26 thoughts on “This is not a stump post. I came across this while looking for stump material and I have never seen one. A bent crescent wrench.”
Not bent, manufactured that way.
Never seen one before either, but the geometry is all wrong for having been bent that way during use.
You are being pedantic Sig… In the tool catalog I looked up to verify the name that was attached to the picture was called “Bent Crescent Wrench” I have been called on a couple of facts and was hoisted on my petard as I should have. I have taken some time to verify now.
Sorry. Yeah, I have a tendency to do that. I just left off the “ackshually.”
One of the seven deadly warning sign of being an engineer.
I understand, I am friends with Igor, a computer system Engineer and me being an advanced nurse we run into the same syntax errors…
Very cool
I’ve seen quite a few of them for sale on Flea Bay over the years.
So far I haven’t bought one yet.
Guess I better just bite the bullet.
Me too, I can see a bunch of uses for it.
We called them S wrenches. Westcott and Gray were the manufacturers I’ve seen. I have my Grandad’s set, made by Gray Tools.
This is useful if you don’t have the correct tool and need to ruin a nut in an awkward, hard to reach place. Trust me on this.
It’s obviously a Left-Handed Crescent Wrench.
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I should have taken my camera to the antique mart today: I found an electric hammer (no, really; it said so on the box), and immediately thought of you and Phil.
I may have to go back and capture it for posterity.
They do make electric hammers as well as pneumatic hammers, or more commonly called nail guns…
Uh, no.
This was an ordinary hand-powered claw hammer.
With an electric cord attached to the handle.
Think “pet rock” for tool geeks.
Offset Crescent Wrench. Saw one in a professional plumbers kit. Worked on a lot of steam systems.
I have 4 or 5 in various sizes – started as nostalgia, as they were big in north eastern service stations, when I was a kid. I have found them handy in tight corners, and can provide better leverage than the straight handles ones in some situations. I’ll rummage and see which one I can spare – don’t want you to have to go to the dentist!
Absolutely unrelated, but since I don’t know how to contact Cederq more directly, here’s something for his camping posts.
Phil and me use to post an email provider, but our esteemed disney mouse trolls would hack then us up for weird crap and use it for spamming and trolling other sites.
That shifting spanner is more bent than Phil’s admin executive on his hours off.
FYI, There’s no picture in this post, at least as of 6:48 EDT.
I’ve seen those a few times and they can come in handy for some tight situations.
That be a bent handle adjustable hammer.
IT is called a contoured Japanese speed wrench. you buste’ knuckles when wrenche’ slipe’
I saw a double ended adjustable wrench on eBay, but it went for far more than I thought of it. I really didn’t see the need, just wanted it for the novelty.
Tranny wrench
High speed adjustable rounding wrench. Ask me how I know.. I have one.
Obviously you have not met my (late) grandfather..
The tightness of an object is the ratio of effort times the length of water pipe added to the tool used.
I’ve been a Jet Mechanic for 40 Years now, when I first got my A&P License, my Grandfather gave me one of those. Now I have 4, different sizes, and they are great when you need to get a Large-Opening Wrench into a tight space, mostly for Hydraulic and Fuel Line Fittings. Also good are “Ford Wrenches”, the Side-Jaw style that Open far Wider than a Crescent. Use them on Axle Nuts, usually 4 Inches or so, but not much Torque to remove them.
All the high-experience Aircraft Mechanics I’ve known and worked with have large numbers of “Old School” Tools, not originally intended for Aircraft Work. And those “Aircraft Specials” are even Stranger…
Not bent, manufactured that way.
Never seen one before either, but the geometry is all wrong for having been bent that way during use.
You are being pedantic Sig… In the tool catalog I looked up to verify the name that was attached to the picture was called “Bent Crescent Wrench” I have been called on a couple of facts and was hoisted on my petard as I should have. I have taken some time to verify now.
Sorry. Yeah, I have a tendency to do that. I just left off the “ackshually.”
One of the seven deadly warning sign of being an engineer.
I understand, I am friends with Igor, a computer system Engineer and me being an advanced nurse we run into the same syntax errors…
Very cool
I’ve seen quite a few of them for sale on Flea Bay over the years.
So far I haven’t bought one yet.
Guess I better just bite the bullet.
Me too, I can see a bunch of uses for it.
We called them S wrenches. Westcott and Gray were the manufacturers I’ve seen. I have my Grandad’s set, made by Gray Tools.
This is useful if you don’t have the correct tool and need to ruin a nut in an awkward, hard to reach place. Trust me on this.
It’s obviously a Left-Handed Crescent Wrench.
…
I should have taken my camera to the antique mart today: I found an electric hammer (no, really; it said so on the box), and immediately thought of you and Phil.
I may have to go back and capture it for posterity.
They do make electric hammers as well as pneumatic hammers, or more commonly called nail guns…
Uh, no.
This was an ordinary hand-powered claw hammer.
With an electric cord attached to the handle.
Think “pet rock” for tool geeks.
Offset Crescent Wrench. Saw one in a professional plumbers kit. Worked on a lot of steam systems.
I have 4 or 5 in various sizes – started as nostalgia, as they were big in north eastern service stations, when I was a kid. I have found them handy in tight corners, and can provide better leverage than the straight handles ones in some situations. I’ll rummage and see which one I can spare – don’t want you to have to go to the dentist!
Absolutely unrelated, but since I don’t know how to contact Cederq more directly, here’s something for his camping posts.
https://tendie-defender.tumblr.com/post/678659211515838464/why-didnt-they-sell-these
Phil and me use to post an email provider, but our esteemed disney mouse trolls would hack then us up for weird crap and use it for spamming and trolling other sites.
That shifting spanner is more bent than Phil’s admin executive on his hours off.
FYI, There’s no picture in this post, at least as of 6:48 EDT.
I’ve seen those a few times and they can come in handy for some tight situations.
That be a bent handle adjustable hammer.
IT is called a contoured Japanese speed wrench. you buste’ knuckles when wrenche’ slipe’
I saw a double ended adjustable wrench on eBay, but it went for far more than I thought of it. I really didn’t see the need, just wanted it for the novelty.
Tranny wrench
High speed adjustable rounding wrench. Ask me how I know.. I have one.
Obviously you have not met my (late) grandfather..
The tightness of an object is the ratio of effort times the length of water pipe added to the tool used.
I’ve been a Jet Mechanic for 40 Years now, when I first got my A&P License, my Grandfather gave me one of those. Now I have 4, different sizes, and they are great when you need to get a Large-Opening Wrench into a tight space, mostly for Hydraulic and Fuel Line Fittings. Also good are “Ford Wrenches”, the Side-Jaw style that Open far Wider than a Crescent. Use them on Axle Nuts, usually 4 Inches or so, but not much Torque to remove them.
All the high-experience Aircraft Mechanics I’ve known and worked with have large numbers of “Old School” Tools, not originally intended for Aircraft Work. And those “Aircraft Specials” are even Stranger…