Talk:Monkey wrench

"Where he still lives"
Charles Moncky died in 1956...blah punk

Merge
Should this page be merged with pipe wrench? I'm not aware of a difference between them, and neither article makes a clear distinction. dbenbenn | talk 23:12, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

New photo
I removed the picture of the "modern version" that was previously on this page. It was not of a monkey wrench, but of a pipe wrench. A monkey wrench has smooth jaws for gripping nuts. A pipe wrench (formerly a Stillson wrench) has teethed jaws designed to grip pipes in a single direction. When the direction of motion is reversed the grip is released. This is accomplished by attaching the handle to the lower jaw of the pipe wrench, while in a monkey wrench the handle is attached to the upper jaw. Eclecticology 03:47, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)

Also, there is a pivot where the lower jaw of a pipe wrench attaches so that it increases gripping force with applied handle force similar to a strap wrench. I don't think it should be merged as it is very different in function. [Guy:David|Headrick] | [:)

Cluedo
I've deleted the bit about Clue since in a lot of editions, including the original British Cluedo, it isn't a monkey wrench. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.189.141.36 (talk • contribs)

known as gas grips in the UK
Despite being born and bred here, I've never heard of anything being called gas grips in the UK. They're more usually just called wrenches, stillies ( = Stillson wrench) or sometimes known by size, i.e., the number of inches, such as an eighteen. Nuttyskin (talk) 02:05, 6 April 2019 (UTC)