Yes but cheaper sockets usually break. What I found to work years back the best is drill a hole through a cheap deep well socket that fits over the nipple. Install a piece of Hardened Key stock through the hole and tack it in with a light weld. Years ago I cut a slot in a socket with a cut off wheel and set the key stock in the slot. There are several ways.
My son now has the tools I don't know who he bought them from. I borrow them when he is not looking. It looks exactly like what I told you to make. They are probably Snap-on, Mac, Or KD. They are in a red case. Never looked at the name. Try MSC on line
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drag link sockets old school
If you have the room - slide an old bolt or round stock down inside that is close to the i.d., and use a small pipe wrench. I have a 12", but the mini 8" Ridge work well also. The bolt keeps it from egging and getting stuck from deforming.
Thanks for the tip, I have a Vintage Air System, I tried my smallest pipe wrench, won't get in there without taking the whole compressor mount out.
@Rainy Day Auto made a socket to remove those.
In my experience a lot of the time those slots get ripped out trying to get them out that way anyway.
Heat seems to help.
Vice grips, then trash them.
New ones are like $10. give or take.
To install, get a thick washer. Clamp it into a set of vice grips.
Insert washer into the groove, and turn.
PS: If the nipple is locked in and won't budge. Put a torch on the nipple and intake. Get it really hot, and melt wax into the threads. Screws right out.
I thought I remember someone on here machining some neat sockets with the screwdriver end that fit down in the fitting a little bit. I think he had three different sizes in the sets he sold. Anyone else remember them?