3 Jan
2002
3 Jan
'02
3:22 p.m.
I always call them Crescent Wrenches. I always thought Adjustable
Wrench was the silly name that knock-offs were called. I have a few
smaller ones that are made by Craftsman, but the big 15 incher I have is
a genuine Crescent Wrench.
I'm just guess, but I assume that the Crescent Tool Company, now owned
by Cooper Tools, came up with the design first.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Lawrence Walker wrote:
Well I've worked most of my life with tools, including Garages, machine
shops, construction , the oil-patch, the film industry as grip and "electric",
the railways, had a bicycle shop, and many other mechanical things and in
Canada it was always specifically referred to as a crescent wrench. Before I
learned that Cresent was a company I always thought it referred to the
shape. A request for a"adjustable" wrench would have elicited a momentary
pause and then a caustic "vice-grip" or "monkeywrench"?
Then again each region has it's own language like "tubes" and
"valves".
Lawrence