# Unusual Snap-on 5 point socket **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [September 19, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/unusual-snap-on-5-point-socket/87265 "2014-09-19T03:44:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yosemite](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/yosemite/32/643_2.png) [@Yosemite](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Yosemite)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/unusual-snap-on-5-point-socket/87265/1 "2014-09-19T03:44:43Z")
I was reorganizing my tools today and found a socket that I aquired somewhere. It is a Snap-on 5…yes five point socket 3/8 drive shallow socket. The only other printing on it is a B 2190 and I’m wondering what it was ever used for. I don’t know if this was a socket that my dad had, or if I found it somewhere. Maybe it came along with a part at some point. Like all the allen wrenches that you aquire free with the parts for some item you have to assemble. Has anyone seen this before. Yosemite ---
**Author:** ![Cavell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cavell/32/43396_2.png) [@Cavell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cavell)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 4:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/unusual-snap-on-5-point-socket/87265/2 "2014-09-19T04:37:53Z")
The 4l60 bell housing bolts are t50 and have 1 missing prong. It’s a 6 point drive so the angle is 60 deg between each but 1 is missing. Maybe it is for those bolts? ---
**Author:** ![meaneyedcatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meaneyedcatz/32/692_2.png) [@meaneyedcatz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meaneyedcatz)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/unusual-snap-on-5-point-socket/87265/3 "2014-09-19T04:43:45Z")
More than likely it fits electrical cabinet security bolts. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 4:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/unusual-snap-on-5-point-socket/87265/4 "2014-09-19T04:47:34Z")
Called a ‘Penta Security Socket’, it seems: [http://www.jharlen.com/snaponb2190.html](http://www.jharlen.com/snaponb2190.html) ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 4:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/unusual-snap-on-5-point-socket/87265/5 "2014-09-19T04:48:50Z")
They’re called Pentagon sockets and can’t say as I’ve ever had a need for one. I’m not sure but maybe those sockets are used in the non-automobile world? Maybe by utility companies and so on? I think some fire hydrants use 5 point heads but considerably larger in size than what you have. ---
**Author:** ![Yosemite](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/yosemite/32/643_2.png) [@Yosemite](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Yosemite)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 5:02am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/unusual-snap-on-5-point-socket/87265/6 "2014-09-19T05:02:01Z")
Thanks @texases; I had searched the snap on site with no results. Wonder now where I may have gotten it. I guess I’ll just put it with the other oddball tools that I have aquired thru the years. I also have some boxed end wrenches that have a square 4point hole, but I figure those are from when they used square nuts, or i’ve seen square heads on adjustment bolts but can’t remember where. Yosemite ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 9:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/unusual-snap-on-5-point-socket/87265/7 "2014-09-19T09:10:08Z")
They still use square nuts. The set screws on garage door springs are square. I went down to get a socket and the guy found something odd ball for me but not square. I painted it brown so I’d know it was different. When our office moved, we had about 5000 square feet of utility shelves that had to be taken apart. I actually made a square socket to fit the burrs to use a power driver. Some day someone will look at it and wonder what the heck it is. ---
**Author:** ![kmccune](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/kmccune/32/1237_2.png) [@kmccune](https://community.cartalk.com/u/kmccune)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/unusual-snap-on-5-point-socket/87265/8 "2014-09-19T12:57:20Z")
Maybe a fire hydrant?-Kevin ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/unusual-snap-on-5-point-socket/87265/9 "2014-09-19T17:38:53Z")
The pentagonal socket is for electrical panels. A work- around for a 4 point socket is a 12 point one, find one that fits by trial and error. ---
**Author:** ![Yosemite](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/yosemite/32/643_2.png) [@Yosemite](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Yosemite)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/unusual-snap-on-5-point-socket/87265/10 "2014-09-19T17:51:59Z")
Now I have to find some bolts with the 5 point head. Then I can put them where ever I can and really screw with somebody’s mind. Yosemite ---
**Author:** ![insightful](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/insightful/32/2732_2.png) [@insightful](https://community.cartalk.com/u/insightful)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/unusual-snap-on-5-point-socket/87265/11 "2014-09-20T04:03:20Z")
My water meter in my front yard has a 5-sided bolt securing the lid. Pliers can take it right off. Not much security. ---
**Author:** ![WheresRick](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/wheresrick/32/2717_2.png) [@WheresRick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/WheresRick)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 5:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/unusual-snap-on-5-point-socket/87265/12 "2014-09-20T05:19:54Z")
Pad mount electric transformers have a 5 sided bolt that secure the lid or doors, they all seem to be one size. FWIW, one of the transformer wrenches we have on the truck at work has a Snap-On socket pinned on it, we also have cheaper stamped steel wrenches. ---
**Author:** ![Yosemite](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/yosemite/32/643_2.png) [@Yosemite](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Yosemite)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 7:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/unusual-snap-on-5-point-socket/87265/13 "2014-09-20T07:30:09Z")
Come to think of it…the wife used to be a pipe fitter, truck driver, and backhoe opperator for the gas company. I remember they were contracted to do water repair for one community at one point. Maybe she brought it home at some point and I ended up with it. Yosemite