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dransy
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PostPosted: 22:11 - 14 Oct 2006    Post subject: What are them sockets called? Reply with quote

Hi what are them socketes for rachet sets where it has a load of metal pins or rods inside it and when you put a nut it it pushes the rods/pins up so it fits perfect around the bolt?

I could swear id seen them before or am i making stuff up??

Because i could really do with one
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PostPosted: 22:13 - 14 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah i seen em 2 so you aint gone mad, no idea were they can be purchased or proper name for them
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PostPosted: 22:16 - 14 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

gator grip

https://www.asseenontv.com/prod-pages/gatorgrip.html
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PostPosted: 22:19 - 14 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cheers kev. Are they reliable do you know? or do the pins break?
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PostPosted: 22:20 - 14 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

don't know never tried one.. doesn't look too great to be honest, especially for tight bolts/nuts, maybe i'm just sceptical about stuff that's advertised on TV the way this is Laughing anyway cheap enough for a try?
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PostPosted: 22:45 - 14 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

I call them rubbish. Smile
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PostPosted: 22:48 - 14 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi

I bought one in a vague attempt to get the locking wheel nuts off the car when I lost the key for them.

Didn't work.

All the best

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PostPosted: 23:13 - 14 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

buy some propper sockets mate, they will fek up every nut and bolt you ownt, even if you dont use them
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PostPosted: 23:43 - 14 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

They are crap as already stated, I was given one as a christmas pressie a couple of years ago. I gave it away in the end.

Get a decent socket set, I use Impact sockets for those hard to shift jobs. Wink

These are good also for rounded off nuts, as the harder you try to undo the nut the tighter it grips. Borrowd one off the old man expecting it to be shit but it impressed me.

https://images-p.qvc.com/is/image/uk/5/46/517346.001?$ukproddetailmain$
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PostPosted: 09:23 - 15 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

If it's rounded or buggered nuts you want to shift, try Metrinch.

https://www.metrinch-tools.com/website/images/intro/introverschil.jpg
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PostPosted: 14:44 - 15 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

TheShaggyDA wrote:
If it's rounded or buggered nuts you want to shift, try Metrinch.

https://www.metrinch-tools.com/website/images/intro/introverschil.jpg


Had a set of them also for years, they are the Richmond ones. Excelent at getting rounded off nuts(one size does both imperial and metric equivilent ie:13mm & ½inch are the same) off but very hard to use in confined spaces. Also the ring end is the only usable part realy as the open end slips if not exactly tight on your nut. Wink
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PostPosted: 14:48 - 15 Oct 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

sickpup wrote:
I call them rubbish. Smile



Or Plain SHITE.

Never seen any in a 'Real' Mechanic's Toolbox.
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