Get your mind out of the gutter. I’m just talking about wrenches. These are my current favorites. Top to bottom that’s a Bacho shifting spanner. That hole will fit over the lug of old type fire hose couplings and the fish mouth with the serrations will lock onto nut or rounded off crap but I’ve used it in other ways as well.
Then there’s the Bahco pipe wrench, gotta love it, quick to adjust and when you squeeze the handles it just grips tighter (hey I told you to get your mind out of the gutter). This guy will fit in a tool bag but I think they make them bigger too. But not sure they’d work as good as the old reliable, classic Rigid ones (you just won’t leave that gutter will you). Remember the calendars “every woman loves a rigid tool”. Can’t imagine what manner of mayhem it would cause if I hung up one of those calendars on the ship now.
Finally the classic monkey wrench. Fell from grace somewhere along the line but if you work with hydraulic fittings a lot this is a perfect back up wrench for hose fittings like JIC swivels, tubing fittings and such. It has ample and wide jaws (for the last time, get your mind out of the gutter) and small enough for the tool bag too. Think I got this one from McMaster-Carr.
So these are my go to guys but always looking for good ideas. Just no Channel-locks - gave up the Polish knurling tool a long time a ago. Well I bet there is one in that tool bag at the bottom somewhere - you know, for emergencies.
Yeah you might be. I was trying to figure out how to post pictures and thought I was doing it correctly. It does show when I open the post but maybe I need to re-read the directions a few more times.
[QUOTE=KPChief;128935]Yeah you might be. I was trying to figure out how to post pictures and thought I was doing it correctly. It does show when I open the post but maybe I need to re-read the directions a few more times.[/QUOTE]
I just use tinypic.com, it’s easy to use, self explanatory, and free. The thing I like about it is that you can give it the URL address of a picture and it will still work. You don’t actually have to have the photograph downloaded onto your computer.
The wide opening slimline Bacho is a little nicer, Knipex adjustable pliers, you can actually stand on the like the add and the all important mini LED or mag light. The latter crucial for moments when you want to be left alone or look like you know what your doing. Just squint or frown and shine the light at something in the overhead.
[QUOTE=TSCOTT;129014]… and the all important mini LED or mag light. The latter crucial for moments when you want to be left alone or look like you know what your doing. Just squint or frown and shine the light at something in the overhead.[/QUOTE]
Love it! Although the older I get I just have to look grumpy (grumpier?) and they seem to leave me alone, except it doesn’t work on client personnel, they are just oblivious in most cases. I’ll have to look in to those Knipex pliers.
You really can’t go wrong with anything from bacho or knipex very we’ll made, about the only bilge recovered tools that are good to go with a little wd40. Also essential is the whia 2 slot and Phillips for elect panels. You can really be a screwdriver snob of yours still say made in west Germany!
