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Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: jimwrench on January 15, 2015, 01:40:28 PM
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Bought a Walworth pipe wrench today. It is clearly marked 48 in but its only 42 1/2 in long. I guess I could screw the jaw out a little and make it 48 in. It weighs 29 1/2 lbs. Have zero use for it but fellow auction goer said (I saw the look in your eye and knew you were going to buy it) Guess I could make a mail box post out of it.
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Cool wrench! It would have come home with me too...
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You got the rare compact 48.
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You got the rare compact 48.
Sounds like something you would read on a overpriced craigslist add.
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sounds like some of us older folks, gets shorter with age.
I would also be the person carrying it out to my truck.
would make "one heck-of-a-door-knocker."
weld it to a steel post and hang plants on it.
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While they are here & readily available I'll copy a photo or two & update the DATAMP entry for the patent.
The handle is proportionally slim relative to the head when you compare it to the 8" size.
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Sounds like they used the same method as big screen tv's.
That wasn't a 48" wrench, it was a 48" class wrench.
Chilly
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Begs the question: What is the method, from a engineering/design perspective, of measurements? With flat screens, I have been told they are measured diagonally from corner to corner (the larger measurement).
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Begs the question: What is the method, from a engineering/design perspective, of measurements? With flat screens, I have been told they are measured diagonally from corner to corner (the larger measurement).
True enough, but now there are "classes" too.
Viewing area should be within 2" +/- of the class size. The term "class" reflects the fact that screens have different size bezels.
Chilly
PS: Class size still isn't enough to explain your 3.5" shortfall. In the dirty part of my mind I keep assuming the wrench length was made by the same person whose wife has been told that 4" is actually 6" for so long that she believes it.