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Black & Decker AAW100 8-Inch Auto Wrench Adjusting Wrench | 
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| Brand: Black & Decker
List Price: $51.19
Buy New: $27.39
You Save: $23.80 (46%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  137 reviews
Sales Rank: 1402
Color: ORANGE
Media: Tools & Hardware
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 12.5 x 5 x 2
Warranty: 1
MPN: AAW100
Model: AAW100
UPC: 028877562889
EAN: 0028877562889
ASIN: B000EGM1ZM
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| Features:
| • | 8-inch automatic adjustable wrench, autowrench | | • | Automatically adjusts to any size nut or bolt up to 1-1/4-inch at touch of button | | • | Professional heat-treated hardened steel provides 220 foot-pounds of torque | | • | Includes wrench and 2 AAA batteries | | • | 8-inches long; 1.3 pounds; 2-year warranty |
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Product Description
When you find yourself in a tight spot, trying to tighten a hard-to-reach nut, this Black & Decker 8" Automatic Adjustable Wrench will save the day. Powered by 2 AAA batteries, the AAW100 helps you get a grip in cirumstances where you normally couldn't. What a helpful home maintenance tool! Battery Life - 650 Cycles Black & Decker 2 Year Warranty
Product Description from Amazon.com
Manually adjusting a wrench to fit particular nuts and bolts can be a real hassle, especially in tight spaces. Enter Black & Decker's battery-powered Auto Wrench, a phenomenally handy tool that opens and closes with the push of a button. Boasting 220 foot-pounds of torque, this wrench is powerful enough to handle most household tasks, from car repair to fixing leaks.The Auto Wrench is not meant to replace specialty tools like pipe or torque wrenches, however the jaws open wide enough (up to 1-1/4-inch) so that it could conceivably replace a range of manual wrenches sitting in your toolkit. This is an ideal product for someone looking to buy a wrench that's both easy to use and versatile. At 8-inches, you could toss it in the silverware drawer and whip it out when you need it. The area where this wrench really shines is in hard-to-reach spots where mobility is obscured, such as under sinks. A typical situation where the Auto Wrench would help might be one in which you're awkwardly reaching for a nut underneath the kitchen faucet. With a comparable manual wrench, it's conceivable you would fumble around with the adjusting mechanism for minutes on end, then toss a fit. With the Auto Wrench, you'd simply press a button (positioned where you rest your thumb) and the jaws would open or close to your specifications. We were a bit skeptical when we learned the Auto Wrench takes AA batteries and doesn't include a rechargeable battery. This means you'll need to keep some extra batteries around the house - or buy some rechargeable batteries -- if you use it frequently. However, the wrench isn't a power hog by any means. Black & Decker says you can get 650 cycles out of two AA batteries, which should be plenty for most people. What's in the box
Wrench, AA batteries The Black & Decker Story
Two young entrepreneurs, S. Duncan Black and Alonzo G. Decker, founded a small machine shop in Baltimore, Maryland. They called it The Black & Decker Manufacturing Company. Their shop has grown beyond anything they could have imagined. Today, Black & Decker is a global marketer and manufacturer of quality products used in and around the home and for commercial applications. It is also a major supplier of information systems and services to government and commercial client's world-wide. With products marketed in over 100 countries and approximately half of its revenues from outside the United States, Black & Decker's product lines hold leading market share positions in their industries. The company is the world's largest producer of power tools and accessories. Its household products business is the U.S. leader and among global competitors in the small household appliance industry
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| Customer Reviews: Read 132 more reviews...
 They must have some geniuses working at Black and Decker! June 22, 2006
62 out of 71 found this review helpful
This is the best new tool to come along in twenty years. What a great idea and excellent implementation of it. This is the coolest crescent wrench I have ever seen. It makes it so easy to work on projects where you have different size nuts to tighten and especially when working where space is limited. The electric adjustment on the wrench is amazingly quick. I mean you hit the switch and it's snug up against the nut ready for you to start turning. This wrench is not fragile either. It can apply as much torque as a regular crescent wrench. It is amazing that it is not that much bigger than a regular wrench. It will fit in all thoses tight nooks and crannies where sometimes you need to get a wrench into. Amazon doesn't have any in stock yet so I found mine at Lowes Hardware. The Thornton Colorado store sold their whole display in one day. I drove up to the Longmont Lowes to get one and it was well worth it. GREAT TOOL!
The Gift for the Tool Hound that has Everything December 6, 2007
18 out of 22 found this review helpful
I purchased this for my father, a "toolhound", who has every old-timey tool on earth. Originally I sort of purchased it as a gag, however when I got in the mail and tested it out after opening, I was actually impressed.
First of all, this thing is huge. You can use it to tighten relatively big bolts. (There are measurement marks carved on the jaws of the wrench and it shows that it can accomodate a bolt head 1.25 inches wide.)
Second, the opening and closing is almost instantaneous. I thought it would be a lot slower. No. Instead, when you open it (by the press of a button) the wrench shoots open, when you close it, it slams closed.
It seems perfectly safe, as I put my finger in the "maw" of the device and closed it (just to see what it would do...) As soon as the jaws reached my finger, they stopped immediately -barely applying any pressure. So, if there are little kids around this is not likely to pinch anyone's fingers...
One thing I was thinking about after I purchased this was how useful it would be to someone who had problems with their hands. You really can see how you could easily wield the tool with one hand, with a limited range of motion.
I was pleasantly surprised by this product, think it makes a great Christmas gift!
very nice June 15, 2007
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
5 stars, works great. Much easier to get it to automatically size itself, won't pinch your fingers. Good design.
Glad I bought it. July 25, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Bought this product for my husband who is a carpenter. To my surprize he loves it!. Easy to work and does what it claims it would do.
An amazing wrench July 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was surprised at some of the negative comments about this wrench. First of all, it seems to me to be as effective as the equivalent manually adjustable "crescent" wrench -- with the emphasis on adjustable. There are some rare times when an adjustable wrench won't do and an exactly size open end wrench from a set of wrenches may be necessary. In those cases, this wrench won't do the trick any more than a manually adjustable crescent wrench will.
But lets talk of the 97.98% of cases where an adjustable open-end wrench is just what is wanted and needed. Here's one that adds something useful -- it adjusts wider and narrower at the touch of a button. Well, a spring-loaded momentary-on rocker switch, actually. Convenient for your thumb -- doesn't matter whether you're right-handed or left-handed -- there's this rocker switch. Press one end of the switch and the wrench width opens up. Press the other end and it closes up. It doesn't take much practice to get the hang of it, in an instant you can resize the wrench to fit your application.
My first use the other day involved replacing the fill-valve inside my toilet tank. Where I needed a wrench was to loosen the supply tube's hex nut -- you know the one, it holds the bottom end of the water supply tube to the shut-off valve that comes out of the wall below the tank. I also needed it to tighten the same nut when I installed the new tube. It did the job admirably. Yes, my old manually adjustable crescent wrench would have worked, however that takes a bit more effort to get the wrench jaws to the right diameter. With this battery-operated wrench, the adjustment was performed in an instant with the push of the rocker switch with my thumb, without trial and error.
I'll be using this wrench a lot in the future, no doubt about it.
Yes, the grip is a bit bulkier because of the rubber coated battery compartment that forms the grip on the handle, the handle is a bit wider than a manually adjustable wrench. But it was actually more comfortable for me, perhaps because I have fairly large hands. (I suspect that people with small hands might find a manually adjustable wrench with a slimmer handle better for them.)
Anyway, the other thing is, this is a fun wrench to use, too, a nice toy for people who do handy things. Well worth the $24 and change, I find.
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