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winged dome nut (photo) and "master wrench"
Today I saw an interesting dome nut:
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/photos/nut-thin.jpg No sides for a hex spanner to grip! Instead two wings, like a big wing nut only taller and with a hole for the gear chain. It was way too hard to remove by hand power (if that is the thought). So I used the tool on the photo, which I suppose is for bolts and hex nuts, but as it grips like a pipe wrench when you pull, I thought it would eat into the soft metal, which it did. (Yeah, I'm not gonna use the nut again.) I have learned thru the web the tool is called a "master wrench" - I don't know how common that is in your countries, here it is virtually unknown as everyone uses the adjustable wrench. I prefer combination spanners which you don't have to fiddle with. Especially outdoors or in a sub-zero degree workshop, fiddling with tools will kill you hands. Even everywhere else, I don't enjoy it. But in the field if I couldn't bring the entire collection of priceless combination spanners I would prefer the master wrench since it is at least self-adjustable... Yeah, why *are* people so fond of the adjustable wrench? -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 55 Blogomatic articles - |
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