The dumbest question I've ever been forced to ask

[Nortoon_imp]

Im a mechanical klutz. So, When, like Mao Zedong, I decided to take the great leap forward and change my own oil and filter, I went to my small town hardware store and bought an adjustable strap wrench. It looks like this:



It did an excellent job of loosening the filter and giving it just a little tightening tweak.

Then, on the great adventure when Pterodactyl's K&N filter sprang a leak, I decided to remove the K&N filter that had been put on my bike—I had weakened and got the mechanic to change the oil while he was checking the valve clearances. I did not have my trusty strap wrench with me 3,500 kms from home so I bought a new metal adjustable wrench ...

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It works OK too, although I'm not persuaded it's any better than it's rubber mate.

That rubber wrench is the kitchen boa I mentioned in my Keystone Kops Oil Change. Yours must be studier than the little yellow plastic one I was going to use.