And this is just so efficient. Makes me just want to spend about thirty minutes, at least making this tool, instead spending ten seconds to do this job, with channel-locks.
If anyone thinks I am going to do that to my Craftsman 8" 12", or 16 " adjustable wrenches that I have had more than 40 years, you are mistaken. As stated below, there are plenty of other tools that can do this.
This video is not for an American point of view. In America you can find millions of tools for a decent price, in Third World countries, even sometimes having the money, you won't find the right tool. Please don't break your Craftsman!
Well if in a pinch & no access to said tools (or$) w/parts laying around... The video did show WAY to much grinding (one pass for each grind would suffice, rather than more than a minute, the majority of the video as far as steps, with the least technical area). Otherwise nicely done X) Title is misleading too... (Fool me once)
Considering the workshops I've worked in, and those I've visited, I always thought it a good idea to have the hole to hang the tool on a rack. There a plenty of tools out there for this type of job without destroying ones you already paid for. I'm surprised it doesn't now pick up thousands of encrypted television channels for free...
I agree with you,I'm a fully qualified mechanic and would never do that to a good tool.Use adjustable jaw grips I say which would come in handy for other jobs too.
You can buy one of those for about the same price as a 10" crescent wrench. No need to destroy your own. Hey, how about a pair of channel locks? any other adjustable groove jawed wrench?
Or you could get a channel lock or vice grip plier. Or a vice grip with the plumbers chain setup. I got on at a yard sale for $5 and all my adjustable wrenchs are intact.
You know , you still have to have a used chain. I totally agree with the comments about destroying the crescent wrench. Use pliers, channel locks, small pipe wrench , even rope wrapped around it and a small wooden stick.
I did the same thing with an old Crescent wrench years ago. Worked great. Later I went to the store, bought a chain wrench, and turned it into an adjustable Crescent wrench.
I hate when people call it a function of the tool when it's NOT A FUNTION OF THE TOOL but rather a modification of the tool to perform a different task. It's NOT A HIDEN SECRET FEATURE!!!!!!! It's a modification.
We in the first world take tools for granted. People in the third world have to manipulate their current tools to complete a job. Hes not being wasteful hes being innovative.
30 seconds in, and I'm thinking, "I'm gonna regret this." I wasn't wrong. It wasn't a total waste of time, though, since even a bad example serves a purpose.
I immediately went to the comments to see if anyone else was thinking ‘destroy a perfectly good cresent wrench?’ Perhaps this is an ok idea. But finding a bike chain is more effort than going to HD to but the right tool. Buying a bike chain, negates having to look for one, but probably costs around the same as buying the actual tool. Ruining one of the last remaining USA made C wrenches is a terrible idea. Even F’ing up a crappy Chinese one is still more work than it’s worth. But if you have a broken bike and the chain is already trashed, your wrenches are junky HF stuff and you’re needing to get this exact same thing accomplished, this might just be the best plan ever.
He sure did. He could have used a pair of pliers. He could have also used a flat piece of metal to make it instead of destroying the wrench. To each their own, I guess.
That pretty cool, I visualize someone in a remote place that's in a bind then comes up with this idea to salve his problem, I like it. thank god for the hidden tool.
I had that exact situation a couple of weeks ago, had I known this I could have spent half an hour wreaking an adjustable wrench, but silly me I spent half a minute to get out my multi groove plier and unscrew the pipe. Also if you have to make drastic alterations to the tool to have it do something it's not designed to do is hardly a hidden secret feature.
No no it is a secret function. Also a handy secret function is to take a normal wood handled mallet and remove the head, whittle the remaining handle for about an hour, and boom secret hidden toothpick. Don't know why more people don't understand multi-functionality.
