Goat Tool Day 4

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Here’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/