my griner's burr upgrade is here, but I don't have some of the tools to install it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-bBlLNMtyg
I don't have a wrench or pliers to do this with, but I have the rest. What's the cheapest, most space-efficient way to approach getting the remaining tools I need? Is there such a thing as a "wrench bit set" that I could use here?
@Tathar Wrenches can be bought in sets that take up about the same amount of space as a thin textbook, and the cheap ones are like $20 or $30 iwrc
Pliers just don't take up that much space at all and aren't very expensive, get a half decent pair from home depot or whatever and you should be good to go
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Is it just called a wrench set then?
I've also seen this less-involved approach to the part replacement, but it needs an impact driver (whatever that means) and the tool shown in the video looks bigger than I feel comfortable keeping around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT2WsNMWsgs
@Tathar https://www.northerntool.com/images/product/2000x2000/617/61768_2000x2000.jpg ii'm thinking of something like this, they come in different sizes with different numbers of wrenches
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That might be a bit too demanding on the space I have available, unless there's a container I can just dump them all into (with the pliers) that doesn't take up much space.
@Tathar Pliers can be used as a wrench in a pinch but it's not remotely what they're for. this is an adjustable wrench:
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@Tathar you can't get as much torque out of them as a normal wrench because of slop in the adjustment mechanism, and they're a bit thicker than normal wrenches, but they're handy to have
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@Tathar especially if you have a set of imperial wrench sizes and then find one nut that's a metric size
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OOH this looks perfect
@Tathar i didn't realize you didn't know about those! i assumed you were asking because the thickness of an adjustable wrench would mean it wouldn't fit
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Oh, I meant "space" as in storage space. I don't have access to my entire apartment, so I have to be very careful not to take up too much space.
My dad says I should get a channel lock and a crescent wrench, but he kept thinking that the Torx T10 screwdriver mentioned in that video was a "torque tension" screwdriver, so I don't actually know if I should trust his judgment. Does his shopping list sound right to you?
@Tathar you absolutely don't need a torque screwdriver, that's for precision work where you need a screw to be tightened to an exact torque
Torx is a type of screwdriver head, like Philips or flathead. It's the star-shaped ones you've probably seen around from time to time. T10 is just one of the sizes
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Yeah, I already have the T10 bit for my socket screwdriver. (My dad is just very confused about that one, and he thinks it's something else.)
I don't know what a channel lock or crescent wrench is, and whether one of those is the adjustable wrench you talked about.
@Tathar crescent wrench is another (possibly old-fashioned) word for an adjustable wrench. Channel locks are a type of adjustable pliers that look like this
they're not really what you'd need for this
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I googled types of pliers, and it looks like the ones in the video are slip joint pliers?
@Tathar I dunno what they're called, they're easy enough to find at a hardware store though
most any type of pliers would work, except perhaps needlenose pliers
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Funny enough, I already had needlenose pliers from my old PC repair kit that came with a now-recalled soldering iron.
@Tathar be glad it was recalled, cheapo soldering irons are *awful*
unfortunately, with soldeering irons you don't get anything reaching "passable" until around the $100 price point, and "good" will run you $1000
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@Tathar we have strong feelings about soldering irons
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Yeah, that sounds like coffee grinders too, lol.
@Felthry
What's the difference between that and the pliers in the video?