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Hugh
we were also banned from using shifting spanners and when one remembers 
what they were like back then, along with the old stilsons its quite 
easy to see why, even though they were banned they were still part of 
the tools that we had to make in our first year some of which still sit 
in a box out in the shed . We were given a 1/2lb ballpane hammer and 
told that if we ever needed anything bigger that we were doing something 
wrong, don't know how they would have ever found any oil without the 
28Lb sledge and certainly never have worked on a Droxford overhaul
frank

On 11/10/2012 7:27 PM, HUGH wrote:
> Frank,
> The device is rather bulky. Another problem is that it can't be hit 
> with a hammer, as with any God-fearing, respectable spanner. Maybe 
> that's a feature of wrenches. I recall one BI Chief expressing hatred 
> of shifting spanners - "Not my my engine room!!", etc - but we had 
> one, kept it out of his gaze.
> Hugh.
>
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