I always assumed because the "jaws" span the distance between the opposite
flats on the nut?
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From: "I Erbs" <eyera3 at gmail.com>
To: <Jwhlyadv at aol.com>
Cc: <pyoas at yahoo.com>; <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Chatter
> Thanks to all that was fun.
> So why do Brits call a wrench a spanner?
>
> Ira Erbs
> DIGS-4 Solutions
> Portland, OR
>
> sent from my Droid, please excuse typos and random self corrections
> because
> my phone has It's own ideas about what word I meant to write
>
> On May 28, 2011 8:35 PM, <Jwhlyadv at aol.com> wrote:
>> Correct answer - it is commonly used as the term for the meeting when
>> they
>
>> elect a new pope
>>
>> Jim Werner
>> Louisville, Kentucky
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 5/28/2011 11:09:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> cleona44 at hotmail.com writes:
>>
>> Walt Blank came up with the name Conclave back in 1975 from an old Boy
>> Scout term
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