[Milsurplus] set screw question -

[Peter Gottlieb]

Agreed.  Get the best small wrenches you can find.  The difference in 
price is small especially compared to the aggravation of using poor 
quality tools.

You can buy real Bristol spline sets on eBay, btw, so pretty easy.



J. Forster wrote:
> Using poor quality wrenches, even if newly ground, is a really BAD idea,
> IMO. The material is soft and the stresses very high, especially on tiny
> sizes. You may well do more harm than good.
>
> -John
>
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>
>
>   
>> Hutch,
>>
>> If you grind between 1/32" and 1/16" off of the end of the wrench (more
>> for
>> larger size wrenches) you get a new wrench, albeit slightly shorter.  You
>> can do that several times before it gets too short to use.  Be sure you
>> hold
>> the wrench perpendicular to the surface of the grinding wheel so that the
>> end is square.  This also works with rounded off Bristol wrenches,
>> including
>> the Xcelite ones.  Use light cuts and don't overheat the wrench while
>> grinding.
>>
>> In a message dated 11/9/2009 6:46:27 PM Central Standard Time,
>> olegerityincj at austin.rr.com writes:
>>     
>>> Dan -
>>>
>>> I may give you a shout after this weekend.  Since it was raining Sunday,
>>> I had some time to replace the plastic lens over the Frequency read out
>>> Dial.  To do this I needed to loosen the tuning and band switch knobs.
>>> Well one thing lead to another, these knobs were stuck hard after many
>>> hours of soaking up liquid wrench, they would not come free.   I
>>> purchased some DRY ICE and all but three knobs came free.  So far I need
>>> two of the 0.050 babies but also a new L allen /hex wrench since the one
>>> I now possess has a few rounded edges.  So three knobs left, six
>>> screws!   So please stand by, Off to harbor freight  this week for some
>>> cheap-o wrench's.
>>>
>>> -Hutch
>>>
>>>       
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