When Necessity becomes the mother of invention

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Have you ever not had the right tool for the job but managed to cobble something together that worked?

I have just finished extending the threads on my suspension mount studs. The front ones were easy but the back studs were a problem as the chassis was in the way of the dia holder. To solve this I bought a dia nut (this is a dia that is a hex shape rather than circular so you can use a socket, extension and T-bar instead of the strandard dia holder.

This worked fine until the stud hit the end of the socket. To get round this I machined the inside of an old imperial socket (I had a couple of the same size) so I could pressure fit the dia holding socket inside it. An incidental bonus was that the stud just fitted inside the1/2" hole in the end of the socket and this kept the socket and dia straight.

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Have you ever not had the right tool for the job but managed to cobble something together that worked?

I have just finished extending the threads on my suspension mount studs. The front ones were easy but the back studs were a problem as the chassis was in the way of the dia holder. To solve this I bought a dia nut (this is a dia that is a hex shape rather than circular so you can use a socket, extension and T-bar instead of the strandard dia holder.

This worked fine until the stud hit the end of the socket. To get round this I machined the inside of an old imperial socket (I had a couple of the same size) so I could pressure fit the dia holding socket inside it. An incidental bonus was that the stud just fitted inside the1/2" hole in the end of the socket and this kept the socket and dia straight.

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cuttingstudthreads2.jpg

Good job OG, I think if it was me I'd probably would have tried to get a spanner on there & ruined it in the process! :lol:

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a posh duct ;)

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Good job OG, I think if it was me I'd probably would have tried to get a spanner on there & ruined it in the process! :lol:
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Yes, I have tried that before and, yes, it does ruin the thread :)
 
Good job. I have a few die nuts of metric and imperial sizes in the garage, always useful. I too have made up long reach tools to do similar tricks, also made up some long reach drill bits by brazing a drill bit into a length of silver steel. I did have a set made up of the tapping drill sizes for most metrics.

When I swapped my flywheel for a lightened one I had to make up a locking tool. I cut a section off an old flywheel ring gear and clamped this to one of the gearbox bolt holes, meshed the offcut against the flywheel ring gear and voila!
 
Having a socket not long enough to reach the nut I am after, so instead using a large flathead driver, to undo the nut! Sounds stupid, but works rather well.
 
Thinking abut it, I reckon he is tapping the nut round with the screwdriver.
 
No, not quite got that. Please expand.

Yeah... This is way back! Who resurrected an old thread!? What I was meant to say was, the socket wrench wasn't long enough with the socket I needed to reach a nut. So... I use a very long screw driver, insert it into the socket which is on the nut then either undo or tighten to a point where tightening with a socket wrench isn't as much of a fight. Does that make more sense?
 

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