Inventor Creates LED Wrenches
Gone, at last, are the days of bribing your best friend with pizza and beer to hold your flashlight as you tinker (or fumble) with a wrench in the dark recesses of your car. Grab yourself a set of Hi Beam-Light Wrenches and you can use one hand to hold the wrench and the light, leaving your other hand free to hold anything else — including your beer.
San Diego gearhead and inventor Clifford Wright has come up with the brilliant idea of adding LEDs to wrenches, creating a tool that lets you see that damn bolt tucked up behind the starter. It’s one of those simple solutions to a frustrating problem we wish we’d thought of.
Wright, like many of us, finds joy tinkering in the garage and is familiar with the encumbrance of providing light in tight spaces. Necessity led to inspiration while working under his 1985 Ferrari 308, and he thought someone ought to find a solution.
“Why can’t I,” he thought. And so he did.
Photo by Bossco International.
Lori on September 8th, 2009 5:50 pm
Why did it take so long for someone to invent these? Now that they are here…it seems to be a quite obvious answer (I wonder how many minutes my arm was frozen in the flashlight position).
RedHotFranchises on September 9th, 2009 12:48 am
Just about time! A very simple yet brilliant solution. Necessity is really the mother of invention. Find a solution to the hurdles of daily life or any industry ,and you have a new invention.
Angela Shupe on September 9th, 2009 6:53 am
Now THAT is a ‘bright’ idea. ;-) Really though, that is something I could use. I am surprised it took this long to come up with something like that.
tony gains on September 9th, 2009 6:57 am
looks good when do they go on sale
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