aemeijers wrote:

Agreed, and I won't even use a Crescent for anything that takes more
than a few pounds pull to loosen, other than maybe a square furniture
bolt or nut, gas valve, cleanout plug, or similar. Most are so sloppy
that roundoff is a real risk. Never had any luck with any of the
various flavors of universal wrenches over the years. The TV
commercials never show them being used on old nasty, rusty, rounded,
greasy bolts, for a reason.

Somewhere there is a museum honoring the designers of all the goofy tools
sold on late-night TV ads, the combination
wrench/hammer/screwdriver/multimeter etc. that also makes coffee and plays
MP3s. Ya have to admire the ingenuity of whoever comes up with these
things, and just shake your head at the optimism and/or gullibility of
whoever buys them.