Toolmaker's challenge

[ltlvt]

I've done it. Yep I have made the worlds thinnest 1/4 x 20 tpi hex nut. Now I am challenging anyone to make the worlds thinnest wrench to fit the hex nut. The winner will receive 1, yes ONE New Un-used Toolmaker Atta-Boy. ( Its only right for me to mention this nut was made with a lathe that is 84 years old. )

 

[WobblyHand]

Was it on purpose? Or just to see if you could? Either way, very nice.

 

[MrWhoopee]

I think I have a stamped Chinese made wrench that is nearly that thin.

 

[ltlvt]

I think I have a stamped Chinese made wrench that is nearly that thin.

I knew it.. I've seen a few of those myself. lmao

 

[ltlvt]

Was it on purpose? Or just to see if you could? Either way, very nice.

Naw it was part of another job that I am working on. But thanks for the kind words.

 

[Alexander McGilton]

The machinery's hand book has a few pages on wrench clearance. How to design your assembly to have enough room for the head of a wrench to swing. If you want to make your assembly as accessible to servicing as possible for common tools. You may well follow these recommendations. Or not, often assemblies ment to only be serviced be dedicated technician, will have places where only proprietary tools will fit. It seams to be the way of doing things these days, so it must be more profitable. That and there is survival bias. Only the old things that tend to be serviceable, last long enough in my work environment to have an inventory sticker form decades ago.