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Cooperman
United Kingdom
790 Posts |
 Posted - 26/10/2024 : 20:05:14
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Originally posted by Gerhard Maier
But always choose the most powerful of your adjustable spanners if you hear a menacing noise at the workshop door in the evening !! 
Gerhard
Being an optimistic soul, I always assume its someone bringing me a cup of tea. Never been wrong yet.
John Cooper M 628 |
Edited by - Cooperman on 26/10/2024 20:05:57 |
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Westbury
United Kingdom
2214 Posts |
Posted - 27/10/2024 : 00:12:34
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Hello, Nigel.
I find the image of you standing in your garage stripped to the waist and brandishing a large Spanner mind boggling!
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coracle
United Kingdom
2214 Posts |
Posted - 27/10/2024 : 10:30:12
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Chris,
I can assure you that the reaction from my wife on bringing in a cup of tea is quite different.
Oh, I forgot to mention on removing my shirt, the application of "Eau de Castrol R"
"Eau de Castrol R" is not so easy to get these days; the last time I was aware of it on the High Street was at the Ronnies Hardware shop (no connection to Ronnie's Grocery store.) You can get it on-line now, in spray form, and it is called R'osol spray. |
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Westbury
United Kingdom
2214 Posts |
Posted - 27/10/2024 : 10:36:39
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I must make a note to look out for some, ooohhh!
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
6546 Posts |
Posted - 26/12/2024 : 15:26:47
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My good behaviour this year paid off as Santa brought me Volume II 
Simon J
J3437 |
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Rob Bell
United Kingdom
209 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2025 : 13:47:32
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| This is timely - I spent a happy afternoon yesterday resurrecting a small collection of adjustable spanners from my late grand father. Lamentably, no King Dicks or Abingdons, but one from Foot tools and another beautiful one from Tent tools of Sheffield... |
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coracle
United Kingdom
2214 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2025 : 15:03:29
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| A nutter's delight? |
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Reinout
USA
251 Posts |
Posted - 26/01/2025 : 22:28:41
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In The Netherlands we called them "Engelse sleutel" (English spanner). I never really wondered why, but because of Dan Shockey's (DanPA) reply "We called them "metric wrenches" in my youth as the US was transitioning to metric fasteners." I looked into it a bit more. Turns out to be the exact same reason, just in the opposite direction. Many a tool boxes contained only metric tools plus one "Engelse sleutel" for the odd English fastener you'd run into once in a while. They were also know as "Bahco", after the company of the Swedish inventor of the adjustable spanner design in Nigel Blackham's (coracle) post.
Reinout Vogt
Emma
1931 M-Type 2M/2735 |
Edited by - Reinout on 26/01/2025 22:31:30 |
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Rob Bell
United Kingdom
209 Posts |
Posted - 28/01/2025 : 16:57:12
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After some happy hours wire brushing and wiping with an oily rag, here is my small collection of adjustable spanners (assuming I can get the picture to upload!):
(Apologies if showing rotated at 90 degrees!) |
Edited by - Rob Bell on 28/01/2025 16:58:58 |
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coracle
United Kingdom
2214 Posts |
Posted - 28/01/2025 : 20:39:53
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| Spot the imposter? |
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Mike Hughes
USA
12 Posts |
Posted - 29/01/2025 : 01:26:55
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Third from the right?
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coracle
United Kingdom
2214 Posts |
Posted - 29/01/2025 : 04:00:58
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| Yes, clearly one of Sir Henry Royce's "Mole's" early experimental iterations before he finally got a proper grip. |
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Westbury
United Kingdom
2214 Posts |
Posted - 29/01/2025 : 09:57:29
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The ‘hard boys’ of the rough, tough engineering world!
Chris |
Edited by - Westbury on 29/01/2025 10:05:37 |
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chris Wallis
United Kingdom
177 Posts |
Posted - 29/01/2025 : 10:40:03
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Third from the right, when i did my apprenticeship at Rolls Royce one of the exercise's was to make that 6" wrench an then be marked.I think i still have it somewhere in my tool boxes.Chris.
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coracle
United Kingdom
2214 Posts |
Posted - 29/01/2025 : 10:42:54
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| Unlike the others one could describe the odd one out as "a self marking wrench?" |
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