Get a Grip on Tap Handles

[rgsparber]

Do you have trouble tightening your tap handles with your bare hands? The solution is embarrassingly simple.

If you are interested, please see

https://rick.sparber.org/tapHandleGrip.pdf


Your comments are welcome. All of us are smarter than any one of us.


Thanks,

Rick

[DIYer]

Thanks rgsparber! We've added your Tap Handle Grips to our Tapping and Threading category,
as well as to your builder page: rgsparber's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Tap Handle Grips by rgsparber

tags: handle

[FEM2008]

Very simple indeed. Thanks!

I was thinking of printing a wrench for my tap handle (similar concept to a camera filter wrench), but I have a bunch of clamps on hand and it's a ready made solution.
The only changes I'd make is to add rubber strips (from an old bicycle inner tube) between the clamp and the nut.

[Frank S]

I don't have a problem gripping mine enough to tighten the problem is I tried to chuck a 1/4-20 tap in 1 of my handles and broke the shell nut just hand tightening it So now I have to repair it

[Toolmaker51]

When our Dad's were boys, Tee handle tap wrenches had independent jaws that closed by a internally tapered nut. They gripped the square securely. Junior process engineers and skinflint accountants came up with the cross sawn body to save a dollar, and our mechanical civilization has never been the same.
And now the chinesium versions so roughly turned, all your grip is used up overcoming that friction, without closing the fingers much.
I predict, soon a few companies will bail that particular offshore supply, leaving behind nothing but "Made in..." stickers. Then we class action sue them into oblivion.

[madokie]

i keep an eye out for tap handles with hex as the tightener,, have a crafstman like that ,,just use a wrench of the correct size.works great for those with limited hand strenght.