Wera Joker Combination Ratchet Spanner set Metric, 11pc, 05020013001

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High precision, bespoke manufacture of Wera Joker 6000 Combination Ratchet Spanners to customer specification.

Another Wera Joker set is probably even more innovative, useful adaptable and versatile: the self-setting (of the jaw-gap) variety: State of the art facilities specialising in both small batch prototyping and large scale manufacture. This ratcheting combination Joker Spanner features a return angle of just 30°, making the need to flip the tool over redundant. Meanwhile, the 6003 series has an even smaller (15-degree) return angle for use in very tight spaces, but no plate in the jaw, and a slim, angled ring with no ratchet. Wera actually does a bike-specific set of these that includes 8, 9, 10 and 13mm sizes plus a 15mm Joker pedal spanner. It's just that pretty much most other contributions from Cugel here regarding products, services or technologies that don't align with their own opinions and experience are run down and described (not without a small degree of pomposity) as some part of a global conspiracy by the advertising industry to fool everyone into parting with cash for stuff they don't need.It's just that, having read your post in its entirety, what started with the suggestion of having special faculties to discern quality products actually turned (eventually, and disappointingly) into "you have to buy it and try it, and I've been conned too" Suitable for driving Hex Head Screws , Hexagon Bolts and Hex Nuts , the Joker Combination Ratchet Spanner boasts an integrated limit stop to prevent slipping and allow for higher torque to be safely applied to the fastener.

Again, you could probably get away with just one or two at most for the nuts and bolts found on bicycles. Their great virtues are: their self-setting on nuts of any size within their self-adjusting range: their ability to act as ratcheting spanners with no need to take the spanner off the nut to get it into position for the next turn.Ratchet Spanners in this range are available in open end spanner sizes starting from 8mm up to 19mm. With Wera’s “Take it easy" Tool Finder, each spanner is colour coded according to its size for fast and simple tool selection.

I know this, they're excellent from what I've seen and read. I'm not averse to a lovely tool, although for my workshop, I've gone down the blue route. There's definitely space in there though for some Wera stuff.

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By the way, if by "the blue route" you mean Park Tools then .... you've been conned! Cheaply made and barely adequate stuff available for 1/3rd of the price elsewhere for the exact same thing without the blue coating. Of course, if that GCN use them ...... Many poor tools have conned me out of my hard-earned quids. These experiences increase one's sensitivity to spivery.

Though these aren't cheap, they are very well designed and made, and offer some really useful features that most rivals don't. For that reason – and because of how nice they are to use – I'd say the value was still good, but only if you really want to treat yourself (and your bike). Otherwise, there are very good alternatives you can get for less. Verdict Wera is constantly manufacturing innovative and top-of-the-line tools, so don't miss out on the newest developments that this leading brand has to offer. Browse our full range of Wera tools today and choose from bit sets, screwdrivers, ratchets, spanners, and wrenches.

As the installation space becomes increasingly tight during screwdriving, it remains necessary that tools enable users to work successfully. Narrow spaces require additional placement points of the tool, to allow screws to be accessed. A repeated 180° turn of the wrench around the longitudinal axis during screwdriving provides four placement possibilities, and bolts or screw heads can be taken every 15°. Despite appearances, even I yam just another bog-standard human: flawed to the core. However, even rotters like me can learn through experience, which does unfortunately have to include the "making mistakes" variety.