Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #34077
From: Mark R Steitle <mark.steitle@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Flywheel nut
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:24:48 -0500
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Thomas,
You may want to take the easy route and go by a tire shop that
specializes in truck tires.  They should have a socket that will fit and
will zing it off with their 1" impact wrench for a few bucks. Why
wrestle the 100 pound gorilla if you don't have to?  

Mark S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of David Staten
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 6:20 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Flywheel nut

Thats all nice and dandy.. but I seriously doubt these guys make a 54 mm

socket..

For the original poster, I bought mine from a tool truck as he was
making the rounds to the garages where he sold to mechanics. Not cheap,
and its not used a lot.. but it gets the job done. You may find what you

are looking for in a surplus yard too, or even in a comprehensive auto
parts store.

Dave

Donald Willard Garrett wrote:

> 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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