9mm thin walled deep socket?

Wife just bought herself some new pedals but the axle is secured with a 9mm nut in a 12mm bore. Does anyone know of a socket that might kit that?

Why do people design stuff that can’t use normal tools?

What you need is a 9 mm socket and an a grinder.

Or different pedals. Let’s face it, the market is somewhat flooded.

Halfords 1/4″ drive? I Have a Halfords Advanced socket set with 6 sided sockets which seem fairly thin walled.

Superstar sell a thin 9mm for pedal servicing. Might fit yours. I turned a socket down on a lathe.

As above 1/4” drive socket works for me..

Ive got a cheap set of hex drive sockets.. can’t remember when or where but they do fit inside a superstar pedal.

Screwdriver down the hole, jam the nut against the pedal body, use the flats/hex socket to take it off might work ? Think I’ve done something similar in the past.

¼” socket has worked on every other pedal I’ve ever owned.

I’m not holding £120 pedals with a screwdriver!

I’ll have another look at Superstar, could only find an 8mm version when I looked.

I have a cheap and nasty socket set that is really thin walled. I guess it is a cost saving measure. The other option might be a box spanner – generally thin walled.

Nukeproof do one.

Find a mechanic that’s bought a Snap on set of 1/4″ drive deeps – I bet the 9mm one has never seen a nut!

Nuke proof one seems to be 8mm rather than 9mm.

Superstar tool is sub 13mm OD, not sub 12mm.

I have a Halfords one thatd does the job (it’s not a deep socket, never had a pedal that needs that?). But weirdly I usually use one I got in some horrible cheap amazon tool set, which works perfect. Worth having a rummage around your shittest tools basically.

Nuke proof one seems to be 8mm rather than 9mm.

It’s 9mm

sub 12mm

I have cheap sockets that do Nanos just fine but they are bigger than 12mm outer diameter.  On a 9mm socket 12mm cant leave much at the points, I think that will be hard to find.

Just checked. 9mm hex is 10.3923mm point to point so the socket will have to be less than 0.8mm at the points.  What pedals are these?

Snap on 9mm 12point od

These are the Pedalling Innovations Catalyst Evo.

Seems a really odd axle design.

Nuke proof tool seems to be out of stock anyway.

Probably says enough that this service kit comes with a special tool

https://bigchaps.com/collections/pedaling-innovations-catalysts/products/catalyst-evo-rebuild-kit

That seems quite telling doesn’t it.

Is it one of these you’re after?

https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/nukeproof-pedal-axle-nut-removal-tool/rp-prod173070

I’ve got a Halfords 1/4″deep drive one that fitted various pedals OK.

Annoyingly Burgtec need a skinny 10mm one, which I didn’t realise until the night before a ride when I discovered my MkVs had seized up. Had to grind a nice 1/4″ Teng one down quite a lot to get it to fit. Not too impressed – especially as it had happened after the first time the pedals had been washed!

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What about a box wrench/spanner.

It’s quite easy to accurately grind/file down a 9mm socket if you mount it on an extension into a drill

Is it one of these you’re after?

It was suggested but there is a really helpful review that makes it clear it isn’t slim enough for the OP

The OD of the widest part (nut driver) is approx 12.5mm

Aren’t the pedaling innovations made by superstar? If so the SS tool is probably going to fit. Can’t see they will have made a while different axle. Bet it’s a SS axle on a custom platform.

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It’s quite easy to accurately grind/file down a 9mm socket if you mount it on an extension into a drill

The Redneck Lathe never fails. Except when you lose a finger or an eye but that’s not really a failure, more of a feature

DMR make a tool for this purpose

Isn’t the DMR tool is for the cheaper cup n cone V8 pedal, £120 pedal doesn’t suggest loose balls.
Surely a box spanner with a tommy bar is the thinnest thing available.

It keeps getting said but roundly ignored!

Box spanner is your friend.

I can’t believe nobody has suggested a box spanner yet!

“https://www.amazon.co.uk/Melco-Tm4-Metric-Box-Spanner/dp/B0001P0EHS”

Less than 4 quid, next day delivery. And if you DO need to make it thinner, you’ll be able to do that with a decent file.

Si

EDIT** Added quotes the the amazon link as it just showed a pic rather than the link to the item on amazon.

Aye, a box spanner might do it. Even if it had to be filed down so much the points broke through, the proximity of the pedal wall is so close, it would stop the ends flaring out 😉

I turn sockets down in a lathe as needed

I have put a socket in a drill and run it against a grinder in the past. Use bolt through the socket, nut and washer to lock then hold the bolt in the drill for larger sockets.

I’d love to do something like that, but I don’t have a lathe or a grinder. Not really a real man it seems.

Got a drill? Use that to turn the socket against sandpaper.

Sandpaper won’t work too well. I’ve reduced a 10mm down in the past. I used a Piller drill and file.

If it’s Nano pedals I used an imperial socket.

It was from a pound shop 3/4 drive set, so thin and fitted better than the suggested 9mm from the same set.

Hiya Jon Edwards, STD 1/4 Silverline sockets fit MK5 Burgtec fine. The std silverline sockets is what they sell as a special..