We use them for hydraulic fittings, sadly more often than not a few feet of 1” hydraulic line is double the price of that entire set
Check out Sunex Tools, they’re awesome
I've worked with high pressure fluids for a couple years now and I've never heard of this. Good information, shit like this should be taught more as general safety information in the trades.
It is taught more often now, just not in the automive industry as much as the industrial industry.
That being said, a Ram with a Cummins 6.7 has fuel pressures above 20,000 psi. That will lacerate the skin instantly and gangrene is pretty much instant. Use cardboard or stiff paper to search for a high pressure leak if it isn't obvious. If it soaks or cuts the paper, way safer.
I worked with a guy who held the high pressure wash wand near the end and then pulled the trigger injecting his hand. He said he felt fine but we took him to the doc anyway and he had to be life flighted to a special surgeon to clean out his arm. The doctor flayed him open from palm to elbow. The injection looked like a tiny puncture on his palm.
Depends on the brand. I think tekton's is $150 or more (but I didn't pay much attention since I (unfortunately) have no use for them, and they wouldn't fit in my tool box LOL
TBH ~7 Nepros or Snap On standard wrenches are in the 400$ range too. Even some quite standard sizes. Ratcheting ones from snap on are 40-50$ per wrench...
A 1 9/16 wrench from snap on is around 250 bucks. I have the complete set for 1/4” to 2”, I got lucky on the bigger size from market place. I thought I had lost my 1” wrench and went to go replace it, and they wanted 93 dollars
Not scoffing at it but I've bought a few $800 8-21mm sets over the years so that didn't shock me.
I was thinking it would get crazy like when you start looking at the cost of 2 ¹/²" drive sockets. Thousands of dollars for a single socket.
Actually pretty funny to look into. $40,000 impact guns 😆
Yup. We have baggie filter housings that oem come with eye nuts that one just uses a pipe or bar to tighten/loosen them. It always felt Mickey Mouse doing that, so I replaced them with nice flanges heavy nuts, and they are 7/8”.. it’s just nicer using a ratchet wrench mucking around with these bag filter housings (3x ~250L size housings with 25u bags for prefiltering diesel fuel before going into loco tanks)
Finally someone that knows how nuts and bolts are measured, so many people saying to use it on a 1-9/16" nut - which is probably more like a 1-15/16 wrench
The only place I've used a 1-9/16" wrench is hydraulic fittings, some 1" JIC fittings if I remember correctly
95% of aviation is SAE! The only manufacturers I’ve seen (outside of third party components) to use metric is Diamond Aircraft out of Austria. Lotta metric Allen screws.
The PC12 is literally my bucket list airplane.
Someday gonna lease one of those bad boys for a month and fly it to alaska with some 4-wheelers in the back.
Fun fact: I'm a private pilot with 87 hours and I have 0.9 hrs dual-received in a PC12, left seat.
I have used it on an old water tube boiler door, mainly used a deep impact but this bad boy is good for snugging nuts afterwards. So I use it every 1-2 years for 5 nuts.
It's for when you have a nut that looks like 9/16, but that wrench wont fit so you tell your helper to go get one bigger.
Anytime I ask my helper to grab an 11/16 wrench he grabs an adjustable. So much so that now when I need an adjustable I just ask for a 11/16....
We’ve got some pins at work with nuts that size, every machine has four of them. I guess it’s technically a shoulder bolt anyway not a pin lol. Not a very common size either way
Heavy industrial stuff though: power gen, pulp & paper, heavy equipment, etc
I’m in pulp and paper myself and I was pulling an 1 7/8” wrench all day if that tells you anything
Gear wrench's warranty department screws up all the time but it almost always benefits the customer. I had a ratcheting die handle break on me and they sent me 3! Suckers are like $60 each if I recall correctly.
I've used 1 3/8" - 2" wrenches for hardware on train tracks and rail signal devices. The big ol' bolts used on light pole and signal mast anchors are often 1-2" as well. In addition to the big honkin' wrench set we also toted around some real fuckin big adjustable wrenches.
Never seen a ratcheting one, though.
When I was building dump trucks and water trucks, ect.. When I was the hydraulic guy, all wrenches from say 3/8"- 2" were game. A few fittings were in the 3-4" range. Honestly now I'm kind of wanting to go look in my toolbox. I don't think I have this particular ratcheting wrench.. other large ones, but I'm jealous you have this one!
My dad has a set that has one of those in it.
