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Summary: adjustable spanners and how to use them including milli-grip, footprints, mole grips, wrenches and pliers.
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From the host of tools DIY Doctor has been asked to test over the last 10 years including spanners, wrenches, socket sets, pliers, footprints, ring spanners, box spanners, bulldogs, Allen Keys, Stilsons, Mole Grips and strap wrenches; one tool has stood out by a mile. The Milli-Grip, shown left, can get a firm grip on nuts and bolts that other spanners only aspire to!
The most important factor about an adjustable spanner is to be able to adjust it to the exact size of the nut. With just about all of the spanners on the market at the moment, this is impossible. The very act of turning the spanner puts a strain on the adjustment thread and this "stretches" the opening. Result? The spanner slips off and either rounds off the end of the nut or breaks your knuckles...............Sometimes both "
With the Milli-Grip this cannot happen. Unique precision jaws allow you to open (with one hand) them in 1mm stages. Once they are set to a size, that is where they will stay until you move them. There is no slipping and the jaws will not suddenly decide to open up and spoil your day.
| The Milli-Grip can be put in your tool bag to replace many of the spanners and wrenches listed below. Just click on the video clip to see just how many applications this remarkable tool has. Click on any of the links to get through to the Milli-Grip site. |
Other types of spanner and wrench include:
Open ended spanners are the most popular spanners for both DIY and Motoring jobs. A set of these is usually inexpensive and most sets now come with a ring spanner on the other end to the open, or C, ended spanner. The Milli-Grip can do everything an open ended spanner can do and the need for a ring spanner, which is usually used to ensure there is no slippage, is somewhat depleted! This adjustable wrench will not slip.
The Basin spanner. A bespoke spanner for undoing the nuts and back nuts holding taps onto basins and baths. Even this "One Off" spanner could be replaced in the toolbox by the Milli-Grip. Push the Milli-Grip up to the tap nut and tighten the end of the jaws around it. Then insert a small screwdriver or short metal bar into the end ring on the Milli-Grip and turn. Because the jaws of this adjustable stay exactly where they are set, the tap nut can be undone with the minimum of fuss.
Box spanners will still have their use even with the Milli-Grip around but, using the Milli-Grip in the way described above can stop you reaching for a box spanner at least 50% of the time.
Footprints, Mole Grips and Pipe wrenches, in all but the larger size, need to look out also for the new adjustable spanner. The beauty of using a set of Footprints or Mole grips in the past has been the sheer strength of the grip the teeth on the jaws allow. Now, with the Milli-Grip, the same grip can be achieved with a spanner half the size and so much more easily manipulated.
Very unlikely the Milli-Grip will help undo an immersion heater and an immersion heater spanner is an invaluable tool for a plumber. Having said that, all of the other nuts and compression fittings surrounding an immersion heater or hot water tank are childs play for the Milli-Grip.
There will always be a place in the DIY sheds and motoring stores for the ratchet spanner which allows you to undo a nut without taking the spanner off. But only if you have the room to turn it! These great tools cannot be used in tight spaces and this is another scoring point for the Milli-Grip. Hold it on end, as discussed above, and the Milli-Grip can be used in the tightest of spaces.
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