Combination Spanner (18mm)

The set steps from 17 to 19 and leaves 18 out. That is a defensible choice for a set of that size, but it means a workshop equipped from the box will eventually be standing in front of an 18mm head with a 17 that will not go on and a 19 that turns uselessly around it.

It is worth buying before that happens rather than after. Which raises something dull that saves more time than any technique on this page: keep your spanners where you can see the sizes. A spanner roll, a rack, or a drawer with them laid out in order takes a few minutes to set up and returns that time within a week. Spanners in a heap all look identical from above, the numbers are stamped on the flat where you cannot see them, and the minutes spent digging through a pile for one size add up to a serious part of a working day. It is also how spanners go missing, because a tool that was never in a defined place is never noticed absent until it is needed.

For a hardware shop the same logic applies to stock: 18mm is a size that sells steadily precisely because sets omit it.

Eighteen millimetre heads are found on vehicle and machinery fixings, on imported plant and equipment, on pumps, compressors and generators, on agricultural machinery, and on structural and fabrication work.

The spanner is forged carbon steel, hardened and tempered, finished in satin matt chrome for corrosion protection.

Buyers are vehicle and motorcycle technicians, machinery and plant fitters, generator and pump engineers, agricultural workshops, fabricators, and hardware dealers who keep the gaps in the common sets.

Ask us on 94 77 111 8880 about 16 and 18 together, since the same set leaves out both, and we will price them as a pair. Island-wide delivery, trade quantities on request.