Rich,

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:52:18 -0400, Rich wrote:

> Is spanner the Brit name for wrench, like open end or box wrench or perhaps 
> crescent wrench?

Well it's the *English* word for it... I don't think it's just Britain that uses it :-)

Wrench tends to be used for the less precision tools, like Stillson or pipe wrenches, whereas spanner usually means precision devices like open-ended 
or ring spanners.  I think what you call a "crescent wrench" we call an "adjustable spanner" (the swedish company Bahco makes some very nice, very 
expensive ones - most of the others aren't terribly good and tend to have so much slop that they are very likely to round off a nut that needs a high 
force to undo it).

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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