well welcome back to Steve bra reviews today we're talking about a nut splitter yeah I'm not splitter
and a fuse guys ever used one of these I've had this in my toolbox I'll give you a good look at
it there and she's pretty sharp you know it's not like it's dull or anything like that and I've had
it my toolbox for a long time and I wonder how many of you have used it before and the whole
purpose behind this is you have a nut and this tool will apply pressure at a pinch point here
with the fine blade and split the nut have you guys had any success with it before let's take
a look I'll put one on the vise and let's see how this works okay I'm cheating a bit here I got the
big beast out here the DeWalt half-inch impact this baby's the bomb it's got a fully charged
battery on it and that's the way I'm gonna go and of course you just got the impact socket
on there and I'm just gonna impact the back of it here I'll tell you right off the bat I have
not had much success trying to do this manually I imagine it can be done but I've never really
attempted it majority of the time I can get an impact on it let's take a look well the whole
idea of this particular tool is to put it on the threads where the nut meets the threads so the
whole surface I'll take this out of the vise for you here so you can see how this goes that's how
the tool is supposed to be so you cover all the threads and you put one flat on there and the
majority of the time the white why you're doing this is because the nut is either rounded off
or so rusted on there that you want to get the fastener out without having the ability to take
the nut off so easy so let's put the impact on it and let's take a look now I know it's going to be
hard to see but I'll show you the effect here well they're taking that vise down to get far
and I'll just do it now I want to show you this up close exactly what it did and you could see
how it it split on this side all the way through guys I'll get you as close as I can in there but
she's r8 straight through there and all I would have to do is just go around the other side and do
it again or in most situations that will release enough pressure that you can just untwist it and
take it off well I hope you like that I'll show you the the bolt here and hopefully you can see
on the top there yeah there is some damage done here so what I did is I had to use a wrench and
just kind of back it off and here's the result here and you can definitely see that yeah it
does punch through there very nice and it is quite effective and I've used it I've only used
it myself usually on 3/8 to 1/2 inch bolt and so I would say like a 5/8 9/16 knot that's about it
but it's worked fine for me over the years not in very many situations do I use this usually
it's in a spot where you can't get in there with I would say like a sawzall or or you can't even
get an impact in there on it because it's rounded over and you can't get a wrench on it you can't
get nothing on it and it's rusted and this is a good way to to get this combination together
and guys it's this tool here I'm telling you I bought well it's a long time ago but I would
say you can still buy this tool today I'm sitting anywhere for under ten bucks I think so I'm going
to I bought it a long time but I'm saying like 10 bucks this is a good tool to have in your
arsenal when you're out there and you need to have an actually split and that way there you
can complete your particular repair so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen
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