Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #34071
From: David Staten <Dastaten@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Flywheel nut
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:19:34 -0500
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Thats all nice and dandy.. but I seriously doubt these guys make a 54 mm socket..

For the original poster, I bought mine from a tool truck as he was making the rounds to the garages where he sold to mechanics. Not cheap, and its not used a lot.. but it gets the job done. You may find what you are looking for in a surplus yard too, or even in a comprehensive auto parts store.

Dave

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/

Donald Garrett        flyrotarynospam@avamail.net

On 06.10.23 07:44:17, Thomas Phy (thomphy@msn.com) wrote:
> Hi all,
> Does anyone know the size socket needed to remove the flywheel nut on a
> Renesis? 2 1/8 " measures tight. And where has anyone bought said socket?
> Thomas Phy
> Renesis finally in shop!


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