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Default Wrench with non-parallel jaws


"Ned Simmons" wrote in message
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.")

--
Ned Simmons


Oh man oh man, I hope this thread doesn't deteriorate into a
battle on
whether or not 'centrifugal force' exists.......oh oh
.......;)
Phil Kangas, who climbed back up into the peanut gallery....