Borrowed a cool tool today

[nvrenuf]

Thru my own carelessness I broke a tap off in the balancer on my motor. I was dreading getting it out until a friend offered this extractor. I don't know who makes it yet but I'm going to find out. The tool has "fangs" that insert into the voids of the tap and then you use a wrench to simply unscrew it. Pretty cool, I had never seen these before.

 

[Chaddy]

Thats pretty awesome!

 

[chevyuser74]

id like to know what its called thanks.

 

[throttleissues]

Neat tool.........for people who don't know how to use a tap.

 

[4X4HIGH]

I have a bunch of those at work. They won't work if the tap broke because you were cutting threads and it bound up and broke, all it will do is twist the "fingers" off of the tool.

 

[RudyO]

After buying and using a few extractors (which I usually manage to break into the break)...

Why do I always resort back to a ball peen hammer, a precisely calibrated screwdriver, and either patience or anger?

 

[Big Ray]

links

used em for years also, kinda handy. sometimes.....

 

[boz42]

Never seen that either. Always use a prick punch & ball peen. I could see that tool being easy to break.

 

[Avery4jc]

I've seen those at the shops we buy our tooling from for the shop but haven't ever tried one. Looks like it'd work pretty well though, especially if you have a bunch of time into a part it'd be worth a shot.

 

[rdn2blazer]

I have a bunch of those at work. They won't work if the tap broke because you were cutting threads and it bound up and broke, all it will do is twist the "fingers" off of the tool.

What he said. Old machinist tool is what that is.

 

[dremu]

Why do I always resort back to a ball peen hammer, a precisely calibrated screwdriver, and either patience or anger?

You know, I think we should have a thread about calibrating screwdrivers

-- A

 

[4X4HIGH]

You know, I think we should have a thread about calibrating screwdrivers

-- A

How about ball peen hammers.

 

[dremu]

How about ball peen hammers.

They do not require calibration.

-- A

 

[4X4HIGH]

They do not require calibration.

-- A

It will after i hit you in the head with it for not owning one when i needed it to work on your stuff. Greg, you're guilty of this as well buddy.

 

[boz42]

It will after i hit you in the head with it for not owning one when i needed it to work on your stuff. Greg, you're guilty of this as well buddy.

Ouch!

 

[dremu]

Ouch!

Scott has this fixation on ballpeens ... which is only about half as wrong as it sounds

-- A

 

[dhcomp]

It will after i hit you in the head with it for not owning one when i needed it to work on your stuff. Greg, you're guilty of this as well buddy.

I think your stern comments about people using claw hammers was what forced me to spend the $6 at Harbor Freight on a ball pein......

Gotta love internet peer pressure

Where would any of our rigs be without it?

 

[4X4HIGH]

I think your stern comments about people using claw hammers was what forced me to spend the $6 at Harbor Freight on a ball pein......

Gotta love internet peer pressure

Where would any of our rigs be without it?

Not sure, but i can tell you for 100% certain that claw hammers are for wood construction not steel manipulation.

 

[dremu]

Not sure, but i can tell you for 100% certain that claw hammers are for wood construction not steel manipulation.

Now, see, you're goin' off half cocked there. There ARE claw hammers with a flat hammering surface just like a ballpeen. I even have one.

OTOH, your average claw hammer is a framing hammer with that damn crosshatch pattern on the head, which is, as you mention, no bloody good for metalwork.

And can seriously fsck up drywall to boot

-- A