Anyone got one of these?

[Phil Pascoe]

Bahco 10" with a reversible jaw for gripping round stuff - it works, as well. I bough it best part of 30 years ago and I've never seen another one.

 

[sunnybob]

Have you actually used it?
i regard adjustable spanners as the worst tools ever invented. I dread to think how many scraped knuckles you could get with one gripping round stock.

 

[user 4112]

Worse than mole grips, surely not?!

 

[MikeG.]

Worse than mole grips, surely not?!

You obviously don't weld, then.

 

[user 4112]

Soldering is about the limit of me gluing bits of metal together. Scrap mole grips and insert Yankee screwdrivers. Adjustables can't be worse than Yankees, or can they?

 

[sunnybob]

on a rising scale of crappiness, I'd rate adjustables as a 9.5, and a yankee screwdriver as a solid 9.
Mole grips can actually be useful, so only a 3 for them.

But I DO own a yankee, even though I'm not silly enough to use it for real.

 

[mbartlett99]

They still make them and they're actually pretty good. TBH an adjustable not made by Bahco isn't worth a c@@p.

 

[novocaine]

I have a cheaper copy although the quality is very good. They are very useful for plumbing/hydraulics/pneumatics as is a decent adjustable. When you are in a rush working on something with a mix of metric and imperial (because merica and Japan like to mix offshore) they are a god send. Never had one slip yet but then im not swinging off it in the aforementioned work types, not the best for torquing stuff up.

 

[Jacob]

Yep that odd tool in the bottom of the box can suddenly be really useful.
NB Yankee screwdrivers are also brilliant. I use them a lot, large and small.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Have you actually used it?
i regard adjustable spanners as the worst tools ever invented. I dread to think how many scraped knuckles you could get with one gripping round stock.

I've used it regularly for the decades I've owned it - on round stock it'll take all the weight I can put on it without slipping, and I've not yet scraped a knuckle.