PRODUCT TRAINING
Cal-Van Tools
Master In-line Dowel Pin
Puller Set, No. 95400
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simply slides onto the fastener, hugging
it instead of cutting into it,” Wolf says.
This resolves the issue of technicians
being worried about hammering
a tool in confined spaces or near
fragile equipment. It also prevents
premature wear of the socket, since it
doesn’t cut into the fastener to provide
grip. In addition, it can make the process
of removing the fastener from the
socket quicker.
“Being that it’s tapered and hugs the
fastener rather than cutting into it, it’s
much easier to disengage it from that
fastener, saving another step, another
process that technicians don’t have to
do,” Wolf says.
The Rescue Extraction Sockets also
have some helpful features, such as the
bi-directional design. This allows the
sockets to be used in removing stuck
extractors, and also tightening them
in case a technician needs to reuse a
specialty fastener when a replacement
part is not readily available.
These sockets also address the
problem of not being able to find a
socket that fits stripped or corroded
fastener heads, by providing what
GEARWRENCH calls “minus sizes.”
“They’re basically half sizes of
sockets, to better fit a damaged fastener,”
Wolf says. “No matter what kind of
fastener you have in the range of these
sockets, we’re guaranteed to have a
socket to still take it out.”
Removing
non-threaded fasteners
Another problem technicians may
encounter is an unthreaded stud or
dowel that has become stuck and is not
easily removable using normal methods.
Many times, these types of fasteners
will even break off as technicians
attempt to remove them. Technicians
may think that the only way to remove
this type of fastener is by beating it or
using a slide hammer, which can take
a lot of effort and doesn’t fit easily in
tight spaces.
Fortunately, there are tools that
allow the extraction of these fasteners
without the use of a slide hammer.
Tools such as the Cal-Van In-Line
Dowel Puller set, No. 95400, use a
series of collets to pull the fastener out
in a straight line with little effort.
“You would put that collet around
the fastener and drop a sleeve over the
top, and tighten that piece into the
sleeve,” says Matt Kenny, vice president
of sales and marketing at Cal-Van
Tools. “What it does is, it closes that collet
down around the fastener. Then you
put the bigger black sleeve over it, and
use a regular wrench to extract it in a
straight line without having to hammer
it, beat it or anything like that.”
This allows for much smaller clearance
than a slide hammer, allowing for
fastener extraction in tighter workspaces.
Kenny also notes that the set
includes sizes for virtually any fastener
on medium duty vehicles and smaller.
Making the sale
Being well-versed on how these tools
work is a good idea when presenting
them to technicians.
It can also help to explain that these
tools may be simple and easy solutions
to otherwise frustrating problems. The
savings in time, frustration and physical
effort alone are likely enough to make
tool sets like these worth the investment
for many technicians.
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Tech Tools Broken Exhaust
Stud Kit, No. T1702
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