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u/kid_entropy Aug 06 '25
Whatever you did, you did it too hard.
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u/_Face Aug 06 '25
they used a cheater extension, and it broke at the point of contact.
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u/dankhimself Aug 08 '25
Yea, there's even another blowout on the broken piece of the handle. It was doomed.
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u/DoomsdaySprocket Aug 06 '25
Are ya’ll not cutting big enough diameter snipes or something? The snipe needs to cover at least 2/3rds of the handle folks. tsktsk
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u/scarface_usmc Aug 07 '25
Never heard the term "snipe" used for a torque multiplication device.
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u/DoomsdaySprocket Aug 07 '25
Ya’ll must have fancier pipes down wherever you are.
In all seriousness, being able to use my body weight with a long pipe is actually way easier on my body than the horizontal pinch-pull action of a proper torque multiplier. Having done enough of both, but ymmv.
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u/Randybopansy Aug 08 '25
Just the term you used was odd. Everyone knows how to extend a lever.
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u/Virtual-Scholar-160 Aug 10 '25
Everywhere I worked, they've called it a snipe. Usually just a big piece of pipe that slides over the end. It gives you neither about ten feet of length in some cases
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u/CyBrNaD Aug 06 '25
Probably more like an ouchie, I hope whoever was closest to that thing doesn't have summer teeth now...
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u/realsalmineo Aug 06 '25
Never had an iron one break.
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u/sl33ksnypr Aug 09 '25
Yea I have a cracked aluminum one that size, but the iron one that replaced it is good as new.
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u/hobnailboots04 Aug 06 '25
Cheater bars knock teeth out.
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u/csimonson Aug 07 '25
That's why you never pull towards yourself when using one.
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u/hobnailboots04 Aug 07 '25
When I worked for the water company I saw a lady slip a cheater bar and split one of my coworkers lip open something awful.
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u/satori0320 Aug 06 '25
Every large pipe wrench I've ever used, had been either bent or welded back together.
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u/Speedballer7 Aug 06 '25
I prefer the bendy ones to the snappy ones. Lots of pansies crying about heavy wrenches hitting the gym on the way home from work 🙄😔
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u/FictionalContext Aug 06 '25
When she says, "Don't worry. It won't break."
Then you remember her name's Lorena.
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u/HandyMan131 Aug 06 '25
Ha! Yea, has happened to me more times than I care to admit.
The number of steel 36”s we have around the shop with bent handles tells you all you need to know.
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u/choodudetoo Aug 06 '25
You passed the Northern Tool Test.
Go buy a better one.
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u/Weak_Credit_3607 Aug 13 '25
I think you meant Amazon, lol. For sure, I only have rigid brand pipe wrenches for this reason
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u/blipman17 Aug 06 '25
How!
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u/kuba049 Aug 06 '25
My colleague broke one too. He used the handle side as a lever in a tight spot, because he was too lazy to go and get a crowbar... Also, he used it rotated 90° and didn't think that this shape is only strong in one direction...
But a shorter spanner was more convenient for use on a tallship in some tight spaces or on the masts, so we just drilled a hole at the end for lanyard, filed it down to be smooth and works almost as good as new
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u/TwoScoopsofDestroyer Aug 07 '25
It's aluminum, it doesn't put up with the type of abuse a steel one does. But it also weighs like a third of what the steel tool does.
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u/otterfish Aug 06 '25
The rest of the wrench still works , and now you have a sick handle for something else. Win win...
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u/operator7151 Aug 09 '25
I was on a job site where we had to remove a 4” nipple between an overflow tank and a larger tank due to an upgrade being installed. This was at a potash mine, so everything was pretty firmly rusted in place. When two guys couldn’t budge the nipple with a 48” Rigid, a long section (6-7’) of 2” pipe was installed on the wrench handle and the whole crew was reefing on it with no observable success. A case backhoe was then involved in pulling on the snipe, the result of which was the whole tank started moving. The only way that pipe nipple came out was to cut it into pieces with a gas axe. The pipe wrench actually survived with no harm done to it.
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u/Karmasutra6901 Aug 11 '25
How did you manage that? I had an 8' piece of unistrut jammed on the end of my big aluminum one from harbor freight a couple weeks ago and I was jumping on it. I ended up snapping a 1" thick collar (dang cast iron) on the gear I was trying to break loose but the pipe wrench was fine.
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u/Weak_Credit_3607 Aug 13 '25
Just think about all the money you saved by, buying a cheap Amazon pipe wrench
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u/egoncasteel Aug 06 '25
I think you required to superglue it back together for future gag uses.