Fuel line nut wrench - options?

[bevans6]

You know, when I had to set my jakes (which I set to .062 per my particular book) I looked around my shop and saw three options.  One was to use a stack of feeler gauges that added up to .062, one was to make a custom go/no go gauge, which I could have done but it would have been a pain, and third was what I did - grab a length of .062 Tig welding wire, mic it to make sure it actually was .062, and bend me up a gauge.  Worked perfectly, just a slightly different technique needed to feel the correct setting.

Off topic a tad.  When I was first teaching myself how to be a machinist, I bought a 10 volume set of text books on how to do everything concerned with machining - by "Machinery's" -  I bet some of you have that little handbook in the center drawer of your Gerstener tool chest, I do. 1934 version.  I had a couple of chapters on making gauges.  Then I bought an old wood machinist chest at a flea market, got a great deal on it because it was full of tools and so very heavy.  The lady was tired of moving it around.  It had many many tools, and also many custom made jigs, gauges, cutters, all the stuff a machinist in the 1950's would have at his fingertips.

Brian

[luvrbus]

Old timers set the Jakes with no gauge starting the engine and screwing the adjustment down till it engaged back it off a 1/8 of turn lock it down I have checked a few guys had done that way and they were close 

I was never that brave myself I am pretty much a go by the book type when it comes to Jakes