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Beautiful Tools: Wiha's Insulated Wrenches

By Rain Noe - December 8, 2021

in Tools & Craft

You could argue there isn't much design to these, but I find Wiha's line of insulated wrenches simply beautiful as objects. Sized for imperial or metric, they've got open-end wrenches in both stubby and regular lengths, the former for working on underground lines:

Ratchet wrenches:

Deep offset wrenches:

And insulated adjustable wrenches, which do have some design to them: Because there's no way to insulate the moving jaws, they've shaped a hilt into the handle, to encourage the user to keep their fingers behind them while turning them.

They almost make me wish I was an electrician, so I'd have an excuse to handle these.

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Wiha's 26-in-1 is my favorite screw driver of all time, great design

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