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Keith,
You made my day. This tools seems to be the perfect choice. Only too pleased to help. I have the version for non dished wheels and it works perfectly, no damage to spinners.
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Just use a hide hammer, practice makes perfect. you also get the "feel" when it's correctly tight  my car came with one of those plywood spanners. It remains untouched in the boot. 
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I use a 2lb "dead blow" hammer.
Works a treat
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The plywood "spanners" can also split quite easily.....I went through two when I had the 4/4. I ended up using a spinner tool from MGOC Spares which worked well.
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I use a 2lb "dead blow" hammer.
Works a treat
+1, just keep your thumbs out of the way!!
Here for a good time not a long time!!
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I used a hide hammer but did buy a spanner from the MG club. Used that initially with a hammer"tap" afterwards to make sure. This was for 2-eared spinners.
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Jay, I also saw that tool in Ebay. No danger to scratch the spinner? Is it covered or just coated metal?
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Coated metal. It's worth putting a scrap of leather over the spinner.
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Coated metal. It's worth putting a scrap of leather over the spinner. ..which brings us back to the hide hammer. Why did they invent 2-eared spinners in the first place? So you could knock them on and off with a hammer. So what on earth is wrong with using a good old Thor No 2? - Heavy enough to do the job easily - leather faced so you won't mess up the spinner - cheap as chips (£25) even if you don't replace the leather section when it wears and buy a whole new hammer instead - British made - the right tool for the job. All the other solutions in search of a problem seem to be directed at relieving gullible owners of their money.
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