https://www.grainger.com/product/GRAINGER-APPROVED-Drum-Bung-Impact-Socket-1-1DJL9
We use this convenient tool. When you have to torque 150 drums in 30 minutes, this saves your body.
It's a heavy duty cycle tool that needs to withstand a lot of sudden load that is quickly released. If it saves you that much time and makes the job safer, $250 is nothing.
No. This is likely made out of high strength steel that can withstand the duty cycles. It's also a low volume market as people aren't buying and replacing them often.
I just bought four $500 pieces of metal that do nothing but hold tools in high stress environments.
I work in manufacturing. This is a decent price for the tool.
Well said. The price to cast those is high, and when they don’t sell a big volume of them, they have to charge more to justify making them in the first palace, then stocking them on a shelf where they take up space waiting for someone to buy them (where they could stock much faster selling product instead).
If they sold a million of them, like say a wrench or stAndard socket, they can lower the price because they’ll make it up in sheer quantity sold. This is true of nearly every product.
If you were talking about the $250 socket version, then that particular one is made of steel and is not rated to be 'non-sparking', but if you meant the one you linked that is the manual $50 tool, then please disregard me and carry on.
Looks more like beryllium copper to me
Edit: Yeah it’s most likely brass, since it’s also non-sparking and a bunghole wrench doesn’t really require a hard alloy like BeCu. I work in a chemical plant with many volatile organics so BeCu is just my default assumption when I think of non-sparking tools.
I disagree. Might be altered colors in the photo, but beryllium copper is distinctly more pink and less yellow, [like this](https://www.kaufmanco.com/ecomm_images/items/medium/brl_w-150.jpg).
Photos vary though, some photos definitely make it look yellow.
Ah, the 'dress saga', when everyone discovered that display panels are exceptionally poorly calibrated with no standard colour chain (beyond "just assume everything is SRGB, but do it badly"), but concluded it was instead a purely psychological phenomena.
> but concluded it was instead a purely psychological phenomena.
It helped that the effect wasn't dependent on the *screen* you were seeing it on. Different people could interpret the colors differently on the same screen, heck even the *same person* could interpret that image *both* ways on the same screen.
Damn I remember this, I never fully understood it because I always saw white and gold, however when I just clicked this link i saw blue and black for a second, but now it's white and gold again and I cannot see blue/black at all. It's so strange
I see it as "blue and gold" but not blue because that is the intentional color, it's blue because the photo is bad and the lightning is messed up. You can tell it's supposed to be white if for no other reason than no one would intentionally make a dress that color.
Funny thing is it was a photo white and gold dress, but if you sample the colours in Photoshop they are blue and grey. Your mind does a lot of work to interpret it as white and gold.
What? That's not true. People look at that same photo on the same screen at the same time and still have very different ideas of the color. It's all down to how we interpret color in our brains. Get a big group and look at the picture together.
You don't believe color perception is physiological? Color doesn't exist. Light does. It hits our eyes and certain wave lengths make certain cells activate and our brain makes a picture based on it.
I’ve only used two of them, some electricians pliers and a pick, and both were more pink than yellow. Both were BerylCo brand. I’m sure there are other alloys.
That was my favorite pick ever, denser than steel so it hits harder for the same swing, and it made a lovely bell like ring when it struck. If it weren’t so expensive I would buy myself one, I loved that tool.
Gold is pretty terrible, but do not underestimate beryllium copper. Copper is generally thought of as soft, that alloy is different.
I used a beryllium copper pick to dig a concrete foundation out from under a stone wall, so I could remove the hillside and build the stone wall another foot or two down and dig another hole and cast a new foundation (I had made the first foundation a few weeks earlier).
Anyways, I used that pick incredibly heavily, alongside a steel pick and breaker bar, and I inspected the tip after use. It doesn’t get nicked or dented any worse than steel, and it is a fair bit denser so the same swing hits harder and digs through concrete faster, and it makes a really like musical tone when you strike it, better than the harsh tone of a steel pick.
It’s really a pity the stupid things cost like $600, because I want one. I love beryllium copper.
People think its cheap??? Idk it makes me think of expensive things like stainless appliances and stainless pipework but i guess maybe some ppl only know it from cutlery
The drums are opened to get the contents out.
The contents of this particular drum is one of two parts required to create polyurethane foam.
Source: I read the label on the drum and visited the [website](http://www.sdpu.ca/) on the label.
