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    Best Tool For Oventrop

    ChasMan
    ChasMan Member Posts: 472
    in THE MAIN WALL
    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.

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    • Mark Eatherton
      Mark Eatherton Member Posts: 5,866
      Google Radiator Spud Wrench

      Here is what it looks like.



      ME
    • hot_rod
      hot_rod Member Posts: 24,713
      radiator wrench

      like this also
      Bob "hot rod" Rohr
      trainer for Caleffi NA
      Living the hydronic dream
    • ChasMan
      ChasMan Member Posts: 472
      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
      zacmobile Member Posts: 209
      ^^ 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
      Glen Aspen_2 Member Posts: 52
      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
      timo888 Member Posts: 137
      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
      alotlikeearl Member Posts: 68
      Finding Radiator Spud Wrench

      You can find them on the Home Depot website.

                         Jerry
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