3 Jan
2002
3 Jan
'02
6:58 a.m.
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
! From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)
[mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com]
!
!
! On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Chris wrote:
! > I know the facts, and I know exactly why it carries that
! > name (much like
!
! It's a nice analogy, but only partially relevant for this particular
! issue.
! I don't know what they're teaching kids these days, but in
! the time period
! for which this list is relevant, mechanics did/do indeed refer to any
! adjustable wrench of that particular design as a "Crescent
! Wrench". They
! do NOT use the term "Crescent Wrench" to refer to any other style of
! adjustable wrench, and would consider THAT misuse as comparable to
! referring to a box-end wrench as a "socket".
Maybe I'm dating myself, or just sounding stupid, but with my basic
hands-on mechanic experience, I always called them 'adjustable' wrenches,
because that's what they did. They adjusted to the size you nedd.
Never quite realized what exactly a Cresent wrench was...
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