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Southern Ray

Southern Ray

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Does anyone still use theirs?
I guess air ratchets and battery powered nut drivers pretty much rendered these things obsolete.
I bought this one back in 1970 when I was doing maintenance work in a citrus packing shed.
Used it for three more years when I changed jobs.
Used it ten years ago when I let down the oil pan on my Farmall M.
Hadn't used it since.
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Had a Craftsman just like yours for a very long time. It just was taking up space in my tool box so I gave it to someone 17 yrs ago. Never missed it.
 

I still use mine, hard to beat for oil pans, tappet covers and other stuff with sheet metal & cork gaskets
 
Got two of them out in my shop. They haven't been touched in years since this other stuff, got these in garage and four or five more out in another tool box.
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I don't use it very often, but when I have a lot of small bolts I want to run down and do it evenly over 2 or 3 circles I prefer that to my power tools. guess I am old fashioned, or just old.
 
I have one that came in a set of Craftsman tools that my dad bought in 1940, I haven't used it for awhile now! I have a friend that was a crew chief in the air force during Vietnam, he said he used one a lot for pulling inspection covers.
 
Hello southern Ray,

No never use it! You Have the Deluxe model!. Mine has no swivel hand holds.

Guido.
 
That is one of my favourite tools. I have several around, and quite often use one to drive decking screws. Guess I'm still stuck in the twentieth century. unc
 
I use them quite regularly on aircraft fuel cells and engines so no static electricity is produced. These are the newer style by snap-on that have ratcheting heads.
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OIL yours up before you put it back in the box.

I still use mine on fastners that need torqueing. Like head bolts and oil sump bolts on small engines.
 
OIL yours up before you put it back in the box.

I still use mine on fasteners that need torqueing. Like head bolts and oil sump bolts on small engines.
 
I still use the same TOOL to remove the FUEL NOZZEL BOLTS from the J-79 (Converted to LM1500) now fired on Natural Gas...


Bob...
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I haven't used one in a long time. My Grandpa had his own mechanic shop. He had all the air tools but he used his all the time. He could spin that thing around one handed like nobody's business.
 
So you use Propane rather than JP-4 as a fuel? How hard was the conversion? What about the FOD (Foreign Object Damage) potential on the inlet side? How much maintenance does the engine require. What about the exhaust, how do you deal with that. What is it's function?

Not hijacking the thread. Funny you should ask about the handle. I have a &#8540;" and have a shop full of special function tools but I used mine just a couple of days ago, first time in years. I wanted faster insertion than a ratchet, didn't need all that much torque, and wanted a soft stop when the fastener bottomed out. Was just the thing.
 
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