Gotta Love Ignorant People Who Don’t Know What They Are Talking About

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I have covered this subject before but the idiots hating on this guy don’t know what the fuck they are talking about and he proves it.

This is my personal favorite that is out in one of my tool boxes,

It is one handy little sumbitch to have.

34 thoughts on “Gotta Love Ignorant People Who Don’t Know What They Are Talking About”

  1. JFC…. people need to calm the fuck down. What do you think tool & die people do all day? What do you suppose their primary function is?

    Amazing.

    • Tool and die guys are just slow machinists.
      I take the term as an insult myself.
      47 year machinist.
      As for that adjustable crowfoot, if you grind carefully the knurl on the thumb screw, you can increase the travel.
      Long ago I turned my 6″ model to open to 7/8″

      daddy-o

  2. After a lifetime of drag racing, tractor repair and maintenance and general all around fixing unfixable things, I have had too many modified and made to fit, bent with heat and ground off wrenches to count. And without them, the jobs would not have got done. Too many people with too little to do and those who don’t have the talent and desire to do it.

  3. Nice job, Phil, I bet that is a handy little thing. They make something like Phil’s contraption called a crowfoot but usually they come in sets of different sizes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a factory crowfoot that was adjustable or that had an extension built into it, but I like it.

    • I suppose that aircraft radial engine looked something like the u-shaped 9/16ths wrench used to loosen/tighten the distributor hold-down bracket bolt on small- and big-block Chevys.

      The whiners need to lighten up; it’s one-of-a-million Chinesium wrench, not the last splinter of The True Cross.

    • Thanks much, Al! I’ve always wondered about correct torque on AR barrel wrenches. As I’m a calibration tech by trade, I’m a bit of autist about things like that.

  6. At Goose’s shop, we modded several wrenches exactly that way so as to be able to get at two of the rear-cylinder head bolts on old Shovelhead motors. That was right up until the day I discovered that a standard Ford exhaust-manifold wrench–which I had out in the toolbox I kept in the trunk of my 56 Fairlane–would reach up in there and do the job perfectly. From that day forward the trusty manifold wrench lived not in the trunk of my car, but in my shop rollaway chest.

  7. I’ve got 5 or 6 modified Craftsman wrenches in my tool box. A bent one for getting at certain starter bolts, several ground-down and/or bent 3/8″ wrenches for getting at header bolts, a cut-down “stubby” I needed for something on a ferrin car, and a couple of more that I don’t remember why I made them.

    Only PUSSIES whine about modding a $2 wrench!

  8. Heh. If you haven’t modified a wrench (or other tool!) then you ain’t trying.
    DON’T call yourself a mechanic, that’s for sure!

  9. I used to have a bunch of tools I’ve modified to suit the need.
    I hope the badtard that stole them all is still bleeding from his knuckles….

  10. I can see someone being averse to modifying tools, but then they are either so moneyed that they can buy the tool for the job or fantasists who don’t do the job anyway. There’s a chronology aspect, too. In the good old days – remember them, neither do I – vehicles were made with repair and servicing in mind. Modern machinery is made to be thrown together by minimally trained staff on a production track: servicing is waaaay down the designers’ list. Look at filters: even when the engine’s drained oil pisses all over the place when you remove the filter from its stupidly inappropriate position while you need to be a 12″ tall brain surgeon to find, let alone change pollen filters.

  11. I always called my ground down/chopped wrenches my “low profile” set.

    That adjustable crow’s foot looks handy as hell.

  12. I have never had the knack but have puttered with tools enough to know that Snap On drivers used to keep thier eyes open for inovative wrenchs designed and built by mechanics. They took the idea back to snap on who then built the wrenches and sold them. Drivers got a spiff from the company.

  13. Everyday occurrence. Bleeding the injectors on the old Mercedes diesels requires a 14 MM but no straight wrench will fit. Solution? Heat up a long 14 MM open end and put two 2 inch bends at 90 degrees making it look like a step, fits and works like a charm. Still keep it even though I no longer have the vehicles, one never knows when it will come in handy. Same goes for rear VW Passat shocks lower bolt, to remove same without disassembling the A arm (per manual instructions) can be done by grinding a standard open end down thin to where it fits in the space to hold the bolt. Saves hours of labor.

