| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] truss rod wrench | | Date: | Saturday, February 9, 2008 14:17:26 (-0800) | | From: | Richard DeNeve <richard_d13132 @.....com>
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Cam,
You can probably make a tool to do this for a couple
of bucks.
Go to a "dollar store" and look for a cheap screw
driver set with interchangeable tips. You are looking
for two "qualities." One, a thin wall around the hex
opening, so it will clear the wood channel, and two,
"Made in China" somewhere on the package. If the
Chinese know how to alloy and temper metal, they don't
send any of it here. The hex hole for the bits is
almost almost certain to be 1/4 inch, but check it if
you can.
Take the screw driver home, clamp it in a vise, and
drill two holes at about 90 degrees apart, all the way
through it about half an inch from the end. Use a
drill large enough to allow a small nail to pass
thruogh the hole. Then take a hack saw and saw off
the tip of the screw driver, about 1/8 inch behind the
holes you made. (If you get a screw driver set made
in the USA, you'll never be able to drill or saw it.)
This should give you a small thin walled socket, with
a nail for a handle that you can with withdraw and
re-insert into the spaced holes so you don't have to
remove and replace the socket for each 1/6 of a turn.
Richie was right - greatly loosen the strings if you
are going to turn that nut. And don't go overboard.
The nail should minimize your leverage so you don't
pop the end of the truss rod off. (Not a good thing.)
Good luck.
Dick DeNeve
--- Cam MacInnes <cam.macinnes@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not sure if this has ever been posted before,
> but I have a dobro that
> has a 1/4" hex nut in a deep cavity which is hard to
> access with a small
> double head wrench. Does anyone know of a tool that
> can do the job. I
> looked on Stewart MacDonald and they only have the
> kind of wrenches that fit
> a Gibson type opening. Thanks for any help.
> Cheers,
> Cam
>
>
>
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