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Title: odd wrench, key or P shaped, marked U P - any ideas???
Post by: JPRI on May 26, 2014, 01:50:34 PM

Picked this up at a flea market yesterday.  Measures @7-1/2"L, and the socket is @5/8" square.  Marked only U P.  So what is it used for and who made it???

Title: Re: odd wrench, key or P shaped, marked U P - any ideas???
Post by: Carl Wagner on May 31, 2014, 03:43:11 PM

I've seen wrenches marked UPRR for Union Pacific Railroad. This one don't really fit a look of a railroad wrench though.

Title: Re: odd wrench, key or P shaped, marked U P - any ideas???
Post by: strik9 on May 31, 2014, 04:29:04 PM

  To me it resembles a handle to move the grates of a better wood burning stove.   

Title: Re: odd wrench, key or P shaped, marked U P - any ideas???
Post by: Bill Houghton on June 01, 2014, 01:10:58 PM

Clearly, made in Michigan's Upper Peninsula...

I'm with strik9 on the wood burning stove or similar appliance suggestion.

Title: Re: odd wrench, key or P shaped, marked U P - any ideas???
Post by: rusty on June 01, 2014, 01:36:03 PM

Are you sue it doesn't say DOWN on the other side?

Title: Re: odd wrench, key or P shaped, marked U P - any ideas???
Post by: Plyerman on June 02, 2014, 06:44:09 PM

Hehe

Title: Re: odd wrench, key or P shaped, marked U P - any ideas???
Post by: Chillylulu on June 02, 2014, 07:38:49 PM

It is actually a key to the executive restroom outhouse.

Thought it was up, but it was VP.           :grin:

Chilly

Title: Re: odd wrench, key or P shaped, marked U P - any ideas???
Post by: turnnut on June 02, 2014, 09:41:40 PM

I found mine today, it was on one of my tool boards, really pitted, but the
U P is clearly there.  mine looks crudely made, real old look to it.

Title: Re: odd wrench, key or P shaped, marked U P - any ideas???
Post by: oldgoaly on June 02, 2014, 11:59:10 PM

if you add all of this up you have a wrench for the coal stove and is also the key to the bathroom for a caboose on the UP railroad.

Title: Re: odd wrench, key or P shaped, marked U P - any ideas???
Post by: JPRI on June 03, 2014, 06:11:06 PM

Quote from: turnnut on June 02, 2014, 09:41:40 PM

I found mine today, it was on one of my tool boards, really pitted, but the
U P is clearly there.  mine looks crudely made, real old look to it.

Turnnut...post a pic of yours.

Title: Re: odd wrench, key or P shaped, marked U P - any ideas???
Post by: turnnut on June 04, 2014, 02:45:56 PM

JPRI,

THIS PICTURE DID NOT COME OUT TOO GOOD.

I am going to try to post the picture from my computor. if it works, I will try to follow up with a better picture.

posting pictures is a new challenge for me.