Another secret is that you could grind the whole thing down and make a cool toothpick out of it.

If anyone thinks I am going to do that to my Craftsman 8" 12", or 16 " adjustable wrenches that I have had more than 40 years, you are mistaken. As stated below, there are plenty of other tools that can do this.

Next, I regained consciousness. Then, my dad said, "If you ever touch my tools again you won't wake up."

It ruined a tool to do what others do much better. Bad idea.

I've always been a believer in having the right tool for the job. That doesn't mean destroying a perfectly good tool to do the job of another.

Destroyed a beautiful crescent rench

I had that exact situation a couple of weeks ago, had I known this I could have spent half an hour wreaking an adjustable wrench, but silly me I spent half a minute to get out my multi groove plier and unscrew the pipe. Also if you have to make drastic alterations to the tool to have it do something it's not designed to do is hardly a hidden secret feature.

That makes so much more sense than reaching into my toolbox for my Channelocks, the correct tool for the job.

Considering the workshops I've worked in, and those I've visited, I always thought it a good idea to have the hole to hang the tool on a rack. There a plenty of tools out there for this type of job without destroying ones you already paid for. I'm surprised it doesn't now pick up thousands of encrypted television channels for free...

30 seconds in, and I'm thinking, "I'm gonna regret this." I wasn't wrong. It wasn't a total waste of time, though, since even a bad example serves a purpose.

What’s wrong with using the right tool for the job?

You know , you still have to have a used chain. I totally agree with the comments about destroying the crescent wrench. Use pliers, channel locks, small pipe wrench , even rope wrapped around it and a small wooden stick.

Or you could get a channel lock or vice grip plier. Or a vice grip with the plumbers chain setup. I got on at a yard sale for $5 and all my adjustable wrenchs are intact.

I hate when people call it a function of the tool when it's NOT A FUNTION OF THE TOOL but rather a modification of the tool to perform a different task. It's NOT A HIDEN SECRET FEATURE!!!!!!! It's a modification.

Guys, remember, these people usually wear sandals to their unregulated, highly dangerous, shoddy construction projects. They don't have a lot to begin with, so this is revolutionary to them.

Плять,мы ждем секрет ЭТОГО инструмента,а не как его испортить...

I did the same thing with an old Crescent wrench years ago. Worked great. Later I went to the store, bought a chain wrench, and turned it into an adjustable Crescent wrench.

If only there was some magical invention that would accomplish the same thing. Could maybe call it a strap wrench.

I love how he says "try to watch the video until it's finished..." I couldn't.

Just like a air of chain vise grips or a simple strap wrench. Then again, a pipe wrench also works quite well too! All of these alternatives are better than maiming an adjustable to add a chain that gets in the way when using the wrench the proper way!

Nice, destroy a perfect Crescent wrench 🔧, when you could have used lock jointed pliers or a small pipe wrench and also make a rubber belt wrench similar to a chain wrench but belt won't damage plastic (pvc)!

The hole is for clipping the wrench to a carabiner by skyscraper and bridge builders. It would retain the wrench to the builder's tool belt and prevent a slip, dropping it on someone below. Kinda put a halt on the work too if you dropped one not secured.

We in the first world take tools for granted. People in the third world have to manipulate their current tools to complete a job. Hes not being wasteful hes being innovative.

No wonder few people know about this tool!

Something a pipe wrench or channel locks could have easily done

The chain is useful to give extra leverage as you swing around the wrecked adjustable to heave as far as possible into a river.

That is incredibly stupid. You damaged a good wrench in order to reproduce pliers badly.

Зачем ключ ломать, можно было к любой железке цепь приделать.

That pretty cool, I visualize someone in a remote place that's in a bind then comes up with this idea to salve his problem, I like it. thank god for the hidden tool.

Cut half your hanging hole off the tool. you can then lay the tool down on the floor or work bench when you're not using it.This simple move free's up that hook on the wall and you can put a different tool on it. brilliant idea. I have a ton of tools with hook holes in them. I'm on this one.

Basically you have to design and make your own tools. Ridiculous.

OH, so that's why the adjustable wrench companies designed that hole. All this time I thought it was for hanging it in a convenient place. Right.

Essa parte redonda do cabo da chave fixa é só para pendurar a ferramenta que foi feita para porcas e não para cano . Para canos tem a chave própria tipo alicate de pressão ou chave de cano mesmo....

Personally I believe a crescent wrench is the worst tool ever designed I would never do this. Get the right tool for the job.

This is like "do ya know the secret of this large barn door? If you nail it to a rocket, it can even fly!"

Such a secret even the wrench manufacturer didn’t even know about it.

A few years ago I was working 'blind' to remove a fitting inside a water tank, in the attic. The roof was too low for me to lift the water tank lid and work directly inside. I tied the tools to my wrists so I didn't drop them in the tank, and I still have the tools today. Please don't cut the loops off your tools, buy the correct tools instead.

Harbor freight got one for $15, it also locks. I would use a toll like that very rarely. I would buy the HB tool and save the good adjustable wrench. It would also be a lot less work.

