[modeleng] Re: Spanners

Regarding "spanners", it is possible to take small open end wrenches, 
aw'right "SPANNERS", heat the ends red hot and squeeze them down to smaller 
size in a vise, ('scuse me, vice).  The steel is strong enough that it will 
last forever in our model work.  Well maybe not forever, but I have a couple 
I made up several years ago and they are still good even though I thinned 
them up on an emery wheel.  If you over squeeze the spanner jaws, you can 
file them out to fit the desired BA bolt.

Jesse in cool and wet Troy, TN. with possible tornado spotted 20 miles South 
of here.



>I suspect the only places are Ebay, car boot sales etc.
> As far as I know, they havent been made for many years.
>
> I know that Britool still make BA spanners, but suspect you will need to 
> win
> the lottery to afford a set.
> http://www.britool.com/products.php?category_1=Wrenches&category_2=Midget+Open+Jaw+Wrenches&category_3=BA+Midget+Open+Jaw+Wrenches
>
> Oh, Farnell and RS used to list them, but I bet you have checked both of
> those.
>
> Alan
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <peter.chadwick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 5:13 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Spanners
>
>
> Does anyone know where I can get a set of  Terry BA spanners? Preferably
> 0-2, 1-3, 2-4, 3-5, 4-6, 5-7 6-8  7-9 and 8-10.
> Chronos have a set at around £11, but there's only one of each, which is
> not much use when tightning locknuts in places where a box spanner can't
> reach. Reeves have some at £26, but they don;t say what they are.. The
> original Terry spanners had the advantage that they were thin, and so
> could get into those awkward places that nuts always seem to be in....
>
> I had a long  (4inch) 2 - 4 BA confiscated at Frankfurt airport by a dumb
> idiot of a German security guard: he must have thought that I was going to
> take the aeroplane apart with it. Nit much hope since they're mainly
> Unified threads where they aren't metric........Still airport security
> guards in Europe seem to be ineligible for the job if they have an IQ
> above 50.
>
> Peter Chadwick
>
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