I replaced all my adjustable(crescent) wrenches with these:
TKall:
I replaced all my adjustable(crescent) wrenches with these:
http://knipex-tools.com/index.php?id=1023&page=group_detail&parentID=1368&groupID=2175
Multi-Grips.
They are not cheap but they are well made and they don't slip. I bought several of each size. No more damn crescent wrenches.
Well.. ok.
But if in a situation where it takes a 5-ft pole to get enough leverage, would they stand it?
I run an old steamboat with loads of 1 inch Whitworth bolts holding the boiler together.
Sometimes they aren't co-operative.
Grrrrr!
Allan
Well you do need to select the correct tool for the job. But for the applicatio n you mention, the correct tool probably in not a crescent wrench....right?
That said, any pix of the boat?
allanhurst:
But if in a situation where it takes a 5-ft pole to get enough leverage,
I worked in a garage that repaired Massey Ferguson tractors during school holidays one year. (Great fun taking tractors to pieces). They had a lorry that needed a wheel change and two men standing on the 5ft pole could not shift one of the wheel nuts.
So they put the other nuts back and drove the lorry to the other end of town where there was a lorry repair garage and they got the nut off in no time with an air impact wrench.
...R
I used to carry a 6" Craftsman Adjustable wrench in my bicycle toolbag, but I called it a Crescent Wrench.
I love my grippy pliars:
For some jobs - especially where you need the opposed parallel planes, or size & weight of the kit is important, a crescent is the best tool. I use both.