Timeline for Tightening a nut in a tight space
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| S May 28, 2020 at 22:04 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
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| May 20, 2020 at 21:15 | answer | added | Alaska Man | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 20, 2020 at 21:13 | comment | added | Johnny | If the nut is not very tight, it looks like you might be able to grab it and turn it with some needle-nose pliers. (not good for the nut as it'll chew up the corners a bit, but this doesn't seem like something you'll need to do often) | |
| May 20, 2020 at 21:06 | comment | added | Solar Mike | @Aww_Geez and I have a few made special like that eg 9/16" for carb nuts on a v8 etc | |
| May 20, 2020 at 21:00 | comment | added | Aww_Geez | But it's situations like this where you end up making your own tools. I'd have taken on old 17mm to the grinder and cut a groove out of the handle and brought the jaws down to a low profile. | |
| May 20, 2020 at 20:55 | comment | added | Aww_Geez | I'm with @SolarMike, it looks like where the nut happened to land has made it especially difficult for you. I can see that a normal wrench, when turned, would become trapped as you cannot detach to the left with that brace there. The snapon product he linked should work, if you use the 60° first with the jaws pointing towards the bottom of your pictures. | |
| S May 20, 2020 at 20:11 | history | bounty started | user1049697 | ||
| S May 20, 2020 at 20:11 | history | notice added | user1049697 | Draw attention | |
| May 14, 2020 at 16:51 | comment | added | user1049697 | @isherwood Thanks for the reply. I wasn't clear enough initially, but there are also some metal rods going through that limits the range of the wrench. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 16:51 | history | edited | user1049697 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 13, 2020 at 10:56 | answer | added | d.george | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 12, 2020 at 20:07 | comment | added | Solar Mike | @jsotola Sorry, have a look: shop.snapon.com/product/… and I still use mine. | |
| May 12, 2020 at 20:07 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Possible dup of diy.stackexchange.com/questions/159974/… | |
| May 12, 2020 at 20:03 | comment | added | jsotola | @SolarMike, no, not a different offset at each end ... most open end wrenches are angled ... use the same end, but flip the end over | |
| May 12, 2020 at 19:51 | comment | added | Solar Mike | An open-end wrench with different angle offsets at each end will work - my favorite Snap-On ones would do fine... | |
| May 12, 2020 at 19:23 | comment | added | JRaef | I agree, but to be clear, not an ADJUSTABLE wrench, you just need the simpler fixed opening type. | |
| May 12, 2020 at 19:18 | comment | added | isherwood | Looks to me like there's enough room for an open-end wrench to operate. The trick is to flip the wrench 180° with each stroke to change the approach angle of the jaws. | |
| May 12, 2020 at 19:13 | history | asked | user1049697 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |