Bought a wacky tool that now i don't need….

[Jersey Drew]

So to make a very long story short. I needed to do a repair on my truck and one of the bolts was a torx head. The T 30 was too small and the T 40 seemed to be too big so I figured it was a T 35. Not many people make a T 35 torx. So I bought my first tour truck tool and it is a lovely Matco T35 torx on a 3/8 drive socket. all said and done it cost about $18. And has not shipped yet. I then thought about how many people work on this particular part of the truck and how rare this T 35 is. I watched several videos on YouTube and everyone said it was a T 40 torx. So I went back and use the pic to clean out the hole and then tapped the T40 on with a hammer and damn it it worked! So bottom line is I fixed my truck and now I have a Matco tool coming to me that I will never use nor will anyone else.

SMH……

 

[428PI]

Cancel the order asap. My first car was a 65 Galaxie with a 390. After overhauling and warming up the engine it didn't have enough power so I got a 428 PI from the junk yard and spruced it up. It used an odd socket on the rods (13/32?) but got by with a 3/8 6 pt socket. I found a socket later in the trunk of the Galaxie!. How many people have a 13/32 socket?

 

[justtools]

You can cancel it! I would just order a pizza and have a beer and forget about the 18 bucks.

 

[ChevyEFI]

No skips.... priceless.

 

[bubinga]

Do you think he can still cancel it.
No sense keeping it if you won't use it.

 

[BlakeTheCarGuy]

I’d take it but not sure about paying $18 for it lol . Maybe a little less since it already rolled off the showroom floor haha .

 

[619DioFan]

This is GJ , buying tools you will never use is the norm and if your torx driver set dosent go to t-70 you should be ashamed LOL

 

[merkyworks]

My first thought was wonder if your bolt is Torx+

And I would keep T35 just cause no skips and never know when you might need it.

 

[Jersey Drew]

After some research the only official thing I can find it being useful for it’s for the bolt that holds the tailgate straps on a toyota taco! Lol I know I will never own one because I wouldn’t fit in it! Lol

 

[metaldad]

Cancel the order asap. My first car was a 65 Galaxie with a 390. After overhauling and warming up the engine it didn't have enough power so I got a 428 PI from the junk yard and spruced it up. It used an odd socket on the rods (13/32?) but got by with a 3/8 6 pt socket. I found a socket later in the trunk of the Galaxie!. How many people have a 13/32 socket?

i do! this is gj!

 

[Neggy]

for the 18 bucks, put it in the tool box for a rainy day

Try paying triple that for a special Torx 60 with a long reach made for german cars (BMW Flywheel) that just happens to be the perfect tool to take the rear hub out of some sort of Ford SUV (Edge/Lincoln MKZ) without having to dissemble the rear suspension which is how the factory says to do it.

I have a whole bottom chest filled with stuff I bought for a rainy day, and when I needed one of them it saved me hours and or aggravation.

 

[charger 73]

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For the price why not keep it, one day you may find a need for it when access to buy is poor and you'll be glad you have it handy.

 

[FMB4]

Well, if you can't cancel, it will at least make a GJ class paper weight. Also consider that it'll fill-out your tool box just a bit more (har-har). All kidding aside, we all make mistakes. The good thing is you repaired your truck.

 

[lardy1]

I think most of us have suffered similar moments of being human. Opportunities to learn to laugh at ourselves.

 

[dnschmidt]

You're this upset over $18. I'm sure I waste that on a daily basis.

 

[Al Borland]

I have T35 in 3/8 and 1/2 drives. I doubt they were ever used...
Most of my torx stuff is mismatched, survivors of old sets where the common sizes were lost/broken/etc.

 

[PCustoms]

I bought an impact rated T35 last week at the orange box....

Spax timber screws use them.

 

[Jersey Drew]

To the guy who said that I’m upset, I posted this to laugh at myself. I am nowhere near upset, this will just fill in another hole in my set. Even if I never use it it’s a funny conversation piece

 

[Dumber than lumber]

for the 18 bucks, put it in the tool box for a rainy day

Try paying triple that for a special Torx 60 with a long reach made for german cars (BMW Flywheel) that just happens to be the perfect tool to take the rear hub out of some sort of Ford SUV (Edge/Lincoln MKZ) without having to dissemble the rear suspension which is how the factory says to do it.

I have a whole bottom chest filled with stuff I bought for a rainy day, and when I needed one of them it saved me hours and or aggravation.

Exactly. The REAL trick is remembering where to look in my stashes to find said necessary tool.
Why just two days ago i sorted through a large container of reclaimed springs someone had given me. I was able to turn an extending curtain rod into a tension style rod which proved again: That junk is very useful if you pay attention.

 

[JradM]

Given the title I was hoping to see a wackier tool than a Torx bit in atypical size.

