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A lug wrench, also colloquially known as a tire iron, is the name for a type of socket wrench used to loosen and tighten lug nuts on automobile wheels. In the United Kingdom and Australia, it is commonly known as a wheel brace .
Sarah "Sasoun" Guyard-Guillot (French pronunciation: [sa.ʁa sa.sun ɡi.jaʁ.ɡi.jo]; September 12, 1981 – June 29, 2013) was a French acrobat and aerialist who fell to her death during a performance of the Cirque du Soleil show Kà at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 29, 2013.
Soon after, the company expanded to include wheel truing stands, then expanded further into consumer wrenches and gauges. By the early 1980s, Hawkins and Engstrom were perennial top ten Schwinn dealers with three stores but sold their bicycle shops to focus their efforts on the tool business. Today, both Art Engstrom and Howard Hawkins are retired.
The term wrench is generally used for tools that turn non-fastening devices (e.g. tap wrench and pipe wrench), or may be used for a monkey wrench—an adjustable pipe wrench. [1] In North American English, wrench is the standard term. The most common shapes are called open-end wrench and box-end wrench.
Earlie Harris' son was driving her to work on Interstate 65 when a wrench randomly blasted through the windshield, ultimately killing her on Aug. 8, WSFA reported.
Millers Falls Company in 1910. Millers Falls Co. is a tool manufacturing company originally based in Millers Falls, Massachusetts. It was established in Greenfield, Massachusetts in 1868 as Gunn & Amidon [1] by Levi J. Gunn and Charles H. Amidon. [2] Gunn and Amidon, along with a third partner, Henry L. Pratt built a factory in the north of ...
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[1] [5] A wheel would conveniently fall off an airplane. Ingle would strap a spare wheel on her back and rendezvous with the "stricken" plane. In mid-air, she would climb to the top of the upper wing of the second plane and transfer to the bottom wing of the plane in distress. She would then climb down to the landing gear and install the wheel.