I thought it was too much trouble too besides channel locks a pipewrench will turn round or damaged nuts or bolts. There is one thing big chain wrenches are usefull for though. Thats stopping crank ballancers or other big round objects like bigger than 6 inch round objects that are very tight but them 19" channel locks are mighty handy for lots of things
@@crabtrap Your Mistaken I'm retired but I bought a chain wrench off of a tool truck in thousand oaks, ca in '98. I don't know what bike tools are you talking about you must have brain damage so I will just ignore you for being to young to know when to shutup. I think this wrench was for twisting pipes up to 10". Around our shop we used tools like this to turn motors over or to lock them when tightening crank nuts or VW gland nuts to 400lbs. As an there were special factory tools that could do the same job but they cost even more and only worked for one application. If you want to really learn about tools instead of just shooting your mouth off get a job at a heavy equipment shop and see what tools the men have. However I would never have messed up that adjustable wrench the was Indian guy did but those guys are different they use cutting torches and arc weld with thongs on.
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Nice, destroy a perfect Crescent wrench 🔧, when you could have used lock jointed pliers or a small pipe wrench and also make a rubber belt wrench similar to a chain wrench but belt won't damage plastic (pvc)!
@@jimzimmerman5288 Adjustable wrench, or spanner in British, is just that. A crescent wrench is named for its shape and comes in different sizes. I never heard of it as a brand name.
Well, true...but perhaps someone didn't have access to or money to buy a pipe wrench or adjustable pliers...but then again, if one couldn't get, or couldn't afford those tools, what are the odds they would have an angle grinder to grind on this adjustable wrench with?...
this isn't the secret of this tool. It's just something you modified when there are many other ways of making a chain wrench without actually destroying the end of a spanner
The hole is for clipping the wrench to a carabiner by skyscraper and bridge builders. It would retain the wrench to the builder's tool belt and prevent a slip, dropping it on someone below. Kinda put a halt on the work too if you dropped one not secured.
Guys, remember, these people usually wear sandals to their unregulated, highly dangerous, shoddy construction projects. They don't have a lot to begin with, so this is revolutionary to them.
A few years ago I was working 'blind' to remove a fitting inside a water tank, in the attic. The roof was too low for me to lift the water tank lid and work directly inside. I tied the tools to my wrists so I didn't drop them in the tank, and I still have the tools today. Please don't cut the loops off your tools, buy the correct tools instead.
I have quite a few large "Crescent" wrenches that I have picked up over the years as a machinist and later in a big factory as an industrial mechanic/maintenance man and this company never "Farming" anything out except when an electric motor needed rewound or replaced. After my foreman found out that I was a machinist for years and knew how to spray weld he would ask me to fix/repair the shaft surface that held the bearing when the end of that shaft was damaged or worn under the lower end of the tolerance permitted/needed to hold the bearing and he asked me to do these miracles on a 1946 lathe that was abused so much that if you got within .005 of your mark you did a great job but after doing my 3rd shaft in 6 months I finally told the foreman to "Get Bent" and IF the company wanted to buy a good lathe and good mill then I would do some machine work for them but no more machining from me until I got some decent tools to work with. Over my years in industrial maintenance/mechanic I would pick up various tools such as strap wrenches and chain wrenches so that I didn't have to maul a $60 or more tool to turn it into a rarely used or once used tool BUT I may just try this trick/modification to one of my extra 16" Proto "Crescent Wrench" just for shits and giggles and to get me out in the garage and get my mind off of the cancer that I was diagnosed with on June 6th 2023 and the 8 weeks of intense chemo and radiation treatments and the kidney failure that the Dr.s are correcting by taking me off of certain meds because I was on Torsemide because I was retaining so much water/fluid that I only had one pair of boots/shoes that I could get on my swollen feet BUT I could not tighten or even try to tie this one pair of boots until 2 to 3 weeks being on the Torsemide which in turn screwed up my kidneys but my kidneys are getting better SO IF anyone reads this post and are on Torsemide then talk to your Dr. to keep a close eye on your kidney function/health and/or get you off of this drug TOTALLY! My kidney specialist said that he believes Torsemide is too dangerous to even be on the market and then told me that the hot shot members at the FDA are on the payroll of "Big Pharma" and that is the ONLY reason that 1/3 of the approved drugs are even on the market and available to the "Public"
Lots of people can create their own tool. But if Channel Lock, Stanley or whichever company intended for a tool to be used in a certain way, they'd create that when making said tool.
Harbor freight got one for $15, it also locks. I would use a toll like that very rarely. I would buy the HB tool and save the good adjustable wrench. It would also be a lot less work.