The title and thumbnail led me to believe I was going to see something amazing with the end of the adjustable as it was. I should have known better.

i can think of 5 tools i have handy that i would use before i cut up a perfectly good adjustable wrench.

Creo segun mi experiencia es mejor usar un pedazo de cuero el cual cubra el tubo a extraer y usar un alicate de presion ajustable el cual agarrara bien el tubo sin dañarlo al momento de girarlo, depende de cada uno lo que tenga a la mano y tambien el presupuesto del cual disponga ...gracias por compartir

"Not many people know that the secret to this tool is that if you buy two power tools to ruin it, you don't have to spend a small fraction of the same money to just go get a cheap strap wrench."

What a total waste of a perfectly good wrench... Obviously he doesn't care for his tools like most people do.

Adjusting the spanner correctly might help, and then you could still hang it on the hook afterwards.

I have quite a few large "Crescent" wrenches that I have picked up over the years as a machinist and later in a big factory as an industrial mechanic/maintenance man and this company never "Farming" anything out except when an electric motor needed rewound or replaced. After my foreman found out that I was a machinist for years and knew how to spray weld he would ask me to fix/repair the shaft surface that held the bearing when the end of that shaft was damaged or worn under the lower end of the tolerance permitted/needed to hold the bearing and he asked me to do these miracles on a 1946 lathe that was abused so much that if you got within .005 of your mark you did a great job but after doing my 3rd shaft in 6 months I finally told the foreman to "Get Bent" and IF the company wanted to buy a good lathe and good mill then I would do some machine work for them but no more machining from me until I got some decent tools to work with. Over my years in industrial maintenance/mechanic I would pick up various tools such as strap wrenches and chain wrenches so that I didn't have to maul a $60 or more tool to turn it into a rarely used or once used tool BUT I may just try this trick/modification to one of my extra 16" Proto "Crescent Wrench" just for shits and giggles and to get me out in the garage and get my mind off of the cancer that I was diagnosed with on June 6th 2023 and the 8 weeks of intense chemo and radiation treatments and the kidney failure that the Dr.s are correcting by taking me off of certain meds because I was on Torsemide because I was retaining so much water/fluid that I only had one pair of boots/shoes that I could get on my swollen feet BUT I could not tighten or even try to tie this one pair of boots until 2 to 3 weeks being on the Torsemide which in turn screwed up my kidneys but my kidneys are getting better SO IF anyone reads this post and are on Torsemide then talk to your Dr. to keep a close eye on your kidney function/health and/or get you off of this drug TOTALLY! My kidney specialist said that he believes Torsemide is too dangerous to even be on the market and then told me that the hot shot members at the FDA are on the payroll of "Big Pharma" and that is the ONLY reason that 1/3 of the approved drugs are even on the market and available to the "Public"

This is not something we didn't know about. Chain wrenches have been used for decades. I have one I bought in the 1960s, for removing the oil filter on my Lotus Cortina Mark 1. You are now DRC.

I always thought that hole was to hang the tool on. Just shows you learn something new every day.

I would hate to use the wrench with that chain flopping around on the end.

I hand forged all my snap on tools into paint stir sticks. It’s brilliant. Now I don’t have to use the ones the paint store gives me.

I use the hole to tie the tool to my wrist with a string, when I’m working at height etc.

Just use a pair of channel lock pliers instead . In addition you would have not ruined a good adjustable wrench .

Just open up the spanner, and with a wet piece of rag, put it on the fitting, you may need to fold the rag a few time's and then just adjust the spanner to fit and the wet rag will take up the slack. Oh and the hole at the end of this 10 inch or 12 inch spanner is to tighten any water mains spindle that might have an old washer in it.

Lots of people can create their own tool. But if Channel Lock, Stanley or whichever company intended for a tool to be used in a certain way, they'd create that when making said tool.

If I had thought about this years ago I wouldn't have my strap type or plier type oil filter wrench. I wonder how well this would work if you put an exhaust cutter chain on it and tried to cut exhaust pipes.

I'm with everyone else. Get out your pipe wrench for this type of job. This is not a secret because the hole in the tool had to be severely modified.

I can't believe I just sat through that! You can get a perfectly good chain wrench for under $5 at a hardware store.

You can buy a chain wrench, it will pay for itself compared to the time it took to make this one. Not only is there another tool that works well, pliers, just the plain wrench that you showed in the beginning works well. I know I used it today twice to install caps on pipe ends.

Anyone with an angle grinder has a pair of water pump pliers, or a piece of scrap barstock. This is creative, but that's about it.

I agree on the wasting of a good tool when others can do the job and some quick cuts to avoid the tedium of repetitive action would be welcome.

Мужик не знал что в природе газовый ключ существует. За каким то хреном ключ испортил.

Для этого не обязательно было портить разводной ключ.

Don't miss part two where we go out and buy a longer crescent wrench so we can hold it where we used to be able to hold this one for leverage.

It might help if you tightened the wrench above the lip and not directly on it

👎Sanan, go to your room, shut the door & do not come out until morning. Also, no dinner tonight.

