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Re: Craftsman Wrenches/ GearWrench

To: Erik Quackenbush <erik@midwestfilter.com>
Subject: Re: Craftsman Wrenches/ GearWrench
From: Derek Harling <derek.lola@sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:37:55 -0400
Erik Quackenbush wrote:
> 
> I did recently buy a set of  "GearWrench"-s from the local Ace Hardware. 
>These things are made in Taiwan
> but they are GREAT. They are combination wrenches with a normal open end and 
>a ratcheting
> 12 point box end. The ratchet required very little clearance, much less that 
>the Craftsman ratchets.
> You can use it places where all you can normally fit it is a box wrench, and 
>it has finer ratchet teeth

Aren't they great? - I recommended them on the list just before
Christmas last year. Around here they are use by all the tool and die
shops. I use my own set "all" the time - but never for inital releasing,
or final tightening, of well torqued nuts.

Derek

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