Thin walled sockets for pedals

I’ve been trying to take apart some Unite Instinct and Kona Wah Wah 2 pedals and I am having trouble getting even 1/4″ drive sockets in to get the end nuts off the axels.

I think it will fit ok on the Unite, but the Kona is a total no-go.

The nut looks to be 8mm, the 7mm goes in, but is too small.

Does anyone know of think walled sockets or similar to dismantle the pedals?

ive got a hope one for a reasonable price, like 6 or 7 quid iirc.. its8 mm thin wall

If you’ve got any cheap crappy tools have a dig around in those… I found the perfect pedal sockets in a really shit little toolkit that my dad had bought for “around the house”, you know the sort, they all have the exact same horrible screwdriver and 10 bits stuck in a bit of smelly plastic.

File it down, takes 10 mins.

Or redneck lathe it. Though I accept no responsibility if you end up blind.

Box spanner tends to be thinner than a socket, but I’d angle-grind an existing socket

https://www.toolstation.com/box-spanner-set/p59905

This might help

9mm thin walled deep socket?

If you’ve got any cheap crappy tools have a dig around in those… I found the perfect pedal sockets in a really shit little toolkit that my dad had bought for “around the house”, you know the sort, they all have the exact same horrible screwdriver and 10 bits stuck in a bit of smelly plastic.

Same – actually I think it’s a 14mm socket for ST crank bolts, but it lives in my bike toolbox for this reason whereas the rest of the set has long since been chucked/thrown in the old tools box to use as drifts.

DMR make one

If pushed, I find a flat screwdriver with the blade width similar to the length of the nut flats, wedge it down the side of the nut and turn the spindle. The nuts don’t usually need much torque to release them.