On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:10:52 -0500, jeff_wisnia
wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:18:24 -0500, willshak
wrote:


Yes, I agree, but the OP asked about the dogbone wrenches.
You could not even remove a car battery with the dogbones. It's pretty
tight even with a box wrench..


I bought a battery stud wrench when they first came out.
Dedicated to that. Ratcheting, insulated handle.
Sears has them for about 10 bucks.
One of my kids must have swiped it.

I feel your pain Vic.

First I tried stickers on my two home garage tool boxes:

http://www.decobugs.com/product_p/ds1004.htm

That didn't stop the kids, so I finally had to put a couple of small
combination locks on them. Those have worked, and now if a kid needs to
use a tool I "check it out" to him and make sure I ask for it back by
the end of the day.

Not likely to win me a Father of The Year award, but it's better than
finding the one socket I need isn't where it should be.


Sounds like you found a solution!
It's only bothered me a couple times. Well, maybe a couple hundred.
What happened is one of my boys took up car/truck wrenching.
I didn't really care about him taking my tools, because he more than
made up for that by wrenching our cars better than I could.
He's paid back in work much more than the couple hundred bucks of hand
tools to put in his toolboxes. I never complained to him - much.
Now that he's "established" and probably has 2 of everything, I bought
a new big wrench set for myself.
But I hardly ever use it!
I'm slowly adding other tools.
I still miss some of my "disappeared" tools though, that battery
wrench being one.
Not I've needed it, but I just know I don't have it.
Probably miss my good pliers and channel locks more.
Some of those tools I bought 40 years ago when I was a packaging
machine mechanic, and my hands had grown to fit them.
Seems they were better quality than you can find now too.
Some anyway, like the pliers and a spring-loaded screwholder I had.

--Vic