Great explanation i know!
What are the sockets called, that use a spanner round the edge to grip them?
I need to turn a 22mm nut while holding a 10mm nut in the middle.
Cant find them on any tool websites, mainly because I dont know what they are called.
Im sure they used to sell them in Screwfix, but not there anymore.
Cheers
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Originally posted by greggors84
Great explanation i know!
What are the sockets called, that use a spanner round the edge to grip them?
I need to turn a 22mm nut while holding a 10mm nut in the middle.
Cant find them on any tool websites, mainly because I dont know what they are called.
Im sure they used to sell them in Screwfix, but not there anymore.
Cheers
Box spanners? Can't you use an open ender on the 22mm and a 10mm deep socket on the inside nut.
Wouldnt be able to get the 10mm socket down a box spanner with a tommy bar in
They are a bit like spark plug sockets with the hex around the edge. But they dont have the 1/2" hole in the middle, just a big one so you can
get another socket down the middle.
Its for the pulley on an alternator, the pulley is turning independent to the shaft, so i cant just grip that. The nut is in too deep to get a spanner
on and there is no way of locking the spindle so they only way is to grip the 10mm nut somehow.
You could hold the box spanner with a mole grip or weld a handle to the side of it
I would have thought this would do the job?
link
I was thinking about using a 22mm box spanner, but didnt want to go out and get one to find out it didnt work.
Wanted to get the right tool in the first place.
Cheers for the help though
yeah, I had this kinda problem on a lucas alternator; used an offset ring spanner.
draper vortex
The unique hollow head design of the Draper Expert VORTEX ratchet and sockets is ideal for long fixings. The sockets have flutes on the outside thus
allowing the ratchet to attach and drive it from the outside. This allows a fixing to pass through the head and avoid the depth restriction of
conventional sockets or ratchets.
interesting ly they are 13 mm not 1/2 inch 
I had a very similar problem trying to do up the top nuts on my tintop coilovers - needed to hold the shaft stationary while I did up the nut. I dug a cheap old 1/2" drive socket out of the bottom of the tool box and just ground two flats on it to hold it with a spanner.
are these them
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LOOK-Brand-New-17pc-Socket-Set-Go-Through-Ratchet_W0QQitemZ130055157499QQihZ003QQcategoryZ30917QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZView
Item
for some reason link not working?
item no 130055157499
[Edited on 6/12/06 by Aboardman]
Thought of modifying a 1/2" socket but would have to drill through the hole as the 10mm bit wont fit through.
Thinking about it, if I just use a 22mm box spanner i should be able to get a spanner around the outside of it and not have to use the tommy bar!
I guess thats what people were getting at!
By the way, those vortex sockets are similar to the ones i was thinking of!
Be cheaper to use a box spanner though.
22mm ring spanner and 10mm socket or spanner???
What are u trying to do?
If it's for the alternator fan, can you not just wrap some rope/string round it and hold with that, it's how I've done it in the past. NO need for any special tools at all.
Ratchet Spanner
Steve
The pulley was loose on the spindle, so couldnt hold on to it with that.
A normal ring spanner wouldnt fit on the nut as its recessed. My ratchet spanners are thicker so they wont work.
In the end I borrowed a deep swan neck spanner and it just about worked.
Cheers for all the ideas
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In the end I borrowed a deep swan neck spanner and it just about worked.
No, it's piles I think 
Air wrench every time!