Topsaw Pocket Tool repair

[Tom Dunlap]

The Pocket Tool is an amazing deal and a great tool. Unfortunately mine met its match with a Gorilla

Too many saw users think that the bar nuts need to be white knuckle tight. If they get a long scrench on a saw it becomes their duty to over tighten. Then, the next time the nuts need to be loosened that long scrench is gone and the only scrench around is a shorty. Not only that, the socket on the shorty has been rounded from trying to loosen what Gorilla tightened and its round not he. Shaped anymore

That's what happened to my Pocket Tool

http://www.topsawtool.com/Old-version--Close-out-TopSaw-Pocket-Tool-19mm-x-10mm_p_12.html

The 19mm socket rounded out so it was time for a repair and upgrade

I had an extra 19mm combination wrench that donated the box end. A bit of cutting, grinding and welding leaves me with a heavy duty box end that should stand up to the Gorilla tightening

 

[Brocky]

Another problem with multiple saw users is, one worker allows the scrench to slip off the nut, causing a burr. Next guy, or same person flips the nut next time, and now the burr gouges a groove in the aluminum cover.

Stihl has their name on one side of their's and I always kept that facing up on my own saws.

 

[TreeVB]

Totally understand the whole overtightening of the bar nut. However, if i dont white knuckle my t540 then the chain tends to loosen

 

[Magnum783]

@Tom Dunlap I build my own screeches out of 2 impact sockets and a screwdriver. Insert a little TIG welding and bam you have a scrench that will never break. You have my number just shoot me a text and one will be on its way your way shortly.

 

[craneguy1]

Is it aluminium or magnesium?

 

[Brocky]

Soft!?

 

[macswan]

The Pocket Tool is an amazing deal and a great tool. Unfortunately mine met its match with a Gorilla

Too many saw users think that the bar nuts need to be white knuckle tight. If they get a long scrench on a saw it becomes their duty to over tighten. Then, the next time the nuts need to be loosened that long scrench is gone and the only scrench around is a shorty. Not only that, the socket on the shorty has been rounded from trying to loosen what Gorilla tightened and its round not he. Shaped anymore

That's what happened to my Pocket Tool

http://www.topsawtool.com/Old-version--Close-out-TopSaw-Pocket-Tool-19mm-x-10mm_p_12.html

The 19mm socket rounded out so it was time for a repair and upgrade

I had an extra 19mm combination wrench that donated the box end. A bit of cutting, grinding and welding leaves me with a heavy duty box end that should stand up to the Gorilla tightening

It doesn't need to be a gorilla, mine rounded out on very little pressure, great tool, but that's a chink in the armor

 

[Drumbo]

I have had a gorilla over tighten a bar nut of mine and the result was the stud coming out of the saw. Super awesome move by the gorilla.

 

[CutHighnLetFly]

Tom you crack me up, tell me even your top saw pocket tool is pink

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Tom you crack me up, tell me even your top saw pocket tool is pink

LOL!

Yup it is hahahah

I use it at work so I want
To make sure that anyone knows that it's my personal tool not a common use tool

Good eyes

 

[flyingsquirrel25]

Saw tools and I have never got along. The "t" wrenches work good but were not very portable (especially in the tree). So I bought the top saw. Not very portable either but it has all the tools in one, which can be cumbersome (who needs all those tools in the field). And I wasn't impressed with the durability of the tools (broke the Allen keys first use). I bought the Ott saw wrench at TCIA and find its portability great. Hangs on my saddle or in my saw pants pocket. It folds up nice with no sharp edges. It's definitely not an "all in one" but serves my needs... so far.
http://www.3ott.com/

 

[Tom Dunlap]

The Ott looks like a good tool. It wouldn't be hard to weld up a similar tool.

 

[Treezybreez]

That's cool Tom. You are very resourceful.
What you need for gorilla man is a wrench with a clutch that slips at a specific torque.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

That's cool Tom. You are very resourceful.
What you need for gorilla man is a wrench with a clutch that slips at a specific torque.

Hmmm...this may already have been invented hahaha!

I had a Gorilla on my crew. He would over tighten. I put a nut in my welding vise and had him hand thread a screw into the nut. Then I set my small torque wrench to the load that the factory recommended for small and large nuts. He tightened and loosened with the clicker torque wrench. When
He thought he had the feel he used a scrench...a shorty...to tighten the screw. We used the torque wrench to test his feeling. Whenever I did this everyone was surprised that most of the time we all overtighten a bit

 

[Treezybreez]

Back when I started climbing and cutting, There was one time when the bar, chain and nut fell off my climbing saw while I was aloft. The amazing part was that I found the nut. I became a gorilla man for a while after that.