Tool Terminology: A Drag Link Socket is a Large Hollow-Groun

Sears Employee: "I'm pretty sure they don't make that...and if they do, we don't sell 'em."

西尔斯员工：“我很确定他们不做这个。如果他们这样做，我们不卖"

Sears Employee: "I'm pretty sure they don't make that...and if they do, we don't sell 'em."

西尔斯员工：“我很确定他们不做这个。如果他们这样做，我们不卖"

I previously wrote about gunsmithing/hollow-ground screwdriver bits

here

, and in the two years since, my ever-growing collection has served me well in my machine repair hobby. But a few months ago, as I diversified into larger industrial sewing machines, I began encountering

huge

screws I had no bits for. (If you have old woodworking machinery, factory machines or similar, you may have encountered the same thing when trying to repair or adjust them.) These screws had heads a half-inch or more in diameter, with slots in odd widths like 0.087"; the largest Brownells bit available is too small by half, in both dimensions.

我以前

在这里

写过关于枪械/空心螺丝刀的文章，在那之后的两年里，我不断增长的收藏对我的机器维修爱好很有帮助。但几个月前，当我多元化经营大型工业缝纫机时，我开始遇到我没有钻头

的巨大

螺丝钉。(If如果你有旧的木工机械，工厂机器或类似的，你可能会遇到同样的事情时，试图修理或调整他们。这些螺钉的头部直径为半英寸或更大，槽宽为0.087英寸;现有的最大的Brownells钻头在两个维度上都太小了一半。

Googling "Large hollow-ground screwdriver bits" yielded no results. Burning shoe leather didn't pay off either--three local hardware store clerks, two people in the Craftsman section of the local Sears and even a local gunsmith all had no idea where I could find extra-large hollow-ground bits. But finally an old-school mechanic in an online forum turned me on to what I was looking for: They're called "drag link sockets."

在谷歌上搜索“大型空心螺丝刀”没有结果。烧皮鞋也没什么用--三个当地五金店的店员，两个当地西尔斯百货公司工匠部的人，甚至一个当地的枪匠都不知道我在哪里能找到特大号的空心钻头。但最后，一个在线论坛上的老派机械师让我找到了我一直在寻找的东西：它们被称为“拖拽链接套接字”。"

A "drag link" is an outdated piece of steering linkage found on utility vehicles like trucks and jeeps. And it's held on with a big-ass machine screw. "Drag link sockets" are therefore just huge hollow-ground bits with a female end that accepts the square drive of a socket wrench, to get the drag links off.

一个“拖链接”是一个过时的一块转向联动发现多用途车，如卡车和吉普车。它被一个大螺丝钉固定住了因此，“拉杆套筒”只是一个巨大的空心钻头，有一个母端，可以接受套筒扳手的方头驱动，以使拉杆脱落。

Once I had the appropriate term to Google, I found they're still made and sold by a lot of different manufacturers. Including, of course...Sears Craftsman. Anyways I've titled this post so that the next poor bastard replicating my initial search will find the answer right away.

一旦我有了谷歌的适当术语，我发现它们仍然由许多不同的制造商制造和销售。当然，也包括...西尔斯工匠。无论如何，我已经命名了这篇文章，这样下一个可怜的混蛋复制我最初的搜索将找到答案。