Pardon me as I sometimes forget the Universal aspect of Eng-tips.
BillPSU, sorry about that.
This is part of a US saying when one ends up with something
too short, like when you cut a pipe too short most of the time someone will make the comment that we need to get a "pipe stretcher".
daunay,
I should have made this a little statement a little clearer. The crowfoot wrench was used to operate a high pressure (10,000 psi) filter when the original operating mechanism failed. The filter had internal parts that had to be rotated to clean.