Review on 🔧 ONENESS 369 Water Heater Element & Anode Rod Socket Wrench Removal Tool - 1-1/16" x 1-1/2" x 10" - A3 Carbon Steel - Fits Residential and RV Camper Travel Trailers Motorhomes by Steven Harmon

If you are looking for something like this you have items that may have rusty and/or corroded threads. This nest is probably not strong enough to remove many of them. You can't apply much torque to the bushing as you can only stick a fairly flimsy screwdriver through the holes. I squeezed the nut very hard and it kept slipping. After half a dozen unsuccessful attempts to pry out my first element, I saw that there were already cutouts in the interior walls where the flattened ends of the element's hex slid into the walls. The socket actually bent around the nut. I tried a different element several times. The same story. Escape failed. Went back to the first one, and after about 20 tries it finally broke. I was able to replace that element, but I never got the second element out of the tank. do yourself a favor Buy a quality outlet. This tool is too weak, however, to release only the least difficult elements. There are several problems. First, the prominent inseam belies the inferior quality of the mild steel tubing. The element nut is bent outward from the original tube, which probably had a wall thickness of about .065". As you can see if you read my caliper, about .57 wall thickness is left on the bushing. It's just not soft enough to get the job done. Second, the fit is too loose, especially for element nuts that have a significant portion of the tips flattened. Each socket engages the sides of the member's hex remote from the tips. But that's why the nut jumps from one level to another in such a thin wall of mild steel. Notice how the images warp counter-clockwise from each corner. This is after only one item has been removed. Much torque was never required. The problem is the fit. low quality steel, insufficient structural rigidity. You won't win with it. An element is successfully weakened, and it's already so twisted that it will never be able to make another. However, given the flattened hex lugs, you won't do too well with a 12-point head. You need a hexagon. It took a lot of effort to find them for a half inch drive, but here are two socket links here at Revain: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FELL14/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid= ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1https :// www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R754LSC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I ordered a Tekton. You have to grind the bevel of the pan to get enough bite. but I bet I don't have to do that.