More thoughts on wrenches

[Bud Wiser]

Very nice craftsmanship indeed, puts my stuff to shame. I like experimenting with tension tools and sharing, but after seeing your stuff I think may be I better not post any more pics for awhile. I've only been playing around with this stuff for a bout 2 months. Although my stuff looks ugly, it still works which is good.

On the stepped tension, as you know from another thread I been playing around with a Universal tension, but with out steps, just tapered. I've tried the steps and it is a solid design but limits the number of key ways I can use it on. With a stepless tapered wrench, double end with two different widths and tapered, it provides me with much greater number of combinations and because of the taper the tension locks in place snug. I keep the bottom end completely flat, and taper the top. This provides a multitude of steps

I admire your work, hopefully in a couple more months I can crank out better looking tools and then I'll post some more pics

[dogyears]

awesome work.

[ComTech]

Great work! It gives me new idea's for more tension tools.
Very good photo's, keep up the good work.

[selim]

That sounds like a goog idea Raimundo.But tell me,how do you keep the tension tool in the cylinder while the wieght is bounceing around.

[FiapFiak]

I am playing around with making tension wrenches now as well.
I think I'm going to try to make the multi-fit tension wrench, though there are alot of questions

Tapered vs stepped is one of my questions.

How long you need each of the steps to be to prevent slippage, anyone with more experience using these? I think you'll need it more on the long side on the first few steps and shorter of the higher steps?

As for a tapered, wouldnt this have more trouble sticking in?
I read about people using them, although from what i can see, it can easily shift or bounce out of place when the plug shifts.

Tho I wonder, can you make more of a hybrid?
You have plateaus(steps), with a shallow slope up to the next plateau rather than a straight angle up?

As well, what are the most common widths to use for the steps?