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John, we both know about Brian but I bought a socket from Lionel only last week!

OK Dave. Another person on here told me he had stopped. He makes great stuff so this is good news.

The Mulfab wheel spanner is a great piece of kit and makes wheel removal a breeze .

I also have the Lionel Wheel Widget removal tool that I’ve used once which I’m happy to sell on if anyone is interested.

Thanks John. This is the direction I was eventually going to take: having moved recently I don't have all those old bits and bobs in the garage that I used to have to adapt and improve on tools.

When my rear spinners seized a local garage extended the standard removal tool with a length of scaffold pole from a skip - worked a treat!

My wire wheels are always a right difficulty to undo. The reason is simple in that my stainless wires are painted black. The paint has got onto the hub & nut cap. Whilst I have cleaned up the hub contact face, the nut is not so easy to do & I have yet to Dremel clean the inside. There always seems to be a more important thing to do. So far a bit of heat & a scaffolding pole to extend the “ breaker “ bar has worked.

Can I suggest a dab of brake cleaner. Really softens the paint and makes it a doddle to remove.

thanks TBM, hadn't.t thought of that.

This is available from scparts.co.uk, 01293 847200
It's listed as 'Special tool' for 42mm octagonal spinners, 3/4" drive, part no. 479748. Cost is £48 inc vat ( same as 2018)

This has 3 great advantages. No dented wings, ditto wheel rims. The best bit is you can use a torque wrench. I started with 60ftlbs and marked the spinners against a marked spoke. I found only one of the self tightening spinners moved (tighter). At 80ftlbs there has been no movement at all.

Why beat the sh*t out of your spinners with a hammer to silly ftlbs when you can easily set them all at a modest torque value and easily get them undone again without the need of a 10 foot spanner?
I know some one will have been using a hammer for 80 years without a problem but we can all have an off day! No finantial interest and no hammer.