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   roc | Jan 21, 2012 12:46am | #1

   Bending works

    You will sure as heck have to heat it dull red unless this is a sheet metal stamped out wrench and even then.  Keep the business end of the wrench cold/cool even if you have to wrap it with a wet rag.  They make wet putty for this sort of thing as well.  Probably just gripping it in the vise while you heat it would keep it cool if you work quickly.

   I am shocked that you can not find an off set wrench that size.

   You might try pawn shops and second hand tool stores.

   You could file or grind an inch size to fit the 16 mm if you can find an inch size off set wrench.

   And finally . . .

   Doesn't the manufacturer of the lift have a solution for this problem ?

   If not give 'em heck for me.

   PS: here is a very long shot . . . Var bicycle and motorcycle tool company used to make an off set "cone" wrench.  See attached file.  Maybe if you find a bicycle shop that has been in business since the 70's early 80's they might have an old one to sell you.  I have them but am not selling.

   See attached pdf

   
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   JerryPacMan | Jan 21, 2012 09:57am | #2

   I have a 1617 Bosch and I use the supplied 16mm wrench for the shaft.  The collet nut is 24mm and the WoodRiver 15/16" offset wrench will work on the Bosch.  

   http://www.woodcraft.com/PRODUCT/2083100/33088/WOODRIVER-1516-OFFSET-ROUTER-COLLET-WRENCH-FOR-BOSCH-MAKITA-AND-214HP-TRITON-ROUTERS.ASPX?refcode=10INGOPB&gclid=CN2Yw8ut4a0CFYcKKgodnTsPXw

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   architeuthus77 | Dec 22, 2012 11:15am | #5

   Have same problem

   The 16mm offset is needed for the shaft since that is what remains below the table surface when the router is lifted. The collet nut is accessible with the supplied wrench.

   I contacted Bosch to see if they had a wrench. Still waiting to hear.

   The remaining solutions are to make one or modify a straight open end wrench unless someone has come up with another one since this thread started.

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   lchien | Feb 16, 2014 05:26pm | #6

   Me too but i found one

   Peachtree #2883 16mm offset wrench for Bosch

   not cheap at $15 plus $8 shipping but if you need one...

   I got a Jessem router raiser and now I can do everything pretty much from the top but I have to raise the router way up to get the smaller wrench -or - snake the small wrench unde r the table which is what I was trying to get away from. on so this solves a problem that apparently you and the others have in common with me.

   I ordered one after searching for quite a while - led me here at one point but no joy so I'll share the source. Haven't got mine yet but I think it will resolve the problem.

   
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   Troy | Jan 21, 2012 09:31pm | #3

   offset wrenches

   Try your local Snap-on distributor they have just about any size or shape wrench you can imagine.

   Good luck

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   roc | Jan 21, 2012 11:27pm | #4

   That Seems to be a Sad Story

   Troy,

   That was the first place I went to verify that this sort of wrench is hard to come by.  Snap-on does not seem to carry a line of wrenches like this.  They have box off sets but not open end.  The iron worker's wrench is about the closest but I , perhaps  naively , assumed they wouldn't have a seventeen mm on the thin side.

   :    )

   I looked on line and I have an iPad App from Snap-on.

   nuit'in

   Snap-on seems to have taken a machete to their line of tools.  They no longer carry the line of FINE Knipex tools.  I am going to Amazon to by more of those the last three times !

   Sad.

   Effects of the economy nonsense I suppose .  They seem to have dropped the open end wrenches with the one way hook thing to.  I can't remember what they called it without looking it up.  Just when I really need to buy a few of those.  I could use a 10 mm every day now at work.  I can't even get a box end "Gear Wrench TM" without the ratchet switch in there.  Only a plane old open end.