Other thing you could do is buy a cheap impact socket and cut the end off and weld a handle on.[/QUOTE said:
I worked nights as a diesel mechanic for a few years before moving to days. Snap-On sold a specialty wrench for removing the bolts on the fan hub or the water pump (can't remember which) on a Cummins engine. Well... rather than pay the high dollar for the wrench, I would make one. Bought a 3/4" Snap-On socket and one night took it to the machine shop (machinists all gone home by this time) and proceeded to cut it off in the horizontal band saw. I have to say, Snap-On has good chrome... oh it eventually cut it off, along with taking all the teeth off the band saw blade. Went back to the truck shop, fashioned the handle, welded it to the cut off socket and had me a clone Snap-On Cummins tool.
Point is...... don't cut off chrome sockets on a band saw.
Next day... I was told... the machine shop foreman was over at the truck shop lookin' for whoever it was that left all the chrome shavings in the bandsaw. Nobody knew anything.