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Sentence Examples Every competent mechanic should have a correctly calibrated torque wrench in their tool kit and should use it. The area, on the edge of the Dales, has much to commend it to Dr Hope, and the move from York should not prove too much of a wrench. Remove the hubcap, then loosen the lug nuts by turning the tire-iron wrench counterclockwise. They lay in wait for him on the York ring road, then rammed his car and attacked him with a monkey wrench. Make sure the jaws of the wrench or pliers are snug in position before you manipulate the handle, to avoid slippage or scraped knuckles. He went for the cylinder wrench, which he then used for the non-standard purpose of vigorously whanging the valve with strong overhand strokes. The first step in picking a lock is to insert the tension wrench into the keyhole and turn it in the same direction that you would turn the key. If your trucks feel too tight or too loose grab your wrench and adjust them by turning the nut on the kingpin. He's a wizard with a wrench though, and he always helps me out with repairs. Some nimble move by AMD or even IBM could throw another monkey wrench in the works. The move was a real wrench, and he feels guilty about it even though everyone has told him he has done the right thing. He ordered a loaf, watched as she slipped it into a bag, twisting the top with a wrench of her wrist. I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Jo steeled herself, and with an almighty wrench pulled her legs free of Morgan's vice-like grip. A sharp wrench to my shoulder and Jonathan forcibly pulling me to my feet shocked me. It's going to be a huge wrench for me and everyone who has been at the offices for years. It must be a big wrench for him and the supporters to have a home-bred player leave the club. This is going to be a huge wrench for me, but it is a huge challenge that I'm looking forward to. It will be a bit of a wrench to leave the house the family has had for so long. And with a sudden wrench inside of his heart, Ark realised that his friend was gone. Show More Sentences As she entered the garage she spotted Aouri kneeling beside Brigg's motorcycle, tightening something with a wrench. Put the nuts on the bolts and tighten them a bit with your fingers, then use a wrench and a screwdriver or Allen key to tighten them completely. Feeling the cold steel in his hand, Mario used the wrench to loosen the bolt underneath the sink in the main bathroom of his parents' apartment. Use either vise grips and a pair of pliers, or a pipe wrench and pliers to remove the old shower head. He pulled the tire wrench from behind the seat, and walked to the back of the truck. This is a very handy pair of pliers because it can be also used as a pipe wrench, adjustable wrench, wire cutter, ratchet, or a clamp. With a pedal wrench turn the shaft while holding the bike, pedal, and crank steady. An adjustable wrench works well to tighten up the hardware that holds the faucet in place. My idle hands proceeded to pound, wrench, twist, pry, and yank at anything I could get a hold on. Once the drain is correctly in position, tighten the locknut with a wrench. For this reason, experts recommend using a torque wrench to tighten lug nuts when changing a wheel. No one can throw a wrench into family values and the good old American dream quite like he can. Make sure they are tight by holding onto the washer with the wrench and use the screwdriver to turn the bolt. Rotors get warped due to several reasons most common being overtorquing or unevenly torquing the lug nuts with an impact wrench. Get a torque wrench, and use it on practice rocks to learn how tight is proper. In the process of doing so, I used my new torque wrench to tighten the bolts on the faceplate of my Thomson stem. But these days, with those delicate bolts on stems, seatposts and even crankbolts, investing in a good torque wrench is more than a luxury. Both systems are oversized, and I have always used a torque wrench on them. If you would choke up on your hex key to tighten a small bolt, choke up on the torque wrench the same way. Without warning, she felt the tremble of a sob wrench her body to the floor, hot tears pouring down her cheeks. Show More Sentences It also had a tremolo arm, which kept working its way loose, so I'd wrench it round another time, so that it would sit nicely in place. Today he described how he tried to fight off the carjackers as they battered him with a monkey wrench. The constable paused to grab a heavy monkey wrench and he put it back down and pulled out the far shorter regulation truncheon. In July, three masked robbers threatened security guards with a monkey wrench and a shotgun before