Spanner clips

[ibrooks]

Folks - I'm on the hunt.

I have a set of spanners that are held together with a sort of spring clip. The clip looks like a tapered concertina if you will and it holds the spanners sort of like a stack of spoons if you get the picture. Now I like this idea as it doesn't take up much room in the drawer but it's easy to grab the set and take it to whatever you are working on. Given that the spanners just push between the convolutions and are held by the spring it would be fairly tolerant of different sizes/shapes of spanners.

Anyone know where I can get these clips?

The spanners are Kingcraft but I've no idea whether the clip came with them or a different set or on it's own or......

I have a similar shaped clip that's a two part affair with a hinge. When closed it looks like a tube and it's wider at the bottom to accomodate the wider spanners and tapers to the top as the handle/shaft of the spanners gets narrower. It has a leaf spring in the bottom to hold the spanners under a little tension when they are all in place. Not as versatile as the first sort but might do at a pinch if there is a cheap source......

Iain

 

[wristpin]

Have had and seen various clips like that but only as "original equipment" with sets of spanners - never as a stand alone accessory. Some of the roll cabinet makers sell angled "combs" to stick in the drawers but they take up a lot of space.

 

[ibrooks]

That's the problem - all the storage options seem to be aimed at laying your tools out all nice and pretty in a drawer. Fine if all your tools fit in the drawer with them and whilst "a place for everything and everything in it's place" is a nice idea it just doesn't work for me (or for a lot of people I know). I'd rather something that takes up less room but keeps related groups of tools together. That way I can grab the clip of imperial spanners and take them to the car. When I'm done a glance a the clip tells me they are all back in there and it just gets dropped back in the spanner drawer.

The guy who prompted me to start thinking about this again is making enquiries about getting some made but I'm not holding my breath. I suspect that even if he can find somewhere willing there will be a minimum order in the thousands and whilst I'd like half a dozen or so and would be prepared to increase that to help make a minimum I doubt it'll be a practical proposition.

Any idea what make of spanners came with the type I'm after? My clip is a distinctly "Clarke" yellow but I don't have any Clarke spanners of that sort of vintage. It came from my grandfather's workshop though so I don't know if he got it with some spanners that I've got now or from a tool stall somewhere or whatever.

Iain