On Feb 19, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Jim Felder wrote:

> I want to chime  in on behalf of the gear wrenches. They are a tool
> that I thought was pretty useless until I needed one... I quickly
> bought more. They speed up a lot of general nut and bolt removal and
> replacement, and they can get to some things (speaking 2.1 and diesel
> here) that you almost can't get any other way. I only bought the 10,
> 12, and 13, and I used them all the time. I don't know if they 17 and
> 19 would put up with the abuse they get, but I didn't think the
> smaller wrenches would either--they do.

The 17 mm is the 1st one I bought for getting at the engine/tranny
nut behind the fan housing at the starter on an early AC.  I can't
even do it w/o it at my advanced age of poor flexibilty, arthritic
degeneracy.  I have both the Sears & the cheaper HF ones, & they both
seem to work well when needed in those hard to reach, non socket
accessible areas.

Pax,

Tom B.-always the right tool for the job, or the right mechanic?