stealing cash from the bank. He went for his victim with a monkey wrench, and was only stopped when a passing van driver saw what was happening. Two masked men dragged the insurance broker from his car and battered him on the head with a monkey wrench in an attempt to steal his car. Called a bobbejaan spanner in this country, it's referred to as a monkey wrench in other parts of the English-speaking world. They taught me how to work the wrench, the monkey wrench, so I kind of had to do a bit of training, to be honest with you. If you ask that one more time, I will have to bludgeon you with a monkey wrench. Last, but not least, what tool kit is not complete without a monkey wrench. Consider a multi-wrench for those all-purpose jobs, but also add a pipe wrench, a spud wrench, strap and chain wrench, and a monkey wrench. It wasn't a monkey wrench like the cops thought, but in fact it was a gasfitter's wrench and it was that long. Then he turned back to his motorcycle, while I wiped away my tears and retrieved his monkey wrench. They smashed the passenger window with a monkey wrench, hit the 53-year-old driver on the arm and grabbed the parcels from the back of the van. Ms. Power clearly stated that the wrench was to make the final twist and that the line assembly person would have to hear the click. Mike handed his uncle a large wrench and Adam got down onto the floor, and began to loosen the pipe under the sink. Finch is well on his way to the top until some unforeseen circumstances drive a wrench into his works. He is capable of bouncing back, compromising and moving on if there's a wrench in his plans. The tool also includes a means for rotating the cutting edge, usually using a brace or bit stock, a wrench, or a handle. Two masked men, one brandishing a sawn-off shotgun and the other a wrench, raided a village store. Show More Sentences You can reach just about any part with an ordinary socket wrench or screw-driver. To tighten the Orb sufficiently I used a small socket from my socket wrench, and simply tightened it as far as I could before my fingers slipped. The only tools required are a socket wrench with a long extension, a Phillips and regular screwdriver, and a hex key set. Yet, the breech plug is easily removed with a socket wrench when the lever is down. Cwery's bright blue eyes were shining with tears, giving Brayden's heart a good wrench. A wrench beside his face pertly pushed up the brim of his orange baseball cap. When we stopped at Asda we bunged him in a proper shopping trolley which he proceeded to try to wrench himself out of by the arms. Note that the separate wrench on the small vise is hexagonal and fitted onto a hexagonal nut for tightening the vice. First designated as No. B80 was a heavy duty 18-inch Stillson pattern pipe wrench. It took a 4-foot Stillson wrench with the two of you standing on a box out on the cinders, but you stopped the leak. I tossed the wrench in front of an oncoming car, and it ran over it, bending the handle. Since the receiver is aluminum it is possible to strip out the threads if you go overboard with the hex wrench. Hold the skate over the Allen wrench and place the stripped bolt directly on top of the Allen wrench, as centred on the hole as possible. He closes his eyes tightly and tries to wrench himself out of his precarious position. You will need a pipe wrench to disconnect the chrome fittings between the garbage disposal or the sink and the P-trap. To avoid damage to the water inlet valve or other connections, grasp the elbow with a pipe wrench and apply counterpressure. Disengagement of the motor drive shall permit the use of a wrench on the output shaft flats. Give a person a wrench, a hammer, and some duct tape, and you'd be surprised what can get fixed. In Avalonia this last period is ascribed to a rift or wrench regime. Violet shrieked, desperately trying to wrench her arm free from his grasp. Show More Sentences You absolutely must own a torque wrench if you're gonna use this. Even one minor glitch and the machine could wrench itself out of his control. Whenever they disassemble a police rifle for routine cleaning and inspection and then reassemble it, they like to use a torque wrench to tighten the guard screws consistently. It should also be noted that the base price of each Farm Wagon included whiffletrees, stay chains, wrench, neck yoke or tongue chains, but did not include a seat or a brake. Cray took the wrench and disappeared back under the front end. I hung over the side of the pulpit and saw that the bobstay chain was shackled to the end cap on the bowsprit, so I hunted up a wrench and another shackle. The torque that a fastener actually attains while using a torque wrench depends on the threads being lubricated