Looking For A Ratchet Drive Pipe Wrench

[George7941]

https://lowellcorp.com/products/pipe-wrench-head-adapter/

Like the one above but smaller, compact, able to get into tight spaces. One specific application would be getting the bonnet nut off Delta shower valves when the valve is recessed into the wall, preventing use of a usual pipe wrench.

 

[doitmyself]

I don't think you are going to find something like you picture that is small enough to fit within the recess and opens enough to grab the bonnet nut. There are lots of Google hits for techniques to get stuck bonnet nuts off.

Maybe a strap wrench like this, IF you can get it to grip:

 

[George7941]

I need it for situations beyond the ability of strap wenches to grip sufficiently When a nut is seized on badly, the tool has to have teeth to bite on to the nut. A lot of these bonnet nuts are tapered, especially on kitchen and bath sink faucets and strap wrenches are useless on them.

 

[Boomer]

How about an adjustable pliers? A hose wrench?

 

[George7941]

When the nut is recessed, it has to be approached at a right angle.

 

[Boomer]

So you are going to remove the handle on the apparatus shown on your picture. Then there is a nut exposed deeper down in the wall that is on the end of the valve. Why won't a socket work with an extension?

 

[George7941]

These nuts are chromed round nuts, no flats to drive them

 

[Pablo]

Is there not a special tool for that one?

 

[George7941]

No

 

[ElectroMechanoMan]

Try soaking the nut in CLR or other lime remover. It may be stuck from lime deposits. I had to fight too many of those. They don’t machine nice flats for a wrench and most just use a flat knurl, guaranteed to get chewed up trying to remove it.

 

[George7941]

Knurling would help, most are just smooth. I keep muriatic acid to remove lime deposits, strong stuff

 

[Fitter30]

Basin wrench. Put a piece of rubber between the chrome and the teeth.
https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai...796aiqiLAxUCC3kGHSL6G0wQwg8oAHoECA0QBg&adurl=

 

[George7941]

I have a few basin wrenches but they do not have the same self-clinching action pipe wrenches do and slip on the round nuts.
The fact that the fixed jaw on the basin wrench has the opposite curve to what is optimal does not help.