"John W. Reames III" wrote: > > Depot has a 1/2 drive ratchet with a LONG handle (its close to 20" > overall). I picked up a set of tiawanese or chinese 1/2 drive hex bits > (stamped Cr-Va), and a 4 foot length of pipe that fit over the ratchet. > Slow steady pressure works quite well.
I would rather slip a cheater over a good breaker bar than a cheap ratchet. I sold my 36" Snap-On breaker for a pittance when I went to grad school, don't want to pay hundreds to replace it. I made a 1/2" drive 50" breaker bar out of a 4' piece of 1" galvanized steel pipe, a chunk of 3/4" square bar stock, and a 3/4" to 1/2" drive impact wrench reducer. The square stock is about 17/16" on the diagonal, I ground the corners off it at one end and drove it into the pipe for a tight fit, the pipe got slightly square to fit. I rounded the other end of the square bar so it would rotate inside the adapter, and used 1/4" grade 8 bolts for the pivot and to bolt the bar stock to the pipe. It's held up quite nicely over the years, sometimes under enough stress to flex the 3/4" bar stock. Pic attached. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: breaker.jpg Type: image/jpg Size: 53935 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://striplin.net/pipermail/mercedes_striplin.net/attachments/20060312/cc5f2e48/breaker.jpg