in the same way that the manufacturer intended. Topography might be important in training the vocal skills of a second language or the motor skills of a repair technician who needs to use a torque wrench. There are also the traditional mil zourkhaneh, heavy Indian clubs with which musclemen do exercises that would wrench most people's arms from their sockets. I've yet to buy a torque wrench to properly tighten the bolt. People ask me what my favorite tool is and I say the torque wrench. Our first mistake inside the roof was to drop the monkey wrench. At worst, if it were a bolt missed by Ms. Santos, it would fall into line with her explanation that she did not intentionally fail to use her torque wrench on any bolt. You know, many people were so loyal to Dan, Peter and Tom, after having been on for over 20 years, that this throws a wrench in everybody's viewing habits. Fernandez, who lives in Edinburgh with his wife, Ximena, and one-year-old daughter, Judith, is not being diplomatic when he says that it will be a wrench to leave Livingston. Today's garbage disposers are efficient, safe, virtually trouble-free devices that anyone who knows how to use a screwdriver and wrench can install in a few hours. So it was quite a wrench to hear that he's been ill lately, hospitalized for a severe case of double pneumonia, plus a bacterial infection in his lungs and blood. There was more gut wrench when he left Liverpool for Real Sociedad in 1989, only to return to Merseyside with Tranmere as a player two years later. If all you have in your home is a broken screwdriver, a hammer without a handle, and one wrench you hope will happen to fit whatever bolt you encounter, you need some help. But he and his wife Hillary also face the wrench of leaving behind their three sons, Owen and Daniel, who are in university, and Benjamin, who is still in school. Show More Sentences He didn't bother to ask his brother if he used the wrench to conk him out. Presently he dropped his hammer, and fussed about for a moment with a tiny wrench. She grabbed the medallion and gave a sharp wrench, breaking the chain. They are only strong if precisely tightened with a torque wrench, but because most climbers do not use a torque wrench you should consider them all bad. The boy jumped up onto his bed with nimble movement, holding the insulation in his mouth while rummaging the pouch in his hand for a normal wrench. Hartford Armory has already solved this by offering a screw-in front sight available in different heights, with a special wrench for removal and installation. Either faucet can be installed with standard tools, although you may need a basin wrench to reach up to the nuts that hold the faucet to the underside of the sink. It was apparent that the worker had used a Stillson wrench in an attempt to free the blocked auger instead of a screwdriver, which was more commonly used. He sports a Vandyke beard and flashes a mischievous grin that gives him the look of a swashbuckler, though he's more adept with a torque wrench than a rapier. His two best moves are an ankle lace and a gut wrench, techniques to use after takedowns or on offensive restarts to turn an opponent's shoulders to the mat for bonus points. With an outward wrench of his elbows he simultaneously squeezes and warps the handle on the extinguisher, locking the valve open, and throws the canister at me. The dad-of-three had been beaten over a prolonged period with weapons including a monkey wrench. She said she saw her mum leave the house with a slash hook and a long monkey wrench and handed them to Pinder. I prefer to use the more standard 60-degree chamfers, so use a piloted countersink driven by a T-handle tap wrench. Worcester residents invented the monkey wrench and the steam organ, patented the first typewriter, and mass-produced shredded wheat. A basic emergency kit should include a flashlight, tyre gauge, a jack, wheel wrench and first aid kit. Factories were hiring anyone who could breathe and turn a wrench. Most likely it is the wrench of leaving so glittersome and jovial an estate, which the learned doctor had in mind. With a monkey wrench on the hexagonal part of the stuffing box unscrew the stuffing box from the body of the faucet. Did you ever stop to think whether or not you knew how a monkey wrench should be used? Show More Sentences Therefore, even if the author is a celebrity, something may throw a monkey wrench in an event's success. Early trips reported trouble that seemed to be fixed by using a wrench to apply repeated doses of percussive maintenance. Loring Coes invented the first monkey wrench and Russell Hawes created the first envelope folding machine. With the tank resting upside down on an old towel or blanket, use a spud