James- I've seen conversion handles by Croissant. They advertise near
Paris, TX and warranty that their adjustable wrench conversion handles
will make any metric or standard adjustable wrench (Sears included) work
for all size bolt heads. It comes with the usual disclaimers.
Chris in Trinidad
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> From: James Barrett <jamesbrt@mindspring.com>
> To: Jay Laifman <Jay_Laifman@countrywide.com>
> Cc: tigers@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Metric Wrench it
> Date: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 9:26 PM
>
> At 04:28 PM 12/9/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >Here is an interesting tidbit, the "cresent" wrench is a trademark name
> >owned by the Cooper Industries since 1905. So you better be careful not
to
> >say you are using a "cresent" wrench to fix a broken "Xerox" machine
while
> >blowing your nose on a "Kleenex" - unless you really are!
> >
> >Jay
> "cresent" is the wrong spelling. I have several CRESCENT TOOL CO.
> and Red Diamond adjustable wrenchs. They are all labled in inches. I
> only have one metric adjustable wrench and it is a CRAFTSMAN brand.
> Sears pissed me off a long time ago and I hate to have to use a
> Sears tool every time I come across a metric fastener. Any one know if
> CRESENT brand wrenches are also available in metric? ;-)
>
> James Barrett Tiger II 351C and others
>
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