:dragnwitch: my griner's burr upgrade is here, but I don't have some of the tools to install it

youtube.com/watch?v=s-bBlLNMty

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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@Felthry

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. youtube.com/watch?v=UT2WsNMWsg

@Tathar northerntool.com/images/produc ii'm thinking of something like this, they come in different sizes with different numbers of wrenches
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@Felthry

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.

@Felthry

What's the difference between that and the pliers in the video?

@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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