heh, I just dug one of those out of the scrap bucket and epoxied it into a drain plug in my truck that I finished rounding out in spectacular fashion.
I wasn’t the asshole who started rounding it, but I sure was the asshole that finished the job. Replacement with an actual hex head on it is sitting on the workbench. No more water trap woes if the cheap hex wrench stays glued in that fucked up part
edit: it worked great. The plug had dielectric corrosion (steel plug in a mag/alum body) and at first I thought I just tightened it up too much but nope, I felt that rust break, saw the removal of material on the plug itself once it was all the way out, and I’m sure it’s in the secondary fuel filter now. Replaced with a brass plug that had a 19mm hex head on it so no more worries. Big wrench, little torque kinda thing - it’s the o-ring that makes the seal, not the torque.
Had a buckle on my favorite boot break. Cross section to be repaired was 1.5mm x 1.5mm. Held solid for months until I drunkenly tripped over the strap tongue at a party. (Not the first time drunk, tongue and party was a thing in my life.) JB welded it again. Stayed tight.
heh, I just dug one of those out of the scrap bucket and epoxied it into a drain plug in my truck that I finished rounding out in spectacular fashion.
I wasn’t the asshole who started rounding it, but I sure was the asshole that finished the job. Replacement with an actual hex head on it is sitting on the workbench. No more water trap woes if the cheap hex wrench stays glued in that fucked up part
edit: it worked great. The plug had dielectric corrosion (steel plug in a mag/alum body) and at first I thought I just tightened it up too much but nope, I felt that rust break, saw the removal of material on the plug itself once it was all the way out, and I’m sure it’s in the secondary fuel filter now. Replaced with a brass plug that had a 19mm hex head on it so no more worries. Big wrench, little torque kinda thing - it’s the o-ring that makes the seal, not the torque.
I JB Welded a sawed off Allen wrench to my shitty Amazon bipod last week. Now it’s “quick release”!
JB is my favorite welder
Had a buckle on my favorite boot break. Cross section to be repaired was 1.5mm x 1.5mm. Held solid for months until I drunkenly tripped over the strap tongue at a party. (Not the first time drunk, tongue and party was a thing in my life.) JB welded it again. Stayed tight.