I am on ftb beyond, minecraft 1.10.2 with moving world and da'vinci's vessels added. When I right click a screen with a wrench it simply rotates in a similar fashion to other machines rather than becoming transparent or getting larger. I have tested with a variety of wrenches including the crescent hammer as recommended by one of the wikis. Thank you for any help.

Did you try the RFTools Smart Wrench?

Bless you, bless your mods, you are a god among men and we don't deserve you. I didn't know that wrench existed, it did exactly as it was supposed to. I'm sorry for taking some of your time and thank you for helping to automate my base.