wrench or a large pair of channel-type pliers to loosen the spud nut. With the tank upside down, pull or twist off the rubber spud washer and use a spud wrench to unscrew the large locking net from the flush valve. Make sure the bolt threads in without a feeling of looseness, and if there is any, don't try to muscle the bolt supertight with a wrench. What proof that some unlineal hand, some barbarism, without or within, shall not wrench the sceptre of democracy from our grasp? With a wrench, which threw his victim back upon the bed as though hurled from a height, he turned and sprang at us. A standard Allen wrench tightens the wedge lock clamping mechanism to user requirements. No tools are required with a regular door installation, just an Allen wrench which is included in the kit. It comes with its own Allen wrench, which fits into a part that juts out of the back. The unit is threaded together by hand and engaged with the half-turn of an Allen wrench. Some of the selections made great sense, notably the logical plier choice and the six-inch adjustable wrench. A simple wrench and hex key is all that is needed to properly align your heads. Some may fear that the FAR and DFARS will throw in a monkey wrench and slow the entire response to a snail's pace. Entered a garden shed in Ashington as a trespasser on Christmas Day and stole a pipe wrench, biscuit jointer and a can of paint. Detectives are still investigating a box that contained a hammer, a chisel and a pipe wrench. It's always darkest right before you get clobbered over the head with a pipe wrench. In various sizes and lengths, each polished chrome wrench has a ring spanner ratchet. Because of the universal bolt, the hangers install easily with a wrench, nut driver, slotted, Phillips or Robertson screwdriver. Show More Sentences Each pin can be precision adjusted with a hex wrench, without having to loosen and tighten any set screws. Elite's CineTension2 screen kit includes a bracket wrench, wall screws and bubble level for easy installation. Once you have it finger tight use the allen wrench to turn the screw some more. Insert 7-inch carriage bolts, add washers and nuts, and tighten with a wrench. Pourbox is now throwing a monkey wrench into the traditional way bars and beer gardens have operated for years. Finally they kneecap him with a monkey wrench and administer electric shocks as he begs for mercy. So Wilson becomes The Crimson Bolt, squeezed into a red costume and brandishing a monkey wrench with which he bashes the bad guys. But what about those who toil in their basements and garages all year perfecting double-and single-reed calls for us to wrench on and show off to our buddies each season? The locknut is tightened with a torque wrench to secure the barrel. Another girl knocked out her front tooth in the cubicle after tumbling head first on to the bog roll holder as she battled to wrench up her control pants. Be careful not to wrench your ankle walking along those loose stones! The plench produces sufficient torque to move a nut, but doesn't pass on torque to the astronaut. External torque to move socket wrench is produced by squeezing the handles. He invented the Stillson wrench, more commonly known as a pipe wrench. To unscrew the bell-shaped cover of a conventional tap, pad the jaws of a spanner or pipe wrench with a cloth to avoid damaging the surface of the tap. That makes him the chief monkey wrench in comics author theory. The girlfriend, who used a pipe wrench in the killing, also was executed. You never know when you or a buddy may need to do a little field gunsmithing and of course nobody has the right screwdriver, Allen wrench or Torx key. While the unit could be serviced easily with an Allen wrench, the D-slot prevents the body's door detail from being torn off if a power wrench is used accidentally. Illustrations for The Monkey Wrench Gang, a 1986 book about a fictional group of eco-warriors, appear alongside autobiographical strips done for The New Yorker. The Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator spits out choices like Wrench, Camp, and trout. Show More Sentences A 260-line program, which took other renumberers between two and four minutes to renumber, took the Monkey Wrench only eight seconds. Expect all the hits from Learn To Fly and Monkey Wrench to Best Of You. Moving inside the house, every household with oval pot metal valve handles found under sinks, lavatories and toilet bowls needs the Gordon Wrench. Examples from Classical Literature Abruptly she fell on her knees, caught his hand and kissed it before he could wrench it from her. Again, that wrenches of arbitrary amounts about two given screws compound into a wrench the locus of whose axis is a cylindroid. Oh, the wrench