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Turbo socketing

ReggieR

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Jun 21, 2018
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331
Location
Vinton
Just badass. No pics of the 'job" but the fill cap... 3/8 pipe thread hex plug all steel filler topper on an old Campbell compressor had been pliered, vice gripped, rounded off with sockets. Pretty much at the "can you weld a nut to it for me" point by the kid who owns it and brought it by here.
One last try first kiddo...( first try for me). I grinned and went in the shop. Grabbed a Proto manual impact driver set and a rack of SK Turbosockets. Wasn't enough room for the Proto hammer thing up against the compressor head so I grabbed a 3/8 breaker bar and the turbosocket and massaged it on with the breaker bar/hammering implement.
One hardyank. Done deal.Loose.
They guy freaked out.WTF is that ?
It's all in the right tools man.
I seldom grab that Turbo rack but it was worth the $150 plus I spent on it several years ago. Turns a potential klustairfukk into a non issue in a few seconds. Used the thing maybe 10 times in a dozen years. Saved me more than a dozen hours of fighting a difficult bolt. I need a bigger set for lugs altho once they piss me off the plasma cutter comes out anyway
 
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2ndGearRubber

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Mar 24, 2014
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14,185
Location
Pittsburgh
Nothing like having the right tools. I see people struggle without them and wonder why. It's all about making things easier, btw sk sells deep turbo sockets too. :)
 

redwrench60

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Sep 10, 2011
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6,076
Location
East Tennessee
Mine have been used on countless rounded exhaust bolts and nuts as well as assorted other regular hardware. They are hard to appreciate until you see how they save your ***.
 
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