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Baroque Bloke |
I bought an interesting new tool: a wide jaw adjustable wrench: www.amazon.com/dp/B07SQ3QBL2/r..._api_i_syRlFb7J58D4H It’s made in China, but decently made. It’s aluminum, except for the steel adjusting screw. It has an interesting feature – its movable jaw can be removed and reversed, so that either its flat or concave side faces the flat fixed jaw. I bought it for a particular purpose (and needed the concave side), but expect that I’ll find other uses for it. Serious about crackers | ||
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Wide jaw for sure. We used a Ford wrench for expansion valve power heads on chillers, its really thin and a flat surface so not to mar the flats on the head, that was the only odd one I'd used. Adjustable & pipe wrenches all day long otherwise for normal stuff. <>< America, Land of the Free - because of the Brave | |||
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Got to have some big nuts to use that!  Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. “If in winning a race, you lose the respect of your fellow competitors, then you have won nothing” - Paul Elvstrom "The Great Dane" 1928 - 2016 | |||
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according to description it has "good toughness"AND "High Torque"  | |||
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| Run Silent Run Deep  |
I bought a nice set of three channellocks that did the same thing...comes in handy _____________________________ Pledge allegiance or pack your bag! The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher Spread my work ethic, not my wealth | |||
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Equal Opportunity Mocker |
Nice "gitters" ________________________________________________ "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving." -Dr. Adrian Rogers | |||
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Aluminum? Really? | |||
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| 7.62mm Crusader |
Needs to be copied with a longer handle and of forged steel, sold on Amazon. Made in the USA. | |||
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Happily Retired |
Yeah, that handle is not near long enough for my needs. I'd be putting a pipe on it pretty much all the time. .....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress. | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
^^^^^^^^ For my particular purpose, which many folks would consider to be rather odd, the short handle is quite long enough. It was gripped in my vacuum mount PanaVise (which is US-made).Serious about crackers | |||
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Hope it works for you, but it's MADE IN CHINA which many of us are trying to avoid like the crud.  I have CHANNEL LOCKS if there's something really big to address. They're MADE IN THE USA.  | |||
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My dad had a similar tool that had a rubber strap that you would pull around the pipe then torque it tight, google strap wrench and you will get the idea very handy __________________________ The entire reason for the Second Amendment is not for hunting, it’s not for target shooting … it’s there so that you and I can protect our homes and our children and and our families and our lives. And it’s also there as fundamental check on government tyranny. Sen Ted Cruz | |||
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Made in Communist China. I know. It's hard. I fail, too, but less and less. ____________________ | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
This ^^^^^ I'm not knocking the OP, but I, too, am getting to the point I'd sooner make do or do without than buy Chinese. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
Funny… I recall you promoting the PB-JIFE peanut butter knife: https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...960073764#8960073764 Which is made in China.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Pipe Smoker, Serious about crackers | |||
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I have a made in the US like that, because it says that right in the forging. But oddly it does not have a brand. “So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.” | |||
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That was wrench is designed for PVC and other low torque materials. It is not a substitute for real pipe wrenchs. _____________________________ 'I'm pretty fly for a white guy'. | |||
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