Deseret Evening News | 1910-02-19 | Page 21 | Just How to Use a Wrench, When, and Where, and Then

It Just How ow to Use sea a rent rentI I I W lien hen and an W here ere and an Then en FI N there hero are two ways was or of dov do doIng v Ing ng a right and wrong perversity or of human nature Ss Is responsible for tor a large percentage or of ortho tho latter and just as a piece of but buttered buttered toast generally falls faIls with wILh shiny side lido downward In order to pick up the tho dust so 50 will man many folks handle a shifting the wrong wa way with the tho result Ir If not with the object or of spoiling It That It matters vcr very considerably con to the welfare or of such n a wrench Is s or of course well weIl known to engineers and likewise to those who pay attention to such without having the wh why and amI wherefore pointed out to them Still there thure are a great greatman L man many users or of wrenches who nl al although though tho they would not wittingly I hurt hurta a let alone a tool the they mu may have borrowed from some ome obliging friend nevertheless do more harm to small wrenches I in loosening or tightening up a few fc nuts than they would do In a I lifetime if Ie they knew better The proper way to pull a wrench h is toward you with the jaws facing you sInce by this means the jaws will take the strains where the they were built to take them whereas It if the handle is 18 pulled the opposite W way I the strains will be received on the other corners where th the diagonal line intersects the jaws The reason why the wrench will suffer Ir if used the wrong wa way Is because the leverage In that case throws the most strain on the weakest point and not only that but also n a greater leverage than can be exerted with the same Imme force torce applied on the stronger jaw tot Not on only I Is the outer jaw weaker by its HI construction than the tho one made solid with the handle but as n it la is moved outwards It gets further away from the poInt whore where the power is III exerted ex exerted and Is therefore subject to a greater eater amount of leverage whereas the other jaw remains at the same dis taneo lanco all the time