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calvinater
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 Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 3:33 pm Post subject: Query |
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Can anyone tell me why. This tool would be useful?
1/2 inch female on both ends
Appears to be homemade.
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mukluk
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 3:46 pm Post subject: Re: Query |
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Farm or industrial machinery with square head fill/drain plugs maybe?
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Glenn 
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 3:55 pm Post subject: Re: Query |
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Might not be a tool, but a universal joint for square steering/drive shaft.
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busdaddy
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: Query |
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If it's drilled or has set screws Glenn wins, if it isn't then I agree with Mukluk.
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markswagen
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 11:22 pm Post subject: Re: Query |
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l would talk to a plumber, cast iron plugs, often have a square head on them.
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cbeck
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 3:43 am Post subject: Re: Query |
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Run across a lot of old garage doors with square headed lag bolts holding the tracks to the wall.
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KTPhil
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:02 am Post subject: Re: Query |
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Anyone up for some twisted female on female action?
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skills@eurocarsplus
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| Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:40 am Post subject: Re: Query |
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more than likely a universal joint for a very low speed 1/2 square shaft
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calvinater
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 4:13 am Post subject: Re: Query |
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Welp it. Is going in the. Socket drawer, may find a use for. It someday..
No set screws, just what appears to be a hand peened rivet..
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Glenn
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 7:06 am Post subject: Re: Query |
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| I'd put it with my 9mm combination wrench that I've used exactly once in 55 years..... |
16mm for me
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busdaddy
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 8:02 am Post subject: Re: Query |
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| Glenn wrote: |
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| I'd put it with my 9mm combination wrench that I've used exactly once in 55 years..... |
16mm for me |
Apparently you've never owned an 80's/90's GM product, they seem to use every odd wrench in both metric and imperial. 
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raygreenwood
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 9:17 am Post subject: Re: Query |
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| busdaddy wrote: |
| Glenn wrote: |
| Cusser wrote: |
| I'd put it with my 9mm combination wrench that I've used exactly once in 55 years..... |
16mm for me |
Apparently you've never owned an 80's/90's GM product, they seem to use every odd wrench in both metric and imperial. |
Modern water cooled VW too. 16mm and 18mm are very common on suspension parts. 9mm fits clutch PP bolts and a few other parts.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 11:45 am Post subject: Re: Query |
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| busdaddy wrote: |
| Glenn wrote: |
| Cusser wrote: |
| I'd put it with my 9mm combination wrench that I've used exactly once in 55 years..... |
16mm for me |
Apparently you've never owned an 80's/90's GM product, they seem to use every odd wrench in both metric and imperial. |
My Jeep has SAE and metric fasteners, a mix circa 1990. Body is most all metric, drivetrain, suspension is most all SAE.
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It also has AMC and Chrysler bits, a transition of maker thing back then. Then again it has also been modified with a Ford 9 inch rear end. I have to search at many suppliers for parts. |
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mukluk
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 4:17 pm Post subject: Re: Query |
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| Cusser wrote: |
| I'd put it with my 9mm combination wrench that I've used exactly once in 55 years..... |
Buy a Ford. You'll need that wrench, a T15 driver, a #1 phillips, and a special trim tool just to get one door panel off. 
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| Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 11:13 pm Post subject: Re: Query |
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| Glenn wrote: |
| Cusser wrote: |
| I'd put it with my 9mm combination wrench that I've used exactly once in 55 years..... |
16mm for me |
You know you are old when you can look at your wrenches and tell which one you haven’t used.
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Cusser
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2025 7:30 am Post subject: Re: Query |
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| You know you are old when you can look at your wrenches and tell which one you haven’t used. |
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