to the mother's heart at the thought of what she could foresee! Out of the shaft alley came Scraggs with a rush, tossing his wrench aside the better to climb the ladder. Even with the weight of the stuff, it was going to be a wrench to go back to single-breasted suits and plain white shirts. Then with a great wrench the cross was lifted into the socket prepared for it. The most popular form of pliers is the combination pattern shown beneath the socket wrench set. And between times I don't object to makin' myself as handy as a socket wrench. Cowalczk and Lehman fitted the pipe wrench to the gear on the valve, and turned it. Caton says if you can find the tool kit you may be able to get a wrench to use as a weapon. His underclothing separated from his flesh with a wrench which made him shiver. Such a wrench, such an upheaval as it had involved, could not but tell upon her immensely. I don't know whether it's the wrench at my heart or the strain on my wishbone. His eyes fell on a large wrench lying on a worktable, and he snatched it up and threw it with all his strength. An adroit twist and wrench and the yogi was free and running down the road. In one hand the youth held a phillips screw driver, in the other a six-inch crescent wrench. The Stillson pipe wrench is useful in turning studs, round rods, and pipes that cannot be turned by any other means. Cowalczk hit the shaft with the back of the pipe wrench, and it broke at the motor bearing. When he got to his office, he ordered a pot of coffee and made out a requisition for a pipe wrench. The chain is then placed over the sprockets and a leverage equal to any pipe wrench is secured. Show More Sentences But the stress of the whole strange seizure, wrench and renouncement had told on him mentally and physically. The alligator wrench is one of the handiest tools to have in a home or shop. A baddish wrench parting from de Robeck and Keyes with whom I have been close friends for so long. Scotty, under his breath, began heaping curses on himself as a bonehead, and tried to take it out on the wrench he was using. Remove one cap screw in the lowest position and insert the handle of the wrench through the screw hole into the hub. Saving a little wrench when we hauled the cot over the coaming of the deck-house door, the poor man was put to no pain. Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a wrench that dislodged a coping stone into the ditch. In the morning they were given a wrench with which they removed the cylinder head amid the gibes of a group of spectators. The removal of the Sanhedrin to Jamnia had been the first wrench. There was no dislocation, the doctors told her, but a very bad wrench. Our mailed step shall ascend their throne our gauntlet shall wrench the sceptre from their gripe. Then tighten the sealing nuts with the special Exide wrench. The wrench upon it had already pulled the bodkin from the wainscot. You'll have a head full of socket wrench if you mess with me again. She turned the key with a wrench, and the hasp shot from its place. S'pose that fellar should rise up, an' wrench off them bars! Another wrench and scoop sent the head and offal flying, and the empty fish slid across to Uncle Salters, who snorted fiercely. I'd wrench them off her fingers, if they ever menaced me,' he answered, brutally, when the door had closed after her. Dasinger was straightening up when he heard the thunk of the wrench. Then, of a sudden, with a twist and a wrench, the stranger loosed himself, and he of the scar found himself locked in a pair of arms that fairly made his ribs crack. Show More Sentences They hurled stones, wielded sticks and clubs and whips, administered slaps and clouts, and, when they touched him, were cunning to hurt with pinch and twist and wrench. I got quite cross with them after a bit, and told them what I thought of them, and then they gave the gimlet such an excruciating wrench that I woke up. The Fultons appear to be enjoying a nice and quite life devoid of spice that will all change when a monkey wrench is cast into the cogwheels of their mundane life. Even had I been able to wrench away the bars, it would have availed me nothing, since the aperture formed the segment of a circle whose chord was but a very few inches long. The orang-outang, troubled by some dream of the forests of his freedom, began to yell like a soul in purgatory, and to wrench madly at the bars of the cage. Wrench did not neglect sending the usual white parcels, which this time had black and drastic contents. Mr Lewis was a pupil at Beechen Cliff School, Bath, and Miss Wrench at Bath High School. The hape is behaving very strange, m'lady,' said Wrench, frostily. Find more words! 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