DIY auto box rear band adjuster socket

[corazon]

Thought I'd share what I made today for anyone who doesn't have the specialist BW tool.
The adjuster is a 5/16" male square nut.
This had proved very difficult to find something to fit.
I thought I ordered the correct socket, a (now rare) 8 point 5/16" socket..this however slips and is useless
The only place I can find a square socket is the US and the postage and time put me off (vintage snap on sockets listed as pipe plug sockets)

SO...
After a few ideas I noticed an old door handle in the workshop with the square section rod sticking out
What do you know? 5/16"

A little hacksawing later and after finding an old 15mm twelve point socket which was the perfect tight interference fit, I carefully knocked the piece into the socket.
The result

Yes it's brass and it may not last forever but it has done the trick for me :wink:
Jim

 

[harveyp6]

Does the job and even looks nice. Would have been a lot better if you had polished up the brass though......

 

[corazon]

My standards are slipping

 

[SydneyRoverP6B]

A fine piece of ingenuity there Jim,...

Ron.

 

[hairyrover]

There's something uniquely satisfying about making a tool to do a specific job.I confess to hoarding all sorts of odds and ends on the grounds that 'it will come in handy one day'.
The other day after struggling to refit the chrome surround in the windscreen rubber of my mk1 transit I made a tool out of a whisk.It did the job and so far the missus hasn't noticed its missing.

 

[DaveHerns]

I've got a box under my bench where I throw odd bits and pieces hoping they will come in handy one day

 

[JVY]

I made a tool out of a whisk.It did the job and so far the missus hasn't noticed its missing.

Maybe your Missus has been nicking the tools out your garage - like a spanner to whisk the eggs because she can't seem to find the whisk. Watch out for oily omelletes!

 

[testrider]

We have a 15mm ring spanner at work which is ideally suited to fishing teabags out of a mug