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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on July 23, 2022, 10:47:38 AM
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Firstly, yes, I know - "Use a real wrench!"
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, I often find myself on the opposite side of the farm from my shop with just the little toolbox I carry in my SxS. I also often find I need a wrench size other than the four that I carry (because they are common to a lot of my irrigation equipment and pumps). Hence I carry several crescent wrenches.
I have a couple of big ones (10" and 12") that I inherited from my dad. They are way old school Craftsman, probably from the 60s. Man, they work like a real wrench. You set the size, and they are solid. Quality. My smaller ones are all crap, including some 2000ish era Craftsmans. Don't hold their setting, loose as a goose, etc.
Does anyone have recommendations for modern, GOOD crescent wrenches? Nothing I've tried in the big box stores seems any better than my current crappy wrenches.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/393025395891
I have a couple of these that I like.
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I would also like an answer to this. The best adjustable wrench I've used is a crescent brand that probably dated back to the war.
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This one is skookum, but it ain't cheep.
https://www.zoro.com/jamesonitl-1000v-insulated-adjustable-hammerhead-wrench-12-03015/i/G8730276/
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Project Farm adjustable wrench testing and comparison.
Brad
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Not a crescent wrench, but these things are neat:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000X4OG94/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000X4J2H0/
The first set I linked to in particular make a good replacement for a crescent wrench.
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Project Farm adjustable wrench testing and comparison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOd05PUix4
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Project Farm adjustable wrench testing and comparison.
Brad
Project Farm adjustable wrench testing and comparison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOd05PUix4
Are you two bots? :P
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^ "Are you two bots?"
One's metric, the other's American.
(Had to, don't jazz me. :P )
Judging from the prices I've seen in these links ($68 for those slip joint pliers?), I must have a small fortune in old good tools including huge pipe wrenches I inherited from Pop and brought out to Colorado from NY. Most of them are coated with rust from constant service in NY's salty humid atmosphere, but 100% serviceable.
Consequently, I haven't noticed any lack of quality in modern stuff.
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Not a crescent wrench, but these things are neat:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000X4OG94/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000X4J2H0/
The first set I linked to in particular make a good replacement for a crescent wrench.
Hey, that first link looks really interesting. I've not seen those before. Made in the Fatherland, so they should be good quality. For that price, I'm inclined to try the 10" just to see what it's about. If it works well, I could see investing in the 16" for a lot of stuff I do on my wheel line. like replacing the 1" (1 1/4" wrench) drain valves.
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Klein makes good tools. Go to an electrical supply place and buy them there.
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Project Farm adjustable wrench testing and comparison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOd05PUix4
How dare you post the link I obviously forgot to post earlier. You... you... you... meany!
Brad
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Hey, that first link looks really interesting. I've not seen those before. Made in the Fatherland, so they should be good quality. For that price, I'm inclined to try the 10" just to see what it's about. If it works well, I could see investing in the 16" for a lot of stuff I do on my wheel line. like replacing the 1" (1 1/4" wrench) drain valves.
If you look at Knipex also consider the water pump style pliers or the cobra line. They have jaw recesses that do a number on bolts. If I want to operate a bolt wrong that is my choice. I have a snap-on crescent wrench and it does as well as the wrong wrench for the job can. This is where chinese tools come in, tempting to just leave a box of cheap tools at whatever water pump or on every piece of equipment.
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Channellock has some very good ones
The Knipex pliers wrenches are OK but I don’t find them to be replacements for channel locks
I use adjustables a ton, not on smaller nuts and bolts but on hydraulic fittings.
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Klein makes good tools. Go to an electrical supply place and buy them there.
Yes. Or the thrift store. Klein and Diamond both made wide opening wrench's too- an extra 1/18" is really handy.
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And...
"Hey, parts guy - I put this bolt on, and now I can't get it off! What do you have that I can use?"
"Well, it looks like you put that nut on that bolt with a pair of pliers... And then tried to take it off with a pair of pliers... And now it's all roundy?"
"Yeah. It's all stuck, and it's your fault. You sold it to me!"
"You're gonna have to weld a nut on that sucker to get it off. And use a 6 point socket on that nut."
"Huh?"
"And did you use something from a tube of the red thread locker on it?"
"Huh?"
"Just heat it with a torch until it glows red. It won't be tight if it is molten."
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"Just heat it with a torch until it glows red. It won't be tight if it is molten."
Hot wrench can solve many a problem.
Brad
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I would also like an answer to this. The best adjustable wrench I've used is a crescent brand that probably dated back to the war.
I've got one of those as well. It's the best of all of the "name brand" and some unknown makes that I have. Funny thing: It's the most durable of the bunch but all the others receive the hardest jobs. When one of them fails, the Crescent takes over and finishes the job.
Woody
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To repeat another poster: Klein, and only Klein. Most everybody else tapers the jaws in to offset for the slop in their garbage mechanism, which means you're constantly tightening and loosening the wrench. Kleins (in my experience) have truly parallel jaws. Much happiness.
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Someone had to mention this: Cough, ahem...I have a marvelous crescent wrench. It has two ends. One for inches and the other for MM. :rofl: :P :old:
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I've got the Knipex pliers wrench and an 8" Klein arriving Wed for evaluation. =)
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Someone had to mention this: Cough, ahem...I have a marvelous crescent wrench. It has two ends. One for inches and the other for MM. :rofl: :P :old:
Damn! I knew my collection was missing something! :facepalm:
Woody