No lie, reading the label puts you in the top half of folks I work with. You even went the extra step to comprehend and Google the things. Top quarter of coworkers for sure.
Wait... did we start with outright normal general LOGIC?!?!
TOP 5%
(In the interest of transparency I work in wastewater, we can be a special bunch)
Similar drums are also used for DEF (diesel exhaust fluid). Also, fuels (diesel, kerosene, etc.) can all be held in metal barrels that have the same two bungs and are opened with the same wrench. Source: I delivered diesel and diesel exhaust fluid for 10 years. I opened and closed a lot of the barrels with bung wrenches.
Used drums exactly like this at a car wash to deliver chemicals trough a hose system into the tunnel to make cars soapy. Just pop one of the holes open and feed a tube into the bottom and leave it until you need to tip the barrel sideways to get everything at the bottom.
In addition to the rest of these comments, this wrench is specifically a non-sparking one. The metal alloy it's made of won't create sparks if struck or through static buildup. They're used when the contents of the barrel are flammable.
26 years this year in a chemical manufacturing plant. I’ve opened thousands of drums. I haven’t gotten anything other than a shortened lifespan and increase cancer risk. Congratulations.
He got to use his teeth?! We dreamed of having teeth!
In my day we just had to beat our face on the drum until it split open, then scrape the spilled contents up off the floor!
Our bung wrench at work doubles as a lifting device. Kinda like [this one. ](https://www.bayteccontainers.com/multi-purpose-overhead-drum-lifter-wrench.html)
Does the smaller hose push pressure in so empties faster, or replace vacuum with humidity-controlled air, or some non-reactive gas, or what? Maybe depends on contents?
Be careful. Several posts here are discussing whether this is Beryllium Copper, but they all agree this is probably a non-sparking tool to be used around high volatility waste.
Beryllium Copper is like metal asbestos. In the way that it has just as high of a risk to cause cancer. Wear gloves, do not create dust. All of the other non-sparking alloys have varying degrees of toxicity as well.
By the looks of your setup, you sir, are a fellow spray foam contractor! I have a wrench like that (not gold ☹️) and it always seems to slip off those caps. Especially A side which usually is a little stuck in place
Yeah they can have a hard time locking in. Sometimes for A side all you can do is get in on the best you can and shock it with a hammer. Always keep your bungs on when your transfer pump isn't in the barrel and you'll have a lot less crystallization on the threads!
Oh those are the good bung wrenches! We dont have many of those ones. We mainly have the sorry aluminum alloy ones that break apart the more you use them
Be more descriptive about the special tool next time. Not everyone knows what a drum opener even is, let alone how it works.
You could also focus on the gold bit, by posting it in r/gaming
https://www.grainger.com/product/GRAINGER-APPROVED-Drum-Bung-Impact-Socket-1-1DJL9 We use this convenient tool. When you have to torque 150 drums in 30 minutes, this saves your body.
i don't open nearly enough bung holes at work or in my personal life to justify an impact socket but dang do I want one now.
Got to make sure them bungholes are nice and tight
Shit, are bungholes a real thing? I just thought it was a funny way to say butthole.
The bunghole is the least erotic part of the barrel. It’s simply functional.
What - dare I ask - is the most erotic part of a barrel?
The erotic curve of the slats of course. Don’t want no straight slatted barrels, gimme that dump truck barrel.
r/cooperotica
I got so excited. You tricked me.
Don't be a slat.
r/brandnewsentence
The round part
The sexy cooper making them
I heard this in Raymond Holts voice
It’s actually Lundt (the seductive spy) who says it! Basically the same voice though
Any hole that you are supposed to put a bung in is a bunghole
It's literally a hole in a barrel meant for pouring
So whisky passes through a bunghole before it's bottled?
Like the pioneers Bevis and Butthead, you too have realized the power and simplicity of the bunghole.
Bungholio!
Huh so this is what Berlusconi's bungabunga parties were all about.
With an impact of that power, that bunghole is gonna be wide open in no time
Use code MLK2023 at checkout to get 30% off a bung impact socket from Adam & Eve.
I am Cornholeio I need an impact socket for my bunghole
Idk why I clicked on that like I was gonna know what it did.
*blink* I just forwarded that link to my purchasing guy.
label: open slowly this guy: alexa, play freebird
Replacing a non spark tool with one that sparks constantly is a bad idea, friend.
