I can take a spanner off and move it to the next position just as quickly, if not quicker, than some one with one of those. There's also less chance of me slipping off and damaging something when moving the ratchet back.
Guys. You are all wrong :6:
First of all Bernie, there are NO teeth on the jaws. The jaws are totally flat and dead parallel, as parallel as any adjustable spanner.
Mike, for me speed isn't everything but I absolutely guarantee you that with these I would be at least 3 times quicker than you doing up a nut with an adjustable, probably 5 times in all honesty. That's not a comparison of how fast my hands work compared to yours, far from it. It's simply the way the tool works, that's all.
And as far as slipping off, these will act like an adjustable that if you feel are slipping then you can just squeeze the handles slightly more.
It came home to me last week when I had a really tight valve to undo out of a bath mixer, so tight it was untrue. Stuck my Irega's on them and I lent on them so much that I felt they were starting to slip and I would loose my knuckles. Then I stuck my new VB's on it. It was still tight but I'll tell you what not a hint of slipping. Stilsons or footprints would have chewed this valve to buggery, no doubt and I've undone enough fittings in my 25 years on the tools. Once I'd replaced the washer and put the valve back on, you wouldn't known a tool had ever come close to this valve, no teeth marks, no rounded corners, nothing.
