Awesome Wrenches

This palm-size tool packs several handy features. Its gripper works as a measuring caliper, an adjustable wrench, and a phone stand. It can also open bottles, and its head can pull nails. A pointy tip can be used as an emergency glass breaker and also opens packages. Available in stainless steel or titanium, and an optional LED light attaches to its tail end.

The PICHI X2S titanium tool looks a bit like an angry animal when opened. Its unusual shape improves upon features found in other multitools, including a ratcheting wrench that grips onto more than 40 nut and bolt sizes. It also packs a pry bar, nail puller, saw blade, utility knife, magnetic 1/4″ bit holder, and a bottle opener. A leather holster available as an option.

This ultra-compact ratchet driver helps you turn screws, nuts, and bolts in tight spaces. It’s small enough to keep in your pocket and drives standard 1/4″ bits. Its low-profile, 72-tooth mechanism can turn with as little as 5º of motion. The set includes #1 and #2 Phillips, 3/16″ and 1/4″ flat blades, and a 1/4″ socket driver bit.

This tiny tool from Pipe Vise grabs onto nuts and bolts like nothing else its size. The 3.75″ long tool can turn hexagonal hardware from 5/16″ (8mm) to 3/4″ (19mm) and grips tightly with its self-adjusting head and precision-machined teeth. In addition to its wrench, it’s got a 1/4″ bit driver in its handle. It’s also available with a matching pouch.

This adjustable wrench is small enough to keep in your pants pocket, but it can turn bolt heads up to 15mm or 9/16″. It’s also got 1/4″ and 1/6″ bit drivers in its side, a ruler, a bottle opener, a window breaker, a ratchet module, and doubles as a phone stand. The wrench is made from lightweight but durable titanium and has slots for three glowing tritium tubes.

The latest version of Titaner’s miniature multitool has a more robust construction and magnets in its shaft to ensure that its jaw stays shut. It also now has imperial scale markers on the other side of the caliper and a diamond-coated file for nails and small blades. Despite its name, the TiSpanner 2.0 also has a cheaper stainless steel variant.

This palm-sized ratcheting socket wrench helps you turn bolts in tight spaces. Its center has a gimbal design that allows it to pivot on two axes, so you can squeeze into traditionally tricky locations and still turn it. Available in a 1/4″ or 3/8″ drive to fit a variety of standard sockets.

This pocket-size stainless steel tool has a slimline adjustable wrench, along with several other functions. It can turn bolts up to 24mm or 15/16″, and has a knife blade, a bottle opener, slotted and Phillips screwdrivers, and a sleeve that converts two of its blades into a 1/4″ bit driver. Available with orange, blue, black, or red handle scales.

This keychain-friendly tool from EDC-Angie combines an adjustable monkey wrench, caliper, bottle opener, window breaker, screwdriver, and box cutter.  It’s made from grade 5 titanium and has magnetic storage slots on its side for holding a pair of skinny 4mm driver bits.

Wrenches are utilitarian things so they’re not typically very artful. That’s not the case with this unique wrench, embellished by artist Mihail Kupec with an illustration inspired by Super Mario Bros. He started by sketching his ideas onto paper and the wrench, then used engraving tools and an electrochemical etching process to apply the pattern permanently.

Titaner’s TiSpanner is a tiny adjustable wrench you can carry everywhere. It’s made from CNC-machined titanium and can turn bolts up to 36 mm across. In addition to its wrench, it can pull nails, open bottles, and break glass, plus it has a slot for glow-in-the-dark tritium vials. It also works as a measuring caliper.

One of the coolest things about metal is that it can be heated over and over again to make new things. My Mechanics, shows us how they transformed an ordinary steel nut into a tool that can turn nuts. The miniature wrench they made can grab onto nuts up to 8.5 mm across.

This compact, adjustable wrench from Silver Fox Tool is small enough to toss in your pocket. It smoothly adjusts to turn hex-head nuts and bolts up to 15 mm and is made from grade 5 titanium with a knurled brass knob. Pre-orders for the Atom wrench start shipping in November 2023.

Tightening lug nuts on a wheel typically involves turning five nuts sequentially to make sure they’re tightened evenly. This video shows off a homebrew invention that can loosen or tighten them all at once. It’s a cool idea, but in the real world, you’ll need metal gears and something more powerful than a Makita cordless drill to get the job done.

This versatile hand tool is basically a complete set of socket wrenches. Its dual rotating heads can turn both metric and standard hex bolts in 16 different sizes, as well as 12-point, round hex, square, spline, and Torx bolts. It can even dig in and turn damaged bolt heads.

This pocket-sized adjustable wrench can turn bolts up to 15mm or about 0.59″, and its handle has a hex driver and storage space for bits. A brass grommet lets you lash it to your bag or create a wrist strap with paracord. Its teeth can open bottles, and it’s also got a built-in utility blade.