Pipe Wrench Re-build

[Philbert]

Free, Rigid-style, pipe wrench at garage sale. Cleaned up nice!

Don’t laugh: the bent handle actually helps, if you are right handed! And it works with both metric and SAE pipes!

Hardest part was reinstalling the springs behind the jaws. After screwing around for half an hour, I looked on YouTube.

Slide a thin strip of metal to hold down the little spring when installing the big spring. My strip was salvaged from a hanging file folder.

Thought I would share that tip ‘in case you may know of someone in a similar situation’ (had to scroll through several videos to find one that knew something!).

Thanks YouTube (and garage sale folks)!



Philbert

 

[Seachaser]

Sometimes you need a dog leg. Good job!

 

[JohnnyBlade]

Hell ya, nice fix. I can actually say that I could of used that last week. Lol! Would of been helpful to get farther around the pipe fitting without the handle interfering.
As for your wrench, I'd bet there was a 4' cheater bar, 13 beers, no minutes left before 12, and lots of cuss words involved in sculpting that baby

 

[Philbert]

As for your wrench, I'd bet there was a 4' cheater bar, 13 beers, no minutes left before 12, and lots of cuss words involved in sculpting that baby

It IS a ‘lower than pro quality’ wrench. But it didn’t break!

Philbert