'Automatic Adjustable Wrench'

Now I've seen it all... a commercial ran on TV for 'these' tonight.

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Erik

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Erik
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Lets take a complex version of a simple tool (Adjustable wrench) make it even bulkier, more complex, more likely to fail and add batteries.

Yup i think we have a winner

there should be an award (A la Darwin or the Stella) for useless gadgets

thought this > Now I've seen it all... a commercial ran on TV for 'these' tonight. >

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Brent

and this one

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a powered c-clamp! how f****ng lazy are we getting? :-)

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James P Crombie

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woodworker88

How about the adjustable ratchet wrench I have in my joke tools section, or the multi tool home hardware are pushing right now (I am trying to persuade Junior to buy one for his FiL for Christmas, but he refuses on the ground that it will be handed to him every time he starts to do anything). Gerry :-)} London, Canada

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Gerald Miller

do you remember the electric fork? it was of course, a joke, came out a little after the electric knife in the early 70s -

and then there is the electric potato peeler that would use electric power to peel a potato at half the speed of a hand peeler, and the "Baconizer" that would make crisp U shaped pieces of bacon so you wouldn't have to use a pan -

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William Noble

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Actually, this one would have its uses, since applying a conventional C-clamp is pretty much a two handed operation.

Jerry

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Jerry Foster

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JR North

the multi screwdriver does have a legitimate use. but that multi tool look like J-Unk

I'll give home hardware and the "autoloader" credit for it.

its great for guys like soundguys or computer guys who work > >

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Brent

These gadgets are aimed at the clueless. In case you didn't notice, people who know tools and know how to use them don't go out and buy these things. Idiots do, and people who need a gift for a toolhead. Most of the ones given for gifts are returned and exchanged for real tools. The others die in drawers.

Yes, they do sell some, but how many other gadgets have we seen come and go? Lots and lots.

Next year it will be something else.

Steve

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Steve B

Erik wrote in news:nospam-00EFB8.20024717122006 @news.verizon.net:

Having received one about 6 months ago, I've found it useful as a pseudo- caliper - it's marked on one side in Imperial [SAE] and the other in Metric - to determine the specific size required by an unknown bolt/nut.

The "automatic adjustment" (when it works) also lets me adjust the size when there's only enough room to slide my finger down the edge of the handle.

No, it doesn't replace any of my wrenches [fixed or adjustable].

No, it doesn't provide a tight fit on the bolt/nut.

No, it won't fit into as tight a space as a similar-sized Crescent or a fixed-size wrench.

Yes, I DO use mine.

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RAM³

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:02:51 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Erik quickly quoth:

That's a perfect fit for lazy, wannabe-mechanically-inclined Yuppie scummers. It'll also fit perfectly in the Searz crapalog.

- - Let Exxon send their own troops -

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Larry Jaques

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:21:03 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, James P Crombie quickly quoth:

This is what happens a generation after they close most of the school shops. Nobody ('cept us old farts) knows enough about fasteners to know what a decent tool looks like.

- - Let Exxon send their own troops -

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Larry Jaques

Exactly.

These are the things that men buy for their wives, cause they just don't know any better. Automatic adjustable wrenches are the things that the wives get for their husbands for the same reason. I'll be 50% of us end up with one before Christmas is over. :)

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Dave Lyon

Like the Starret digital tape measure. I have one in my toolbox drawer that's never been used. Playing with it quickly showed me that it wasn't anywhere close to accurate.

If you'll go to the powered hand tools section in the above site you'll also see a powered tape measure of all things.

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Wayne Cook

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Is that why we have mechanical engineering graduates mumbling "Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey" as they hang drapes for the wife?

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Earthlink

This ranks up there with the electric tape measure. I hate to say it but I got one of those last year. It sit in the junk drawer in the house used only when another tape measure can't be found. Steve

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Up North

There have been a few times in my woodworking experience that a one handed C clamp would have made life a lot easier. Small C clamps can be done one handed but the deep throat 6" ers are too long a reach for the fingers on my hand. :-) ...lew...

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Lew Hartswick

I didn't get one of those, but I do have a drawer full of similar items. I've finally got the wife to stop buying me tools, but I gotta keep the ones the kids give me.

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Dave Lyon

nope, not me - I solved that problem by ordering $400 worth of stuff from ENCO and telling my family - "interecept the boxes when they show up and wrap it for me" I still get anticipation, but without the dread

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William Noble

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