Help - variable nut driver

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Anybody here know if there is such a thing as a VARIABLE nut driver?

I am working on my car - 2016 Ford Escape. It has METRIC nuts. I have some "standard" nut drivers, but none of them fits exactly.

I also see SETS of nut drivers, but I don't do that much work on my car. So I don't want a bunch of tools lying around.

Is there such a thing as a variable nut driver? If so, what and where can I get it?

Thanks,

Froggy

[Colorado Doug]

It looks like a fun hobby

[wally_bert]

Ive enjoyed playing with the tank despite the problems. The burbs isn’t the best place so I go up to my parents place with plenty of open country.

That’s the closest I have come to putting any kind of model kit together in decades. Granted I glued bits on an existing unit but I could see buying a full kit and see.

Painting and decals were my weak points on model assembly. I usually didn’t bother with either.

I will stay with metal tracks.

[GingisK]

If you have a machine shop you can just split the existing nut away. Make a new one with SAE faces and metric threads. That will teach them to behave. ;-D

[wally_bert]

I’ve tried breaking some harbor freight tools but they have held up.

Out of all the tools I ever bought, the $30 (years ago) reciprocating saw that will run and run. It will get really hot at times.

[Thank You Rush]

I understand...I wondered if “territorial” was a word that fit. My husband also made some of his own tools. I am still trying to get rid of stuff in the garage..What I can honestly say is no woman takes up as much room in a house as a man does in a garage with his tools...regardless of what the term for it is. I’ve run across boxes of the handles he bought to fit onto tools he made. I wondered “what are these” and then it came to me....We moved from CA to GA nearly 20 years ago and he moved tools that his father had stored in our hangar at John Wayne airport years before that. THOSE didn’t HAVE to be moved. He was able to sell a lot of tools to the A&P mechanics on the field but not enough - LOL! I can tell what belonged to his dad from the beautiful printing on different boxes that looked like they came from WWII days and no doubt did.

[cquiggy]

After reading your post. I would suggest for you’re safety and the safety of others on the roads, that you shut the hood of you’re car and slowly walk away !

[Thank You Rush]

I love this thread...Little did the original poster know what he was causing to happen with his innocent question. I’m sure he had no idea what would happen - a lot of laughs for sure.

WAYYYYYYY more fun than Epstein and politics!

[IYAS9YAS]

As one who does a lot of mechanical work that gator grip is one of the most scary tools I can imagine using in an engine compartment. Watch one when they fall apart. Little bits go flying everywhere. Good luck if one falls in a spark plug hole, intake, or water jacket.

Yeah. I don't and wouldn't own one. I'd rather buy what I needed. As someone mentioned before, you only really need a couple of sizes for most basic work.