Oooo...you deserve a t-shirt. I never thought about puttying the nut in the wrench. I used two steps. nut and putty on a batten, then taped the wrench to the batten to tighten. I didn't use nylocks so when the nut started to get tight, it pretty much dug in and didn't need much effort from the wrench. Some blue locktight might not be a bad idea.