<VV> Wrenching comments

[Sethracer at aol.com]

These are good ideas - Unless you need to remove the Nut and you need to  
remove the nut right now. The swap meet approach -like the Harbor Freight  
approach - is the method to use when you will need the wrench two or three 
times  over a few years. Buying a nicer 1" wrench beats the adjustable wrench 
(and  really beats the Channel Locks). Making your own? That goes above and 
beyond,  unless you have the material, the torch, the grinder and a little 
time. Then it  is a great idea. 
 
Of course, unlike the nice home built "skinny wrench" and the stamped out  
pot metal (dollar-bin) wrench, a good, solid Crescent wrench, can be used to 
 beat the crap out of something that is desperately asking for it. 
(Something,  not someone!) 
 
Have a good night!  - Seth


 
 
In a message dated 9/2/2014 9:58:13 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
virtualvairs at corvair.org writes:

That was  all a lot of work.  It's more my style to hit a tool bin at a 
summer  swap meet and find a cheap stamped 1" open end wrench and buy it 
for 
a  dollar.  In fact I think I have two, one for each tool  bag.
RonH


-----Original Message----- 
From: Smitty via  VirtualVairs
Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 9:42 PM
To:  virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject:  The Filter nut wrench

I  guess there is something wrong with me .  I recognized about the  second
time I had to remove the filter nut from a carb that it probably  wasn't
going to be the last.  Checking on the price of a "Bonny"  wrench at the 
tool
store, (another trade mark) I decided I didn't want to  spend that kind of
money.  I laid out the shape of a one inch open end  on 1/4 boiler plate.
Then realizing it was the same size as the PG  modulator it would have to be
thinner for there, so I switched to 3/16  plate.  Figuring I'd like to have
one in my traveling tool box too I  laid out a second one.  5 minutes with a
cutting torch and a half hour  with a grinder and file netted two wrenches
that have served me for over 30  years.