 | Hopkins FloTool 10619 Nylon Strap Wrench |
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Product Description
The Nylon Strap Wrench fits all sizes to 6" (152mm).
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #18677 in Automotive
- Brand: Hopkins
- Model: 10619
- Dimensions: 2.00" h x 4.75" w x 7.69" l,
Features
- Strong, non-slip nylon belt
- Use with 1/2" rachet
Customer Reviews
Incredibly simple but necessary tool.
The first time I tried to change the oil on my newest car, I found the oil filter impossible to remove with standard oil filter wrenches. There was inadequate clearance for plier type wrenches or other strap wrenches. I would use a cap type wrench if I cound find one that fit the factory installed filter (even the car dealer parts department did not have one!).
After searching tool stores and auto parts stores, I finally found this universal oil filter wrench at Amazon. It is used with a standard 1/2 inch ratchet and will grip any size oil filter as well as many other objects (up to 10" in diameter) with its self adjusting nylon strap.
If I had purchased this wrench 30 years ago, I could have avoided buying the 6 other filter wrenches that I have in my tool box.
Faulty Design
I should have known, this thing cannot work, but I bought it anyway.
The wrench is on the side of the filter, so when you turn, it only compresses the filter more, to the point of deforming it.
So the torque applied to the wrench is only marginally transfered to the filter itself, because the filter's axle and the wrench's are not aligned.
The only good thing about it is that once the oil filter has been completely deformed, it is much easier to untie it with pliers.
Nice idea, faulty constuction
Nice idea, and after I worked it over in my shop, works fine. Can be used on multiple things. (I just used it to adjust the "saddles" on my new Thule Helium bikerack, when I couldn't move them by hand.)
The problem with mine is that I couldn't fit the 3/8" socket wrench's square end all the way into the open end. That's because there is a flange of left-over metal casting that was in the way.
OK, so I used a rasp and my Makita cordless drill, and then a file, to clean this out.
Well, the socket wrench wouldn't "snap: into the square hole, and kept coming off in use, as the hole they'd drilled to accommodate the little ball bearing embedded in the square-drive end of the socket wrench is in the wrong place.
Well, I drilled another hole in the right place and now it works fine.
So, defective but fixable, and once fixed, a very handy thing to have in your shop.
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