Help please with Car Battery removal.

Dee123_2

Sorry...

Lots of WD40 and what I think was a posh ratchet (that you hold upright and apply downward pressure and rotate, having selected the appropriate bit head - which I suspect was 13m as suggested by previous posters).

Dee

tomstickland

Impact driver. Excellent bit of kit.

Wig

Did he use a hammer then?

Dee123_2

The nearest I can find by googling images is something like this, without the T-bar. It was about 40-50cms long. The hollow bit went on the end, rather than the side, so it gave more leverage than the wrench/pliers which I didnt have enough space to grip and turn.

No hammer needed, the WD40 works wonders (as the Green Flag man himself said).

Wig

Has anyone got any idea what he's used? I'm intrigued. Sounds like an automatic screwdriver with a helix thread (old style manual driver), I'd be surprised it had enough strength to do the job.

Dee was it cordless electric? or totaly manual

RightRevBod

You can belt the manual helix thread automatic screwdrivers with a hammer, but it is not the best thing in the world for them.

My father was a professional carpenter, and he had two Stanley automatic screwdrivers. One of them he looked after and kept "nice". The other one was used in conjuction with a mallet for the really stubborn screws. This one needed to be stripped down and services a bit more often, but in those days (talking 25+ years ago) the spares were readily available. Not sure if that is still the case.

I still have the driver somewhere. The catch to keep it closed when being used as a normal ratchet driver is broken, but otherwise it is still in working order.

intel

That thingy looks like an impact driver.

Dee123_2

Wig wrote:

Has anyone got any idea what he's used? I'm intrigued. Sounds like an automatic screwdriver with a helix thread (old style manual driver), I'd be surprised it had enough strength to do the job.

Dee was it cordless electric? or totaly manual

Hmm, well, I WAS convinced it was manual, but now I'm not sure. I didnt hear a sound. The only other thing I can tell you is that the hollow metal bit (is it called a socket?) he used was exactly like the ones in my cordless screwdriver set and are just held on by magnetic force.

waster_2

I think we are all looking for more than there was.
IMO I believe he just used a normal socket set with a 13mm(?) socket on an extension bar and a ratchet handle or similar.

Remember Dee 123 had no socket set and in all probabality if the head was not too damaged a standard socket would, in 99 out of 100 attempts, do the business.

Wig

Well if it were me I'd tackle it as you say with a socket extension, and ratchet or tee bar, but Dee says it was straight without the tee bit/handle at the top. I think we'll never know.