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From: "Ed Anderson" <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Flywheel nut
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:55:26 -0400
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I also purchased a Metrinch  tool kit over a decade ago.  Its ideal for an 
auto installation where you may have a combination of metric and non-metric 
bolts and nuts FWF.  My plastic case has started to come apart (is that 
sufficient reason for a new set? {:>), but the tools have really paid for 
themselves many times over.

Ed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald Willard Garrett" <nospam@avamail.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 5:41 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Flywheel nut


> Years ago, I stayed up watching one of those infomercial shows, and made 
> what turned out to be my favorite tool purchase ever. When they got stolen 
> from my car, I bought the deluxe set, and like it even better. Rather than 
> turning the corners of the nut, they cam onto the face, meaning:
>
>   1. each socket / wrench does both metric and the nearest fraction of
>      an inch
>   2. you can't strip a nut or bolt head with them
>   3. you can turn a nut or bolt that's stripped almost round
>
> Additionally, I've used (abused) them with cheater bars, and am confident 
> that anything I can get a socket on I can either crack or twist off the 
> bolt (like the head bolt on a Chevy 454--oops). I've pulled engines etc. 
> foreign and domestic, and handed them over on numerous occasions to 
> jobsite crews when regular hex wrenches fail (tool sacrifice--watched guys 
> hang from them and hit them with hammers) with zero failures.
>
> There you have it, of all the tools I own, the only ones I'd ever do a 
> commercial for!
>
> http://www.mitools.com/
>
> Donald Garrett        flyrotarynospam@avamail.net
>
> On 06.10.23 07:44:17, Thomas Phy (thomphy@msn.com) wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Does anyone know the size socket needed to remove the flywheel nut on a
> > Renesis? 2 1/8 " measures tight. And where has anyone bought said
> socket?
> > Thomas Phy
> > Renesis finally in shop!
>
>
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