Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a nut ejecting apparatus for a wrench socket of the type including a generally elongate, hollow, cylindrical body portion having axially aligned nut receiving and shank receiving chambers defined at opposite ends thereof with an intermediate chamber axially aligned with and joining said nut receiving and shank receiving chambers, the nut receiving chamber being dimensioned to receive therein a threaded nut and the shank receiving chamber being dimensioned to receive therein a shank of a wrench, the intermediate chamber being cross-sectionally coextensive with the nut receiving chamber and being hexagonal in cross-section, the nut ejecting apparatus comprising: a first plug to be disposed in the intermediate chamber near the shank receiving chamber and to be positionally fixed therein; a second plug to be disposed in the intermediate chamber and axially moveable back and forth therein and into the nut receiving chamber; the first and second plugs having hexagonally shaped head portio