Hi all, yes the spanners that Sheldon talks about are now becoming a lot easier to obtain, and the sizes are getting better. While I'm quite sure Gear wrench were the devolopers, they are made by quite a few companies now, and a lot are just made in the same factory with their name etched on them, but if you are lucky enough to see a gear wrench catalog, there are quite a few variations made on them. The prices are not cheap, but I have made the effort to get 3 of them, 2 being 10mm and the other being 8mm. I have seen them as small as 6mm.
I'm quite ahppy to use them on bicycle work, not sure I could ever use them on the trucks and other heavy eqiupment that I work on every day, I'll stick to the old set of SK rachet spanners for them, when required of course, for everything else in my toolbox is mainly Stahlwille, Britool, Proto, Koken and Snap on/Blue point. Just a little digression from the usual subjects, but some of us use tools other than those guys at the LBS........regards wayne davidson Invers NZ...........
on 26/4/07 6:40 AM, Sheldon Brown at CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com wrote:
> The other day my wife came back from her commute and showed me her
> latest road find, and I was blown away!
>
> I've long been a fan of Craftsman tools, but this one was new to me.
> It's a 10 mm wrench, one end is a classic open end, but the other end
> is a ratcheting box wrench on a lockable flex hinge. Here's a Sears
> page describing it in detail:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/
>
> That page is for the 7-piece set, but I presume it is also possible
> to buy the individual wrenches.
>
> Harriet has classic Campagnolo Record seatposts on two of her bikes,
> the Bottecchia fixed gear she commutes on and her old Holdsworth road
> bike. Now she has the PERFECT tool for adjusting these excellent but
> awkward posts.
>
> Sheldon "Toolaholic" Brown