Make your own Jumbo Socket DIY *no welding required*

NO WELDING required to take off the random bolts on your next car project.

After Thoughts about the Video: Cheaper and Harbor Freight. These work way better than you would think and gets you out of a bind. Exhaust tubing scraps, fence post, trampoline frame, Basketball hoop frame, gym equipment, etc are all great sources of random tube sizes in the right thickness. I used a trampoline frame pole and basketball stand tube for these two sockets.

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[ericnobbs]

That thing you were asking about is the sand point for a driven well pipe. It's threaded to accept the screened pipe that goes at the bottom of the well. Basically, it lets you pound a piece of pipe into loose or sandy soil where you can't drill. You keep adding sections of solid pipe and pounding the down until you hit a good water flow or something that's too hard to drive the pipe through.

[yodasbff]

Very clever way to make a socket 👍. Ginger always makes me laugh, she has endless energy. 😄

[jasondye]

Paint them flat black so you can use them with an impact.

[daithiosioradain]

You can use the same method on much thicker walled pipe by heating the pipe to a dull red heat so it forms easily. I'd tap the flats back in too while it's hot. Better leave it on the nut to cool so it doesn't shrink so much the new socket is too small. Bonus is the heat can seep into the nut and help free it. Another trick is right after forming the hex, while still on the nut, move the other end of the pipe in a little circle to give a flared lead in for the nut. Leave the pipe long and ideally use a welding torch so you can quickly heat just the bit you want to form or the pipe can deform above the nut. Filing or turning a chamfer inside the pipe also helps get it started.

[absolutetinker]

Another good reason to make your pipe based sockets is when you need a thin walled socket to fit a nut or bolt in a location where a normal or impact socket thickness makes them impossible to use.

[rsz]

I actually made one out of a 2.5" OD steel pipe to remove the propane tank valve by cutting out slots on each side and then using a pipe wrench to grab the round end. Great ideas!!!!

[ShedTV]

My Dad has a box of old box spanners (not sure if you call them that in the US) which are a tube with a hex formed at the ends. They got hammered onto stubborn nuts, but I never thought of making your own. Cheers Moe, for another inspiring video!

[stevethemaintenanceguy]

The spike is made as a head for had driven shallow wells. I use them to make holes to run wiring under concrete or driveway. Hammer it through a trench wall to another trench on the other side. You just add pipe as needed for depth or distance.

[davereichert]

I used to see sockets like these included with the little repair kits that were onboard on older Honda ATV's and Trail bikes, they aren't meant for heavy use, but they work in a pinch!

[Uticagreens]

Simple, yet brilliant solution to a common problem. Thanks. But Ginger is still the showstopper!

[jdretiree]

That dog is a keeper. She is so loving and playful.

[handyhippie]

the first cv half shaft i swapped i just hammered a piece of chain link fence top rail over the nut and drilled a hole for a jack handle through the tube, and turned it off. because back then easily finding a 36mm deep well socket was not gonna happen. worked like a charm, and it's still in a box somewhere i'm sure since i never throw anything away that i might find a use for in the future. like you i now have thousands of dollars in hand tools i have bought as i was working over the years, but when i was starting out in the 80's you did what you had to do to get the job done.

[zxztv]

Tube sockets are ideal for recessed spark plugs, i have a few of them in my toolbox of crud.
I save solid metal rods from printers and such for drifting bearings out.
I don't see much metal pipe going for cheap, but ill keep your idea in mind :-D

[ls]

Handy tip when you need a socket in a pinch! Kinda reminds me of a Stihl spark plug wrench. Thanks!

[michaelabraham]

Good ideas. I weld for a living. Every once in a great while we gotta build, or fix stuff that I don't like buying expensive tools for.

[bsrcat]

I've seen that Spike before. My family does concrete. Say somebody wants to run electrical underneath the the driveway. You could dig a trench on one side, when you thread section of pipe as long as your trench on to the spike and then you hammer until it comes out on the other side. The last section of pipe to get started on after you're through you attach the conduit to and pull it through. That's how they did it back in the day. Now that use a pipe with a pressure washer on the end and water drill the tunnel. If the ground doesn't have good drainage, then this can be really muddy and you break out the old school tools.

[chrissscottt]

Great tips. All the more reason to keep the random bits of pipe stashed under my house.

[iFixJunk]

Your ingenuity never ceases to amaze me, sir!

[eladlutz]

Great idea. Proves again that necessity IS the mother of invention!

[shovelhead]

Cool tip!! Just because I'm lazy I was thinking a press would be another way to get the tube formed over the nut.