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2. Adjustable spanner - Wikipedia

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   An adjustable spanner (UK and most other English-speaking countries), shifting spanner (Australia and New Zealand), [1] English wrench (Turkey) [2] or adjustable wrench (US and Canada) is any of various styles of spanner (wrench) with a movable jaw, allowing it to be used with different sizes of fastener head (nut, bolt, etc.) rather than just one fastener size, as with a conventional fixed ...

3. Crescent (brand) - Wikipedia

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   Crescent is a brand of hand tools. It originated with the Crescent Tool Company, founded in 1907. The Crescent brand has changed ownership multiple times. It is currently owned by Apex Tool Group, LLC of Sparks, Maryland as part of its Hand Tools division. It is best known for its style of adjustable wrench. [1][2]

4. Sam Browne belt - Wikipedia

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   Sam Browne belt. The Sam Browne belt worn by C.E.F. officers during the First World War. The Sam Browne belt is a leather belt with a supporting strap that passes over the right shoulder, worn by military and police officers. It is named after Sir Samuel J. Browne (1824–1901), the British Indian Army general who invented it.

5. Rock-climbing equipment - Wikipedia

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   Nut tool (or "nut key") is a metal tool used to help retrieve nuts and hexes that have become firmly wedged into cracks. [43] Climber lying on a portaledge. Portaledges are used in big wall climbing as a temporary overnight sleeping platform; they are also used as a resting platform for long belays, which are typical on big wall aid climbing ...

6. Strap wrench - Wikipedia

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   Strap wrench. A strap wrench is any of various types of wrench that grip an object via a strap or chain being pulled in tension around it until it firmly grips. High static friction keeps it from slipping. Many strap wrenches have built-in handles. Others are made to receive the square drive of a ratchet wrench.

7. Monkey wrench - Wikipedia

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   A monkey wrench is a type of smooth-jawed adjustable wrench, a 19th century American refinement of 18th-century English coach wrenches. It was widely used in the 19th and early 20th century. It is of interest as an antique among tool collectors and is still occasionally used in practice. More broadly, a monkey wrench may be a pipe wrench or any ...