You can buy a chain wrench, it will pay for itself compared to the time it took to make this one. Not only is there another tool that works well, pliers, just the plain wrench that you showed in the beginning works well. I know I used it today twice to install caps on pipe ends.
Often times people want to make it themselves and save a buck or two. Kinda Handy to have a chain wrench on the end of a Crescent Wrench. 2 tools in One.
I don't need yoru finger wagging at me while I watch your video on how to destroy perfectly good tools to make them do things that a perfectly good tool designed for that job could do to begin with.
Might as well take an adjustable wrench and open it to just the right size for a particular nut you want to tighten or loosen and weld it shut just there. No need for pesky exact sized wrenches when you can just modify an adjustable wrench to the perfect fit.
Yes! Don't just reach for a pipe wrench, destroy a valuable tool so that you can do that job for probably the only time ever. And take most of the day doing it.
Just open up the spanner, and with a wet piece of rag, put it on the fitting, you may need to fold the rag a few time's and then just adjust the spanner to fit and the wet rag will take up the slack. Oh and the hole at the end of this 10 inch or 12 inch spanner is to tighten any water mains spindle that might have an old washer in it.
Creo segun mi experiencia es mejor usar un pedazo de cuero el cual cubra el tubo a extraer y usar un alicate de presion ajustable el cual agarrara bien el tubo sin dañarlo al momento de girarlo, depende de cada uno lo que tenga a la mano y tambien el presupuesto del cual disponga ...gracias por compartir
o yea thats a great idea ,to use the end of the wrench that was designed with the strength to hold is own weight on a hook, for leverage . In case you dont know a real chain wrench has a jaw like a pipe wrench to do the actual gripping , the chain is just used to keep the work piece in contact with that jaw.
thats just a wide half-inch chain wrench. try pricing a freewheel or cassette wrench from a specialty tool maker- youre in for tool-sticker-shock. see my comment above.
"Not many people know that the secret to this tool is that if you buy two power tools to ruin it, you don't have to spend a small fraction of the same money to just go get a cheap strap wrench."
That’s not a secret of that tool. It’s not meant to have that function. Nothing you have to modify is a secret until after it’s been modified and even then it’s only a secret until the modifications reaches social media. That would be like me calling the crescent wrench I grinded down to make an adjustable skinny wrench to fit between the nuts on a bmx hub a secret. Not a secret, just a modification. So, up until this video was posted, the only secret about this whole thing was your idea to modify a crescent wrench to add another function to it. And a great idea it is, imo. However, you can achieve the same, what I call, “vise wrench” with a sturdy 2x2 piece of wood, a back chain and a couple nails or screws. There are many other things that can be used to make one, but the materials I just listed are the bare minimum to get you through a project or two. I made one out of a bolt cutter handle and i can almost unscrew myself when I get myself into an undesirable position that usually comes right after I open my mouth and insert foot. Good job thinking outside the box.
And all this time i thought they cast a loop on the end so i could hang it up when I was done using it. Turns out they did it so i could grind it off. Learn something new every day.
but you could also hang it from a tool belt so you can forget its there and start running and have it smack you right in the balls....how clever would you feel THEN??
I wonder if Sanan ever changed the oil filter in his car? If he did, he'd know that such tools already exist. And you don't have to ruin a good drill bit to make something that you'd use two or three times tops.
Cool I got the wrench now I just need to run to the store for a drill and some bits and a grinder and a disc then head over to the bike shop to pick up a chain then down to the scrap metal dealer for a piece of rod..thanks for the tip pal.
gotta like the part with marking the spot to drill the hole when it is in a spot that basically could not miss. Remember to put the chain back on the kids bike.
I have 2 pairs of channel locks. Either one would have worked in that situation. Still, there could be a situation where something like that could be needed and work where an adjustable wrench would not. I have an industrial-grade vacuum blower filter that actually might work where no other tool I've ever found will work. It's a major BUMMER to get that thing off because it was incorrectly installed during the production of the machine. (cross threaded) It literally cannot be fixed, period. Removing it now is virtually impossible. That chain tool just might get it done, but can't say for certain. It might destroy the filter. I can say for certain no other tool I'm aware of will remove it without destroying this very expensive stainless steel filter.
