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Cwidova wrote:total tools has those sorta sockets

+1
I got mine there (aka Alltools)

Six Addict wrote:thanks guys, i need 2, different diameters, i'll try bunnings, thanks russ

You should only need one. Dave shared a little tip with me to avoid needing the bigger socket. Just leave the two pinch bolts at the end of the fork on the side needing the larger diameter done up, while you undo the pinch bolts and use the 17mm hex socket on the other side to undo your axle. Once the axle is loose, loosen the last two pinch bolts and completely undo and remove the axle.

True Rob, but by having both it does not matter what side you start from

Nelso wrote:

Six Addict wrote:thanks guys, i need 2, different diameters, i'll try bunnings, thanks russ

You should only need one. Dave shared a little tip with me to avoid needing the bigger socket. Just leave the two pinch bolts at the end of the fork on the side needing the larger diameter done up, while you undo the pinch bolts and use the 17mm hex socket on the other side to undo your axle. Once the axle is loose, loosen the last two pinch bolts and completely undo and remove the axle.

This is what I did with the Crim, but it's only got the stupid hex thingo on one end and the other is a normal hex head so it was easy.

Six Addict wrote: might try and get to a total tool sometime...

Yep , Stace will have one .

sweet, i'll be seeing him in 2 weeks

If you are doing a search online you might use the U.S. name for this type of head, it's called an allan wrench. As to why I don't know, hex head makes more sense, but I'm finding that nothing in the U.S. makes much sense, except the Jim Beam is good.

I'm sure i got mine from Autobarn. Only needed one for the front axle.

oldman wrote:If you are doing a search online you might use the U.S. name for this type of head, it's called an allan wrench. As to why I don't know, hex head makes more sense, but I'm finding that nothing in the U.S. makes much sense, except the Jim Beam is good.

its coz the Septics called them...Allen bolts so you need an Allen wrench
They picked up this name during WW2 when the Allen Mfg Co in the US made these (for use in building planes and tanks!)

I know them as Unbrakos...coz thats what the old mechanic I worked for in my youth called them.
Some call them zeta wrenches (coz zeta is the 6th letter in the greek alphabet and we are dealing with 6 sided objects! )

but I have got used to the common hex wrench or hex bolt..coz thats what they are!


cheers