 

[ste6168]

I thought for sure I had a T35, this got me to go look, nope, thats a skip for me... I am not buying one, though. LOL

 

[Neggy]

Exactly. The REAL trick is remembering where to look in my stashes to find said necessary tool.
Why just two days ago i sorted through a large container of reclaimed springs someone had given me. I was able to turn an extending curtain rod into a tension style rod which proved again: That junk is very useful if you pay attention.

I only had a MAC guy at the shop, and when I went into Florida mode he stopped coming to the shop when I moved all my stuff to FL, the guy I work with is old and doesn't buy tools

I gave the MAC guy money on account every week, he was normally sitting on $300 of my money, I never owed him a dime

He learned early on I was not buying wrenches and sockets, but I would spend money on stuff that would save me time or make a job easier... so he would show me different stuff, and if I looked at it and thought it would make doing something easier or would be something that would be useful in the future, I bought it.

some of that stuff is stuff I left at the shop for my friend to use (vacuum cooling system refill tool, etc) and the rest got moved to FL with my tools.... my neighbors spread the word that I was the guy to go see when they were having car, motorcycle and golf cart problems... I wasn't in my driveway the last time I flew in before one of my neighbors was calling me with a no start problem on his 2013 Vette.... after checking the battery and basic trouble shooting, I swapped 2 relays and the car fired.... then I went and unpacked.

 

[wolf_from_wv]

I have a 13/32 socket and I think a 15/32, too. I bought an insert bit kit from somewhere (Tractor Supply?, Autozone?), that included a T35 bit.

 

[purplezr2]

Learned something new, I didn't know that T35 existed

 

[kbeefy]

Edit: I stand corrected. It was a T40. I have several torx sets and none of them have a T35.

I used a T35 yesterday. Injector hold down on a Ford 6.0

I have at least 3, and I'm going to buy another one because a longer version would be nice for the aformentioned injector.

Last year I spent $40 on an 11mm allen socket for some brake job (Volvo?). I could have gotten it for less than $10 online, but the car was on the lift and the tool was on the truck.

 

[purplezr2]

I used a T35 yesterday. Injector hold down on a Ford 6.0

I have at least 3, and I'm going to buy another one because a longer version would be nice for the aformentioned injector.

Last year I spent $40 on an 11mm allen socket for some brake job (Volvo?). I could have gotten it for less than $10 online, but the car was on the lift and the tool was on the truck.

Really, pretty sure the injector hold down is a T40 on those... or maybe even a T45

 

[Jacko264]

Paint it gold and use it as a paper weight
Graham

 

[kbeefy]

Really, pretty sure the injector hold down is a T40 on those... or maybe even a T45

I better double check before buying another!

Edit: You're right. It was a T40

 

[charbar]

Made me curious so I had to go look at all my torx sets. Not a single T35 in any of them.

Torx head bolts need to be cleaned out pretty damn good otherwise one slip and you just turned an easy job into a pain in the ****.

 

[Mallen]

You just need at the very least a lathe with a milling adapter and some O2 tool steel around.

 

[Jersey Drew]

 

[Shelbylex]

Nice!

I look at this way - you never know when the tool comes handy. Couple of years ago I bough a long security hexagonal driver (Bell systems). Do not even remember the size. No use for it whatsoever... Well, at some point my wife decides to buy a porch table and guess what - this was the best tool which allowed me to put it together much faster compared to the cheap allen wrenches which came with the table as they were hard to use in deep recesses.

Sometime it's a job in need of a special tool, sometimes it's a tool in need of a special job!

 

[bsaint]

I got a socket from Snapon to remove seats from a 2004 GMC truck that my dad sold before we got to the project and we never used it lol. It's in my box. One day...

 

[engineer2]

A neighbor asked to borrow a T45 for his new Ford truck. Found out it's not a common size. I didn't have one.

 

[Jersey Drew]

Well now i have no skips from t10 -t60 including the t27 & t47

fyi the t27 is very common on harleys

 

[Shelbylex]

... now waiting to hear how you bought Torxt90 in 3/4" drive (T902E)...

 

[Bighead38]

I’m gonna have to check next time I work on something.

 

[Y00PER]

Cancel the order asap. My first car was a 65 Galaxie with a 390. After overhauling and warming up the engine it didn't have enough power so I got a 428 PI from the junk yard and spruced it up. It used an odd socket on the rods (13/32?) but got by with a 3/8 6 pt socket. I found a socket later in the trunk of the Galaxie!. How many people have a 13/32 socket?

I have a 13/32 1/4" drive deep well snap-on socket. My standard size 13/32" sockets are the few non-u.s. sockets I have, only because I can't find u.s. made ones

 

[Outahere]

fyi the t27 is very common on harleys

and on string trimmers from Stihl and Echo