here’s a crazy idea: use a socket

[fattyre]

Crescent wrenches are the most amateur tool ever. I'm sorry, but if i see you using one I'll have a really hard time trusting your mechanical abilities. 1 out of 100 times it's the appropriate tool, unless its something you don't give a crap about.

 

[Frank and Pam Skid Kings]

Looks like WD40 shoulda' been used.

 

[bricycle]

there's no beating a 6 point socket!

 

[gkeep]

"I (eye) find that as I age (and my eye's crap out), I have a increasingly more difficult time eye balling nut sizes, so an adjustable wrench is my go to. I used to be able to glance at a nut and immediately know what size it was. boo hoo...."

Funny, but as I age and can't see I notice nuts everywhere I go but around here everyone still considers me the biggest nut. Maybe someday I just wont' be able to here them...

 

[mr.cycleplane]

nothing works better than a set of vice-grips at taking the corners off a nut! and always hose it down with some wd40 so its guaranteed to slip and mutilate! I am always so relieved when the nut snaps off and I don't have to unscrew it.

 

[gkeep]

Thats the easy (way) out.

 

[vincev]

Geeez ! Go to harbor Freight and buy wrenches or ask Santa for some if money is stopping you from getting wrenches.Crescent wrenches and channel locks are useful in certain applications but a proper fitting wrench shows ya know how to use tools. Invest in good tools and you will have them for a lifetime

 

[cyclingday]

Ok, this may be in the TMI catagory.
But it always irks me, when I'm taking a piss at a public urinal, and I look down and see the gnarly chow marks on the Sloan valve, from the moron who used an industrial size pair of Channel Locks to make the repair.
The guys at Sloan Valve went to great lengths to triple plate and polish each and every part, to make the most beautiful toilet valve possible, only to have some knuckle dragging plumber F-it all up, because he's too fricken lazy to use the proper size wrench to make the repair!
Ok, now I'm done.
Feeling relieved. Lol!

 

[Boris]

Geeez ! Go to harbor Freight and buy wrenches or ask Santa for some if money is stopping you from getting wrenches.Crescent wrenches and channel locks are useful in certain applications but a proper fitting wrench shows ya know how to use tools. Invest in good tools and you will have them for a lifetime

Yep, Harbor Freight is where I get my "good tools that will last a lifetime", alright.

 

[vincev]

Yep, Harbor Freight is where I get my "good tools that will last a lifetime", alright.

Thats where ya get the tools ya lend out and hope they are not returned.lol I use good old American made tools.