Awesome idea! My old Craftsman tool set came with an extension that short and it gets used often!!
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Coolsville. Always look forward to your videos. Always lots of reasonable, practical advice and ideas.
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This is why I subscribe to your channel, because of the awesome stuff you come up with! Thanks for the videos!!
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I have a 1” extension, and I use it often as well. I also have shallow, mid length, and deep sockets, which gives me many slightly different lengths for those tricky spots.
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I used to work with a guy that had 20 or 30 ft of random pieces of 1/4" to 1/2" tool steel bar stock and he would make his own custom extensions by welding a dollar store socket to one end and welding a square drive on he had a 3/4inch that was 10ft!! He would heat treat them with a cutting torch and dip them in a used oil tank he had.
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Lots of people make those extensions mac tools has one for sure the XE1.
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For this situation I'd just use 1 size up ratchet with a reducer.
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Great idea for old worn sockets, funny I never thought of that cause I have had to make several tools myself, like a double female extension for taking off those Square bolts in the oil pan of lawnmower. And different fittings to get at hard to reach grease nipples, guess we all have to make special tools for certain jobs, you are good at that. Well, gotta go dig out some old 12point socks, thanks 😀
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That’s awesome I use to have an old craftsman short 3/8 extension. I miss it!
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Oh wow Moe. Shoulda hit me up! I've got 3 or 4 of them lol. But, now you're rocking one of your very own creations! Bravo my Friend! Cheers! Zip~
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I use to do the same thing to long 1/2in female to 3/8 in male for transmission removal 30 yrs ago. Id make them 3 to 4 ft long, but now you can buy them. Great thing bout welders and all. You can make what you need. Great job. Looks like it useful.
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I dont know about now but snap on use to make them. I have one in a old set.
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New Brittan / NAPA Tools have one with plastic around circumference for finger turning .
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I think Tekton has a suggestion box for tool ideas they can make in their USA foundry. How about a stubby wobble extension. :-)
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Weird, I have a 3/8” x 1.0” long extension in my tool box! I’ll check it out and see if it has a brand name; I don’t even know where it came from. 🤔🤔
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Snap-on makes a 1” 3/8 extension I own two of them. Nice workaround
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I have one its old mid 60's era made by indestro, found out in the old Hamilton oilfields. I like yours way better
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I will have to look through my drawers. Don't know what year he bought it, but I am almost certain my father's expansive socket collection included either a Craftsman or SK extension of that flavor...I think I at first mistook it for an adapter, like a 3/8"-to-1/2". (It probably would have been a '70s- or '80s-era item that you can't find nowadays.)
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I might be missing something but what exactly is a use case for this where no extension or a deep socket wouldn’t work?
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I like it! On the same note, a short-handled slide-bar type breaker bar version would be a nice addition to fabricate, come to think of it!
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sixtyfiveford
I've been needing a 3/8" by 1" long extension for years, but no one makes one. 1-1/2" is the shortest you can buy, but with that and a regular socket it's the same as a deep socket length. Cut up an old extension and socket and welded up my own. I used it today and it is great as it just barely spaces the socket off the work surface without having the wobble you get with a long extension. Also great for front engine cars when reaching around pulleys but have limited space behind the ratchet.
A lot of companies sell what they call 1" extensions but they all measure 1-1/2" total length. It's strange because all other extensions: 3", 6", etc are measured total length where this one odd ball is measure how much protrudes after it's inserted into a socket. The Middle one in my hand is a so call "1 inch" extension next to a 3" on the right.
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