    • “Still keep it even though I no longer have the vehicles, one never knows when it will come in handy.”

      Annnnd BINGO, T! The idiot isn’t the guy who goes to the time and trouble of modding the wrench/driver/whatever, but the guy who mods it and then…throws it away. You needed it once already, so what on Earth makes you so damned sure you’ll never need it again, fool?

    • I still have the 1/2″ box-end I bent like that to reach the hold-down bolt for the distributor on my’59 Ford. Yes, I know distributor wrenches are as common as pigeons, but I was 17. I had the extra 1/2″ wrench. I DID NOT have enough cash for a distributor wrench!

      …Poverty is a cruel but brilliant teacher!

  14. the interwebs has created (or just exposed?) a class of perpetual malcontents that thrive on trolling with bullshit for bait, ignorant motherfuckers that feel knowledgeable when seated at their keyboard & googel machine

    if youve never taken a wrench to a bench grinder, you have lived a sheltered, spoiled little life

  15. You’re taking some serious risks by encouraging people to THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX.
    People have been taught that whenever they have any small problem, to ask their government to solve it for them.

  16. I’m with you 100% on the adjustable crows foot. I bought a set of those back in the day for something – a fuel pump or exhaust manifold bolt, can’t remember. But those sunsabitches are in my way every time I’m looking for a socket.

    The other thing I’ve had to do when I’ve needed it is to grind the sides of the wrench. Some of the wrenches I have are way to thick, especially when you barely have the width of the nut.

    • Just take your tool for a ride in you car and drag it on yhe asphalt, works just like a grinder.

  18. There’s been no end to the tools I’ve modified over the years, either to fit where a normal wrench or screwdriver wouldn’t, or because I either lacked the money, time, or access to buy the proper tool. Most of those tools are still in my roll-around and are STILL USED for what I modified them for! In my mind, this is EXACTLY why Harbor Freight exists; cheap-but-serviceable tools that will save your good ones when it’s time to bend, pry, and gauge by eye! One can only imagine how many high end tools were influenced by someone’s modified cheapos.

    Whoever the whiners are, they either have too much money or not enough ACTUAL LIFE EXPERIENCE to see why sometimes modifying a tool is the only way the job’s going to get done.

  20. I have a drawer in my tool chest dedicated to modified tools. There are open end wrenches that have been heated and bent and/or part of the jaw ground off, stubby allen wrenches that were ground down, a neon red and yellow speedwrench with a 10mm socket tack welded to it, custom punches, screwdrivers, and a couple of specialty tools made from bar stock. Almost all the modified tools I got on the cheap at a pawnshop.

  21. My weirdest tool hack was making a 6″ (across the faces) nut socket). A the refinery we had Furnace Tube U-bolt hangers needed a thin wall deep socket type tool.
    Cut the 6 point shape out of 1/4″ plate for the 6″ nut, Welded that to 4″ pipe, schedule 20, 20″ long with a 3/4″ square hole in a plate welded in the back for the impact wrench.
    When I got into reloading I had to make all kinds of tools to make things work.

  22. We need some clarity here. Torque = Force X Distance. If you lengthen the distance as our boy does here you can over-tighten the nut. Extensions on torque wrench sockets can induce up to 35% error on manual torque wrenches. The fact is that most mechanics – some of them lifers – don’t know how to properly use a torque wrench. It’s not bad because for the manually tightened stuff, the modulus of elasticity of the fastener is so broad that they can get away with sloppy technique – for the most part, as this kid does.

    When you get into the big hydraulics and pneumatic torque wrenches… then technique is critical. This kid thinks that his torque wrench is just a dumb tool like he is. You can drop a torque wrench in the shop and it becomes useless. They have to go back to the lab to be recalibrated – IF you’re a professional on a critical application that requires any precision and quality work.

    A good 750 ft lb. torque wrench is going to cost you around $600.00 minimum. It will be a precision instrument that you need to store in its case.

    • So, if I push on the middle of my torque wrench versus the very end that throws off the torque applied? How does my wrench know where I’m holding the handle?

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