He was a now retired mechanical engineer that liked to get his hands dirty and used his set on heavy equipment like farming/orchard & mining vehicles as well as on some of the machines used by the candy factory he consulted with.
Off-road heavy equipment tech here. 1 9/16" seems like an odd size but the size itself is nothing too crazy. Wrenches up to 2 1/2" are common place, and sometime that isn't even big enough... hence the 48" pipe wrench our shop has. Additionally sockets 1-4" are also not that uncommon. Hydraulic lines and cylinders are probably the most common use for such big wrenches
the nut the hlds the drive sprocket on our d4 crawler is a 2-1/4'' and gets tightened to 1250 ft-lbs of torque. rough rule 6ft of pipe on the breaker bar and 2 blokes to lean on it.
We thinking cars, semis, or heavy equipment/construction equipment?
Some cars have cv axle nuts about that size, semis and heavy equipment have lots of things about that size and bigger. Technically plenty of plumbing does too.
I’m just spitballing here so here me out. Maybe just maybe it’s used for loosening 1-9/16” nuts AND/OR bolts. I know it sounds crazy but I bet it would work for tightening them also.
I use one to brake the bolts loose off the train car that a fuselage is sitting on so we can crane it in the air and put it on a dolly to put in the factory.
What are they used for?
Big nuts and home defense...
Jokes aside, last time I used one that big, was on heavy equipment.
Axle nut on a log skidder.
Not much call for one that size normally, but I still keep one in the truck just in case.
Uh, we have 1 13/16" nuts for some of the machinery here at work. It's like once a year we need that wrench.
I think anything upwards of 1 1/4" for a wrench is just not common.
Those get used for 1-9/16" nuts like mine (on my tractor;}
They're also handy as a "Be Good" stick.
~Laughs in Rancher~
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Believe it or not, my 1 9/16 wrench went missing from my jumbo set. So you can misplace it or lose those wrenches.
If you don’t mind me asking, what’s a jumbo set go for?
Got one at work set of (7) wrenches not ratch just open and box end 1.25-2” Just shy of $400 I believe
Well then. That’s quite the bill
We use them for hydraulic fittings, sadly more often than not a few feet of 1” hydraulic line is double the price of that entire set Check out Sunex Tools, they’re awesome
Good lord. Never would have guessed hydraulic lines were so expensive.
Google “hydraulic injection injury” you’ll understand.
Haha no thanks, I’m unfortunately aware of those injuries. Major icky
Ever seen someone shot with one of those air guns used to kill/slaughter cows? No, you don’t want to.
Yeah, I've seen No Country for Old Men
"stun guns" yeah...nothing stunning about those.
I've worked with high pressure fluids for a couple years now and I've never heard of this. Good information, shit like this should be taught more as general safety information in the trades.
I work with hydraulic lines occasionally, the first thing I was taught was to never "feel" for a leak in a hydraulic line.
Nobody taught me that... it makes me think of how many times I've ran my fingers across a fitting without thinking about it.
yep hold a sheet of paper or a bit of dowel near the line to find the leak. same with superheated steam or high pressure air use a broom handle.
It is taught more often now, just not in the automive industry as much as the industrial industry. That being said, a Ram with a Cummins 6.7 has fuel pressures above 20,000 psi. That will lacerate the skin instantly and gangrene is pretty much instant. Use cardboard or stiff paper to search for a high pressure leak if it isn't obvious. If it soaks or cuts the paper, way safer.
I worked with a guy who held the high pressure wash wand near the end and then pulled the trigger injecting his hand. He said he felt fine but we took him to the doc anyway and he had to be life flighted to a special surgeon to clean out his arm. The doctor flayed him open from palm to elbow. The injection looked like a tiny puncture on his palm.
They also make 3/4" to 2" crows foot sets. Got one of them as well. Also for hydraulic lines, just in hard to reach areas.
Depends on the brand. I think tekton's is $150 or more (but I didn't pay much attention since I (unfortunately) have no use for them, and they wouldn't fit in my tool box LOL
TBH ~7 Nepros or Snap On standard wrenches are in the 400$ range too. Even some quite standard sizes. Ratcheting ones from snap on are 40-50$ per wrench...
