[jellywrestler]

Cool as coffee table.... I really need a ring spanner on it though ;-)

yes and as i said i have several hundred old spanners as i collect them to make more, if you want one send me your address and i'll drop it off on friday..., might be an open ender though

[husaberg]

yes and as i said i have several hundred old spanners as i collect them to make more, if you want one send me your address and i'll drop it off on friday..., might be an open ender though

Post a pic sounds pretty cool (the coffeee tables not the spanners)


No - alas I was raised by a mechanic - one with an aversion to adjustable wrenches although on a nut that big it does not matter so much..

Trying to avoid detachable fittings as probably look a bit weird on the back of the car we have now.


Where i used to work, A honda motorcyclle dealership we always used a cresent (a very nice one though) and a big arse pipe (Same at a Yamaha dealership as well.)
You would never notice the detachable fitting. Damn sight eaisier and faster to swap over as well.

From memory the only big nuts on bikes then were 23mm and 27mm on TRX300 axels.
Can't remember ever doing a Proarm VFR but they had pretty big rear nuts.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Post a pic sounds pretty cool (the coffeee tables not the spanners)


Where i used to work, A honda motorcyclle dealership we always used a cresent (a very nice one though) and a big arse pipe (Same at a Yamaha dealership as well.)
You would never notice the detachable fitting. Damn sight eaisier and faster to swap over as well.

From memory the only big nuts on bikes then were 23mm and 27mm on TRX300 axels.
Can't remember ever doing a Proarm VFR but they had pretty big rear nuts.

VFR400RR NC30 rear axzle nut 36mm. I have a Ti one on my desk as a paperweight. Because titanium.

[Grumph]

VFR400RR NC30 rear axzle nut 36mm. I have a Ti one on my desk as a paperweight. Because titanium.

The nuts on each end of a Laverda triple crank are 36mm - known as "jesus nuts" - cos jesus do they make a mess if they come loose....

Like the tables Spyda - there's a set of Millennium Gates locally made up from mainly old blacksmith's tools and mo'fn big spanners. I told the guy who did them that the bits were highly collectible and I expected to hear they'd been stolen. He went back and welded up the attatchment points, you'd need a big cutting disc to get them off now....

[jellywrestler]

Like the tables Spyda -

i get grizzles sometimes at swapmeets buying old spanners, never used named ones so the reality is what else are they useful for...

[jellywrestler]

Post a pic sounds pretty cool (the coffeee tables not the spanners)




http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1306494711&ed=true

[husaberg]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1306494711&ed=true

Neat.......thanks

[Paul in NZ]

RESULT...

Truck spares place in Taupo under $20 for a decent big long fuck off spanner... whoot