"Bob Engelhardt" wrote in message
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The jaws on this wrench are not parallel:

http://home.comcast.net/~bobengelhardt/wrench.jpg

Specifically, the face of the movable jaw is perpendicular to the "ways",
but the fixed face is not. But they aren't sprung or worn that way. It
seems that it was made like that. But why? Just plain poor quality? But
that's *really* bad. It's an old wrench, not Chiwandian. It says drop
forged, if that helps.

Bob

The wrench looks so old that I would think it was made during a time when
metal and craftsmanship were higher than what they are today. But that
being said, they did make cheap crappy wrenches way back when, too. How
long is the wrench? If it's long, there's more of a chance it's been
overtorqued. Or it could have been bad from the get go, but that would not
explain why it got used for that long a period of time.

Puzzling.

Steve