and these are different because....???

[Downwindtracker2]

You are doing good, Bill, mine quest list is on a note pad.

[lptools]

Hello, Bill H.. I agree with you on this one , technically speaking, the sockets I am showing only have 8 points. They are "referred to" as 10 points, because of their capability, as bill300d explained. Besides, the math would not work with 10 points , that is why you usually see 4, 6, 8, and 12 point sockets.

[p_toad]

hmmmm...10 points?   new one to me.   i've heard of triple square, but i seem to have the ability to round off almost anything.    

[lptools]

I was beginning to think that this was a marketing ploy by Wright!!! Here is an excerpt from a Wright catalog that should clear this up!!!!  Bill300d & coolford explained it earlier!! Regards, Lou

[d42jeep]

Full page provided by mrbill. I've only seen these made by Wright. I guess the idea didn't exactly take off.
-Don

[bill300d]

You will also find them marked PowerKraft(Montgomery Ward) and there are tales of possibly Crescent Tool, though I've not seen one.

[EVILDR235]

About 40 years ago me and a friend got a job to take down a old gas station that was framed with angle iron and lots of glass and bolted together with square headed ( 4 sided ) nuts and bolts.  We did not want to torch the metal so we could reuse it. Another friend loaned us a set of 8 point sockets. Over the years I have found many 8 point sockets in many different brands.  One set is a Montgomery Wards brand. Might be Wards Master. I have 8 point sockets in 1/4, 3/8 and 1/2 inch drive sizes. If I can help anybody complete their collection put a comment in the classifieds wanted section or private message me. I was just out in the freezing garage and found out I have several 4 point sockets. Probably for removing square headed plugs like on gear boxes to top off lube oil.

EvilDr235

[Bill Houghton]

Hello, Bill H.. I agree with you on this one , technically speaking, the sockets I am showing only have 8 points. They are "referred to" as 10 points, because of their capability, as bill300d explained.

I understood that.  I should have been clearer.  What I see in the wild around here are six and 12 point sockets for hex nuts and, rarely, eight point sockets in the conventional configuration (a square socket with another square socket broached in at 45 degrees of rotation from the first one).

But maybe I've just been missing these 10 point named sockets, confusing them with 12 point sockets.  I'll have to watch.

Besides, the math would not work with 10 points...

Except for the rare pentagonal nut/capscrew, as occasionally found on fire and other such equipment designed to keep civilians from messing with it.  But a five point socket would be a lot easier to do than a true ten pointer.

[Downwindtracker2]

Yesterday, I ended up using a Wright 3/4" true 8pt. I likely bought the socket new, but the Gray gear puller I used it on would rate vintage.

[EVILDR235]

I knew I had seen one of those so called 10 point sockets in my garage. I just went and checked my Proto top chest that my late mother inlaw bought me back in 1981.Lo and behold I found a Wright 10 point socket. 1/2 inch drive in 9/16. It is marked,

WRIGHT 4FS18   9/16 SQ HEX

TEN POINT ++58++

PATENT PENDING

Sorry, I still cannot do pictures. I appears to have seen a lot of use.

EvilDr235

[Bill Houghton]

I appears to have seen a lot of use.

I appears to have seen a lot of use, too, but I'm still up and moving around.