>Jay, at the risk of causing howls of laughter, size *does* matter.
>Scott Christie reckons the King Dick in the series 3 should be 3" long.
>The photo on the Tigers web page shows the wrench about 4" long.
>
>So either one of these sources is wrong, or the size grew over the
years
>(I can see marketing involved here: "Sunbeam Alpine - Now with larger
>King Dick").
The 4 inch "King Dick" spanners are derived from NOS stock found in a clinic in Sweden, where they have undergone miraculous but painfull lengthening.
The 3 inch spanners should be considered the spanner of choice for all the die hard rock stock Sunbeam fans, while the informed female sunbeam fans prefer the larger modified spanners.
Since the 3 inch variety is becomming increasingly rare, it is not advised to have it lengthened unless there is complete dissatisfaction with its current size.
Jarrid Gross