How It's Made- Combination Wrench

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From end to end, this clip from The Science Channel's, "How It's Made," shows us how combination wrenches are manufactured.

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[theNewCodingFrontier]

The ScienceChannel needs more of these... Also, first relevant comment.

[Lanpug205]

@lexichronicle2 stanley is absolute garbage, wouldn't find any of there stuff in my boxes snap-on's flank drive plus spanners are easily the best spanners on the market even if they do demand a premium

[ExcaliberpegasiS]

@shark61111 PLS. SHUT UP

[shark61111]

@Aqualiteking All of your info seems to come from Google. Why don't you get out and use some of this stuff and get some actual experience with it and then we'll talk. Similar tensile strenghts? Maybe on paper. In the real world, night and day difference. Again, according to SNAP-ON THE DESING WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE IF THEY USED A CHEAPER STEEL. CHROME MOLY MAKES SNAP ON THE LIGHTEST, THINNEST, AND STRONGEST. YOU CAN'T DO THAT WITH HEAT TREATMENT ALONE IT TAKES EXPENSIVE STEEL.

[shark61111]

@Aqualiteking Bullshit. Obviously all steel needs heat treatment. You can't heat treat Chrome Vanadium to bend like a Snap-On Wrench does and still be usable. Chrome Vanadium is a "crappy steel" for wrench producition. That is why no quality manufacturer uses it for wrenches. If you knew anything about wrenches you would know this. We are discussing using Chrome Vanadium for wrenches vs. Chro Molly. In this case, Chrome Vanadium is shit. You are obviously a troll get a life.

[shark61111]

@Aqualiteking Chrome Vanadium is good for making wrenches if you want to make a low quality wrench, as cheaply as possible to sell to people like yourself that don't know anything about tools and will likely never actually give the tool any hard use. If you want to make a quallity tool fit for daily proffessional use, Chrome Vanadium is completyly unfit. This is why no manufactuer of quality wrenches uses Chrome Vanadium. Name one quality USA made wrench that is constructed from Chrome Vanadium?

[shark61111]

@Aqualiteking Go into Harbor Freight Tools someday. You will be surrounded by cheap, crappy steel. If the difference between Snap-On and harbour freight was heat treat then it would be possible to manufacture a quality tool for a lot less. Quality tools would be available nearly for free, like the cheap crap at harbor freight. It's not that simple. High quality steel cost more money. It's harder to work with. making manufacturing costs higher. If you can't understand that then...

[shark61111]

@Aqualiteking According to Snap-On Tools-its the steel they use. I'm quite sure they know more about wrench manufacturing than you do. so, if it's ok with you, I'll go with what the manufactuer says. Do you think you no more about how Snap-On makes their wrenches than they do? You should be a billionaire if you can magically heat treat a cheap low grade of steel and magically make it perform to the level of Chrome Moly. Maybe you can show Snap-On how to do it right?

[shark61111]

@Aqualiteking All steel requires heat treatment. The best heat treatment in the world will not allow a Chrome Vanadium wrench to perform at the level of a Snap-On wrench. There is no magic heat treatment that allows a wrench to perform to the level of Snap-On. The steel they use is superior to Chrome Vanadium. The reason Snap-On wrenches are what they are is primarily the steel used and also the superior design and manufacturing proceses

[shark61111]

@Aqualiteking Name one quality wrench made from Chrome Vanadium. There aren't any. NASA takes Snap-On into space because Snap-On Wrenches are lighter and stronger because of the steel used in their construction. If you could make a quality wrench from cheaper Chrome Vanadium Snap-On would do it. Fact is nobody does because you can't. The information I have comes directly from Snap-On. you seem to think that you know more about the steel they use in their wrenches than they do.

[Aqualiteking]

When did I say that they are made of a different grade of steel? Why would astronauts specifically want snap on wrenches because they are made of chrome molybdenum, instead of their high quality, performance and that they are American made. All you keep on talking about is snap on tools, when the original argument is about whether chrome vanadium is good for making wrenches. It doesn't matter if snap on uses ChromeV or not but if the steel can be used to make a quality wrench.

[Aqualiteking]

@shark61111 First of all there is no such thing as a 'crappy steel' different steels and their grades have different uses. 'Superior steel' isn't what allows those wrenches to bend before breaking. While different grades of steels have different tensile strengths, in order to achieve such high tensile strengths, steel requires a quality heat treatment. Without a good design and heat treatment their wrenches would snap like twigs or bend like wire.