Audi Toolbox

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <330AAC4D.54FF@worldnet.att.net> David Weiss writes:

> >A "box spanner", to me, is a tubular affair that fits over a nut or
> >bolt head like a deep socket, but you drive it with a bar pushed
> >through it.  The thing is hollow, and the other end fits another size
> >of nut.  No American tool catalogue I've ever seen has had them.
> 
> I have a set of these, in oddball sizes from 21/32" to 1-7/16".  Very
> inexpensive, from any hardware store in the US, but made like cr*p. 
> Always called them "plumbers deep sockets", used primarily in pulling
> the packing nuts from shower faucets.

Well, they're certainly not as flashily made as most sockets - but I've 
never had one fail, although it's quite hard to get really high torques
with them.  I carry a complete metric set above 12mm, which is where my deep 
sockets give out.

> Never thought of that!  Would the torque on the shaft be equivalent to
> the torque measured on the nut, w/ extra drag from the guts of the
> shock?

I would think so.

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 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club