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The Regular Stuff: Chat, Buy, Sell, Off Topic, etc. => General Discussion - Scale Model Gas Engines - Hit & Miss - Throttle Governed - Non-Compression – etc => Topic started by: Adirondack Jack on January 28, 2022, 05:10:41 pm

Title: Re: Who is hiding the 1/4-32 (5/16 thin-wall deep spark plug wrenches
Post by: Paula on February 05, 2022, 10:56:55 pm

I've had good results using a hollow-shaft nutdriver:

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The end can be reduced on the belt sander to get into tight places:

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Paula

Title: Re: Who is hiding the 1/4-32 (5/16 thin-wall deep spark plug wrenches
Post by: Adirondack Jack on February 03, 2022, 08:33:27 am

Yup.  five sixteenths, six point, high quality, well fitting socket meets belt sander is itself a travesty, but it’s all I got.

Title: Re: Who is hiding the 1/4-32 (5/16 thin-wall deep spark plug wrenches
Post by: Woe is me on February 03, 2022, 08:15:21 am

No Idea. Have the same problem with one of the eight head bolts on a pump from a sprayer.

Title: Who is hiding the 1/4-32 (5/16 thin-wall deep spark plug wrenches
Post by: Adirondack Jack on January 28, 2022, 05:10:41 pm

Trying to reach between cooling fins, trying not to crack the insulator, for a hot minute I introduced a cheap six point 1/4 drive socket to the belt sander, but unlike glow plugs or big boy sparky plugs, a decent plug wrench For these critters is not so easy to locate.
Suggestions?