Goat Tool Day 4
9Here’s another cool tool from Engineer, the TWM-08 Pocket Sized Adjustable Wrench. It’s shown here next to the Engineer scissors and the Vamplier variant of the Neji-Saurus screw removal pliers.
Just a cute little adjustable wrench, right? Well, let’s flip it over and take another look.
There’s the cool bit, the jaws are only 2mm thick. That means you can get them into tight places a normal wrench would never fit. I can use these to tighten the nuts on my glasses. Engineer suggests using them for things like electronics, double-nuts (jam nuts), bicycles, motorcycles, etc. They are great for panel nuts on things like switches and potentiometers as they tend to be large diameter, but very thin. You can get behind a knob to tighten a nut, without having to remove the knob.
And as with several of Engineer’s tools, there’s a range of these wrenches.
http://www.engineer.jp/en/products/twm07_08.html
And they’re not the only game in town, Channellock has a couple of Xtra Slim wrenches. Though at 3/16" (4.7mm), they are more than twice as thick as the Engineer jaws. I guess it all depends on what you need. The Engineer TWM-08 are $25 on Amazon, and the Channellock are $23, so price isn’t a factor between the two.
I don’t own the Channellock Xtra Slim model, but I do have the regular thickness “WideAzz”, and really like the extra wide opening jaws.
Some links:
https://toolguyd.com/engineer-thin-jaw-adjustable-wrench/
https://toolguyd.com/channellock-xtra-slim-adjustable-wrenches/
https://toolguyd.com/channellocks-wide-adjustable-wrenches/
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By the way, do NOT click on those ToolGuyD links, it’s a terrible, terrible site, that will probably give you bad ideas, and cost you lots of money! You have been warned!
Also, never go to The Garage Journal, it’s an endless source of really expensive ideas!
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/
@blaineg Too late for me. Already succumbed to purchasing vintage toolboxes, Craftsman grinders & vises. On the lookout for cool old drill press & lathe (but cheap).
PS: Sandra Boynton says it’s Grammar Day.
Are you getting back to toys any time soon?
@sammydog01 b-but these are like toys to some of us!
@djslack “like toys” is not the same as toys.
@djslack @sammydog01 @blaineg They are toys for grown-ups (as opposed to ‘adult toys’)
@compunaut @djslack @sammydog01 I thought I was posting toys. It’s kinda hard for me to tell the difference at times. Both make me warm and fuzzy inside.
Your toolbox is sooooo lucky to have you!
@mfladd now there is a nice tool chest!
Jam nuts are the devil. There are about a bazillion jam nuts in my early Ford suspension designs. Particularly challenging when I’m using chrome or polished stainless hardware to get them torqued down without mucking up the finish. I would guess these thinned down wrenches would be the pudding. In the past I’ve resorted to grinding down my expensive Snap-on box wrenches, but then they lose their temper and crack easily.
@ruouttaurmind You’re supposed to grind down the cheap sub-Harbor-Freight-quality tools, not your good tools!
@narfcake Sure, but then I’d have to run down to HF in the middle of a project!
I await the day you comment on your entire tool chest.
FWIW, I still have my Powr-Kraft that was from Montgomery Wards decades back.
@narfcake Sorry, but I don’t actually have a killer tool chest. Since I still don’t have a garage (one of these years, maybe) I don’t have place for a nice big toolbox. (I do have a nice one at work though.)
So I’ve got multiple smaller boxes. Or they’re in the blow molded cases they came in. Some are in the shed, some are in the laundry room. I do know where most of them are, but every now and then I surprise myself.