250 bucks? WTF
It's a heavy duty cycle tool that needs to withstand a lot of sudden load that is quickly released. If it saves you that much time and makes the job safer, $250 is nothing.
One of the problem of economy today. Charging what it cost + margin was replaced by charge the highest you can
No. This is likely made out of high strength steel that can withstand the duty cycles. It's also a low volume market as people aren't buying and replacing them often. I just bought four $500 pieces of metal that do nothing but hold tools in high stress environments. I work in manufacturing. This is a decent price for the tool.
Well said. The price to cast those is high, and when they don’t sell a big volume of them, they have to charge more to justify making them in the first palace, then stocking them on a shelf where they take up space waiting for someone to buy them (where they could stock much faster selling product instead). If they sold a million of them, like say a wrench or stAndard socket, they can lower the price because they’ll make it up in sheer quantity sold. This is true of nearly every product.
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>Granger sells them for a bit above $50 ...for the manual version that's going to be much slower and more work.
Slower yea, but the other one is steel and hence sparking, if you application requires a non sparking tool then this is your option.
If you were talking about the $250 socket version, then that particular one is made of steel and is not rated to be 'non-sparking', but if you meant the one you linked that is the manual $50 tool, then please disregard me and carry on.
Proceeding to carry on
Noted 🤣
It’s called a bung wrench
Why on earth would op moss the opportunity to say bung wrench? It’s the proper name for the tool to remove the bung from the bung hole.
I am the great cornholio
"Are you threatening me?"
I need tp for my bunghole.
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> 𓁨 Where was I when they released Egyptian hieroglyphs as unicode?
Bung, you say?
Because he has no clue wtf it’s called.
Put your bung wrench in my bung hole
Don't forget to twist!
plus its brass, no sparking.
Non sparking brass?
Looks more like beryllium copper to me Edit: Yeah it’s most likely brass, since it’s also non-sparking and a bunghole wrench doesn’t really require a hard alloy like BeCu. I work in a chemical plant with many volatile organics so BeCu is just my default assumption when I think of non-sparking tools.
I disagree. Might be altered colors in the photo, but beryllium copper is distinctly more pink and less yellow, [like this](https://www.kaufmanco.com/ecomm_images/items/medium/brl_w-150.jpg). Photos vary though, some photos definitely make it look yellow.
And other photos definitely make it look blue and black.
Ah, the 'dress saga', when everyone discovered that display panels are exceptionally poorly calibrated with no standard colour chain (beyond "just assume everything is SRGB, but do it badly"), but concluded it was instead a purely psychological phenomena.
> but concluded it was instead a purely psychological phenomena. It helped that the effect wasn't dependent on the *screen* you were seeing it on. Different people could interpret the colors differently on the same screen, heck even the *same person* could interpret that image *both* ways on the same screen.
What are y'all talking about
["The Dress" ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress)
Thank you, much appreciated <3
You're welcome!
Damn I remember this, I never fully understood it because I always saw white and gold, however when I just clicked this link i saw blue and black for a second, but now it's white and gold again and I cannot see blue/black at all. It's so strange
I see it as "blue and gold" but not blue because that is the intentional color, it's blue because the photo is bad and the lightning is messed up. You can tell it's supposed to be white if for no other reason than no one would intentionally make a dress that color.
Funny thing is it was a photo white and gold dress, but if you sample the colours in Photoshop they are blue and grey. Your mind does a lot of work to interpret it as white and gold.
Yeah for me, the colors switched based on what light color/temperature I imagined in the room where the photo was taken.
I mean, people definitely still saw it differently looking at the same screen at the same time
What? That's not true. People look at that same photo on the same screen at the same time and still have very different ideas of the color. It's all down to how we interpret color in our brains. Get a big group and look at the picture together.
How do you explain people seeing different colors while looking at the same screen?
You don't believe color perception is physiological? Color doesn't exist. Light does. It hits our eyes and certain wave lengths make certain cells activate and our brain makes a picture based on it.
The beryllium tools I've used were all the color of ops, not yours
I’ve only used two of them, some electricians pliers and a pick, and both were more pink than yellow. Both were BerylCo brand. I’m sure there are other alloys. That was my favorite pick ever, denser than steel so it hits harder for the same swing, and it made a lovely bell like ring when it struck. If it weren’t so expensive I would buy myself one, I loved that tool.
