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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Bad 31 on February 13, 2017, 07:51:27 AM

Title: Brazil Wrench
Post by: Bad 31 on February 13, 2017, 07:51:27 AM

Is this one of the SK economy line tools or just a foreign import? If it's SK, how rare are they to find?  (http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t74/SKI1019/Tools/SK%20Tools/IMAG1529_zpsstyeus3q.jpg) (http://s157.photobucket.com/user/SKI1019/media/Tools/SK%20Tools/IMAG1529_zpsstyeus3q.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Brazil Wrench
Post by: kwoswalt99 on February 13, 2017, 02:53:15 PM

What's it say on the other side? Looks like an import to me.

Title: Re: Brazil Wrench
Post by: skipskip on February 13, 2017, 04:23:39 PM

I think Brazil would have been a raised panel like this one, made by Lectrolite.

I just dont know if this is one of those

Title: Re: Brazil Wrench
Post by: Bad 31 on February 13, 2017, 04:39:58 PM

This has the raised panels on the sides. The other side says " Drop Forged Steel".

Title: Re: Brazil Wrench
Post by: bill300d on February 13, 2017, 05:54:46 PM

It looks alot like a Lectrolite of the same era, and They made S-K wrenches, so that may very well be the real McCoy.
If not its a very good replica.

Title: Re: Brazil Wrench
Post by: Chillylulu on February 15, 2017, 09:34:01 AM

Brazil was an S-K brand.  Marketed to the homeowner crowd.

It is domestic.

Chilly

Title: Re: Brazil Wrench
Post by: Bad 31 on February 15, 2017, 10:40:56 PM

Well, I found a second one yesterday. The 1st was 5/8" and the second is 1/2".

Title: Re: Brazil Wrench
Post by: Yadda on February 16, 2017, 05:32:18 AM

Quote from: Bad 31 on February 15, 2017, 10:40:56 PM

Well, I found a second one yesterday. The 1st was 5/8" and the second is 1/2".

Different size, Good!  Now you have the start of a collection.

Title: Re: Brazil Wrench
Post by: amecks on February 16, 2017, 08:07:59 AM

If I found one at a flea market I would pass it by thinking it was Made in Brazil and just another import.  Why did S-K pick Brazil for the name of a wrench series?
Al

Title: Re: Brazil Wrench
Post by: Bad 31 on February 16, 2017, 09:49:41 AM

Per AA, "By 1928 Sherman-Klove had established a Brazil Stamping Company subsidiary, which presumably would have manufactured tool boxes and other articles made by stamping. The "Brazil" part of the name probably derives from a Brazil Motors vehicle maker in nearby Brazil, Indiana, which at one time had a stamping plant in Chicago. A later catalog for "Brazil Tools" lists the address for the Brazil Stamping Division as 4715 South Central Park Avenue in Chicago."
I'm still not sure mine are SK or imports. I can't find definitive information on the wrench manufacturing.

Title: Re: Brazil Wrench
Post by: Chillylulu on February 16, 2017, 03:18:04 PM

Thats an S-K wrench.

Chilly

Title: Re: Brazil Wrench
Post by: skipskip on February 16, 2017, 05:01:13 PM

The only "SK" Brazil I have is a tool box very similar to  SK, but crackle brown paint

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/261/32560961390_e739f0ff00_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RBirq3)DSCF3171 (https://flic.kr/p/RBirq3) by Skip Albright (https://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/), on Flickr

and all the wrenches I have that are made in the country of Brazil, are spelled Brasil

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/631/32788177092_680606ea73_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RXnYJ9)DSCF3178 (https://flic.kr/p/RXnYJ9) by Skip Albright (https://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Brazil Wrench
Post by: Bad 31 on February 16, 2017, 07:19:58 PM

Thanks Skip. I really like the tool box!