Weekly Challenge Dec. 9 - Dec. 16: METAL

cwgrizz

Senior Member
Challenge Team
Well, I have found while you never can have too many open box 13 spanners, :) I actually prefer the open box 14 better. There's a couple of them in the photo, bit hard to see them though.
I have to admit that when I first saw the photo, I thought WOW look at all of the 13mm wrenches and then I saw that was the Brand of wrench series. Earning a living turning wrenches all of my life, I have to admit that I had never heard of StahlWille, but of course I am in the States. Mac, Snapon, Craftsman, Proto were the main brands here. Ha! The other thing that surprised me is that I had always thought that you guys who are upside down were using the Metric system for fasteners. From the looks of your wrench supply, I guess I was wrong. Ha!
 

Ironwood

Senior Member
I have to admit that when I first saw the photo, I thought WOW look at all of the 13mm wrenches and then I saw that was the Brand of wrench series. Earning a living turning wrenches all of my life, I have to admit that I had never heard of StahlWille, but of course I am in the States. Mac, Snapon, Craftsman, Proto were the main brands here. Ha! The other thing that surprised me is that I had always thought that you guys who are upside down were using the Metric system for fasteners. From the looks of your wrench supply, I guess I was wrong. Ha!
Walt, I spent a good part of my time working on Caterpillar gear. Cat trucks 777, 785 789, Dozers D9, D10, D11's. Wheel loaders 992 & 994's , scrapers 657B & E's. But I do have heaps of metric tools for other gear, maybe 40% of my tools are metric.
Stahlwille is made in Germany, good quality stuff, at least as good as Proto, and maybe as good as Snap-on IMO. There is a couple of Proto spanners in the photo as well, 9/16 & 3/4, they are so well used they are almost wornout, sloppy fit on the bolt head.
I could rave on for hours, but I am probably boring everybody :eek:.
 
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