Crescent Wrench?
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Crescent Wrench?
Here's a dumb one for ya:
People I know (my father for example) have long referred to an adjustable wrench as a Crescent Wrench.
Now, I know there is a Crescent brand of tools, but did they invent this style of wrench? Or were they the most popular for the longest time making it a situation like "Kleenex" is used for any tissue or "Band-Aid" is used for any adhesive bandage?
These are the kinds of questions that keep me from sleeping nights.
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from wiki ...........
Crescent® wrench: the brand name of an improved version of the adjustable end wrench (see the photo at right) developed by the Crescent Tool and Horseshoe Company. Often used as a generic term.
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Spanner is the name that we used in Tech school. If ya called it a Crescent ya better run cus the instructor was after you. Another one is Vise Grips. They are locking pliers. A pipe wrench on the other hand is a Stillson. Go figure. Ah could ya hand me a set of dikes.
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Crescent was the front runner in developing the adjustable kind of like ChannelLock was for the slip-joint pliers and as such, there name came synonomous for those types of tools. As pointed out, Vise-Grip was another name associated with locking pliers since they pioneered them.
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There were a number of adjustable wrenches before Crescent. But Crescent developed the first one with the crescent shape, which was the best because it was rigid and held it's adjustment as well as having the least bulk.
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Originally Posted by arctic y block
Spanner is the name that we used in Tech school. If ya called it a Crescent ya better run cus the instructor was after you. Another one is Vise Grips. They are locking pliers. A pipe wrench on the other hand is a Stillson. Go figure. Ah could ya hand me a set of dikes.
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Now i had enough trouble without that. Then there is a Caterpillar. One thinks of a dirt pushing track machine. But John Deer don't built Cats they are called Crawlers. A Back hoe today is an excavator. No wonder us mech and operators get the big money. Ya right.
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Originally Posted by arctic y block
Now i had enough trouble without that. Then there is a Caterpillar. One thinks of a dirt pushing track machine. But John Deer don't built Cats they are called Crawlers. A Back hoe today is an excavator. No wonder us mech and operators get the big money. Ya right.
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Here's one for ya . What do ya call a machine that has a front end loader on one end and an excavator on the other?
Handy as heck around the shop and yard works for me. 480 or 580 case comes to mind. Mighty handy tool. But I would prefer a ford 8 or 9N more.
Handy as heck around the shop and yard works for me. 480 or 580 case comes to mind. Mighty handy tool. But I would prefer a ford 8 or 9N more.
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Originally Posted by arctic y block
The back hoe attachment on your tractor is an excavator. A back hoe comes from the old cable machines that dug forward. Don't seem right but that's the way it is.
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I think the term is 2 Ladies in comfortable shoes is the more politically correct phrase for a pair of dikes!
Originally Posted by arctic y block
Spanner is the name that we used in Tech school. If ya called it a Crescent ya better run cus the instructor was after you. Another one is Vise Grips. They are locking pliers. A pipe wrench on the other hand is a Stillson. Go figure. Ah could ya hand me a set of dikes.