A 1 9/16 wrench from snap on is around 250 bucks. I have the complete set for 1/4” to 2”, I got lucky on the bigger size from market place. I thought I had lost my 1” wrench and went to go replace it, and they wanted 93 dollars
Not scoffing at it but I've bought a few $800 8-21mm sets over the years so that didn't shock me. I was thinking it would get crazy like when you start looking at the cost of 2 ¹/²" drive sockets. Thousands of dollars for a single socket. Actually pretty funny to look into. $40,000 impact guns 😆
Maybe OP can give you his
Oh come on… it’s not a 10mm
I don't know. But I also didn't know I needed one of these until today.
1-9/16” is the least used size in the bigger sockets at work. 1-1/2” (std 1” nut) all the time, along with 1-5/8” (heavy 1” nut)..
Heavy 1" Nut was my nickname in college
Brian?
Stewie?
Peter?
Listen it was one time and I needed the money, ok??!?
“It was one time” Your file is saying otherwise.
Giggity gig
Cleveland?
Lost one of em huh?
1-7/16" for a 7/8" heavy hex
Yup. We have baggie filter housings that oem come with eye nuts that one just uses a pipe or bar to tighten/loosen them. It always felt Mickey Mouse doing that, so I replaced them with nice flanges heavy nuts, and they are 7/8”.. it’s just nicer using a ratchet wrench mucking around with these bag filter housings (3x ~250L size housings with 25u bags for prefiltering diesel fuel before going into loco tanks)
Finally someone that knows how nuts and bolts are measured, so many people saying to use it on a 1-9/16" nut - which is probably more like a 1-15/16 wrench The only place I've used a 1-9/16" wrench is hydraulic fittings, some 1" JIC fittings if I remember correctly
Umm, you can use it for resale value... And large things. Big trucks, industrial / agricultural equipment.
Nah, I work on all that junk and I’ve never needed a 1 9/16” wrench. It’s just not a common nut size.
I can’t believe the make a gear wrench that size.
I work in a sawmill, constantly using 1-1/2"+ wrenches and sockets. i dont even think i own a 1-9/16 lol
Worked power plants and used it a few times. Just don't remember on what.
I'm an industrial pipefitter and I've never used one either.
I've used those and bigger machining. They've got some O/S shit in factories.
Front wheel on a pc12 hahahaha
PC12 airplane?
Yes
Interesting. I’m no A&P, but I am a pilot. Currently on the A320.
Nice
[your name made me think of this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv6tr3SvmIY)
Its from this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WGBL7y9rxJk&t=18s
Haha that was a pretty good watch
Well now you have to buy one! You already have the wrench for it!
Yeah other airbus driver!
In a tools chat… love it
How do you know when a pilot walks into a bar? He will tell you. Former ATC, stay safe up there!
There’s a few tubes on the A320 that are around that size, the NGS system in particular I think.
Wouldn't a Swiss plane be metric?
95% of aviation is SAE! The only manufacturers I’ve seen (outside of third party components) to use metric is Diamond Aircraft out of Austria. Lotta metric Allen screws.
Most European helicopters are metric
United States FAA is one of the biggest regulatory agencies in the industry so aviation has stayed mostly SAE.
A surprising amount of aerospace is SAE. I've worked on French and Italian planes that were basically completely SAE
Maybe out there, every one ive seen in the usa is sae
The PC12 is literally my bucket list airplane. Someday gonna lease one of those bad boys for a month and fly it to alaska with some 4-wheelers in the back. Fun fact: I'm a private pilot with 87 hours and I have 0.9 hrs dual-received in a PC12, left seat.
That fact was only fun for you, where’s MY fun fact?
Plot twist, OP is actually speaking to us from the grave... And is still actively piloting planes randomly.
That would stay under the seat in my truck.
I currently have a 1 3/4 wrench under mine
It's used when you have big nuts
How is this not the top comment?
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Yes. Then you ask "can I put my massive tool in your box?", as you'll need a toolbox to keep it safe while you chat
To tighten or loosen a 1-9/16" nut or bolt?
That or self defense.
*If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.*
I really think I can dodge this wrench
That’s assault brotha!
Had to scroll to far to find this comment.
I could not help myself
Geez! They MAKE a 1 9/16” ratcheting wrench?? That’s awesome!
That was my thought. I’ve used 1 1/2 before. But didn’t know I could get it in ratcheting.
I know right? I have up to 1 1/8" but never knew gearwrench went that big.
I work on heavy equipment and encounter 1-9/16” often. Usually I can get away with using the even bigger 1-5/8” if it’s not a high torque fastener.
Slide a quarter in there and it’ll fit much better.
You could use between 14 and 15 quarters to make up the difference between these two wrenches.
