Let's talk spanner wrenches

[MagnumForce]

Looking to pick up a set of adjustable ones for work. Does anyone have any opinion on pin type or hook type?

What does everyone else have?

 

[scissorman]

You'll need whichever type tool for the given fastener type. Some gland nuts use a pin style while others use the hook style.

 

[johndeereman]

I was looking @ a set of 6 from williams on amazon.

 

[Murphy4570]

You'll find them often in the junk/rusty tool piles at car part swap meets. Usually sell for $1-5 a pop.

If you don't need one immediately, just go to your local swap meet or farmers market.

 

[rsanter]

You'll need whichever type tool for the given fastener type. Some gland nuts use a pin style while others use the hook style.

This is the correct answer

Bob

 

[malibu101]

To the OP......
You say spanner wrenches in the title. A kinda uncommon term in America.
Would you please edit your profile to at least show what country you're in.

And sorry, I have no help to your question.

 

[sanddan]

I've never heard of a spanner wrench called anything else other than adding "pin" to the name.


I just got my first one last week. A proto 2" size.

 

[Strouty]

To the OP......
You say spanner wrenches in the title. A kinda uncommon term in America.
Would you please edit your profile to at least show what country you're in.

And sorry, I have no help to your question.

They are a different type of wrench, spanner is the common term for what the OP is looking for.

I just bought a big adjustable one, I am not sure how well it will work, but the Zoro has a great warranty policy, so I figure I can return it if it won't do what I want.

How big do you need? Are you just looking for general service?

 

[rice rocket]

Spanners are wrenches.

Is this thread about wrench wrenches?

 

[MagnumForce]

Spanners are a type of Wrench here in the new world. I am looking at Proto. I probably need 2 inch to say 6 inch. I have to deal with them rarely but when I do there is little substitute and I hate borrowing other people's stuff at work.

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[scissorman]

There are two types of pin spanner wrenches, one is a fact pin spanner and the other is an edge pin spanner and then the hook style is also an edge type.

 

[Strouty]

Spanners are wrenches.

Is this thread about wrench wrenches?

SO JUST TO CLARIFY,

We know that "spanners" is what Europeans use and the US says wrenches.

The US also uses the term spanner wrench for a totally different type of wrench and that is what the OP is talking about.

 

[MagnumForce]

There are two types of pin spanner wrenches, one is a fact pin spanner and the other is an edge pin spanner and then the hook style is also an edge type.

Yes, those are the types I am talking about. Both are edge type.

 

[guy48065]

SO JUST TO CLARIFY,

We know that "spanners" is what Europeans use and the US says wrenches.

The US also uses the term spanner wrench for a totally different type of wrench and that is what the OP is talking about.

OK...just to complete the education...what do the brits call the pin- and hook-type spanners?

 

[notlob]

OK...just to complete the education...what do the brits call the pin- and hook-type spanners?

Wrenches?

 

[rice rocket]

OK...just to complete the education...what do the brits call the pin- and hook-type spanners?

Pin spanners and hook spanners?

 

[MagnumForce]

Industrial applications. MSC has a paramount 4 PC set from 3/4 to 6 1/4 right now for 99.99. I may pull the trigger on those. Proto is about double.

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[Dennis Leigh Henry]

Here are mine.. Picked up either with collet attachments (South Bend Lathe) or at auctions because no one wanted them. If you ever need them (and don't want to whip out a pair of channel locks to open the fastener otherwise)...they're valuable.

I've seen pin spanners used mostly on surface grinders and similar machine tools. I've seen the hook style mostly for manual collet attachments for lathes and tool/cutter or cylindrical grinders..

Dennis

 

[can20]

Here are mine.. Picked up either with collet attachments (South Bend Lathe) or at auctions because no one wanted them. If you ever need them (and don't want to whip out a pair of channel locks to open the fastener otherwise)...they're valuable.

I've seen pin spanners used mostly on surface grinders and similar machine tools. I've seen the hook style mostly for manual collet attachments for lathes and tool/cutter or cylindrical grinders..

Dennis

I just found this Armstrong 454 labeled tool and have no idea what it is for and my google searches brought me here. I use garagejournal for other stuff but I guess this site also has information on anything and everything tool related.

 

[ecotec]

I have only the pin type, both fixed and adjustable.

I used an adjustable pin spanner today to change out an angle grinder disc from a cutting disc to a flap disc.

I started out with the cheap ones that came with tools. Since then, I have been finding Martin, Williams and Armstrong ones at estate sales.