What Is the Purpose of an Open End "Angle" Wrench?

[Art Shapiro]

I'm always pleased to find a tool on the road, and doubly so if it's a primo brand such as Snap-On.

I just found a Snap-On V520B 5/8" open-end angle wrench, as their web site calls it. It looks like a typical open end wrench but with a more °extreme angle on the "jaw" portion - looks like about 45° rather than the typical 30°.

Can anyone explain why such an item exists? What purpose does it serve beyond that of the more familiar open end wrench?

[clare]

It allows you to get an open end wrench onto a bolt or nut you can not get onto with a standard-offset open end wrench.

[dpb]

Gee- ya think?????

[Micky]

Sometimes a bolt will be tightened 15° more than usual.

[Tekkie®]

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