I've picked up individual KTC Nepros combination wrenches for anything under 10mm and above 19mm. They're not too bad on price if you buy them in Japan.
Snap-On Flank Drive Plus Wrenches vs. Nepros
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Great thread....
I have a set of USAG XL RBRT combo's inbound, but for open-end wrenches, my absolute favorites are an ancient set (mid 1950's) of SnapOn Bluepoint double opens. 70 years of service (not all to me!) and they still fit tight, look great, feel great in my hand. This was before Bluepoint became more of the 'budget' line up at Snap-On, all their top wrenches were Bluepoint.
Also I never really understood the test-to-failure methodology as a key criteria in picking a wrench...
Feel/Balance/Control are characteristics that you experience and appreciate every single time you pick up a wrench. Putting a 3 foot cheater bar on an open end and yanking on it until it slips? Maybe like never? I'd rather have a great handling, well balanced, feels great in the hand, works bolts perfectly wrench that fails at a smaller ridiculously high torque value than the one that goes to an even higher ridiculously high torque value. And use a different tool than an open end wrench (of which we all likely have many) when there is a ridiculously tight bolt we need to loosen.
I also have an older set of Matco combo's, pre-anti-slip that have never let me down, but thought I should give a more modern set like the Matco/USAG RBRT long pattern combos a try.
I have a set of USAG XL RBRT combo's inbound, but for open-end wrenches, my absolute favorites are an ancient set (mid 1950's) of SnapOn Bluepoint double opens. 70 years of service (not all to me!) and they still fit tight, look great, feel great in my hand. This was before Bluepoint became more of the 'budget' line up at Snap-On, all their top wrenches were Bluepoint.
Also I never really understood the test-to-failure methodology as a key criteria in picking a wrench...
Feel/Balance/Control are characteristics that you experience and appreciate every single time you pick up a wrench. Putting a 3 foot cheater bar on an open end and yanking on it until it slips? Maybe like never? I'd rather have a great handling, well balanced, feels great in the hand, works bolts perfectly wrench that fails at a smaller ridiculously high torque value than the one that goes to an even higher ridiculously high torque value. And use a different tool than an open end wrench (of which we all likely have many) when there is a ridiculously tight bolt we need to loosen.
I also have an older set of Matco combo's, pre-anti-slip that have never let me down, but thought I should give a more modern set like the Matco/USAG RBRT long pattern combos a try.
Snap On wrench beams **** to hold, and I managed to put a literal dent in said beam of a 1-1/16" wrench applying a prybar across it to break a bolt loose in an awkward spot.
The FD+ ends DO work, just not something I'd use where a particular customer could/would see the 'chewed' fastener, which is a 1st world problem but truth is stranger than fiction.
I honestly sold all of my SO wrenches, combi and ratcheting both. Mac Precision Torques are my personal choice.
The FD+ ends DO work, just not something I'd use where a particular customer could/would see the 'chewed' fastener, which is a 1st world problem but truth is stranger than fiction.
I honestly sold all of my SO wrenches, combi and ratcheting both. Mac Precision Torques are my personal choice.