I was on my way to an electrics job, when I was already halfway out from home and realized I’d forgotten my wrench. Since I was driving past my mom’s house, I just stopped by in there to see what I could find in her toolbox (an adjustable c-wrench shouldn’t be too hard to find). Instead of a normal c-wrench, I found this little 4” “stubby” wrench specifically designed for people with little hands. It was all I could find and at this point, I was running too behind schedule to stop at a hardware store without being late to the job, so I just took it and figured it would have to do in a pinch. Well, it turned out to work better than I thought even on lighting instruments that have been clamped to the same pipe since the Reagan years, even without the leverage you get from an 8” wrench! I’m in love with this wrench, and my mother may not get it back.
Anyways, to the point: I called Mom to find out where she got it so I could get my own (when I showed it to my housemate, who works more than I do as a theater electrician, she coveted it too). Mom said she got it “at BJ’s or Costco, I don’t remember which”. So I went to the websites of each, just to check. Found hand tools at Costco, although none of the stubby wrenches. So I checked BJ’s website. No obvious categories for hand tools, so I used their handy little online search for wrenches.
You see my confusion. So it looks like we’ll have to check BJ’s in person, because their web search, well, not so useful. Oh well.