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Hex and Torx Keys

Bondhus Ball-End Hex Keys Sets
Bondhus Ball-End Hex Keys Sets
Bondhus had the best idea since the invention of socket head screws. Everybody who has worked with them can't do without them any more. The ball-shaped end permits the use even in hard-to-reach areas up to an angle of 25°.
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Bondhus ColorGuard Hex Keys Sets
Bondhus ColorGuard Hex Keys Sets
Besides the outstanding invention of the ball head, Bondhus had another helpful idea to simplify the handling of tools. With this hex key set with different colours you can directly reach for the right key, which is additionally marked with its own size. The keys of this set are longer than the regular ones. In addition, this surface offers excellent corrosion protection. Beautiful thing!
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Bondhus Stubby Hex Keys Set
Bondhus Stubby Hex Keys Set
Stubby hex keys have shorter "legs" and are perfect when there is too little space to use a standard hex key. Inch sizes.
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Bondhus Ball-End Torx Key Set
Bondhus Ball-End Torx Key Set
Bondhus had the best idea since the invention of torx-type screws. Everybody who has worked with them can't do without them any more. The ball-shaped end permits the use even in hard-to-reach areas up to an angle of 25°.
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Bondhus Tamper Resistant Torx Key Set
Bondhus Tamper Resistant Torx Key Set
Fortunately, you don't come across Torx security screws every day. But if you do, it's nice to have the right tool at hand. A hole in the middle of the head at each end of the key, allows a smooth engagement in Torx security screws. Although this tool also works great with regular Torx screw heads.
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Bondhus Combo
Bondhus Combo
This 22-piece kit combines a set of metric and a set of American sized ballpoint hex wrenches. To protect them from corrosion and for easy distinction they feature a golden (metric) or silver (US) chromate finish.
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Bondhus Ball-End Individual Hex Wrenches SAE
Bondhus Ball-End Individual Hex Wrenches SAE
Bondhus had the best idea since the invention of socket head screws. Everybody who has worked with them can't do without them any more. The ball-shaped end permits the use even in hard-to-reach areas up to an angle of 25°.
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Bondhus Ball-End Metric Individual Hex Wrenches
Bondhus Ball-End Metric Individual Hex Wrenches
Bondhus had the best idea since the invention of socket head screws. Everybody who has worked with them can't do without them any more. The ball-shaped end permits the use even in hard-to-reach areas up to an angle of 25°.
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Bondhus Ball-End Torx Individual Wrenches
Bondhus Ball-End Torx Individual Wrenches
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Hex Keys Set
Hex Keys Set
Hex wrench set for all Harleys. 8-piece set, from 1/16”–1/4”.
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Bondhus T-Handles Hex Set SAE
Bondhus T-Handles Hex Set SAE
The fastest way to work with socket head bolts is to use T-handle wrenches, especially if they feature the patented Balldriver head by Bondhus (starting with size 5/32”). 10 sizes, 3/32” - 3/8”.
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Bondhus T-Handles Hex Individual Wrenches SAE
Bondhus T-Handles Hex Individual Wrenches SAE
The fastest way to work with socket head bolts is to use T-handle wrenches, especially if they feature the patented Balldriver head by Bondhus (starting with size 5/32”). 10 sizes, 3/32” - 3/8”.
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Bondhus T-Handles Tool Holder
Bondhus T-Handles Tool Holder
The fastest way to work with socket head bolts is to use T-handle wrenches, especially if they feature the patented Balldriver head by Bondhus (starting with size 5/32”). 10 sizes, 3/32” - 3/8”.
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CruzTools Outback'r H13 Folding Tool Set
CruzTools Outback'r H13 Folding Tool Set
Inspired by outdoorsman-style multi-tools, yet designed specifically for Harley-Davidsons, the Outback'r H13 is a powerhouse of functionality. At only 9 ounces and 3.5 inches, you won‘t have any trouble finding a spot to carry it. Built to last using heat-treated chrome vanadium and carbon steel.
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CruzTOOLS Folding Hex and Torx Key Set
CruzTOOLS Folding Hex and Torx Key Set
Consider it a „Swiss Army Knife“ for Harley-Davidsons. The FHT1 contains the most commonly required hex and Torx keys forged from heat-treated nickel alloy steel. They‘re housed in a tough composite handle with cushion grip that allows right-angle, straight-out, and any angle in-between for those hard-to-get-to fasteners.
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Hand tools for inhex and Torx profiles

The common slot in a screw head can transfer only relatively low torques. Another disadvantage of the straight slot is that it does not guide the screwdriver blade properly. In the search for an alternative to the screw head slot, attempts were made in the early years of the 20th century to provide the round screw head with an embossed hexagonal profile - the reversal of hexagonal screw head to socket wrench, so to speak. In 1910, a certain William G. Allen patented a specific manufacturing process for such screw heads. As Mr. Allen only patented the manufacturing process and not the idea of the inhex socket itself, it wasn't problem at all for other companies to produce similar screws. In 1936, the Wuppertal-based company Bauer & Schaurte patented the inhex socket screw itself for Germany under the name Inbus. As a result, we are still not allowed to write Inbus screw today, although most German-speaking people say Inbus when they mean hexagon socket. However, a inhex socket - regardless of whether according to Allen or Inbus - transmits around 10 times the torque of a Phillips screwdriver with the same screw shaft diameter.

And Torx?

Transmits even more torque and guides the tool even better. Simply changing the profile from a hexagon to six teeth with curved flanks (like a small chain sprocket) increases the transmittable force many times over. This is an immense advantage, especially in the automated assembly of screws. Harley-Davidson itself also quickly recognized the advantage of the Torx profile for highly stressed screws such as those for brake discs and has switched to it. With Torx on the market worn-out countersunk socket head screws are a thing of the past.

Ball heads

The basic layout of socket and Torx screw heads relies on the screwdriver positioning the tool exactly in the center axis of the screw. However, if the tip of the tool is turned off in a rather spherical shape, this tool can transfer axis angles of up to 25°. This is just right if, for example, a flange protrudes above the screw head and there is just enough space to insert the screw into the thread, but the tool can no longer be positioned straight. Ball heads are available for inhex socket and Torx profiles.

Socket bits or screwdriver-like handles?

Torx and hexagon socket tools are available in three standard shapes: with a screwdriver handle, as a socket or interchangeable bit and in an L-shape with a short and long shank. The screwdriver handle is comfortably gripped by the hand, but transmits less force than the socket bit, where the force transmission depends rather on the handle ("ratchet"). The L-shaped wrench offers both: power transmission via the long shank and use as a screwdriver. The short end acts like half a T-handle.

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