On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:43:36 +0900, "Ryan Ginstrom"
<ginstrom@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>"Ron Hitler Barrassi" <greg-the-stop-sign@tism.com.au> wrote in message
>news:cvebda$u96$2@nnrp.gol.com...
>> oh, I thought wrench was a shifting spanner. What is an
>> adjustable wrench then?
>
>An adjustable wrench.
>http://www.world-shop1.com/chinedirect/tools%20wrenches.htm
>
>But wrenches are not all adjustable:
>http://www.356.ca/tools/wrenches/450e.jpg

Nor are all wrenches not spanners. The U.S. Navy, for example, still
refers to the tools used for tightening/loosening fire hose
connections as "spanners".




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