justin_o_guy2
Serious Thumper
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What happened?
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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There are no rules when fighting a problem. Tools are just tools. You can get a junky wrench at a pawn shop, clean up the area you want stuff to stick to, SURGICALLY apply a light grease to everything else, wipe a bit of epoxy on the nut and inside the wrench , wait, break it loose. I wouldn't use JB Weld,, but something you Can break loose, like a five minute epoxy. I used Devcon, because it's good. For this, I'd probably use Duro, because it's not that great. Super glue gel might be a choice, since it will dissolve with Acetone. I have been known to clip a strip of a thin feeler gauge, hold it in position with needle nose pliers until the wrench has it held in place and tapped the wrench down into position. If you can get a pin punch and shape it up to drive the smeared part of the nut back home, that might help..
The thin, runny superglue Might work, Even pounding a small, Hard wire as flat as you can might give the wrench the bite it needs.
I was changing wheel bearings on a friend's car. My socket was sloppy. Option, go to town, spend twenty bucks or cut up a feeler gauge and shim it... We didn't go to town. He was Very skeptical and really didn't want me to do that. It worked and left no rounded edges on either nut,
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