On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 19:53:09 -0700, rbowman posted for all of us to digest...


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.

Here is a real POS that has satisfied my need to break things.

https://www.blackanddecker.com/produ...ls/hand-tools-
sub/autowrench-8-in-automatic-adjustable-wrench/aaw100

My wife got me one - she likes to be good to me - so what could I say??
It's good for rounding nuts of all types, space launches, gravity hold-down,
weight in the back of p/u truck for snow or reverse body work of installing
dents, taking up space for less stuff, etc. Rated on U Tube one of the worst
tools ever...

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Tekkie