X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmmtao04.cox.net ([68.230.241.35] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.0) with ESMTP id 1495097 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:28:08 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.230.241.35; envelope-from=dale.r@cox.net Received: from fed1rmimpo02.cox.net ([70.169.32.72]) by fed1rmmtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20061023152745.YWDC22409.fed1rmmtao04.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:27:45 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([68.2.134.48]) by fed1rmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id drTp1V00D12ovmC0000000 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:27:49 -0400 Message-ID: <453CDF6F.4070607@cox.net> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:27:43 -0700 From: Dale Rogers Reply-To: dale.r@cox.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Flywheel nut References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FWIW, Snap-On wrenches and sockets have offered that same
feature - off-point bearing "flank drive" - for over 20 years.

Dale R.
Donald Willard Garrett wrote:

Years ago, I stayed up watching one of those infomercial shows, and made what turned out to be my favorite tool purchase ever. When they got stolen from my car, I bought the deluxe set, and like it even better. Rather than turning the corners of the nut, they cam onto the face, meaning:

1. each socket / wrench does both metric and the nearest fraction of
an inch
2. you can't strip a nut or bolt head with them
3. you can turn a nut or bolt that's stripped almost round

Additionally, I've used (abused) them with cheater bars, and am confident that anything I can get a socket on I can either crack or twist off the bolt (like the head bolt on a Chevy 454--oops). I've pulled engines etc. foreign and domestic, and handed them over on numerous occasions to jobsite crews when regular hex wrenches fail (tool sacrifice--watched guys hang from them and hit them with hammers) with zero failures.

There you have it, of all the tools I own, the only ones I'd ever do a commercial for!

http://www.mitools.com/