Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A Better Valve Wrench


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Posted by Chuck(G) on May 13, 2001 at 18:33:49:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A Better Valve Wrench posted by Rick Denney on May 13, 2001 at 17:58:07:

Yeah, Rick, but "adjustable wrench" just doesn't cut it. That be anything, including maybe something that Bob Villa shills for and would never be caught dead using. But "Crescent wrench" brings to mind a specific tool, just as "Phillips screwdriver" probably doesn't refer to the item made by the Phillips Tool Company.

It's a good thing that the item in question wasn't renamed "Cooper wrench" when Crescent was acquired.

Face it, it's a hazard of the hardware trade and it'd be a tower of Babel if we had to use generic terms for Torx, Mollie, Channelocks, Vise-grips, Pop rivets, etc. etc.

Chuck "Resisting the impulse to call it a hillbilly fit-all" Guzis



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