It cost me blood and sweat

[Batmanacw]

The top wrench is a 30°/60° 13mm made by Tekton. They are also made by Capri and SnapOff.



I worked on a German machine that required two wrenches to make an adjustment.

I ended up using a customers classic combination wrench open end (15°) to try and reach around the multitude of wires and air lines and parts of the machine frame. 95° in the shop. Heat radiating from the machine after running all day. No fans. On my knees on cardboard. Jamming my hands in to get the limited wrench onto the jam nut.......every damn thing is sharp. No way to see the jam nut and hold the wrench.....

The 30°/60° wrench allows 4 different approaches to each jam nut nestled inside the jumble. I'm never leaving it out of the box again. I wasted at least an hour of misery. Not a lesson I'll learn again.

Do yourself a favor and get a set of these wrenches if you work in industrial machinery.

I am not a SnapOff fan but their version is pretty nice. The Capri set works and feels better than the Tekton.

 

[mmcmdl]

I will add tears to your blood and sweat ! Those aren't bent on angles yet so you had it made . Isn't it amazing where you find nuts and bolts on equipment ? The guilty designers should be required to work on the machines for a year before handing over to mechanics .

 

[woodchucker]

I had mac wrenches like those, gave them to my son.

 

[Batmanacw]

I had mac wrenches like those, gave them to my son.

I believe the Mac wrenches are 15⁰/60⁰. That combination of angles is near completely useless compared to the 30⁰/60⁰. Seriously. The difference is astonishing.

 

[mmcmdl]

I had to hang a light up here at the son and DIL's house yesterday . I left some tools last year when I was up but no wire strippers I found out . I have 3 more to hang and sent the wife and daughter out for a pair . Took me close to an hour yesterday to strip the wires with a knife on the Gerber tool . Today , @Dabbler stopped in for a while and did some things in the garage .Got to talk for a few hours It's nice having the correct tools for the job .

 

[IHinIN]

I have a set of 30/60 deg wrenches that I use at work for hydraulic plumbing. Mine are Martin brand. There’s times when they’re the only thing that will work.

 

[Batmanacw]

I have a set of 30/60 deg wrenches that I use at work for hydraulic plumbing. Mine are Martin brand. There’s times when they’re the only thing that will work.

I have a 13mm Martin but it is 15⁰/60⁰. I dropped it for the SnapOff 30⁰/60⁰

 

[mmcmdl]

I have a set of 30/60 deg wrenches that I use at work for hydraulic plumbing. Mine are Martin brand. There’s times when they’re the only thing that will work

Here were our 48 presses . 95 feet high , all hydraulic motors and rolls . If it wasn't for hydraulic leaks , air leaks , ink leaks , coolant leaks ...................I wasn't needed ! 4 high Goss Colorliners .

Final Sun Park press run | PHOTOS

Pressman Montre Simpson, a 26-year veteran of The Baltimore Sun, checks a copy of the Jan. 31 edition of the newspaper. This is the last issue to be printed at Sun Park in Port Covington. Future co…

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[wachuko]

Here were our 48 presses . 95 feet high , all hydraulic motors and rolls . If it wasn't for hydraulic leaks , air leaks , ink leaks , coolant leaks ...................I wasn't needed ! 4 high Goss Colorliners .

Final Sun Park press run | PHOTOS

Pressman Montre Simpson, a 26-year veteran of The Baltimore Sun, checks a copy of the Jan. 31 edition of the newspaper. This is the last issue to be printed at Sun Park in Port Covington. Future co…

www.baltimoresun.com

I will never get tired of learning how things are made.

 

[pdentrem]

I worked a short 6 months at a printing plant. This was in 1980-81, and we were printing the Saturday/Sunday comics for most of the east of the Mississippi papers. The press was originally used by either Playboy or Penthouse, cannot remember which. 3 4 color sections with paper dust and inks in the air for us to breath in. These were oil paper inks. The more modern offset presses in the other section of the plant used a water based ink but they ran even hotter than the machine I was on. I left as I was coughing up crap all the time. Not a great place to work in. Greater Buffalo Press closed a few years ago.
Pierre