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Default Open end & box wrench set over 1 inch

On 02/04/2021 05:04 PM, alan wrote:
If you were to buy a set of larger wrenches, what sizes would you get?
And where?


I've only bought bigger wrenches as needed. For example I've got a 27mm
for an axle nut on one of the bikes. iirc I bought a CRaftsman at Sears
when that was still a thing. I have a lot of redundancy in metric and
SAE wrenches and sockets in the commonly used sizes but I've never felt
a need for wrenches I probably will never use.

I do have an 18" adjustable but I only use it for light stuff like the
caps on the Harley's fork tubes. I'm not a fan of adjustables. I have
bad memories of a piece of Spanish crap that turned itself into a speed
wrench*

* a wrench where the adjustable jaw has ripped a path through the worm
screw so it slides back and forth freely in one position of the worm. It
sort of works but I don't know if anyone ever manufactured anything like
that.