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A wrench is a tool used to provide grip and mechanical advantage in applying torque to turn objects—usually rotary fasteners, such as nuts and bolts—or keep them from turning. [1]

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Adjustable spanner

An adjustable spanner (UK, and most other English-speaking countries) or adjustable wrench (US and Canada) is an open-end wrench with a movable jaw, allowing it to be used with different sizes of fastener head (nut, bolt, etc.) rather than just one fastener size, as with a conventional fixed spanner.

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Apex Tool Group

Apex Tool Group is an American supplier of hand tools and power tools.

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Bahco

Bahco is a Swedish brand within the hand tool industry, which is now part of SNA Europe, part of Snap-on.

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Basin wrench

A basin wrench, sometimes called a sink wrench, is a plumbing tool that is used in confined spaces to turn fasteners that would be difficult or impossible to reach with a plumber wrench or other types of wrenches.

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Bicycle wheel

A bicycle wheel is a wheel, most commonly a wire wheel, designed for a bicycle.

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Brace (tool)

A brace is a hand tool used with a bit (drill bit or auger) to drill holes, usually in wood.

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Breaker bar

A breaker bar is a long non-ratcheting bar that is used with socket wrench-style sockets.

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Cam out

Cam out (or cam-out) is a process by which a screwdriver slips out of the head of a screw being driven once the torque required to turn the screw exceeds a certain amount.

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Car

A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.

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Chain drive

Chain drive is a way of transmitting mechanical power from one place to another.

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Chrome plating

Chrome plating (less commonly chromium plating), often referred to simply as chrome, is a technique of electroplating a thin layer of chromium onto a metal object.

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Chromium

Chromium is a chemical element with symbol Cr and atomic number 24.

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Chuck (engineering)

A chuck is a specialized type of clamp.

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Churchkey

A churchkey or church key is any of various kinds of bottle openers and can openers.

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Cogset

On a bicycle, the cogset or cluster is the set of multiple sprockets that attaches to the hub on the rear wheel.

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Cone wrench

A cone wrench or cone spanner is a tool used in bicycle assembly and maintenance to tighten and adjust the cones on a bicycle wheel.

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Corrosion

Corrosion is a natural process, which converts a refined metal to a more chemically-stable form, such as its oxide, hydroxide, or sulfide.

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Crescent (brand)

Crescent, originally called the Crescent Tool Company, is a brand of hand tools.

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Dental extraction

A dental extraction (also referred to as tooth extraction, exodontia, exodontics, or informally, tooth pulling) is the removal of teeth from the dental alveolus (socket) in the alveolar bone.

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Dental key

The dental key is an instrument that was used in dentistry to extract diseased teeth.

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Dentistry

Dentistry is a branch of medicine that consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions of the oral cavity, commonly in the dentition but also the oral mucosa, and of adjacent and related structures and tissues, particularly in the maxillofacial (jaw and facial) area.

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Drift pin

In metalworking, a drift pin, drift pin punch, slave pin, simply drift, or even pokey bit is the name for a tool used for enlarging holes, or aligning holes prior to bolting or riveting metal parts together.

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Drum (container)

A drum is a cylindrical container used for shipping bulk cargo.

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Drum tuning

Drum tuning is the process of adjusting the frequency or pitch of a drum.

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Drum wrench

The drum wrench is a tool which is commonly used to open large 55-gallon drums.

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Emic and etic

In anthropology, folkloristics, and the social and behavioral sciences, emic and etic refer to two kinds of field research done and viewpoints obtained: emic, from within the social group (from the perspective of the subject) and etic, from outside (from the perspective of the observer).

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Fastener

A fastener (US English) or fastening (UK English) is a hardware device that mechanically joins or affixes two or more objects together.

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Hex key

A hex key, Allen key or Allen wrench is a tool used to drive bolts and screws with hexagonal sockets in their heads.

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Impact wrench

An impact wrench (also known as an impactor, impact gun, air wrench, air gun, rattle gun, torque gun, windy gun) is a socket wrench power tool designed to deliver high torque output with minimal exertion by the user, by storing energy in a rotating mass, then delivering it suddenly to the output shaft.

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Johan Petter Johansson

Johan Petter Johansson (December 12, 1853 – August 25, 1943), sometimes known as JP, was a Swedish inventor and industrialist.

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List of screw drives

A screw drive is a system used to turn a screw.

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Locking pliers

Locking pliers, mole grips (mole wrench) or vise-grips are pliers that can be locked into position, using an over-center action.

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Lug wrench

A lug wrench is the name for a type of socket wrench used to loosen and tighten lug nuts on automobile wheels.

