Andy sez:
A tip for extending the life of your Whitworth wrenches: Unless you
don't have room in your application, turn them so the sliding jaw is
getting less of the load. I thought this was understood, but have
seen people use them backwards so often, I thought I'd mention it. I
will now make a sorry attempt to include pictures.
/\ /\
#| |X X| |#
# \/ X X \/ #
XXXXXXX XXXXXXX
XX XX
XX -> this way XX <- this way
XX XX
Where # is the sliding jaw, and the Xs are the wrench, including the
fixed jaw. The arrows are showing direction of handle travel.
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I have always turned them the OTHER way. I had heard it was better to have
the moving jawed pushed against the body of the wrench, rather than pulled
out as the above method shows.
mjb.
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