Socket For Belt Tensioner Pulleys

Open end spanner!

 

Try laser tools, they do Ducati tools.

 

2 nuts

 

When was your torque wrench last calibrated?

 

well , there's always the option this strange gizmo ....
.... it claims to let you put a torque wrench on more-or-less any spanner :-

 

Crow foot adaptor and an afternoon reading the thread on here about how or how not to use it.

 

Make one.

Here is one I made for the other type of silly nuts......

 

Can you do a drawing for what you need?

 

Surely coming away from the centre of the nut/bolt to be torqued would be a false reading ie over torquing ?

 

No.....just an old socket, a hacksaw and a file.

All you need is the other type of socket with six flats that has the correct dimension across two flats......Cut out the four flats that aren't needed.

Much easier to make than my one........because you could use a grinder.

 

And we're off.

 

do you want your nuts over-torqued ?

 

OK to use if you convert before setting the torque wrench, for stability only use decent spanners and the shortest offset, its all about moments https://www.engineersedge.com/manufacturing_spec/torque_wrench_1.htm

 

Nice job Al, I’ve made several similar items over the years, they’ve all worked well but looked wanky, yours is a work of art!

 

Sod how it looks ..... if it gets the job done it's a win-win-win situation .

1] You've paid yourself the cost of the tool
2] You don't have to wait for it to arrive to get on with the job
3] The sheer satisfaction of " knocking it up in yer shed "

I keep saying I'll start a thread on home-made Ducati tools .
Looking at the weather , this weekend might get me motivated ....

PS - Yes , very neat work from Al !

 

Well if you do OT please include my superb fork spring compressor