Thread: One For the British to Interpret

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello All,

A link I found from the U.K about rebuilding Series 3 gear boxes mentions the following term .... "cranked" spanner?

so I will have to do a Pauline Hanson "Please explain?"...

Kind Regards
Lionel

Lionel.

I can't answer your inquiry technically, although I suspect that it is a ring spanner with a bend in it for clearance.

However, when I lived in a small town in the Riverina some years ago the term "spanner" was often applied to someone who didn't seem to be too bright.

Now without wanting to call down the wrath of the few people still burning a candle for One Nation, I might have thought of the flame headed one as a "cranky spanner"................

Cheers,

The cranked term does relate to a spanner with a larger than usual offset on it.

I don't recall using any special spanners when I just overhauled my gearbox, in fact I was amazed it worked

Originally Posted by jerryd

I don't recall using any special spanners when I just overhauled my gearbox, in fact I was amazed it worked

Hello Jerry D,

The article does give an option between using a "cranked" Whitworth spanner or a socket. Maybe you had a socket which fit. Just as long as it worked is the main thing. It falls into the line of there being more than one way to skin a cat.

Kind Regards
Lionel