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Broken Wrench
Filed Under (Ural Parts and Accessories) by Anthony StClair on 18-06-2008
Did I mention I’m not mechanically inclined?
Oops.
It might be chrome-vanadium and a decent toolkit as toolkits go, but if you still don’t know your lefty-loosey from your righty-tighty, then you’re gonna break s%&^.
So much for the 15mm end of this 14mm/15mm wrench.
On the plus side, I think I’m finally getting down the left/right thing. Mainly, I think lefty-loosey/ righty-tighty is a bunch of feckin’ nonsense. I can never get it set in my brain which way exactly constitutes left — they both can be left, to my odd mind.
How about just… clockwise for tighten, and counter-clockwise for loosen?
So far, that’s working for me. And the rest of the tools are still in one piece.
For now.
The cyrillic on the wrench reads “service wrench” actually service key, but the Russians refer to wrenches as keys. Now you can make it into a “shorty” 14mm.
Strange, older Russian bike wrenches were not stamped in this fashion.
Thanks for the translation work.
I think Ural changed their tool vendor a while back - hence the change?
Ok, here’s the engineers way:
Hold your right hand out and curl your fingers in toward your palm (keep thumb up). Place/Visualize the pinky side of your hand against the bolt/nut. If you turn the bolt/nut the direction your fingers curl, the bolt/but will travel the way your thumb is pointing- regardless of whether you are facing the bolt/nut or are behind it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Right_hand_rule.png