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My new wide jaw adjustable wrench

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August 11, 2020, 11:10 AM
Pipe Smoker
My new wide jaw adjustable wrench
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.



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August 11, 2020, 11:24 AM
soflaac
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.



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August 11, 2020, 11:36 AM
Sailor1911
Got to have some big nuts to use that! Big Grin




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August 11, 2020, 11:59 AM
straightshooter01
according to description it has "good toughness"AND "High Torque" Smile
August 11, 2020, 12:47 PM
Patriot
quote:
Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
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 a nice set of three channellocks that did the same thing...comes in handy


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August 11, 2020, 02:01 PM
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Nice "gitters"


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August 11, 2020, 07:03 PM
Chris42
Aluminum? Really?
August 11, 2020, 07:27 PM
David Lee
quote:
Originally posted by Chris42:
Aluminum? Really?
Needs to be copied with a longer handle and of forged steel, sold on Amazon. Made in the USA.
August 11, 2020, 09:38 PM
Bassamatic
Yeah, that handle is not near long enough for my needs. I'd be putting a pipe on it pretty much all the time.



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August 12, 2020, 07:01 AM
Pipe Smoker
^^^^^^^^
For my particular purpose, which many folks would consider to be rather odd, Smile the short handle is quite long enough. It was gripped in my vacuum mount PanaVise (which is US-made).



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August 12, 2020, 12:14 PM
az4783054
Hope it works for you, but it's MADE IN CHINA which many of us are trying to avoid like the crud. Mad

I have CHANNEL LOCKS if there's something really big to address. They're MADE IN THE USA. Wink
August 12, 2020, 02:58 PM
Timdogg6
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


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August 12, 2020, 05:59 PM
RichardC
Made

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Communist

China.


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August 12, 2020, 06:04 PM
ensigmatic
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.



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August 12, 2020, 09:07 PM
Pipe Smoker
quote:
Originally posted by David Lee:
quote:
Originally posted by Chris42:
Aluminum? Really?
Needs to be copied with a longer handle and of forged steel, sold on Amazon. Made in the USA.

Funny… I recall you promoting the PB-JIFE peanut butter knife:

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...960073764#8960073764

Which is made in China.

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August 12, 2020, 10:32 PM
hrcjon
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.


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August 13, 2020, 06:18 PM
SgtGold
That was wrench is designed for PVC and other low torque materials. It is not a substitute for real pipe wrenchs.


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