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In this video I want to tell you an old interesting story and how it relates to a new interesting
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tool that's just come out. Back on September 17th 1929 a man named Edwin J Evans received
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a patent for a new kind of adjustable tool. Now at that time in history there was a lot
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of innovation in hand tools. There was all kinds of designs that were popular for a while
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and have disappeared and the the zip grip which is what Mr. Evans called his tool is
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one of those things that was popular and existed in times past but it was completely forgotten
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for a long time. The only thing we really had to find and work with was some original
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patent documents and the tool was probably produced for about a year or so so there's
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there's really very little evidence for the tool in in physical reality. The company went out of
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business about a year after getting this patent probably because of the Great Depression but the
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people at the Metmo tool company found the original patent documents were fascinated by
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the design so they've come up with the Metmo grip it's called which follows Mr. Evans design
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quite closely. It's manufactured from modern materials it's a it's a brand new tool made in
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brand new ways and it adjusts in a completely different way to most adjustable wrenches which
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work with a thumbwheel like this. Now there's nothing wrong with a thumbwheel adjustable wrench
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but this is kind of cool it's faster it adjusts more quickly it has a few additional uses that
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a regular adjustable wrench doesn't and you know it's one of those tools that's just so well made
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that you just kind of like to have it hold it and that's really one of the advantages is just a cool
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tool to have as well as being practical. So now as I explained the jaws open and close with this
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sliding mechanism there's the coarser threads here that actually do the moving and then there's the
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finer threads here that actually move the jaws and although you can adjust the jaws once they're
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adjusted the angle of the threads is such that the jaws not going to move anywhere it locks into
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position just kind of like this as well but a little faster and a little more interesting and
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in fact it actually grips it grips onto bolt heads more thoroughly and with more force than a regular
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adjustable wrench and that works quite well for for small and medium sized jobs. Now over here on
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this side of the tool we have cut out that does two things first of all if you want to get a little
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leverage on a screwdriving job well the angle is such that it'll grip the quarter inch shank
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standard screwdriver bits just fine so you can get some more leverage on it if you want to and
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if you find yourself getting thirsty and you want to open a soft drink bottle or a bottle of beer
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then these jaws will will do that for you just grip and pull up and it opens the bottle so one
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other thing too if you close the jaws completely the face is flat so it functions as a kind of a
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small hammer and it also be decent at pulling small nails too so let's take it around and try
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it out on a few things on some equipment I have around here on the property
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So all in all I'm pretty impressed with this especially with the heritage of it and how it
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traces back to an idea that's almost a hundred years old now high quality multi-purpose just
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to hold works well for multiple applications I'm actually going to be passing this wrench
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on to one of my sons he does a lot of bicycle riding and this will be a handy thing for him
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to have in his toolkit but all in all pretty impressive re-envisioning of a tool from yesteryear
