<VV> The Filter nut wrench

[Smitty]

I guess there is something wrong with me .  I recognized about the second 
time I had to remove the filter nut from a carb that it probably wasn't 
going to be the last.  Checking on the price of a "Bonny" wrench at the tool 
store, (another trade mark) I decided I didn't want to spend that kind of 
money.  I laid out the shape of a one inch open end on 1/4 boiler plate. 
Then realizing it was the same size as the PG modulator it would have to be 
thinner for there, so I switched to 3/16 plate.  Figuring I'd like to have 
one in my traveling tool box too I laid out a second one.  5 minutes with a 
cutting torch and a half hour with a grinder and file netted two wrenches 
that have served me for over 30 years.
Had a Shop Chief once whose favorite rant was about Channel locks and 
Crescent wrenches.  He'd turn all red in the face and yell, you show me one 
place in the aircraft manual where it calls for a crescent wrench or channel 
locks and I'll put one of each in everybody's tool box.  Otherwise I'll hang 
any Blankety blank, blank I see with one in his hand.  Later in the cruise 
the crew was on liberty in Naples and walking down the street we passed an 
industrial tools shop.  Hanging in the window was a 24 inch crescent type 
wrench.  One of the guys said, are you thinking what I'm thinking?  We 
pooled our money and bought it.  On the Chief's birthday we presented it to 
him.  He hung it up in the shop and said, that't the only &^##%$ Adjustable 
wrench that will ever enter my shop.