Anybody got recommendations for good places to get decent quality spanners? Reviews of the spanners available on Amazon are pretty mediocre and micro-tools seems to be out of stock of most everything.
Hmm. Those look good. Has anyone found the thickness of the rods to be an issue in tight spaces?
Also, I should clarify that Micro-tools is out of stock of their higher-end wrenches. If anyone has experience with their "economy" line, please advise.
I have one of the SKGrimes round tip spanners. I have to wrench tighten it to get it to hold a setting but other wise OK but too bulky to get into some tight places in older cameras I work on.
I recently picked up one of these off ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Spanner...467?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a3f50f453
Seems well made and sturdy although I managed to bend one of the pointed tips but was able to straighten it.
I just bought round tipped ones from Ebay seller seagull2014
Very well made, I was surprised with quality. Quick and free shipping too. Way better than flat tipped I bought a few years back.
After having bought a set and using it a year or so, I concluded that just 1 spanner wrench set is not a cure-all. You need several different ones. I got mine of fleabay. Read a little bit on Sover Wong's site and you will begin to appreciate having enough of the correct-fitting tools. With just the 1 set, sooner or later, and probably sooner; you will press it into use on something because it's all you had at the time, and end up with chewed-looking marks on the job, or worse.
I've been known to "make" spanners by filing and/or grinding metal things to trap between pieces of wood that I clamped together with C-clamps. Sometimes making or modifying a tool make take hours to do the final 2-second job.
I've got the better Micro tools unit they too, can be too wide or even too short for the occasional job. Sometimes a small pair of needle nose pliers ground to fit can be your friend.
I have these. Dead Link Removed
Used them quite a few times, and never had a problem. There are similar ones with round or double rails, which don't seem logical to me. I like the single flat rail to minimize torquing (which can lead to slipping).