Это не секрет инструмента а дебелизм "мастера"

Crazy man. And when you are done loosening the plastic pipe, you can weld the wrench back together. lol

Plenty of ways to rig a strap wrench without ruining the handle of a nice adjustable wrench. For starters, channel locks will remove most pipe fittings.

i bought a couple different chain and strap wrenches a few decades ago at a yard sale for 10 bucks, pretty cool you can make one....cheers

o yea thats a great idea ,to use the end of the wrench that was designed with the strength to hold is own weight on a hook, for leverage . In case you dont know a real chain wrench has a jaw like a pipe wrench to do the actual gripping , the chain is just used to keep the work piece in contact with that jaw.

Reinforces the never loan your tools rule...

Plastic fitting do not require tools. They should be hand tightened.

Flappy sanding disc on the angle grinder is my favourite tool! 😁

Really, this is the secret we have been waiting for

That’s not a secret of that tool. It’s not meant to have that function. Nothing you have to modify is a secret until after it’s been modified and even then it’s only a secret until the modifications reaches social media. That would be like me calling the crescent wrench I grinded down to make an adjustable skinny wrench to fit between the nuts on a bmx hub a secret. Not a secret, just a modification. So, up until this video was posted, the only secret about this whole thing was your idea to modify a crescent wrench to add another function to it. And a great idea it is, imo. However, you can achieve the same, what I call, “vise wrench” with a sturdy 2x2 piece of wood, a back chain and a couple nails or screws. There are many other things that can be used to make one, but the materials I just listed are the bare minimum to get you through a project or two. I made one out of a bolt cutter handle and i can almost unscrew myself when I get myself into an undesirable position that usually comes right after I open my mouth and insert foot. Good job thinking outside the box.

gotta like the part with marking the spot to drill the hole when it is in a spot that basically could not miss. Remember to put the chain back on the kids bike.

If I did this to my wrench, how am I going spin it around my finger and pretend I'm John Wayne as I walk across my work shop?

A lot of people don't know the secret of this tool, then proceeds to destroy a wrench! He's the TOOL lol!😉👍

And all this time i thought they cast a loop on the end so i could hang it up when I was done using it. Turns out they did it so i could grind it off. Learn something new every day.

Or you could use the channel locks or pliers you already have in your tool box.

That's not a secret to a tool. That's you, altering a tool.

Вообще то для этих целей есть газовый ключ

I have 2 pairs of channel locks. Either one would have worked in that situation. Still, there could be a situation where something like that could be needed and work where an adjustable wrench would not. I have an industrial-grade vacuum blower filter that actually might work where no other tool I've ever found will work. It's a major BUMMER to get that thing off because it was incorrectly installed during the production of the machine. (cross threaded) It literally cannot be fixed, period. Removing it now is virtually impossible. That chain tool just might get it done, but can't say for certain. It might destroy the filter. I can say for certain no other tool I'm aware of will remove it without destroying this very expensive stainless steel filter.

I wonder if Sanan ever changed the oil filter in his car? If he did, he'd know that such tools already exist. And you don't have to ruin a good drill bit to make something that you'd use two or three times tops.

That's not a "Secret" of the tool. That's you modifying it to use as something different.

I wanted to do this, but I'd have to buy an angle grinder and a drill press to do it. That would cost lots more than just buying that specific tool.

14-12 I cannot believe he cut part of the adjustable Spanner off, surely he has made it unsafe, there are Tools you can buy to have done that or even a pipe Wrench 😢

You revealed the secret by cutting it open with a grinder... I wonder how many secrets awaits to be unlocked in expensive tools by drilling and cutting them open and adding other parts... Right original tools for right original jobs, enough tools has been specifically engineered for certain jobs... But i do appreciate your creativity by combining another tool's function with this one, essentially making it a tool with both tools' functions... One can do this with his used tools if he likes, but it is not recommended to buy new tools and doing it with them, well unless you want to and its yours... 😊

Yes! Don't just reach for a pipe wrench, destroy a valuable tool so that you can do that job for probably the only time ever. And take most of the day doing it.

Да нормально разводной и такое откручивает, просто надо выбрать правильную позицию. Не стоило хороший инструмент портить

So they make a belt wrench that will spin that. You could also you a PIPE WRENCH and that's a pretty common plumbers tool.

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Oh yeah, we want that chain flopping around every turn of a bolt.

That's not a hidden secret, that's you are mutilating a perfectly fine tool.

Why in the world would you do that to an adjustable wrench? They make chain wrenches that you can usually buy cheap.

Monkey wrench would have saved a perfectly good shifter. There was nothing 'secret' either.

Go to local ER ask how many Cutoff wheel injuries they've seen. I doctor was telling me hes seen several very bad ones

That's a lot of work for such a simple task. Besides, what if I don't have a chain, an angle grinder and a drill? Guess the wrench alone will do the job, if/when used properly!?👻❤

I could never understand why one would break a perfectly good tool to make an inferior one. This easily could have been made with steel stock and the chain

I think i just lost a few IQ points from watching this

Dude just invented the single-use adjustable hammer. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