Random thread about adjustable spanners

[daveimi]

Hi one and all. I go from site to site sorting electronic equipment / servers etc for a living. 90% of my work is with screwdrivers and cabling stuff (pliers/snips/needle nose pliers) and so on. I have a Fatmax bag I've been lugging about and feel the need to have a set of spanners on me. I've bought a really nice pair of adjustables, and wondered if there were people on the site that get by with just an adjustable? I've heard horror stories and the old man is a mechanic so hates them. I don't come into contact with bolts etc that much so am hoping I would be able to get by with these adjustables and ditch the ton of spanners and wrenches I lug about.

What's everyone's thoughts and opinions about this very sensitive matter How do you all work and get by in this area? I feel as though my true nerd can come out in all it's glory in this thread lol.

[Liftoff]

I've always been taught to use the right sized spanner for the right sized bolt head, and that saves you both your knuckles and a lot of swearing with rounded of bolt heads!
I still use an adjustable some times, but with care....

[adz600]

I am that old man, but young I used to weld up adjustable's when I worked at gypsum, just wrecks the heads of the bolt for future removal

[Max]

In robot building I never use spanners/wrenches, for all my bolts I either use an adjustable if it is huge or I use one of the Makita multibit screwdriver that just is just like a manual screwdriver but lets you change the bit in the end like on a cordless drill. You get socket head bits or bolt heads and then can use it for screw heads as well, then the same bits can go into my cordless drill if I've got a lot to do. I never go to an event without it.

[craig_colliass]

Expensive but the best

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Knipex-86-...item5af19655e8

[beast]

invented by Bacho in 1842

love them

[daveimi]

I use Knipex snips, they seem to have a harder cutting edge to them than anything else I've found.

It's as I suspected, I'll carry on lugging my spanner and socket set around.