Customer Reviews

SEPTLS06925516 - 12-Point Flex Head Wrenches

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This is for the entire Armstrong Flex Chrome combo set, not just this size. The wrenches are very well made and the finish is excellent. The quality of the metal seems to be much nicer than the old set of flex head wrenches I own. The main reason I use this type wrench is for when I am using an impact wrench to take off a bolt and I am reaching behind whatever I am working on and want to hold the backside of the bolt or nut. They are excellent for holding the nut still and not going through like on a regular box end wrench as the bolt moves. That being said, these are put together with pins on the flex side and some of the heads are not very tight, and tend to flop around and not stay where you position them when you are trying to find the back side of a bolt behind a bulkhead, panel, or whatever. Also my major complaint with these wrenches and some Snap On brand that I own as well is that head is not fluted as deep as the old brand that I have owned for 20 or so years. As a result if you are using this wrench on the nut side to hold as you are loosening or tightening a bolt, you cannot have very many threads showing past the nut or it will push the wrench off. The heads of my old Truecraft wrenches are the same size as these, but the fluting goes about a 1/4 inch deeper into the head and that makes a lot of difference when dealing with the nut side of a through bolt. That is the main reason I give these wrenches 4 stars instead of 5.