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Best Tool For Oventrop

I have some 1/2" chrome Oventrop Valves to install and they have two little bumps on the inside of the nipples. What would be the best tool for tightening these things? Do they make a special wrench? I can do it with a tapered square rod or a tapered handled wrench but I was wondering if they made a special wrench.

Google Radiator Spud Wrench

Here is what it looks like.

ME

Thanks!

I had seen that tool, as well as "spud nipples" and thought that might be the thing but these oventrop nipples, well, they are very well cast and I thought they might have some proprietary wrench. I have only worked on Fintube before, this is my first radiator. :-) And its not even a radiator its a piece of Runtal baseboard.

Thanks! I will order that little guy.

radiator wrench

like this also

where to buy ... been looking and looking and looking

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I'm also trying to connect a couple of valves to a Runtal, and would like to get one of these smaller tools but I cannot find them. Do they have a special name? Radiator spud wrench is finding plenty of the larger kind used with a pipe wrench, but not this compact version.

^^ I've got one of those

I love it, It's nice & compact but I wish they made another bigger size for larger valves.

thanks to one of my best clients -

that liked to help and do things himself (honestly - he was good at it!) we used a torx drive socket for 3/8 square drive. superbly elegant!

Finding Radiator Spud Wrench

You can find them on the Home Depot website.
                   Jerry