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Awesome Wrenches

Etching a Mario Bros. Wrench

Etching a Mario Bros. Wrench

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.

TiSpanner Titanium Mini Wrench

TiSpanner Titanium Mini Wrench

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.

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Turning a Nut Into a Tiny Wrench

Turning a Nut Into a Tiny Wrench

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.

Atom Adjustable Wrench

Atom Adjustable Wrench

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.

Multi-nut Power Wrench

Multi-nut Power Wrench

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.

Klein Tools Mini Ratchet Driver

Klein Tools Mini Ratchet Driver
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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.

Universal 48-in-1 Socket Wrench

Universal 48-in-1 Socket Wrench
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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.

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Outu 6-in-1 Pocket Multitool Wrench

Outu 6-in-1 Pocket Multitool Wrench
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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, or red accents.

Titanium EDC Adjustable Wrench

Titanium EDC Adjustable Wrench
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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.

Making an Industrial Wrench Table

Making an Industrial Wrench Table

Builder Hassan Abu-Izmero had a little time on his hands and decided to build himself a piece of furniture that celebrates his craft. He made the rustic wooden table from rough pieces of timber and steel, then used a Shaper Tools Origin handheld CNC to route out precise insets for five wrenches embedded in its tabletop.

Rusty Wrench Restoration

Rusty Wrench Restoration

We always enjoy watching rusty old things made to look like new. In this video from KILO Restoration, they take the process to the extreme, scrubbing off caked-on rust from a mid-20th-century socket wrench, then painstakingly polishing it back to an amazing mirror chrome finish.

DTool Bike Repair Tool Kit

DTool Bike Repair Tool Kit

This pocket-size tool kit keeps your bike in tip-top shape even when you’re on the road. The DTool Classic packs screwdrivers, hex wrenches, spoke wrenches, a chain cutter, and tire levers that attach magnetically to its body. The Pro version adds knives, tire sealant, a nail puller, a bottle opener, and more.

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Nomad X Multitool

Nomad X Multitool
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This multifunctional tool from Nomad combines a pry bar with four wrenches, a bottle opener, and a flint wheel firestarter at its back. Each one is handmade from powder-coated stainless steel and accented with carbon fiber. Available in gunmetal, black, stormtrooper, and green zombie finishes.

Making a Swivel-Jaw Alligator Wrench

Making a Swivel-Jaw Alligator Wrench

Hand Tool Rescue loves to take old patent drawings of unusual tools and recreate them in his workshop. This time, he made a wrench unlike any we’d seen before. It features a rotating jaw with grooves to help grip and turn tapered, smooth, and standard fasteners. The Canadian snow quench was a nice touch.

Remaking a Weird Vintage Multi-Wrench

Remaking a Weird Vintage Multi-Wrench

Hand Tool Rescue came across Michael Volpe’s 1919 patent for an insane multi-wrench. The concept for the hand tool was that it could turn just about every imaginable fastener. He decided to make a replica of the impractical wrench in hopes that one day he might find every kind of fastener it can tighten.

Engineer DR-07 Twin Wrench Driver

Engineer DR-07 Twin Wrench Driver
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This handy compact driver from Japanese tool company Engineer is great for getting into tight spaces. It has both straight and 90º bit holders and includes an assortment of 10 metric bits. It doesn’t ratchet though. For that, check out the DR-55.

Gearwrench Gimbal Ratchet

Gearwrench Gimbal Ratchet
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This palm-sized ratcheting socket wrench helps you turn bolts in tight spaces. Its center has a gimbal design which 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.

How Wrenches Are Made

How Wrenches Are Made

Go inside of Italy’s Beta Utensili factory, where they take pieces of raw steel, heat them, hot roll, and machine hammer them into their rough shapes, before cutting them out, sand blasting, grinding, tumbling, and refining their openings before hardening and plating each piece into a finished combination wrench.

Palm Socket Wrench

Palm Socket Wrench
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This puck-shaped tool lets you carry a set of socket wrenches anywhere. Its universal Cr-Mo steel sockets fit 15 different SAE and Metric socket sizes, and can turn hexagonal, Torx, spline, square, and even damaged bolt heads. It also can hold hex driver bits with its magnetic 1/4″ holder.

SATA Folding Nut Driver Set

SATA Folding Nut Driver Set
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This compact tool lets you carry six sizes of nut drivers in one convenient handle. The SAE sizes include 3/16″, 1/4″, 5/16″, 11/32″, 3/8″, and 7/16″, while the Metric set includes 5mm, 6mm, 8mm, 9mm, 10mm, and 12mm wrenches. SATA also makes a matching folding hex key set in SAE, Metric, and Torx sizes.

Torque Multiplier Lug Nut Wrench

Torque Multiplier Lug Nut Wrench

Getting lug nuts off of a wheel can be hard work. This ingenious gadget makes easy work of the job using a crank and gearing that amplify your input by a 15:1 ratio to turn stubborn lug nuts without power tools. Just be careful not to overtighten them going the other direction. The set includes 17mm, 19mm, and 21 mm sockets.

PICHI X2 Pocket Tool

PICHI X2 Pocket Tool

The highlight of this compact titanium multitool is its adjustable wrench which grips more than 20 different sizes of nuts and bolts. It also has a flip-out utility knife with replaceable No.11 surgical blades, a pry bar, a 1/4″ hex driver, and a bottle opener. It also includes a handmade leather holster.

IKEA Giant Allen Wrench Flashlight

IKEA Giant Allen Wrench Flashlight
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As part of its 2021 Art Event, IKEA is selling this playful flashlight which pays tribute to the humble Allen wrench, the tiny tool required to assemble much the company’s furniture. The flashlight measures 7-3/4″ long and comes in either shiny silver or blue finishes.

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