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Default Wrench with non-parallel jaws

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:58:11 -0400, Ned Simmons
wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:34:05 -0700 (PDT), John Martin
wrote:

On Jun 11, 11:04*pm, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote:

If a wrench is used 'backwards' - the weak side might break.
So the jaw was taken from a larger wrench - the long thread bar hangs out...
Maybe the larger wrench had a broken handle from a pipe assist!

Martin

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I'll bite, Martin. Which way do most people consider is backwards,
and which correct?


Now you've done it, John. g (Just keep repeating to yourself, "The
sum of the forces is is zero; the sum of the moments is zero; you
can't push a string.")

But you CAN go **** up a rope!
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada