Originally Posted by Ian Wegg
Originally Posted by Craig Jezz
Originally Posted by Ian Wegg
I'm struggling with the concept of the spinner version. If you're going to use a socket, what's the point of having ear-spinners in the first place?


I prefer the look of Spinners Ian, so if Lionel's 2 eared Spinner tool makes life a lot easier, then why not ?


Ah, form over function then Craig! innocent Actually my comment was tongue-in-cheek really. I agree, the two eared spinners do look nice and I did consider them myself once. Judging by the number of second-hand sets of hexagon nuts I've seen at autojumbles (often packaged nicely in a two-eared spinner box) it is a popular swap. I've grown to love my hexagons though!

I've made contact with Lionel and he is to make me a tool once I've given him the precise dimensions of the wheel nuts. As HJF says, apparently there is a lot of inconsistency.



I measured mine across the flats with my digital callipers. The LHS were slightly smaller than the RHS. But, the tool fitted the RHS okay but not the LHS! Turned out the octagon on the LHS was not “perfect” so Lionel swapped the tool for the next toleranced size up. 2018 car.