Alternate adjustable spanners

[al.dente112]

Evening peeps,

Quick question, bahco spanner’s keep getting nicked so I’m sick and tired keep dishing out for bahcos, looking for another alternate anyone uses ox or teng adjustables ?

Cheers

 

[Christopher buzzard]

Toolstation do basically the same, Wide jaw. Half the price. I got fed up replacing bahcos and use them instead

 

[Christopher buzzard]

Plumbers Wide Jaw Adjustable Wrench 8" (200mm)

Not much difference tbh. Also do the 6" version.

 

[al.dente112]

cheers Chris, they any decent

 

[Christopher buzzard]

Yes. Does the job in tight spaces like the bahcos 1's. haven't had a problem with them. I have the 6" and 8" been using for a year or so now.

 

[townfanjon]

Plumb center do their own , assuming they still do .
Slightly thinner and ok quality.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Plumb center do their own , assuming they still do .
Slightly thinner and ok quality.

I have a set of the plumb centre ones. Decent to be fair.

 

[Best]

Knipex parallel jaws adjustable is very good, so another one to look at, but probably an extra as a more specialist tool.
Surely if you keep getting your tools nicked, then you will also get any replacements nicked? Especially good quality stuff.

 

[al.dente112]

them plumbcenter ones they called raptor adjustable wrenchs

 

[al.dente112]

Where’s the best place to get knipex from ? Amazon?

 

[townfanjon]

them plumbcenter ones they called raptor adjustable wrenchs

They are raptor now , the ones I have are monument, they may not sell them anymore .

 

[Old Account]

Knipex parallel jaws adjustable is very good, so another one to look at, but probably an extra as a more specialist tool.
Surely if you keep getting your tools nicked, then you will also get any replacements nicked? Especially good quality stuff.

Someone nicked my adjustable knipex too which I got as a gift too £70 worth... it was not even a big site but a private refurbishment.
Thieves need to be punished

 

[townfanjon]

Thieves need to be punished

Too right mate , cut their effin hands off

 

[Old Account]

Too right mate , cut their effin hands off

I have to admit when you are young and silly you nick something from a store but tools is so wrong especially when people make their living with it

 

[Harvest Fields]

They are raptor now , the ones I have are monument, they may not sell them anymore .

As above. Raptor are new in Wolseley

 

[jtsplumbing]

You must be doing something wrong if you keep getting your tools nicked all the time, Iv done all kinds of jobs over the years on sites, private, homes never had anything taken. Maybe your carrying to much around with you

 

[ShaunCorbs]

You must be doing something wrong if you keep getting your tools nicked all the time, Iv done all kinds of jobs over the years on sites, private, homes never had anything taken. Maybe your carrying to much around with you

even in schools nothing gone walking of mine but plenty of times ive left and found a pipe slice in the roof voids

 

[Harvest Fields]

even in schools nothing gone walking of mine but plenty of times ive left and found a pipe slice in the roof voids

Or under floorboards

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Or under floorboards

dont know what it is but i normally find spanners or electrical screwdrivers under them

 

[Old Account]

Or under floorboards

But never the big hidden money

 

[jtsplumbing]

But never the big hidden money

Top of kitchen cupboards is a good place to find tools if next to boiler, or behind bath panel.

 

[Best]

In the middle of loft insulation between joists is easy to lose tools. I tend to search through it in the hope of finding tools left by other plumbers. Usually only find lots of copper offcuts for my scrap.
As you climb down out of attics, it is easy to set a spanner down to get a hold of ladder, or when needing to grip the joist/floor to drop onto steps, so got to check around trap door before you exit.
I tend to set tools in roof gutters when outside at a roof, so have to be careful to look there also.

 

[Scott_D]

Just picked up a rothenburger wide jaw
Seems decent

 

[skoronesa]

Someone takes your wrenches and your solution is to get cheaper wrenches? My solution would be bigger wrenches Ya know, so they get the right impression.

 

[Dkdc71]

Only thing I lost over the years was a Spud wrench only tool I had nicked was when the knacker that broke into my van robbed a Ridgid 14" aluminum stilson left the cheap ones behind my old boss use to spray his tools pink so we wouldn't take them on him , we never did he was always losing them and would blame us

 

[quality]

But never the big hidden money

I once changed a cylinder and came across a bag of £20 notes I removed it and put it back (there were definatly 5 figures worth) when I called at the weekend for payment when the old man was back from work as he worked away I mentioned it to him and his only concern was that his missus didn't know about it lol