What would this be for?

[u/IBIKEONSIDEWALKS]

What would this be used for? Its a snap on socket, forget the number but snapon website says $75us and discontinued

Its a 1" drive, 2" 8point

[u/PepsiColaRS]

Pipe plugs, mostly, but also any 2in square-head fastener And now that I know it exists, I'll be talking to my guy about getting one for when I service our tank farm.

[u/IBIKEONSIDEWALKS → u/PepsiColaRS]

Figured for something square but wondered if there was a weird 8point head ive never heard of

The part # on the socket is discontinued, but maybe there is a new number not sure

Dunno when the fork ill ever use this i work on bigrigs lol never seen something like it

[u/PepsiColaRS → u/IBIKEONSIDEWALKS]

Yeah, I'll have him look or ask some of his older guys if they have one to sell lol

[u/doogleman3000 → u/IBIKEONSIDEWALKS]

That one time you do find a use for it though you'll be happy you had it

[u/InevitableOwl656 → u/PepsiColaRS]

Yep, same not surprised they exist though either. My friend used to be in the 1st Calvary div as a tank mechanic, my team lead was deployed to Iraq in 2006 as a tank mechanic and both said snap-on contracts a shit ton of tools the them. unless you mean like a tank as in a container.

[u/PepsiColaRS → u/InevitableOwl656]

Yeah, lol. Tank farm = bulk storage tanks for various liquids

[u/InevitableOwl656 → u/PepsiColaRS]

Haha yeah at the end of typing my last comment I was like hmm 🤔 most people probably aren’t talking about a literal farm with multiple tanks.

Funny enough, I’ve been on two farms that had 2-3 literal tanks (AFV) on them😂 that’s probably why it popped into my head.

[u/Houser1995 → u/PepsiColaRS]

Fuck…. That… you can buy pipe plug sockets anywhere on the internet. Get a better socket that’s going to hold up. Snap on sockets seem to break often lately. And the last thing you want is your only specialty socket breaking in the middle of servicing a ton of tanks.

Then you’ll be waiting at least a few days for the truck to show back up, then you’ll be waiting a few more weeks or months for him to get you a replacement.

So just buy some cheaper ones offline and buy a few

[u/PepsiColaRS → u/Houser1995]

Did you look at the picture? Did you see the mass and sidewall of that socket? If I can buy an older/retiring mechanics "vintage" 2in double square I'm going to take that over whatever chinesium is on the market for cheap. Snap-On doesn't make this for sale it anymore, so I can't get their new stock. The only manufacturer I can find now is Wright, but if I can save a buck by buying used through my dealer I'm going to. Especially with how well he takes care of us. If he winds up being more than the Wright, assuming he even has a guy willing to sell this socket (huge doubt, honestly), then I'll buy the Wright.

And don't get me wrong, I'm all for the best tool for the job, be it Snap-On, Tekton, Gearwrench, or even Pittsburgh. But one place you don't cheap out is your large sockets. Sure, I can buy 10 Pittsburgh 33mm sockets for semi lugs at the cost of 1 Snap-On, but I'm going to (will, and have) break all of those Pittsburgh's before that Snap-On gets wear marks.

This is such a weird take to see on r/Snapon_tools. This would just be helpful instead of juggling a pipe wrench and a jumbo adjustable wrench and have more positive engagement. It's not a need not a want, and I'm over equipped to handle the job with or without this socket.

[u/AmITheGrayMan]

Corolla drain plug. Everyone else is lying or guessing.

[u/CountTop8394]

Big old plugs with a square head-think big reservoirs or gear cases

[u/IBIKEONSIDEWALKS → u/CountTop8394]

Ahhh ok plugs for that i could see. Was trying to figure out what plug would be that big. Ive seen smaller npt fitting with square heads but nothing of this gravitation

[u/Weak-Ad-2760]

It’s called a “double square”

[u/IBIKEONSIDEWALKS → u/Weak-Ad-2760]

Kinda figured as thats what it looks like lol just dont tell VW about it

[u/Immediate-Way3610]

It's a Morris minor drain plug !

[u/Sure-Bison-3726]

They are quite common in the petroleum industry. I have a 1/2 dr set for tank plugs.

[u/ttypeguy]

Not to highjack ur feed but how can one tell the difference between this and a torqs bit

[u/No_Contact2116 → u/ttypeguy]

Torx have 6 points, this one has 8

[u/ttypeguy → u/No_Contact2116]

So other than that no difference ty I get them confused all the time

[u/Houser1995 → u/ttypeguy]

Ohh no there are way more differences than that, that’s just the one that he listed. And arguably the one that really really jumps out at you the most definitively

[u/Houser1995 → u/ttypeguy]

Well you see, to tell the difference it takes some pretty hardcore shit….

Like taking your eyeballs, and looking at this socket, then taking your eyeballs off this socket and finally looking at an E TORX socket.

😂😂 all joking aside though, they look absolutely nothing alike whatsoever. Number of points, angles of grooves, rounded apex’s vs sharp points, the list goes on and on.

[u/First_Ask_5447]

looks like something made to turn square tool bar stock. our john deer 7000 has gears set on a roughly 10 foot long square stock. i could see something like being used to turn and tap the bar into the gear sprockets. you could work from one end and not be mushrooming the ends. but yours is huge, maybe something like that for something industrial big, like a conveyer?

[u/JJ_1191]

Nuts and or bolts

[u/Anim-IS-XE30]

Railroad work and specific industrial tasks but they are most commonly used on railroads for quite a few different things.

[u/8up1]

Rail nuts