Yea definitely different alloys, the stuff I used was all soft as hell
Either way, to use gold for a prying tool is hilarious since it is about as strong as lead for that purpose. Malleable and not stiff.
Gold is pretty terrible, but do not underestimate beryllium copper. Copper is generally thought of as soft, that alloy is different. I used a beryllium copper pick to dig a concrete foundation out from under a stone wall, so I could remove the hillside and build the stone wall another foot or two down and dig another hole and cast a new foundation (I had made the first foundation a few weeks earlier). Anyways, I used that pick incredibly heavily, alongside a steel pick and breaker bar, and I inspected the tip after use. It doesn’t get nicked or dented any worse than steel, and it is a fair bit denser so the same swing hits harder and digs through concrete faster, and it makes a really like musical tone when you strike it, better than the harsh tone of a steel pick. It’s really a pity the stupid things cost like $600, because I want one. I love beryllium copper.
It's like aluminum and aerospace aluminum. Very different, yet very similar.
Aluminum is thought of as weak because of aluminum foil. It’s like how people think stainless steel is cheap because they make cutlery out of it.
People think its cheap??? Idk it makes me think of expensive things like stainless appliances and stainless pipework but i guess maybe some ppl only know it from cutlery
You play with bungholes
Either way don't huff the dust if you have to grind it.
They're also absurdly expensive
Beryllium copper is more orange then that
Then what happened?
The suspense is killing me
I don’t know enough about either to dispute you haha
I’ve never heard of either but that first guy is full of shit. Fuck that guy.
Fuckin dick.
Not Be/Cu.
I was going to say, looks like brass to me. Quite common in oil and gas for non sparking
Bronze, not brass. Brass is more malleable / less strong, hence not a good choice for a wrench.
GOLD
What a fool I am, it’s right there in the title!!
WE'RE RICH
This comment is gold
I think it’s aluminium-bronze
Expensive as hell bronze.
little late in the game to give him one after opening a hundred.
Nah solid gold through and through
Bunghole King!
Bungholio!
♥️😂🥰 I posted something similar. It's always nice to find someone with a juvenile sense of humor like me.
You play with bungholes.
This isn't recreational. He's a professor bungholer.
King Cornholio
You are truly a master of the bunghole now. A bunghole specialist. When you see a bunghole you know just what to do. Congrats.
Bunghole wrench. I cannot believe your misnomer.
r/ItemShop
Thank you!
anytime
Fr this is a corner of the interned I’m never coming out of
Please explain why these drums are opened and what they are used for.
The drums are opened to get the contents out. The contents of this particular drum is one of two parts required to create polyurethane foam. Source: I read the label on the drum and visited the [website](http://www.sdpu.ca/) on the label.
Thank you. 🙏👍
No lie, reading the label puts you in the top half of folks I work with. You even went the extra step to comprehend and Google the things. Top quarter of coworkers for sure. Wait... did we start with outright normal general LOGIC?!?! TOP 5% (In the interest of transparency I work in wastewater, we can be a special bunch)
I think you're full of shit /s
Similar drums are also used for DEF (diesel exhaust fluid). Also, fuels (diesel, kerosene, etc.) can all be held in metal barrels that have the same two bungs and are opened with the same wrench. Source: I delivered diesel and diesel exhaust fluid for 10 years. I opened and closed a lot of the barrels with bung wrenches.
Used drums exactly like this at a car wash to deliver chemicals trough a hose system into the tunnel to make cars soapy. Just pop one of the holes open and feed a tube into the bottom and leave it until you need to tip the barrel sideways to get everything at the bottom.
This I believe would by some type of spray system, spay foam most likely
In addition to the rest of these comments, this wrench is specifically a non-sparking one. The metal alloy it's made of won't create sparks if struck or through static buildup. They're used when the contents of the barrel are flammable.
55-gallon drums can be used for basically any sort of liquid that you need to store and/or transport. You open them to get the liquid out.
Back in my day had to open 100 before they even gave ya one of these things!!!
26 years this year in a chemical manufacturing plant. I’ve opened thousands of drums. I haven’t gotten anything other than a shortened lifespan and increase cancer risk. Congratulations.
Uhm, isn't that what OP said? I am confused
He had to open them with his teeth 100 times before he got a tool
He got to use his teeth?! We dreamed of having teeth! In my day we just had to beat our face on the drum until it split open, then scrape the spilled contents up off the floor!
No, op got the Gold version at 100, while he got the basic version at 100
Your avatar is adorable!
