Correct Way to use an Adjustable Jaw Wrench

hey folks that fix-it guy here if you new to the channel please click the subscribe button if you like what you see at the end pound that like button today I'm going to show you how to use an adjustable jaw or inch some parts of the world they call it an adjustable spanner wrench and most people I know call it a crescent wrench it seems like Crescent has the world on block when it comes to adjustable jaw wrenches because most people will just call an adjustable jaw a crescent wrench that's the way I learned in whenever I was young and I'm not stop doing it it actually is really hard for me to say adjustable jaw wrench so if I mess up I'm sorry [Music] these are different adjustable jaw wrenches this right here this is an old adjustable jaw wrench aka a monkey wrench or an adjustable spanner little more old-school than anything I plan on restoring this at some point is the reason why I pulled out to show you if I'm gonna talk about adjustable ring adjustable jaw wrenches like this is an awesome adjustable jaw wrench these are what we're gonna be focusing on today you know a patented name a lot of people call these Crescent wrenches crescents a company and these are all adjustable jaw wrenches like this set happens to be by Dewalt so if you're looking at this I have a 10-inch Dewalt I have an 8-inch Pittsburgh from Harbor Freight which this is one of my favorite wrenches this thing is awesome a six inch the wall I like these dEWALT's because you can see that they're super skinny and they actually open really wide like that for a six inch wrench that opens pretty darn wide man that's the over oh that's over one inch right so pretty awesome and then I have this little Cline that I found at a garage sale it's a little four inch wrench as a plumber it's very important for me to at least have a couple of these on a truck when I'm trying not to Mar something if you only take one thing away from this video I want it to be that you know how to use an adjustable jaw wrench by actually making sure that whatever you're working on is all the way to the back of your wrench and that when you're turning this wrench say I'm turning clockwise right now you want to make sure that this back L which is the whole actual wrench itself is on the back side and it's taking the torque of the twist that will ensure that you have this wrench for a long time and it stays good and accurate for you if you flip it around this way and you're going to end up using it wait you're gonna end up breaking it you're going to round the edges off I've seen it done I know there's times where you have to use it like this or you have to use it like this whatever like things happen you have to do things I mean that's what tools are for but whenever you can just make sure whatever you're working on is all the way to the back and the whole one piece of the wrench is actually used for the torque we've got two fittings here this is actually gonna be for a project I'm gonna do real soon when putting this copper in it's actually gonna be really malleable you do not want to take a pipe wrench to this and try to tighten this or a pair of channellocks I mean you can but you're gonna Mar it up it's gonna get nasty it potentially could end up cutting you if you got real jagged you go to mess with it later on so you're just gonna use two wrenches take a backup and actually get that put on this way and then you're going to take the other adjustable jaw like I said you still you're just wanting to use this whole pipe for your leverage and so then you just turn and when you get to it make sure it's all the way setting in the back there and the back of that wrench and then tighten it up and turn and then loosen go to another spot tighten it up and turn just get into that nice motion right there putting it all the way in the back of the wrench tighten it up and turn it then loosen put it all the way to the back of the wrench tighten it up and turn it until you reach that desired tightness and you're good to go all right folks so that's how you properly use an adjustable jaw wrench it's a great tool to have in your tool bag I carry a few of those in my tool bucket and my son carries that little for an inch around in his I hope this video helped if you could please click the like button subscribe to the channel it would be greatly appreciated thank you very much and have a great evening