noun General Slang

Smoke Wrench

· noun · construction

An oxy-acetylene cutting torch — when the actual wrench won't do it.

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A cutting torch, usually oxy-acetylene. Called a smoke wrench because when a bolt, bracket or piece of structural steel refuses to come apart with hand tools, you reach for fire instead. The 'wrench' is sarcasm — it's not unscrewing anything, it's just turning it into slag.

“Threads are completely seized — time for the smoke wrench.”
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Smoke Wrench In A Sentence

Threads are completely seized — time for the smoke wrench.

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Variants smokewrench

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