Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: UncleBill on April 05, 2018, 01:49:57 PM
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Ok.. It stood out in a bucket of sockets but it just looked like a big ol' universal 3/4" drive S-K Tools socket extension. I seriously looked up the S-K number 47148 and was dumbfounded when I kept finding a 1 1/2" socket for the picture. I couldn't figure it out and just stared at it and had a couple more beers. Sometimes the obvious isn't so obvious.... Then it came to me - Oh S#%*! Someone broke the universal and then found a 1 1/2" S-K socket and welded it on to fix it.....
Now the question comes to my mind is "How did they break it in the first place?"..
******Updated Info***** I got in touch with the person who sold this to me and he fully remembered the item.. What happened was he was working on a D41 (semi or tractor, I didn't ask) and there was a frozen nut/bolt they couldn't get off so he stood on the breaker bar and bounced up and down and then he heard a big crack and though he was going to be dead... Snapped the universal... and then had to weld the S-K on to finish the job.. The nut/bolt finally loosened up :).. FYI he looks about 6 foot - 220 to 240 pounds...
This universal extension is 5 1/4" long and weighs 2 pounds 10 ounces.
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10 foot bar they jumped on? Good grief... :cry:
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??? or did they cut it to make a flex socket that they use a lot ???
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Good thinking, turnnut.
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1-1/2"......wow.
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******Updated Info***** I got in touch with the person who sold this to me and he fully remembered the item.. What happened was he was working on a D41 (semi or tractor, I didn't ask) and there was a frozen nut/bolt they couldn't get off so he stood on the breaker bar and bounced up and down and then he heard a big crack and though he was going to be dead... Snapped the universal... and then had to weld the S-K on to finish the job.. The nut/bolt finally loosened up :).. FYI he looks about 6 foot - 220 to 240 pounds...
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Still though....I can't believe he was able to bust it. Wow