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A basin wrench is a tool consisting of a shaft with a thing like a lobster claw on one end and a T-handle on the other end. They come in two flavors: one with a round shaft and the other with a square, telescoping shaft. The latter, with a pair of twelve-inch pipe wrenches clamped onto it to make a bigger handle, can be extremely, um, persuasive when dealing with 75-year-old tub fixtures.
I find it interesting that "torque" and "torture" come from the same Latin root. Fortunately the Geneva Convention does not apply to plumbing.
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Date: 2005-11-09 10:05 am (UTC)(Just thinking about my previous house, and the several dripp faucets here...)
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