Different types of wrench tools available for use
Posted on: October 17, 2014
If you are a car owner, you must know about the wrench tools and may be you have used them several time. Wrench is also termed as a spanner tools and is used for allowing a mechanical advantages or a better grip to the worker working with the tool. The most common role of a spanner is to fasten the studs, nuts and bolts to prevent their spinning all the time. A user has to apply a minimal force on the wrench in order to rotate the fastener to tighten or loosen it. Wrenches are known as spanner in Britain and some other parts of Europe. There are many types of wrenches that you can find in the market and each type has its unique use. Spanners are available in different shape, sizes and lengths and have many distinct characteristics.
Some of the most commonly used spanners used by people are as follows:
Open end Spanners– This type of spanner is basically a single piece wrench and has openings in U shape. It is used to grip two opposite sides of nut or bolt. It is normally a tool with two open ends with each side having an opening of different size. Both of them have an alignment of fifteen degrees from the handle of the wrench. The design of wrench is very efficient and allows a bigger range of movement.
Box end spanners- Box end spanner is a single piece tool with an encircled opening. This encircle opening is the best for working on six sided or hexagonal nuts or bolts as box end spanner provides you better grip on all the sides of a fastener. This wrench is available in many different sizes and can be used over square shaped nut heads.
Combined spanners- This type of spanner has dual ends and both ends have different designs and shapes. One end has a box end type design and the other end has an open end type design. The best thing is that despite of different shapes and design of both the ends, both of them easily fit the same sized nut heads.
Podger spanners- Podger spanners are basically a short bar with one end pointed and the other end with a design of wrench. The wrench end is used for tightening and loosening the bolts, but the pointed part is used for alignment of hole of nuts and bolts during the bolting operation.
Adjustable spanners- The adjustable spanner is an amazing and very useful tool as it can be used on a wide range of sizes of heads of nuts and bolts. It has a movable jaw, which can be adjusted according to the size of the nut you need to operate on.
Apart from that, you can also find different types of impact and torque wrenches that can make your daily works very easy and efficient.
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