Archive for the 'Crescent' Category

Dealmonger: 8″ Crescent Adjustable Wrench $9.29

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

ANTOnline is offering a great deal on the 8″ Crescent adjustable wrench, priced at $9.29.  Featuring a black phosphate finish, it opens as wide as 15/16″ for all your loosening and tightening needs.

8″ Crescent Adjustable Wrench [ANTOnline]
Street Pricing [Google Products]
Via Amazon [What’s This?]

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Wrap A Chain Around Your Pipe Problems

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Crescent Chain Wrench

When a pipe wrench just won’t cut it — whether it just can’t get a good grip or won’t fit in the given space — grab your trusty chain wrench. A chain wrench wraps around hard-to-reach or irregularly shaped objects to give you the grip you need.

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Crescent Wants To Be Your Monkey Wrench

Friday, November 30th, 2007
Monkey Wrench

Crescent may not call it a monkey wrench, but many of their retailers do. It’s clear their Auto Wrench — John Piccone gonna sue somebody! — evolved from the wrench Charles Moncky patented. Witness its flat toothless jaws and how the lower jaw adjusts instead of the upper. This is no pipe wrench.

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Hot or Not? Crescent’s RapidRrench

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

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We’ve written about Crescent’s RapidRrench before, but we’d like to know what you think about it.  Cooper Tools claims this’ll “accommodate up to 38 different bolt/nut sizes,” but will it round ‘em off?

More to the point, even if you wouldn’t give up correctly-sized wrenches, would this make sense in a situation where you’d sacrifice the perfect tool for an OK tool that’s smaller (and cheaper), like maybe homeowner’s toolkit?  Or a car emergency kit?

And most significantly — do any of you own one of these?

Let us know in comments.

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Finds: Crescent RapidSlide Adjustable Wrenches

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

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It’s easy to forget that the adjustment part of adjustable wrenches don’t require much force; All that’s required is that you adjust the wrench’s jaws to fit the bolt — not crush it.  Thankfully some manufacturers haven’t forgotten this simple fact, and have come out with some cool alternatives to the standard thumb-wheel adjuster.  To adjust the RapidSlide, for example, you simply move the slide-button mechanism back and forth.

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