And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
OK, "metric and SAE" in adjustable wrenches is an inside joke. The markings are useless- adjust to fit, who cares. And 'extra' capacity means that two of the four shouldn't be needed. Quality ought to be OK (Klein), but,as some of the comments note, quality is variable. There is an exact Chinese ripoff, including the color and branding- whether that reflects actual origin or not, dunno. Klein is unusual in that they remain outside the usual aggregators (Stanley B&D, etc) and do manufacture mostly in the US.
A year ago I bought about thirty of these at a yard sale for $5. Most are 6", a couple of 10s and 12s, even two 16s. Various manufactors, most are genuine Crescent. Kinda neat, I never noticed before, the Crescents have an inch scale inscribed at the jaws.
Prefer mine in metric.
ReplyDeleteOK, "metric and SAE" in adjustable wrenches is an inside joke. The markings are useless- adjust to fit, who cares. And 'extra' capacity means that two of the four shouldn't be needed. Quality ought to be OK (Klein), but,as some of the comments note, quality is variable. There is an exact Chinese ripoff, including the color and branding- whether that reflects actual origin or not, dunno. Klein is unusual in that they remain outside the usual aggregators (Stanley B&D, etc) and do manufacture mostly in the US.
ReplyDeletei want a left handed metric one
ReplyDeleteA year ago I bought about thirty of these at a yard sale for $5.
ReplyDeleteMost are 6", a couple of 10s and 12s, even two 16s. Various manufactors, most are genuine Crescent.
Kinda neat, I never noticed before, the Crescents have an inch scale inscribed at the jaws.
Klein is a good brand.
I absolutely hate those things. Crescent wrench, adjustable spanner, whatever you call them, they are the worst "necessary" tool in the box.
ReplyDeleteA "crescent" wrench was called an Oklahoma socket set where I grew up.
Delete...we called a large hammer an Okie Speed Wrench
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