17 mm allan key for $8.80!

type82e Wolfsburg Wizard

591 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 30 Jul 2003, 11:04 am

#69794

I was at my local discount tool place today and they had a box there of 17 mm allan keys (for undoing oil plugs and its pivot bolts) not a common tool I thought as someone earlier said they had trouble finding one. I had made one myself out of a 17 mm bolt and a piece of steel but for $8.80 I'll get the real mckoy.
Is this cheap or is that the normal price?
marcel

Brad Wolfsburg Elder

3,764 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 30 Jul 2003, 11:36 am

#69802

Depends what brand they are.

Brad
Why copy when you can own an original ?
Meyers Manx Australia

sikdub Wolfsburg Wizard

571 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 30 Jul 2003, 11:11 pm

#69961

Got mine through autopro and had to order it in, cost me $14. So $8.80 sounds pretty good to me. :thumb
Steven

type82e Wolfsburg Wizard

591 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 31 Jul 2003, 7:30 am

#70023

that's what I thought you'd have to put a fair bit of force to break it or bugger the face on it so I didnt think that i'd need a sidchrome one
marcel

Brad Wolfsburg Elder

3,764 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 31 Jul 2003, 9:00 am

#70043

If you buy crap you get crap. With your 17mm allen key I do not think it will brake. I do think the corners will round and the shaft will bend though. Some of those bolts are bloody tight.
Tell you what, buy one and try removing some pivot box bolts.

Brad
Why copy when you can own an original ?
Meyers Manx Australia

type82e Wolfsburg Wizard

591 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 31 Jul 2003, 8:06 pm

#70164

I did buy one and undid the pivot bolts on my superbug rear cut.
they didnt seem real tight so maybe it wasnt a real good test of it but for undoing oil plugs and the like and the ocassional pivot bolt it seems alright
marcel