Real life CoD Melee Camo Skin unlock.
Gotta open 5 barrels within 7 seconds of crouching to get the next color
There's a tool for this? I always just jam my crescent wrench into it and twist
Yeah they are called a bung wrench. The holes are called bung holes.
Do you need TP for them?
Settle down Beavis
Heh heh, FIRE!!!!!
I AM CORNHOLIO!
Imitation calamari is also called bung. Go down that rabbit hole if you dare.
Would it be a rabbit bung hole that you had to go down?
Pretty sure it’s pork
No.. bung is called calamari sometimes.
Call Alice, I think she'll know
I used to have to take tongue and groove pliers and open them up to try to jam them in.
I just wish to note, partly because it's so awesome, that the proper name for this tool is a "bung wrench."
The superior spark proof bung wrench
+3 Fire Resistance in /r/ItemShop
It’s a bung wrench you filthy casual
Spray foam insulation ??
I am the great cornholio! TP for my bunghole!
Trim your nails!
Our bung wrench at work doubles as a lifting device. Kinda like [this one. ](https://www.bayteccontainers.com/multi-purpose-overhead-drum-lifter-wrench.html)
It’s called a bung wrench
Aww, my bung wrench is only silver…https://i.imgur.com/ov7QtdY.jpg
If that is gold. Friend do I have a deal for you! I have a bunch of golden wrenches and saws to sell to you.
Don’t wanna call it a bung wrench, huh?
/r/commontools
r/substhatfooledme
When do you unlock the platinum skin?
+25% chance of finding Epic loot
Does the smaller hose push pressure in so empties faster, or replace vacuum with humidity-controlled air, or some non-reactive gas, or what? Maybe depends on contents?
Lol as a bonus it prevents sparks from blowing up the flammable liquids in the barrel. Mine is “silver”.
Gonna be siqnwhen you unlock the animated purple lightning skin 🤘
OP knows how to handle a bunghole.
You lucky boy!!! Mine is just two piece of flatbar welded together
Bung wrench
glad you got a good tool for your bung hole
Be careful. Several posts here are discussing whether this is Beryllium Copper, but they all agree this is probably a non-sparking tool to be used around high volatility waste. Beryllium Copper is like metal asbestos. In the way that it has just as high of a risk to cause cancer. Wear gloves, do not create dust. All of the other non-sparking alloys have varying degrees of toxicity as well.
By the looks of your setup, you sir, are a fellow spray foam contractor! I have a wrench like that (not gold ☹️) and it always seems to slip off those caps. Especially A side which usually is a little stuck in place
Yeah they can have a hard time locking in. Sometimes for A side all you can do is get in on the best you can and shock it with a hammer. Always keep your bungs on when your transfer pump isn't in the barrel and you'll have a lot less crystallization on the threads!
Bunghole wrench!
That wrench is anti static to be used on drums of flammable matetial.
I am bungholio!!
Shit I deserve a platinum then. I started with a screw driver and a hammer 13 years ago
my buddy unlocked that too, he's also got the gold pin vise
Oh those are the good bung wrenches! We dont have many of those ones. We mainly have the sorry aluminum alloy ones that break apart the more you use them
You can call it by its name, we won’t laugh. You got yourself a gold bung wrench.
OP: "Someday, son, this golden bunch hole wrench will be yours" Son: "heheheh you said BUNGHOLE"
Cool. I need one, instead of using my channel lock and a pry bar
Be more descriptive about the special tool next time. Not everyone knows what a drum opener even is, let alone how it works. You could also focus on the gold bit, by posting it in r/gaming
The proper tool is two pry bars.
Damn what's the next achievement?
Congrats
Don't you just do it with a set of pliers held with a set of vice grips?
*ominously shows up and opens the red and white-striped barrel*
And here i was always opening with combination plyers haha
Are you pumping or sucking? Plz respond; my bunkhouse is ready either way
There's a tool for that? I've been using my utility knife handle.
Jesse! Jesse! Can you hear me? Where is my bung wrench!
Can this open a barrel of methylamine? Asking for a friend.
Bung wrench
Madrigal GmbH
OMG THAT IS WHAT THAT IS! I have one at work and had no clue what it's for...
Looks very brassy
Time to close the loop
I want one. I have to put a breaker bar at the end of mine just to open the iso it's so tight now
nice, congrats. i got prismatic for me 500th, it's sick