wrenches

[tweety652]

how do wright wrenches compare to proto, craftsman(full polish), armstrong and other quality brands. i dont like how thin snapons are. i have 21-30mm snappys so i know the quality just not fond of the feel of them.

[MarkH]

Used them for well more years than I want to talk about. They survive our farms us, which is through them in a tool box, bounce them around on the machine, dig them out of the goo in the bottom of the box, use and throw them back in. Never pretty but that is not what we buy them for, anything pulled out of the machines boxes does not look like jewels after about 2 hours. We can turn alot of pretty tools into junk quickly. The Wright set I was using today is around 30 years old with that level of abuse for most of them.

They are biggest in the larger industrial sizes that is why the common 3/8 user may never hear of them.

Ours is for automotive areas - Cornwell
For the others areas general farm Wrights, C-Man Pro, CMan, SK
Large Industrial Sizes Wrights

[dink]

Also look at Martin.....similar quality

[tweety652]

is there a website for martin. i completly forgot about them.

[Uncle Buck]

how do wright wrenches compare to proto, craftsman(full polish), armstrong and other quality brands. i dont like how thin snapons are. i have 21-30mm snappys so i know the quality just not fond of the feel of them.

I have a fair share of Wright brand tools. I think they are just great, they speak for themselves. They are definetly one of those brands that you know is quality stuff as soon as you pick it up, even before you use the tool! :thumbup:

[Coach James]

Two thumbs up for Wright. I've got a couple of their ratchets, several sockets and a bunch of their wrenches. Excellent stuff. Best of all, the welding supplier I buy from sells me Wright for the same price as Craftsman raised panel stuff!

Coach

[kartracer55]

where can I buy wright? I like thier stance on manufacturing, I just cant seem to find thier stuff anywhere!

[Mike F]

http://www.crawfordtool.com/wright.html

[eschoendorff]

where can I buy wright? I like thier stance on manufacturing, I just cant seem to find thier stuff anywhere!

Lots of LWS sell Wright.

[dink]

Here is the site for Martin Tools

http://www.martinsprocket.com/home.htm

On the right hand side under "Online Catelog" click on Industrial Hand Tools

[chevy302dz]

If Martin wrenches are similar to the ones sold by Wright, I wouldn't go out of my way to buy them. The Martin wrenches aren't bad but they're nothing special.

[dink]

If Martin wrenches are similar to the ones sold by Wright, I wouldn't go out of my way to buy them. The Martin wrenches aren't bad but they're nothing special.

Thet are not suppoe to be special....they are made to get the job done

[chevy302dz]

Thet are not suppoe to be special....they are made to get the job done

Very true, What I meant was there are other more available brands that do a better job for the same or less money such as SK. Again I have not used anything from Wright but if they are in the same league as Martin there are better choices.

[dink]

I would not use SK Snapon or any big name like that on a heavy industrial site....the shinyness would go away in a second.....Martin and Wright dont go for the automotive field....they gear towards heavy industry, oil field, and construction

[MAD]

I would not use SK Snapon or any big name like that on a heavy industrial site....the shinyness would go away in a second.....Martin and Wright dont go for the automotive field....they gear towards heavy industry, oil field, and construction

OH NO, shut down the oil field, my high polished wrench just got scuffed! Where has all of the shinyness gone?

Just messin' with ya dink:)

I like Wright because they are still an independent company that clearly has one mission- Make good tools here in the USA. I only have a few Wright tools but I would buy more now that my local fastener guy has started to sell them.

[MarkH]

I would not use SK Snapon or any big name like that on a heavy industrial site....the shinyness would go away in a second.....Martin and Wright dont go for the automotive field....they gear towards heavy industry, oil field, and construction

Farming is also in the heavy industry, we can turn a highly polished wrench into a low polished one in about 2 hours. The set of Wrights in my personal toolbox right now is 30 years old, with most of them with the abuse I described above.

We find that Craftsman and SK raised panels will out last anyones polished, and Wright and the few Martins we have outlast just about anything else we use. Not pretty (Did note in the website Wright had some polished now), the feel of the new ones is better than the old ones, but not Snap On, but dollars for survival the best value for heavy industrial use.

The design is slightly different than most of the other wrenchs. This is for industrial use. Look at the big 4X4 farm tractors with tires taller than you and the farm cats, we noticed the flatness in the industrial wrenches helps them tolerate being run over by them better than automotive styled wrenches.