<VV> The Filter nut wrench

Ron Hinz ronh at owt.com
Wed Sep 3 00:58:15 EDT 2014


That was all a lot of work.  It's more my style to hit a tool bin at a 
summer swap meet and find a cheap stamped 1" open end wrench and buy it for 
a dollar.  In fact I think I have two, one for each tool bag.
RonH


-----Original Message----- 
From: Smitty via VirtualVairs
Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 9:42 PM
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Subject:  The Filter nut wrench

I guess there is something wrong with me .  I recognized about the second
time I had to remove the filter nut from a carb that it probably wasn't
going to be the last.  Checking on the price of a "Bonny" wrench at the tool
store, (another trade mark) I decided I didn't want to spend that kind of
money.  I laid out the shape of a one inch open end on 1/4 boiler plate.
Then realizing it was the same size as the PG modulator it would have to be
thinner for there, so I switched to 3/16 plate.  Figuring I'd like to have
one in my traveling tool box too I laid out a second one.  5 minutes with a
cutting torch and a half hour with a grinder and file netted two wrenches
that have served me for over 30 years.
Had a Shop Chief once whose favorite rant was about Channel locks and
Crescent wrenches.  He'd turn all red in the face and yell, you show me one
place in the aircraft manual where it calls for a crescent wrench or channel
locks and I'll put one of each in everybody's tool box.  Otherwise I'll hang
any Blankety blank, blank I see with one in his hand.  Later in the cruise
the crew was on liberty in Naples and walking down the street we passed an
industrial tools shop.  Hanging in the window was a 24 inch crescent type
wrench.  One of the guys said, are you thinking what I'm thinking?  We
pooled our money and bought it.  On the Chief's birthday we presented it to
him.  He hung it up in the shop and said, that't the only &^##%$ Adjustable
wrench that will ever enter my shop.

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