Now, that’s one tiny wrench!

[tlawler]

I lost the Allen wrench for the crimson trace grips on my 640 and CT had shown them out of stock for quite some time now. The smallest in any of my sets is a .050" and it was too big. I looked online and found that NAPA has them in the correct size, .028". I went to the store to pick it up and found I nearly need a magnifying glass to see the darn thing! I think I'm going to superglue it or solder it to something to make it harder to lose and to get a better grip on it. Anyway, if any of you misplace your adjustment tool, NAPA has them for $1.29+tax.

 

[Salty RI]

I hope you bought more than one.

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[lihpster]

Maybe cast a resin handle on it? Make it more like a tiny screwdriver?

 

[terry_tr6]

a flap of duct tape on it makes it easier to pick up

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

a layer or two of colored heat shrink. Dillon uses light blue on the actual corner. I would go with red to match the laser dot myself.

I had misplaced my CT adjustment wrench. So I checked my Allen Wrench junk box. A cigar box , started by my dad 50 years ago, with every Allen Wrench that provided with a part. I had ONE that small! The amazing thing is I had one even smaller!, It looked like a stiff hair!

I found the CT wrench and taped to the inside lid of my gunsmithing toolbox.

Ivan

 

[Onomea]

I use a magnetic knife holder bar to hold small things like that. It's on the inside of the lid of my steel tool box. Or, keep in one of those multi compartment plastic boxes used, by me anyway, for various sizes of screws and nails.

 

[remshooter]

a flap of duct tape on it makes it easier to pick up

use the blaze orange duct tape like i do ,..makes it easier for us old guys to find stuff

 

[PatriotX]

I thought this would be a thread about these.

Is there a new, more friendly name for these now?

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I thought this would be a thread about these.

Is there a new, more friendly name for these now?

I thought that set was called the, "Ignition Wrench Set". I have the standard and the metric sets. In my family is a cigar box with my Grandfather's watch repair tools. It has open end wrenches that rival the OP's Allen wrench.

When I could find small drill bits I would put some of the tiny ones away. I have a #0 and a #00!

A story told me by the grandson of one of the industrialists that went on Ford and Edison's famous camp outs: One tool manufacturer boasted he could make any tool to do any job! Another bet him a Hundred dollars he couldn't drill a hole in a human hair! 4 weeks later the bet was come due. The tool maker pulled out a microscope and on the glass slide was a human hair. In that hair was a clean cut hole! In that hole was a tiny bolt with a nut screwed on it!

Those are some mighty small drills!

Ivan

 

[tlawler]

I thought that set was called the, "Ignition Wrench Set". I have the standard and the metric sets. In my family is a cigar box with my Grandfather's watch repair tools. It has open end wrenches that rival the OP's Allen wrench.

When I could find small drill bits I would put some of the tiny ones away. I have a #0 and a #00!

A story told me by the grandson of one of the industrialists that went on Ford and Edison's famous camp outs: One tool manufacturer boasted he could make any tool to do any job! Another bet him a Hundred dollars he couldn't drill a hole in a human hair! 4 weeks later the bet was come due. The tool maker pulled out a microscope and on the glass slide was a human hair. In that hair was a clean cut hole! In that hole was a tiny bolt with a nut screwed on it!

Those are some mighty small drills!

Ivan

That's what mine are called in my Craftsman set dating back to the mid-70's. I guess they figured it was an anachronism to refer to them as ignition wrenches in younger sets. I haven't set the dwell on a distributor in probably 30 years! They are some tiny wrenches though! As far as the Allens, I've always called them wrenches. Some people call them keys. Maybe it's a geographical thing. There are many types of wrenches. I was working with a younger guy a couple of weeks ago and he was complaining he couldn't get a good purchase on a nut because the combination wrench he was using was too thick and binding on another nut on the same post. I broke out my set of tappet wrenches and he was amazed. He had never seen anything like them and had no idea what a tappet even was.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

I saw my ignition wrench set this afternoon while working on the lawn mower.

The smallest hole I've ever drilled was .007 inch diameter. I still have at least one of the drill bits.

The deepest small hole to diameter ratio I've ever drilled was .020 diameter x .625 deep.

The smallest threads I've ever chased was 00-96.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[sparkyvega]

I use these hex keys set. The holder helps from losing them.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Yes the CT allen wrench is very small and I hope I do not ever loose it.
Thanks for the place to go, if I do.

I did think that it was not ment for a lot of tourque and thanks for this post.
It reminds me to check out the battery , if it is still goodand working.

 

[Nevada Ed]

I just put in a small stainless wall safety hand rail in the wife's bathroom, so she could get out of the shower with a little more safety, that she asked for.

Pure luck that a wall stud was in the right area for the anchor screws to be attached but it also needed the bar connector to the anchor system to be joined by a small screw by a small Allen wrench................................ Hellow.

You never know when you will meet Mr. Allen.

 

[Rustyt1953]

As the guitar guys here know, the saddle height adjustment wrenches used on Fender style bridges are 0.05". I kept a fish bowl full of them at the shop as a lot of players would lose them or round them off.

When I was gigging I would keep one with an electrical tape flag around it in my wallet along with a Floyd Rose hex wrench.

@Imissedagain; how many buggered height screws have you had to back out of saddles for customers? I've lost count.

 

[wood714]

I bought a rail mount green Crimson Trace laser for my Glock not long ago.

They must have stepped up their game. It's tiny, but easy to see.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Tool Tip: Anschutz Rifles us 6mm Allen wrench on the bedding screws (to hold the action into the stock). Different material stocks allow different torque settings. A 1/4" drive, dial torque wrench will give very repeatable results. But no 1/4 drive by 6mm Allen socket was readily available. I bought a two pack of close-out 6mm Allen wrenches and 4, 6mm 6 sided sockets. I epoxied the sockets on both ends of the Allen wrenches, then used a cut off grinder to remove the corner area of the wrench. This yielded 2 pair of 5/8" reach and 2" reach 6mm Allen wrench 1/4" sockets. I kept one set and gave the other to my dealer (which has returned many return favors!)

Ivan

 

[tlawler]

I bought a rail mount green Crimson Trace laser for my Glock not long ago.

They must have stepped up their game. It's tiny, but easy to see.

And out of stock for months