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- Subject: Re: Oil Drain Plug Is Stuck
- Message-ID: <5608.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us>
- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 28 Jul 92 19:06:00 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
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- Organization: The Courts of Chaos * Jacksonville AR USA * 501-985-0059
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- -> If the head is not completely ruined, go and buy a set of 6-point
- -> sockets and a ratchet. A good 6-point will hold on much better
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- You can do better than that.
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- Some years ago I bought a set of Snap-On "Flank Drive" sockets. They
- were advertised to grip the flats instead of the points, and be able to
- turn partially stripped bolts or nuts. By buying the black thickwall
- impact style sockets, I got away with paying merely two or three times a
- realistic price for them.
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- They work as advertised. I've often been able to remove bolts which
- just let a regular six point socket pop around.
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- BTW, there's seldom any reason to buy 12-point sockets. 12-point
- fasteners are quite rare. 6-point sockets don't tend to strip fasteners
- as bad as 12s, particularly oddball "offsize" fasteners. You know -
- those el cheapo bolts that are somewhere between 1/2 and 9/16, yet
- aren't metric? Some GM divisions loved them.
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