What Difference is there Between Spanners and Wrenches?
This question is something which is asked a lot by a lot of different people, even those who work with tools all the time, and there doesn’t seem to be a very satisfactory answer. Some people say that there is no difference; that the different names developed as a result of Americans calling it something different from the British, while others claim that the name difference is to differentiate between an adjustable spanner (meaning a wrench) and a set spanner…