Keeping "scrap" tools. Modified wrench.

[K-Dog]

I am putting a back end on a Mercedes. Plowed in the back. It gets two new hinges.
The hinges bolt up under the package shelf with a bolt going through the center. Well where the bolt goes through is an adjuster. I don't know if these type adjusters have a name or not, I know I see them on suspension a lot.
The bolt does not go through the center but out of center, and there is a skinny 15mm nut that you twist and it rotates the center of the hinge, giving you some degree of adjustment. ( see the bronze sharpie mark on the 15mm nut / adjuster )

I do not have a wrench thin enough to fit in there and none of my needle nose pliers were thin enough either. I even tried those little "wrenches" that come with your die grinder. No luck.
Tool man comes on Friday, I gotta make some time on this job.
So I have a small collection of "scrap" tools. As luck would have it, I have a 15mm c-man wrench.
Spend a little time with a grinder and a micrometer, and I am back in business.

Fits perfect and I am moving right along

 

[AnthonyJ124]

A+ work!

As an fyi, most good bicycle shops have thin metric spanners in stock. I have park tools spanners in 13-24 and then even sizes 28-36. Handy to have around. But for free.99 yours works just as good!

 

[PJNJ]

Great post and lesson for keeping old and scrap tools around.

I keep old tools around for just that reason. I have a bunch of extra sockets, wrenches and old screwdrivers just for making "specialty" tools.

A couple of years ago I had to drop the pan on my wife's Intrepid. On the front were two nearly impossible to get 10mm bolts. Took an old Cman raised panel wrench; heated it with a torch; and bent the open end to reach and remove them. If I hadn't done that I would have had to take the rad, fans, and brace in front of the engine off to get to them as per the manual. Saved me hours of time and aggravation. I have also ground down the sides of a socket to get to the sparkplugs on a Triumph m/c and to adjust cast valve rockers.

 

[thegroundpounder99]

I have a drawer full of wrenches just in case I need to sacrifice one or somebody needs to barrow lol.


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[Ghost11]

Nice work

 

[K-Dog]

A+ work!

As an fyi, most good bicycle shops have thin metric spanners in stock. I have park tools spanners in 13-24 and then even sizes 28-36. Handy to have around. But for free.99 yours works just as good!

Yup.
I have my thin bicycle wrenches here at the house. ( some off brand ) I didnt want to make the trek home though.

 

[anndel]

Great job! I work on bikes and cars as well so I have a set of Park tools, especially those spanners and they get into lots of tight places a regular wrench can't. Having a set is a big plus to anyone's tool box.

 

[CJM8515]

Ive done that a time or two, cut, ground, heated and bent, etc. I never use a good wrench-usually some rusty pos craftsman or china made wrench.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

I don't know if these type adjusters have a name or not, I know I see them on suspension a lot.

They're called eccentric bolts.

 

[bonneyman]

A+ work!

As an fyi, most good bicycle shops have thin metric spanners in stock. I have park tools spanners in 13-24 and then even sizes 28-36. Handy to have around. But for free.99 yours works just as good!

Another on bicycle tools.

Cone wrenches tend to be pretty thin but typically decent steel. Can find many uses other than bicycles for those tools.

 

[PelicanPines]

I keep a full set of cone wrenches in my toolbox... both sae and mm ... use them often for casters, jam nuts and the odd... damn that's a thin nut find.

 

[rockinacummins]

I have a drawer full of wrenches just in case I need to sacrifice one or somebody needs to barrow lol.

^^^ This.

 

[AnthonyJ124]

Yup.

I have my thin bicycle wrenches here at the house. ( some off brand ) I didnt want to make the trek home though.

Perfect use of "trek" in context. Not everyone has such specialized tools!

 

[unslow1]

I have a drawer full of wrenches just in case I need to sacrifice one or somebody needs to barrow lol.


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I keep the bottom drawer of a 26" toolbox just for this reason. Screwdrivers, hammers, sockets and wrenches.

 

[CoogarXR]

I have a box of sacrificial tools too, lol.

Hoarding. Justified.

 

[bwringer]

I did the same thing a while back with a cheapie adjustable wrench when I needed to tighten an assortment of air fittings that didn't leave enough room for regular wrenches. Worked great, and the thing has been unexpectedly handy several times since.

 

[Fcvapor05]

Perfect use of "trek" in context. Not everyone has such specialized tools!

If we did, we'd all have Giant tool boxes.

 

[rlitman]

I too have got a drawer of junk tools that sit around for modification.

I most recently welded two cheap Chinese sockets as spacers for something I needed. They saved me a bunch of time (I think they came from a handful of **** that was in the bottom of a toolbox I bought).

Screwdrivers with broken tips get torched and ground into custom fit picks.

Broken pliers have been recycled too.

 

[K-Dog]

They're called eccentric bolts.

YES !!!!
( I think I knew that though. )

 

[K-Dog]

Perfect use of "trek" in context. Not everyone has such specialized tools!

HAHAHA !!!!!!!
I wish I could tell you I was clever enough to have done that on purpose.

 

[K-Dog]

This is what it looked like when I went home today.