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Maintenance (technical)

The technical meaning of maintenance involves operational and functional checks, servicing, repairing or replacing of necessary devices, equipment, machinery, building infrastructure, and supporting utilities in industrial, business, governmental, and residential installations.

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Mechanical advantage

Mechanical advantage is a measure of the force amplification achieved by using a tool, mechanical device or machine system.

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Monkey wrench

The monkey wrench, known as gas grips in the UK, is an adjustable wrench, a later American development of eighteenth-century English coach wrenches.

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North American English

North American English (NAmE, NAE) is the most generalized variety of the English language as spoken in the United States and Canada.

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Nut (hardware)

A nut is a type of fastener with a threaded hole.

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Oil-filter wrench

An oil-filter wrench is a tool for removing spin-on type oil filters.

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Pipe wrench

The pipe wrench (US), Stillson wrench or Stillsons (UK) is an adjustable wrench/spanner used for turning soft iron pipes and fittings with a rounded surface.

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Pliers

Pliers are a hand tool used to hold objects firmly, possibly developed from tongs used to handle hot metal in Bronze Age Europe.

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Plumber wrench

A plumber wrench (or plumber's wrench) is a pipe wrench used to rotate plumbing pipes.

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Plumbing

Plumbing is any system that conveys fluids for a wide range of applications.

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Power wrench

A power wrench is type of wrench that is powered by other means than human force.

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Preload (engineering)

Preload is a civil engineering term with several meanings.

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Ratchet (device)

A ratchet is a mechanical device that allows continuous linear or rotary motion in only one direction while preventing motion in the opposite direction.

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Reamer

A reamer is a type of rotary cutting tool used in metalworking.

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Rowing (sport)

Rowing, often referred to as crew in the United States, is a sport whose origins reach back to Ancient Egyptian times.

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SAE International

SAE International, initially established as the Society of Automotive Engineers, is a U.S.-based, globally active professional association and standards developing organization for engineering professionals in various industries.

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Sardine

"Sardine" and "pilchard" are common names used to refer to various small, oily fish in the herring family Clupeidae.

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Screw

A screw is a type of fastener, in some ways similar to a bolt (see Differentiation between bolt and screw below), typically made of metal, and characterized by a helical ridge, known as a male thread (external thread).

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Set screw

A set screw is a type of screw generally used to secure an object within or against another object, normally not using a nut (see bolts compared with screws).

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Socket wrench

A socket wrench is a type of wrench or spanner that has a socket attached at one end, usually used to turn a fastener.

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Spoke wrench

A spoke wrench or spoke key is a small wrench or tool used to adjust the tension in the spokes of a bicycle wheel, sulky wheel, wheelchair wheel, motorcycle wheel, spoked vintage car wheel, or similar wheel.

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Strap wrench

A strap wrench is any of various types of wrench that grip an object via a strap or chain being pulled in tension around it until it firmly grips.

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Tamper resistance

Tamper resistance is resistance to tampering (intentional malfunction or sabotage) by either the normal users of a product, package, or system or others with physical access to it.

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Tap (valve)

A tap (also spigot or faucet: see usage variations) is a valve controlling the release of a liquid or gas.

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Tap and die

Taps and dies are tools used to create screw threads, which is called threading.

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Tap wrench

A tap wrench is a hand tool used to turn taps or other small tools, such as hand reamers and screw extractors.

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Threaded pipe

A threaded pipe is a pipe with screw-threaded ends for assembly.

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Tongs

Tongs are a type of tool used to grip and lift objects instead of holding them directly with hands.

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Tool

A tool is any physical item that can be used to achieve a goal, especially if the item is not consumed in the process.

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Tool steel

Tool steel refers to a variety of carbon and alloy steels that are particularly well-suited to be made into tools.

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Torque

Torque, moment, or moment of force is rotational force.

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Torque wrench

A torque wrench is a tool used to apply precisely a specific torque to a fastener such as a nut or bolt.

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Torx

Torx (pronounced), developed in 1967, Bernard F Reiland, "Coupling arrangement and tools for same", filed 1967-03-21 by Camcar Textron, is the trademark for a type of screw head characterized by a 6-point star-shaped pattern.

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Tuning wrench

A tuning wrench (also called a tuning lever or tuning hammer) is a specialized socket wrench used to tune string instruments such as the piano, harp, and hammer dulcimer, that have strings wrapped around tuning pins.

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Universal joint

A universal joint (universal coupling, U-joint, Cardan joint, Spicer or Hardy Spicer joint, or Hooke's joint) is a joint or coupling connecting rigid rods whose axes are inclined to each other, and is commonly used in shafts that transmit rotary motion.

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Vanadium

Vanadium is a chemical element with symbol V and atomic number 23.

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Wheel

A wheel is a circular component that is intended to rotate on an axle bearing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrench

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