TORX bits required?
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From: Shitcago
You're either gonna wrench or you're not! Oil changing ain't wrenchin. I believe if you drive you should be capable of oil changing and on a car tire changing. If you're gonna wrench you gotta have the tools.Buy a set, you won't regret! I buy cratsmans,their not the best but close enough, and if it breaks you get a new one. I'll bet I have 20 different socket sets thrown together and have used nearly every one. Even if I have 20 3/8ths drive 1/2" 12 point sockets.
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I love this kind of attitude , if the guy is asking what sizes to buy my guess is he is not rebuilding motors and a cheap set would work fine . as I said their are bad points to snap on and craftman and yes good points to . to the person that talked about drill bits and easy out , on a stripped torx first thing to try is tap head with small ballpeen to move metal back in torx hole then tap bit in to hole but if you used right size and tapped bit in first place to loosen corrosion you would not have stripped it , if that does not work I tack weld cheap bit and back it out . the heat from weld will loosen corrosion from dissimilar metal
Yup, that makes sense! NOT!!
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Has Phillips, Slotted, SAE hex and star bits size T8 - T30 and does include the T27! This kit was designed in collaboration with Harley owners.
You can use the code HD Forum to save 15%
Tools...can't never have too many. I have a two car garage that only fits one car. The rest is full of tool chests.
Love my Chapman ratchets! We use lots of them at work. They're nice little tools to have. I've always bought the stuff al a carte, but the set is cool. I may have to add to my collection!
Tools...can't never have too many. I have a two car garage that only fits one car. The rest is full of tool chests.
Tools...can't never have too many. I have a two car garage that only fits one car. The rest is full of tool chests.
The majority of customers have the same mindset as you, that's why our Master set is our best seller; it's the biggest set!
I don't know if we have a garage full of tools at the shop, but we do have quite a few. I love it when I come across some oddball homemade looking wrench that's bent at a strange angle and ground down, and then months/years later we're very frustrated trying to reach a bolt on a machine the lightbulb goes on. Now we have draws full of tools with tags like "for impossible to reach 5/16 nut on left underside of xxx..."
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From: Raymond, NH
These are the most common I've used. I would also recommend multiples of each, torx bits suck and I've rounded off a few bits. The loctite that HD uses is good stuff and the bolts usually require quite a bit of effort to get out
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Among other things, we build high thermal capacity (50-500kW) touch cooling systems for power conversion electronics, CPUs, laser diodes, etc. Most of them are tightly packaged in racks or rack-mount modules. There are lots of difficult to reach fasteners.
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It's funny, when I ask people how they use our tools professionally, whether their answer is "Steinway pianos" or "NASA test equipment" it always ends with "hard to reach fasteners!"
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Tight spots and hard to reach fasteners are our niche! Are there any tools/bits that you need that we don't currently offer? I'm not an expert on touch cooling systems, do you work with ESD sensitive products?
It's funny, when I ask people how they use our tools professionally, whether their answer is "Steinway pianos" or "NASA test equipment" it always ends with "hard to reach fasteners!"
It's funny, when I ask people how they use our tools professionally, whether their answer is "Steinway pianos" or "NASA test equipment" it always ends with "hard to reach fasteners!"
We do have some electronics that we need to take ESD precautions with but they generally get installed fairly early in the process (on ESD mats) and are generally easy to reach at that point.
The only thing I can think of that plagues us is universal joint adapters that bind up and make keeping the socket on the fastener head difficult. Would be nice to have something better to replace variable angle adapters. Something that swivels smoothly and can handle moderate torque. Say 15-20 lb-ft on 1/4 drive. Maybe double jointed or cv jointed? Traditional u-joints get hinky after they exceed maybe 40-ish degrees off axis. We haven't had good luck with the "wound wire" extensions under torque. They just twist up.
We have had some prototype units that we used two u-joints and three extensions so we can get two directions of offset. That's always a problem when applying torque.
Last edited by cggorman; Apr 22, 2016 at 08:18 AM.