Howard Winter wrote:

>Rich,
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>On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:52:18 -0400, Rich wrote:
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>>Is spanner the Brit name for wrench, like open end or box wrench or perhaps 
>>crescent wrench?
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Crescent is a brand name of tools.  to the best of my knowledge they 
first marketed the "adjustable wrench" so after that most people just 
called it the crescent wrench

Also pipe wrenchs AFAIK, have the gripping teeth on the jaws and one jaw 
that flexes to help grab the object better.
The monkey wrenches were adjustable with smooth jaws.  The wrenches were 
shaped like the letter "F".
Here in Midwestern US a lot of old timers would call the smaller ones  a 
Ford wrench.

Recon

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>Well it's the *English* word for it... I don't think it's just Britain that uses it :-)
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>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).
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>Cheers,
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>Howard Winter
>St.Albans, England
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