Extreme-Offset Wrenches — As Promised
By Chuck Cage
When we mentioned offset wrenches a few days ago, we promised to find the specific ones we borrowed — and liked a lot — and report back to you. Well, we found them. (Or at least they were found for us. Thanks, Lorenzo!)
They’re made by the German company Stahlwille, and come in all sorts of sizes and offsets. What we like is the way the offset’s so steep as opposed to just angled like most offset wrenches we’ve seen. They’ll fit in places your ordinary offsets can’t dare to tread.
There’s a link below to the English version of the Stahlwille site, but it’s difficult to tell from their site what combinations of wrenches are available commercially. We’ve also included a link to Froogle that’s more useful; It returns the specific 8-piece set we used from a variety of vendors starting at around $115. We’re saving up for a set right now.
US Corporate Site [Stahlwille]
Street Pricing (8-pc set) [Froogle]
August 14th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
Stahlwille is a wonderful manufacturer…..here is a distributor that you can buy Stahlwille products from.
http://www.samstagsales.com
Item # SF20/8 for the 8pc Deep set double box end set
$143.81
August 14th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Both of those links seem to point to the same place. Just FYI.
August 14th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
Peter: Whoops. Fixed it.
August 16th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
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