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Not really. One is really just stupidly stunningly dumb, the other is a last ditch method only to be used when all else has failed.Falls into the same debate as house bashers using their 18v impact driver on consumer units
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Not really. One is really just stupidly stunningly dumb, the other is a last ditch method only to be used when all else has failed.Falls into the same debate as house bashers using their 18v impact driver on consumer units
You should try working on a marshalling kiosk on a large transformer. On some of them there's no wa to get a spanner of any kind in. The designers had no thoughts on maintenance :-(
Yeah, sounds like some of the badly designed cabinets we also have to work with. Like you say when there's 25 or 30 glands in multiple rows rammed into a gland plate with maybe 10mm space between and they're large diameter SWA cables that can't be moved around to make some swinging room then you're often left with no other option but to use an impact type tool rather than a spanner or socket.I'm guilty of using a hammer and screwdriver. When you are working on a gland plate with 24+ glands in 4 rows of 6 and you need to remove one from one of the inner rows there's just no chance of getting in with anything else :-(
I find a lot of that style nut on some of the Canadian equipment that we fit. Maybe they are big over there?
You see them quite often on Copex type flexible conduit fittings that are widely used in the USA and Canada for connecting commercial equipment to fused and unfused disconnect switches. They're designed to be tightened with a 'C-spanner' but they work very well as a slogging nut using an extra long pin punch.I find a lot of that style nut on some of the Canadian equipment that we fit. Maybe they are big over there?
love it. nice and succinct post. been doing it for years - beats bashing knuckles on a slipping pair of gland pliers.The multi tool before multi tools were invented.
these days many bit sets you buy from screwfix / toolstation now come with a square 2 and sometimes even a square 1 & 2Another useful idea from Canada! I'd like some for the fixings box, just in case...
Talking of Canada, anyone else using Robertson screws just to annoy the next guy?
Another useful idea from Canada! I'd like some for the fixings box, just in case...
Talking of Canada, anyone else using Robertson screws just to annoy the next guy?
done that a few times for that very reason.Another useful idea from Canada! I'd like some for the fixings box, just in case...
Talking of Canada, anyone else using Robertson screws just to annoy the next guy?
Each to their own, but for me it’s right tool for the job, everytime. When you don’t have the right tool that is the problem/dilemma. And if you are slack with that, what else are you slack with?I had a job recently where myself and an apprentice had to gland and terminate a 50mm SWA cable in a panel. I put the locknut in a vice and filed V shaped notches in the 6 leading edges. The apprentice was curious as to what I was doing. As we installed it, I got my trusty old screwdriver out and hammered the locknut tight as my assistant held the gland with his stillies. On completion, he said that it was dog rough, but so difficult to tighten with gland nut pliers. I would be interested to now what others think.
Each to their own, but for me it’s right tool for the job, everytime. When you don’t have the right tool that is the problem/dilemma. And if you are slack with that, what else are you slack with?
Under such circumstances, the chisel is the right toolHow do you use the right tool in circumstances in which there is no prospect of getting that tool near the luck nut?
You can buy a cream for thatMy locknuts have flats on them, so a bit like fort knox.
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