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Title: Wrenching: a trick for holding on to a loose bolt or nut
Post by: tokalosh on February 10, 2010, 10:03:32 PM

I use a small rare-earth magnet, slipped under a glove. Then it's just a question of positioning it until you get the thread started...

Hope this helps!

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Post by: Mustang on February 10, 2010, 10:09:22 PM

:hello2

most excellent Idea !

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Post by: Sasquatch on February 10, 2010, 10:56:49 PM

Freaking brilliant.

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Post by: aeronca on February 10, 2010, 11:01:53 PM

very cool 8)

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Post by: John Stenhouse on February 10, 2010, 11:07:29 PM

How brilliant

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Post by: Colonel Nikolai on February 11, 2010, 12:40:27 AM

Simplicity begets genius.

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Post by: HappyMan on February 11, 2010, 02:33:42 AM

NICE! 8)

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Post by: jphish on February 11, 2010, 02:54:12 AM

GREAT idea! Thats a good tip - now I gotta find that magnet I threw away.

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Post by: Sin_Tiger on February 11, 2010, 04:21:23 AM

+1 a good deal cheaper than the commercial variant. (http://www.magneticfinger.com/resources/turnprobrochure.pdf)

The only problem comes when you are using stainless nuts, trust me to be a fly in the ointment :roll: but someone has thought of that (http://www.hexhold.com/shop.php).

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Post by: JetdocX on February 11, 2010, 05:38:39 AM

Cheaper trick: Superglue the nut to your finger.

It's way cheaper than magnets, or gloves and the skin grows back. :lol:

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Post by: Mustang on February 11, 2010, 05:56:20 AM

Quote from: "JetdocX"Cheaper trick: Superglue the nut to your finger.

It's way cheaper than magnets, or gloves and the skin grows back. :lol:

i've used a dab of grease too to hold a nut to my finger while reaching into the abyss of some machines at work 8)

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Post by: Sin_Tiger on February 11, 2010, 07:20:01 AM

And JetdocX has used a dab of superglue to hold the nut, tightened it up, dropped the socket which rolled to the other side of the garage, discovered he can't get his arm out of there and had to chew his arm off :ImaPoser

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Post by: ArcticTiger on February 11, 2010, 10:42:15 AM

Smart mech trick for sure :D.
But I dont need it, cause i have got "sticky fingers". Everything that comes in my hands, stays there :shock: (just kidding :D )

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Post by: aeronca on February 11, 2010, 05:51:44 PM

Quote from: JetdocXCheaper trick: Superglue the nut to your finger.

It's way cheaper than magnets, or gloves and the skin grows back. :lol:

old aviation trick :lol:

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Post by: tokalosh on February 11, 2010, 06:05:37 PM

all this talk of gluing your nuts to your finger.....I'm glad we're still talking about Tigers! :lol:

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Post by: ArcticTiger on February 11, 2010, 06:38:15 PM

Quote from: "tokalosh"all this talk of gluing your nuts to your finger.....I'm glad we're still talking about Tigers! :lol:

It seems like the winter have been too long, too cold, too snowy and too hard to many of us, seems like we are now overdue to do some riding..... :D

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Post by: John Stenhouse on February 11, 2010, 11:49:07 PM

Quote from: "ArcticTiger"It seems like the winter have been too long, too cold, too snowy and too hard to many of us, seems like we are now overdue to do some riding..... :D

Amen brother, amen :lol:

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Post by: EvilBetty on February 12, 2010, 01:15:24 AM

http://www.instructables.com/id/Magneti ... ip-Gloves/ (http://www.instructables.com/id/Magnetic-Fingertip-Gloves/)

TigerTriple.com

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