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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Leduc, Alberta CANADA
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What socket do you use to remove square wooden bed nuts?????
I don't have room to turn a wrench to remove the wooden bed. What socket do you use? and where do you get one????
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Kalamazoo MI USA
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I usually use a 12 pt socket that will just fit the square bolt in it. Sometimes you can find one that fits and sometimes not. Other wise you could find one of those sockets (cant think of the name) most hardware stores have them that have the steel rods inside the socket and are one socket fits all. Have never used one but it should work good according to the TV commercials.
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You could always buy an 8-point socket. I forget the size--I think the nuts are 1/2"--but the larger tool suppliers still carry the 8-points.
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teh socket that protrucks is talkin about(GATOR GRIP?) well i have one, needed i for something, forgot what, but after a little use or any grease inside of it they go to crap, maybe craftsman will evenually make a good one
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Oshawa, ON, CAN
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Snap-on Socket
If you know the size you need Snap-on sells sockets for square nuts they call they double square. They'd be the same as the 8 points that palallin was talking about. Most of the Snap-on trucks here have them in stock. Not that I am a Snap-on maniac or something but at least you know where you can get one.
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what ur lookin for is an inset square drive.i think sears has em
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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I found a 12pt that fit, can't remember which size. I think the Gator Grips would be too big for some of the nuts because they are in tight spaces.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Orleans, NE USA
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check pawn and antique shops, they made entire socket sets to fit the square nuts back when they were VERY common, like for horsedrawn machinery and the like. They are made of stamped steel, and I've seen them with a hex on one end and a square on the other, and I've seen them for a 3/8 or 1/2" drive ratchet and all sizes of square nuts. My uncle once got a complete set from like 1/4" to 1 1/2" for 3 bucks at a local antique shop.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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They're called 8 point sockets. Snap-On & Craftsman both make them. I bought a Craftsman set with about 8 sockets, some 3/8 some 1/2 drive. Cost me $20. I looked at Sears website and couldn't find the set, just individuals.
For the bed and running board bolts a lot of people end up cutting the nut off to get the bolt out.
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