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Professional Wire Locking Pliers

• 150mm (6").
• For securing essential nut fixings.
• Easy to use.
• Incorporates standard pliers with the added benefit of twisting wire.
• Ideal for use in motorsport and classic cars. Wire available here.

Although primarily used in motor racing, using safety wire to secure components finds many applications in high performance and classic road cars also. Lock wire or safety wire is a type of positive locking device that prevents fasteners from loosening due to vibration as well as other forces. Safety wiring also serves as a visual indicator that the fasteners have been properly tightened.

Typically, the wire is threaded through a hole drilled into a fastener or part, then twisted and anchored onto a second fastener or part, then twisted again. It’s especially useful for critical areas such as suspension and brakes, but it’s also very useful for securing other components, such as keeping exhaust manifold bolts, or remote oil filter mounting bolts from becoming loose.

Price: £36.95 (Excluding VAT at 20%)

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Safety Wire Nut & Bolt Jig Kit - Metric

• This Safety Wire Nut and Bolt Jig Kit allowed nut and bolts to be drilled to take locking wire
• Use with a 2mm drill (not supplied)
• For use on: 6 x 1.0, 8 x 1.0, 8 x 1.25, 10 x 1.25, 10 x 1.5, 12 x 1.5mm bolts
• Safety wires supplied separately

Although primarily used in motor racing, using safety wire to secure components finds many applications in high performance and classic road cars also. Lock wire or safety wire is a type of positive locking device that prevents fasteners from loosening due to vibration as well as other forces. Safety wiring also serves as a visual indicator that the fasteners have been properly tightened.

Typically, the wire is threaded through a hole drilled into a fastener or part, then twisted and anchored onto a second fastener or part, then twisted again. It’s especially useful for critical areas such as suspension and brakes, but it’s also very useful for securing other components, such as keeping exhaust manifold bolts, or remote oil filter mounting bolts from becoming loose.

Price: £42.35 (Excluding VAT at 20%)

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Damaged Cap Screw Extractor Set

Cap screws or hex socket screws and bolts are fairly vulnerable to rounding out, partiularly stainless fasteners. Countersunk hex sockets screws and button heads are an absolute nightmare if they're over tightened, because the hex socket is fairly small compared with the screw diameter. When we were offered this product to test we were fairly sceptical, but we would not let the rep have back the sample once we had tried it! For a tool set that only costs a small round of drinks, it is amazing.

The standard 1/4" bit drivers cover 1.5mm, 2mm, 2.5mm, 3mm, 4mm, 5mm, 6mm heads.

The 7mm, 8mm and 10mm use a 10mm hex driver and there is a 1/2"drive to 10mm bit holder included in this comprehensive set.

Price: £18.79 (Excluding VAT at 20%)

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Laser 4 Piece Stud Extractor Set

4 Piece roller type stud extractor set. This type of stid extractor is usually our first port of call, because it is more gentle than the heavy duty extractor and less likely to mark the studs.

When you're trying to remove a waisted studs ie one where the plain section of the stud is smaller that the threaded, section it will not always grip the waisted section. If you use it on the threaded section it will probably destroy the threads. With such studs you can either try locking two nuts together or you will need to use the heavy duty extractor.

This set is suitable for 6mm, 8mm, 10mm and 12mm studs. The smaller sizes use a 3/8" drive driver and the larger two a 1/2" drive. All four can be used with a suitable sized spanner of socket also. Suitable for left and right hand threads

Price: £42.42 (Excluding VAT at 20%)

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9 Piece Screw & Bolt Extractor Set

Good quality 9 piece metric screw, bolt and stud extractor kit. No one wants shear off bolts etc, but in the real world they do fail from time to time, for a number of reasons and if you can get them out yourself it's a major bonus.

Extracting screws and bolts, even with the best equipment, isn't child's play and requires a good degree of accuracy drilling the pilot holes. Using cheap 'easy outs' are a very bad idea indeed and the name is an oxymoron! They will invariably snap off and then you're really in the do do, with a visit to an engineer with a spark erosion machine where you will have a reasuringly high bill.

If you're going to extract sheared off threaded fasteners, ensure that you are very careful, particularly with the small sizes. Whilst these are excellent industrial quality, no tool is indestructable if you apply too much torque. Ensure that you drill the remains of the fastener dead centre with a good quality drill bit. It doesn't hurt to pilot drill the holes and open them up a tiny bit at a time. If it is a steel bolt in aluminum alloy heat the area up as much as is safe and use a pentrating oil such as ACF50.