Pipe wrench....
Pipe wrench....
Opinions are like arseholes: Everybody has got one, but that doesn't mean you got to air it in public all the time....
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....
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!
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.
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
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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.
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....
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