Where to buy 1" hex

Hi, Reidhollander.
You can make your own by welding a short 5/8 SAE bolt - fits a 15/16 wrench - to a piece of about 3/4" rod roughly 6' - 12" long to act as a handle. Or somebody on here will come up with a part # if you want the gen-u-wine ar-tickle. They can still be purchased from Cat dealers, at least here in DowNunder, either as a fitting for a 1/2' square drive socket handle or as the wrench version, both of which ackshully have two separate hexs on them, the one you are looking for and a smaller one.

Hope this helps.

Get one of these...Cat part #5S9569

Hi, Reidhollander.
Kee-wreck-shun - one side of the standard tool is 1 1/8" hex which is the larger - and quite possibly the one that you want. The other side is the 15/16" hex more commonly found on smaller tractors. Sorry 'bout that.

I have seen one 1/2" drive socket wrench breaker handle broken using the type that Old Magnet has posted, but that is ONLY one in all the hundreds that I have seen undone.

Just my 0.02.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/301736554960?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

http://www.ebay.com/itm/291560627543?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Made in Taiwan, but I have quite a few of their larger impact sockets and they have never failed me and the price is right.

Good luck,
Tom

3 of these on ebay right now...all of them about as spendy as you would expect. (This is the cheapest one...)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Caterpillar-T-6F-3703-Drain-Plug-wrench-CAT-dozer-tractor-tool-D2-D4-D6-D7-D8-D9-/381381776282?hash=item58cc20139a:g:YKwAAOSwT6pV2JvV

[quote="ronm"]3 of these on ebay right now...all of them about as spendy as you would expect. (This is the cheapest one...)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Caterpillar-T-6F-3703-Drain-Plug-wrench-CAT-dozer-tractor-tool-D2-D4-D6-D7-D8-D9-/381381776282?hash=item58cc20139a:g:YKwAAOSwT6pV2JvV[/quote]

Wow, may be the real deal but I think I would rather have a socket type as it take up less room in the box. But that is a cool wrench.

Yep, the antique/collectible dealers get ahold of them & the price tends to shoot up...

That long handle type is useless when reaching through holes in belly pans.
Realize that the plugs are not straight hex. The hex is actually tapered so if you want full grip you need the tapered drive.

[quote="Old Magnet"]That long handle type is useless when reaching through holes in belly pans.
Realize that the plugs are not straight hex. The hex is actually tapered so if you want full grip you need the tapered drive.[/quote]

I have to wonder why Cat would have designed them with a tapered hex...so dirt isn't able to pack into the recess or if they're cast, perhaps they added 'draft' to the mold to make them easier to remove????
Other than those 2 reasons, tapered makes little sense to me...just my 2 cents.

Tom