Spanners for tools

rockmonkeysc

If you're a complete tool and want to blow some cash on a set of spanners why not go for these carbon beauties.
http://carbonlitetools.com








Or you could be sensible and spend your cash on drugs and hookers.

Angus Young

File under: Why?

angry_bird

Wonder how light they actually are? Completely pointless though for 99.9214% of the population.

FishFish

You should buy these tools. They are perfect.

BigAl

Angry Bird wrote:

Wonder how light they actually are? Completely pointless though for 99.9214% of the population.

I'm struggling to think of who's in the other 0.0786%

cooldad

Maybe there's a marketing opportunity to sell carbon wraps for poor tool owning knobs.

ilovedirt

Daft - it's just another thing to go wrong on what WAS a fairly simple tool... Give me good quality vanadium chrome spanners any day.

BigAl

ilovedirt wrote:

Daft - it's just another thing to go wrong on what WAS a fairly simple tool... Give me good quality vanadium chrome spanners any day.

I've heard you're fond of a big King Dick

rockmonkeysc

Chrome spanners are great for throwing at stuff/people/animals when a job is going wrong. I prefer a 32mm open/ring combination spanner for throwing.

ilovedirt

BigAl wrote:

ilovedirt wrote:

Daft - it's just another thing to go wrong on what WAS a fairly simple tool... Give me good quality vanadium chrome spanners any day.

I've heard you're fond of a big King Dick

I don't like to wrench and tell

rockmonkeysc

Nowt wrong with King Dick.

nicklouse

Why have the rings tapered! Why not just make them the right size?

Not on my shopping list.

rockmonkeysc

Americans don't do precision or quality. I'm surprised they do metric sizes.
Seems a bit odd to have spanners with metric one end and imperial the other end. What has a mix of metric and imperial bolts?

cooldad

Pointless.
Q: How Strong are the wrenches?
A: Strong enough for normal use that a normal wrench is intended for. Do not use a breaker bar with these wrenches as it can damage the carbon fibre from abrasion. Do not hit the wrenches with a hammer. The wrenches are not intended to be used in the place of hammers, pry bars, digging devices, etc.

What's the point of tools you can't abuse?

Chunkers1980

cooldad wrote:

What's the point of tools you can't abuse?

Suppose that's why we like rubez

rockmonkeysc

Chunkers1980 wrote:

cooldad wrote:

What's the point of tools you can't abuse?

Suppose that's why we like rubez

He's brilliant entertainment. He's a proper tool but I doubt he would buy these.

BigAl

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Chunkers1980 wrote:

cooldad wrote:

What's the point of tools you can't abuse?

Suppose that's why we like rubez

He's brilliant entertainment. He's a proper tool but I doubt he would buy these.

He is. But he's no mug - you need to know something about bikes to be able to dream up some of his issues.

Wish he'd post in the CC though

rockmonkeysc

I'm sure he's a very good troll. No one is that stupid.

JMcP92

Saw these earlier, seem pointless, just use Valarian steel spanners - quality stuff

Northwind

I suppose there's some real speciality jobs where light weight is useful. Long distance touring or racing, dakar and that. Things where you're carrying tools in air luggage. Maybe also cold conditions? So maybe just so specialised that we don't realise they're ever useful... But even then these seem badly executed.

rockmonkeysc

In those conditions you want something better quality.
For cold conditions our service engineers at work don't have problems using chrome vanadium spanners on oil rigs in the arctic circle and places like Siberia and northern Alaska even when they start beating them with hammers.

Northwind

Yep, that's what I mean, even where these might be useful they still seem badly executed. A really good carbon tool could possibly be useful, a shit tool's shit whatever it's made of.

(but re cold weather I wasn't referring to embrittling of the tools, just working in cold- one thing if you're a fully equipped cold climate engineer, another if you're winging it or lightweighting it, some sort of "adventurer" or similiar, tools that don't get stuck to your hands or suck heat out of you are probably useful. Polar explorers and early mountaineers used a lot of wooden and bone kit where normally you'd use metal for the same reason.

see also: Spaceships

Angus Young

Northwind wrote:

Yep, that's what I mean, even where these might be useful they still seem badly executed. A really good carbon tool could possibly be useful, a shoot tool's shoot whatever it's made of.

(but re cold weather I wasn't referring to embrittling of the tools, just working in cold- one thing if you're a fully equipped cold climate engineer, another if you're winging it or lightweighting it, some sort of "adventurer" or similiar, tools that don't get stuck to your hands or suck heat out of you are probably useful. Polar explorers and early mountaineers used a lot of wooden and bone kit where normally you'd use metal for the same reason.

see also: Spaceships

But these are designed for none of the above. Their sole purpose is to part those who value bling over function from their excess cash.

njee20

That was his point, as he already said in the post you quoted...

rockmonkeysc

Northwind wrote:

Yep, that's what I mean, even where these might be useful they still seem badly executed. A really good carbon tool could possibly be useful, a shoot tool's shoot whatever it's made of.

(but re cold weather I wasn't referring to embrittling of the tools, just working in cold- one thing if you're a fully equipped cold climate engineer, another if you're winging it or lightweighting it, some sort of "adventurer" or similiar, tools that don't get stuck to your hands or suck heat out of you are probably useful. Polar explorers and early mountaineers used a lot of wooden and bone kit where normally you'd use metal for the same reason.

see also: Spaceships

But cyclists, mountaineers, explorers etc all wear gloves, if they don't they're going to loose their hands anyway.
Early ice axes had wooden shafts because metal ones would have weighed a ton. My axes have aluminium shafts.

stubs

I like it where it says designed with standard and metric sizes. FFS come on America catch up everyones been using metric for years it should be standard and ye olde imperial

Maro

I like carbon fibre as much as the next guy but noway would I spend that much on spanners that aren't shiney.

rockmonkeysc

As far as I know, the USA is the only first world country to not have gone metric. Its about time they moved in to the twentieth century.

ilovedirt

RockmonkeySC wrote:

As far as I know, the USA is the only first world country to not have gone metric. Its about time they moved in to the twentieth century.

It irritates the fuck out of me that we still use imperial a lot though - distance, speed etc. in cars. Many people still measure in feet and inches and use lbs and stone for measuring weight etc. We went metric years ago, why are people still using imperial?

rockmonkeysc

I know what you're saying. We should be using km not miles on our road signs.
I work in the water industry and pipes etc are still in imperial sizes which annoys me. I still see a lot of imperial ACME threads on new valves. Occasionally I see threads with metric diameter and imperial pitch.

stubs

I use miles per hour, pounds, feet and inches, I also use meters, millimeters, centigrade, kilos and grams. Basically I use whichever system the people around me are using.