Will this sandpaper work?
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| Posted: Jul 24, 2007 5:52 a.m. - Subject: Will this sandpaper work? |
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Aye will this sand paper, file down this allan key, to make it a tension wrench?
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| Posted: Jul 24, 2007 5:56 a.m. - Subject: |
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How much do you want to file it down?
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| Posted: Jul 24, 2007 6:07 a.m. - Subject: |
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You’ll be wasting your time. Use a grinding wheel, and keep coolant on it. That will not only make the HARDENED STEEL (not spring steel that tension wrenches are made out of) VERY brittle, and will gouge it. Plus, because it’s such a high grit, doing that by hand will take a long time, it’ll keep pulling it out of your hand.
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| Posted: Jul 24, 2007 6:10 a.m. - Subject: |
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Im only using this because I have no grinder or files. I think it’s filing it down, and it will work. I taped it to a nail filer for easyness. I think it might work..but itll take a while.
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| Posted: Jul 24, 2007 6:18 a.m. - Subject: |
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Either way, you’re putting torsional bias on something that (indeed was initially made for it) doesn’t have the capability of torsional torque once it’s been filed down enough to fit into a key hole.
I recommend that you get some steel (non hardened) and torch it up, bend it over and then use that end (granted it’s thin enough).
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| Posted: Jul 24, 2007 6:35 a.m. - Subject: |
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NO!!! Your Allan key should be hard steel. You are going to be doing a lot of sanding to turn it into a tension tool.
Look at windshield wiper blades. Some may have a steel backing that is excellent for making tension tools. Just heat, bent and cool.
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| Posted: Jul 24, 2007 6:54 a.m. - Subject: |
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^Retard. I just posted the same thing, minus your contradiction of yourself.
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| Posted: Jul 24, 2007 7:07 a.m. - Subject: |
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why would you make a thread asking if sandpaper that you have will work? why couldn’t you just try it?
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| Posted: Jul 24, 2007 7:14 a.m. - Subject: |
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I was trying it. I knew it would take a while I’de rather know if it worked, then try it forever and it not.
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