Irwin sockets for rounded-off bolt heads and nuts?
Irwin Sockets?
Recently, a friend of mine had a rounded off oil pan drain plug and we spent about an hour trying everything in our tool boxes to get it out to no avail. We were seriously considering heat, but didn't want to go that route.
Anyway, my friends brother (a mechanic) told him to try "Irwin sockets". My friend found a set at NAPA and tried one on his oil pan drain plug. It came right out! The sockets are tapered on the inside and have reverse angled sharp ridges in them. They looked like they would really grip and in the case of the stuck oil pan drain plug, worked very well. They look very handy and I will pick up a set the next time I have a stuck or rounded off bolt head or nut.
Now, I'm not a newbie when it comes to tools, but I had never heard of these before and neither had my friend. A google search for them only produced 44 hits. Does anybody else have experience with these sockets and are they called by any other name?
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