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| Spurry:
After spending several hours trawling the internet, with not much to show for it, I am still searching for a 7mm square socket to fit a 1/4" drive ratchet. A 5mm square would be handy too. Is this looking for the impossible? Or does anyone know better? Thanks in advance. Pete |
| Joules:
Pete can you use a larger hex socket and some nuts, cut the nuts in half and cut/mill each half for a square section. You need two nuts for each half as you will cut each one over centre. |
| Spurry:
Joules, thanks for the suggestion. That is one way round the problem. :thumbup: I was trying to save on unnecessary work though. It seems that I may have to make my own socket, (having no wish to try and re-invent the wheel), if such a thing is not available. Guess there are not many square nuts about! Pete |
| awemawson:
Send me a bit of copper milled 7 mm square a couple of inches long, with one end turned circular so that I can grab it in a collet, and I'll pop a 7 mm square hole (*) in a bit of bar end that you can weld onto a scrap socket. (* using my Diesinker EDM machine) Later Edit: Or also send me a 6 mm square copper bar and I'll pop 7 mm in one and and 6 mm in the other thus making a socket. It would help alignment and flushing if both bars had an axial hole of (say) 3 mm or so. |
| appletree:
Laser 6058 tap holding sockets? Or an adjustable tapping chuck? I suppose it depends on what you are trying to do. Phil |
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