Talk:monkey wrench

I removed the picture that was previously on this page. It was not of a monkey wrench, but of a pipe wrench. A monkey wrench has smooth jaws for gripping nuts. A pipe wrench (formerly a Stillson wrench) has teethed jaws designed to grip pipes in a single direction. When the direction of motion is reversed the grip is released. Eclecticology 03:26, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Well if you are right, you had better tell Google Images to clean up their act! They have about 50 more just like it in there. Boy oh Boy are those guys dumb! Thanks for straigtening me out, E--and kindly replace the correct image that I had D/L as a gesture of agreement that you were in error.


 * My time is worth something to me, bud. I don't do this stuff to fool you or anyone else. When I put something there that is wrong, I will be the first to admit the error and change it. I am a man, and I can take correction. --HiFlyer 14:38, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * See the Wikipedia article. The actual "monkey wrench" is obsolete. Modern pipe wrenches are often incorrectly called monkey wrenches. It is not surprising that a Google image search would show many images of pipe wrenches in this case. Both usages probably merit inclusion here.--Srleffler 17:57, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Etymology
According to the Wikipedia article, the etymology given here is disputed. See http://www.davistownmuseum.org/bioBostonWrench.htm for info.--Srleffler 18:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)