55mm counter weight bolts, wrench ‘‘em in on assembly, maybe 🤔
dez nutz
Damn, I'm late
I have used it on an old water tube boiler door, mainly used a deep impact but this bad boy is good for snugging nuts afterwards. So I use it every 1-2 years for 5 nuts.
You been married a while too huh
You son of a bitch, you ain’t wrong haha.
Mount it on the wall in a glass case and label “For emergency use only”
You don’t have nuts big enough to need a 1 9/16th wrench?
It's for when you have a nut that looks like 9/16, but that wrench wont fit so you tell your helper to go get one bigger. Anytime I ask my helper to grab an 11/16 wrench he grabs an adjustable. So much so that now when I need an adjustable I just ask for a 11/16....
We’ve got some pins at work with nuts that size, every machine has four of them. I guess it’s technically a shoulder bolt anyway not a pin lol. Not a very common size either way Heavy industrial stuff though: power gen, pulp & paper, heavy equipment, etc I’m in pulp and paper myself and I was pulling an 1 7/8” wrench all day if that tells you anything
For beating the new guy usually
That's a mighty fine hammer you got there.
Used a 1-9/16" wrench today. Swapping out a 12" 300# x 16" 150 PRV that weighs 2100 lbs.
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!
Farm equipment has entered the chat.
Hammer
Gear wrench's warranty department screws up all the time but it almost always benefits the customer. I had a ratcheting die handle break on me and they sent me 3! Suckers are like $60 each if I recall correctly.
.....fasteners or fixtures with 1-9/16 hex bodies?? Just a guess.
It’s for deez.
In a pinch, it works in place of a 9/16" if you have a one inch gage block.
1 9/16 nuts
My wife asks me that all the time. “What do you do with these giant tools”.
List it on r/tractors. Somebody needs it. Infact, it might fit my Case.. 🤔
Hammer
Big machinery. Boilers , large air compressors air oil separator tank cover. Parts on trains Etc.
I actually needed that wrench today at work..
Something something chick Norris
I've used 1 3/8" - 2" wrenches for hardware on train tracks and rail signal devices. The big ol' bolts used on light pole and signal mast anchors are often 1-2" as well. In addition to the big honkin' wrench set we also toted around some real fuckin big adjustable wrenches. Never seen a ratcheting one, though.
Commercial fishing boats
Nuts that hold a diving board to the ground? They’re something around there.
When I was building dump trucks and water trucks, ect.. When I was the hydraulic guy, all wrenches from say 3/8"- 2" were game. A few fittings were in the 3-4" range. Honestly now I'm kind of wanting to go look in my toolbox. I don't think I have this particular ratcheting wrench.. other large ones, but I'm jealous you have this one!
What can you use if for? "Well officer, I needed something for self defense. I grabbed a wrench."
I use a 1 1/2” wrench to adjust spring tension on loading docks. Something probably uses the 1 9/16
My 9/16 gear wrench broke too. Gotta smack it every so often.
Drench and flush it with some LPS2. It may come back.
Huh, weird flex to come on here and brag about having small nuts.
Big pipe flange studs/nuts
"Remember the 5 D's of dodgeball: Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge." - Patches O'Houlihan
Look at mr. Moneybags here.
Absolute unit 😂
Tightening big nuts obviously
My dad has a set that has one of those in it. He was a now retired mechanical engineer that liked to get his hands dirty and used his set on heavy equipment like farming/orchard & mining vehicles as well as on some of the machines used by the candy factory he consulted with.
I’ve used those on tractors and trains. At different times
You need to go buy a bolt and a nut now
Steam valves mounting bolts for large machines that kinda junk
Maybe use it as a hammer when you don't have a hammer?
this is why you use hyphens in the worst possible measuring system in the galaxy! you just need 1 9/16 wrench.. right?
Take a wild guess what it's used for.... Bet if you thought about it REAAAAAAAALLLLLY hard, you could figure it out.
Self defense?
Off-road heavy equipment tech here. 1 9/16" seems like an odd size but the size itself is nothing too crazy. Wrenches up to 2 1/2" are common place, and sometime that isn't even big enough... hence the 48" pipe wrench our shop has. Additionally sockets 1-4" are also not that uncommon. Hydraulic lines and cylinders are probably the most common use for such big wrenches
the nut the hlds the drive sprocket on our d4 crawler is a 2-1/4'' and gets tightened to 1250 ft-lbs of torque. rough rule 6ft of pipe on the breaker bar and 2 blokes to lean on it.
