it's Friday fool and you need this tool
all right guys this is my oldest
daughter Lawson Voss she has her own
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in the description welcome back to the
glorious episode of it's Friday fool you
need this tool my name is Kyle Voss and
every Friday I bring you a tool a tool
that I use here in this shop or that I
have featured on this channel you ever
feel like just busting a nut feel the
comments filling up right now I can feel
it let's fill it up but seriously if
you're had the need to just break a nut
in half like it's seized on a bolt or
it's rusted you can't get it off maybe
it's stripped you just need to get that
nut off that bolt first way to do that
split it now right you ever have the
need to do that you ever have the need
to bust a nut well this week's tool does
just that it is called be nut splitter
it's called the nut splitter and that's
what it does it splits nuts in half this
is what it looks like so one side has
this really sharp splitter
sharp splitters this thing kind of works
like a wood splitter so if you ever use
a wood splitter before one side it has a
factional part that splits the wood
there it's not an hydraulic cylinder
that pushes the wood into it that's
basically how this thing works except
it's made for nuts
but just slides in there like that you
tighten it down and then theoretically
as you tighten it its kind of split that
nut in half or at least it's going to
split one side of it let's give it a try
all right so I've mounted it in this
vise and really this is in an effort to
keep this thing from spinning while I
tighten the bolts in it normally the
bolt that you're getting the nut off is
going to be in something you wouldn't
need to do that but I'll keep this thing
still so you can see the splitting and
action
all right let the nut busting commence
so you can see the starting to cut into
the nut down here now it is taking a
good bit of force in order to make this
happen I think it'd be a little bit
easier if the bolt itself was like in a
car or something where you didn't
necessarily have to hold it while you
tightened it so the vise idea at least
the tabletop vise idea is not working
let's uh let's go mount this bad boy in
a real vise and see if we can bust this
nut over there
you can see that it's already starting
to oblong the nut so it starts up and
took the things kind of squish it you'll
see your cutter on the bottom already
penetrating that nut pretty well
all right well that worked you can see
that it's basically just taking this nut
and that wedge just kind of split it
along the top now it didn't split it
exactly all the way through there's
still a little bit of material hanging
on to it but what it did do when it
split it it kind of spread it apart and
you know this was maybe a bolt or nut
that was rusted on it would it would
kind of break it free from the threads
where you could get it off
now we'll see you in the process of
splitting this nut actually broke the
tool so worked fine when I was
tightening it down you know while
splitting the nut but I think trying to
undo it it basically just bound up and
they're seized up the threads inside
this thing seized up on me I don't feel
like I did anything wrong I mean I did
have to put an absolute of pressure on
this thing in order to split that nut
but that's what it's made for right just
splitting up if you're not splitting it
then you put more pressure on it that's
at least my feeling on it I guess the
other thing is that this thing to be
made to do smaller slightly smaller
stuff this was probably on the upper end
of the scale as far as what this thing
can handle I mean it just barely did fit
in there so I don't know this particular
tool was at the lower end of the scale
as far as price goes so maybe some of
the little more expensive ones might be
a little better on a better materials or
something I will I will drop links in
the description of several of these you
can go check them out if you end up
getting one and trying it let me know
how yours did reading the package right
here it has a lifetime warranty so that
bad bull will be going back well there
you go this week's tools are nut
splitter as always thank you for joining
me on this episode of you need this tool
and watching me try to bust a nut I'm
sure I'll see you guys some more next
week it's Friday fool