Best Tool For Oventrop

ChasMan

I have some 1/2" chrome Oventrop Valves to install and they have two little bumps on the inside of the nipples. What would be the best tool for tightening these things? Do they make a special wrench? I can do it with a tapered square rod or a tapered handled wrench but I was wondering if they made a special wrench.

Mark Eatherton

Google Radiator Spud Wrench

Here is what it looks like.



ME

hot_rod

radiator wrench

like this also

ChasMan

Thanks!

I had seen that tool, as well as "spud nipples" and thought that might be the thing but these oventrop nipples, well, they are very well cast and I thought they might have some proprietary wrench. I have only worked on Fintube before, this is my first radiator. :-) And its not even a radiator its a piece of Runtal baseboard.



Thanks! I will order that little guy.

zacmobile

^^ I've got one of those

I love it, It's nice & compact but I wish they made another bigger size for larger valves.

Glen Aspen_2

thanks to one of my best clients -

that liked to help and do things himself (honestly - he was good at it!) we used a torx drive socket for 3/8 square drive. superbly elegant!

timo888

where to buy ... been looking and looking and looking

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I'm also trying to connect a couple of valves to a Runtal, and would like to get one of these smaller tools but I cannot find them. Do they have a special name? Radiator spud wrench is finding plenty of the larger kind used with a pipe wrench, but not this compact version.

alotlikeearl

Finding Radiator Spud Wrench

You can find them on the Home Depot website.

                   Jerry