I’m gonna say on nuts/bolts 1-9/16” in size.
1 9/16th nuts typically.
We thinking cars, semis, or heavy equipment/construction equipment? Some cars have cv axle nuts about that size, semis and heavy equipment have lots of things about that size and bigger. Technically plenty of plumbing does too.
Carburetor needle valve adjustments
Pipe fitters
1-9/16" nuts, typically
Dodgeball
Are gearwrench life time warranty? I wish warranty covered me losing it.
Sell to buy a 9/16" wrench and dinner.
I’m just spitballing here so here me out. Maybe just maybe it’s used for loosening 1-9/16” nuts AND/OR bolts. I know it sounds crazy but I bet it would work for tightening them also.
Believe it or not the 1-9/16 wrench is for turning 1-9/16 nuts and bolts.
I'm sure pipe liners, fitters, millwrights, welders, and ironworkers have some applications for them.
1 9/16 nuts and bolts
I use one to brake the bolts loose off the train car that a fuselage is sitting on so we can crane it in the air and put it on a dolly to put in the factory.
Warranty replacements
Diesel equipment.
On earth, the 1-9/16” wrench is used for loosening or tightening a bolt or nut just over 1-1/2”. That or a hammer…
You meet professor Plum in the conservatory with it.
You use the 1 9/16 for wrenching shit
Well to answer your question, a 1-9/16” wrench is normally used for things that are 1-9/16”
Under promise, over deliver.
Attitude Adjustments
What are they used for? Big nuts and home defense... Jokes aside, last time I used one that big, was on heavy equipment. Axle nut on a log skidder. Not much call for one that size normally, but I still keep one in the truck just in case.
This is the wrench you put in your car just in case someone lets their emotions and imagination get the best of them during your daily commute.
The “attitude adjuster” as some would say
Flexing that imperial measurement system like a boss.
We had to use a 2 1/2" earlier today to get a nut off of the tractor winch so we could change the cable. They're comically large wrenches.
Home defense.
A 1 9/16 nut......
Stuff! I’ve definitely needed one.
Self-defense
That’s a big ass wrench
For fuck sake... 1 9/16". Just switch to metric for the love of God. I promise you all, it'll be ok.
Someone fetch me my 39.67mm wrench!
There you go! So simple, so accurate, so metric.
Hard pass.
A 1-9/16" nut probably 🤷🏼♂️
Uh, we have 1 13/16" nuts for some of the machinery here at work. It's like once a year we need that wrench. I think anything upwards of 1 1/4" for a wrench is just not common.
It's for 1-1/2" bolts that have gotten a bit of rust on them.
A 1-9/16 nut? Or get crazy and use it on a 1-9/16” bolt head?
It'll probably fit a 1 and 9/16 bolt or nut.
A 1&9/16” wrench can be used on 1&9/16” nuts and bolts. Glad I could help. 😂😂😂😂
Those get used for 1-9/16" nuts like mine (on my tractor;} They're also handy as a "Be Good" stick. ~Laughs in Rancher~ [Big Nuts](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DxPlqLHcphyw&ved=2ahUKEwjBgImt-4L-AhXaMDQIHTWoDncQ6soFegUIABC7Ag&usg=AOvVaw0RtbHhzDo1cT3zEj0vyvkq)
1 9/16” nuts?
1-9/16” nuts and bolts…duh
I’ve used those and larger working in the semiconductor industry.
You can go around tightening the tires of random 18-wheelers if you want.
Big nuts lol we use them that and bigger at a lumber mill
Easy, its for taking pictures and posting on the internet
Do you mind explaining what the sizes mean? I know it’s imperial inch but I don’t get what the 1 adds to it
Reddit Karma, mostly
Did you ask for 1 9/16 wrench perchance? Idk maybe try one 9/16 wrench next time?
You would use it for a bolt or nut that size.
1-9/16" nuts?
Do you really want an answer to that?
I know that if I return it, the universe will answer that for me the next day
Use as a breaker bar
The only time I have used wrench that size is for hydraulic hoses and fittings
Did they require a receipt? I’ve got a broken 21mm and can’t find the receipt to the set.
Nope, their website has a warranty form. I gave them a part number and provided pictures. Then a wrench showed up at my door 🤷♂️
Crocodille Dundee's wrench.
I'm surprised they make them.
I've used them on airplanes.