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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: skipskip on April 11, 2020, 10:24:09 PM

Title: Riverside S.O.CO. T.wrench combi tool
Post by: skipskip on April 11, 2020, 10:24:09 PM

I know riverside is Ward's , but this one may not be from there

S. O. Co. T. has me fooled

any ideas?

Farm?

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Title: Re: Riverside S.O.CO. T.wrench combi tool
Post by: skipskip on April 11, 2020, 11:27:20 PM

Dan C is suggesting steam systems

 I thought maybe water like hydrant , but the holes are square , not 5 sided.

Title: Re: Riverside S.O.CO. T.wrench combi tool
Post by: amecks on April 12, 2020, 07:20:59 AM

I don't know what to make of the combination of Riverside and S.O.Co.T.
Maybe S.O. is Standard Oil Company of Texas? 

Title: Re: Riverside S.O.CO. T.wrench combi tool
Post by: Bill Houghton on April 12, 2020, 09:27:26 AM

Can't help on the wrench, but let's see the little clamp on vise, too!

Bill, with a bit of a clamp on vise jones

Title: Re: Riverside S.O.CO. T.wrench combi tool
Post by: Lostmind on April 12, 2020, 02:26:09 PM

And the rear hub puller. Is it Snap On?

Title: Re: Riverside S.O.CO. T.wrench combi tool
Post by: skipskip on April 13, 2020, 12:58:18 PM

clamp ons

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Title: Re: Riverside S.O.CO. T.wrench combi tool
Post by: skipskip on April 13, 2020, 12:59:42 PM

This one and all the hub pullers I have found say Blue Point,

 i assume its to avoid the lifetime snap on warranty

Title: Re: Riverside S.O.CO. T.wrench combi tool
Post by: lptools on April 13, 2020, 01:11:28 PM

Nice group of vises!!!

Title: Re: Riverside S.O.CO. T.wrench combi tool
Post by: mvwcnews on April 15, 2020, 11:58:57 AM

Don't know what the use was, but compare SoCo T / 186 which has the large open end, hammer and "pick" - I had thought they were to access and open the filler cap on underground fuel oil tanks. (The photo was "sniped" from a long ago eBay lot).

Title: Re: Riverside S.O.CO. T.wrench combi tool
Post by: skipskip on April 15, 2020, 12:19:21 PM

Hmm seems a good comparison

Title: Re: Riverside S.O.CO. T.wrench combi tool
Post by: mvwcnews on April 16, 2020, 12:32:17 AM

One more pointer to oil tank related  -- from various "google advanced book search" forays  it appears RIVERSIDE BOILER WORKS, Cambridge, Mass. was a steel tank manufacturer that got into the business of making oil tanks (both underground and "basement" ) for home heating systems -- several "snippet view only" hits in late 1920s, early 1930s. And a general "we are the largest steel tank manufacturer in New England" ad in a 1919 trade directory.

Title: Re: Riverside S.O.CO. T.wrench combi tool
Post by: amecks on April 16, 2020, 03:21:31 PM

Going with the oil tank theme, I punched in "oil tank wrench" on ebay.  4 results but only one with a big open end...so there is a similarity at least.  We may be on the right track.  link to listing https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-New-Haven-Cast-Iron-6-in-1-Oil-Tank-Cover-Wrench-Bung-Steampunk-Tool/264305976693?hash=item3d89dd2575%3Ag%3AKAUAAOSwT5xZSv0x&LH_ItemCondition=4 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-New-Haven-Cast-Iron-6-in-1-Oil-Tank-Cover-Wrench-Bung-Steampunk-Tool/264305976693?hash=item3d89dd2575%3Ag%3AKAUAAOSwT5xZSv0x&LH_ItemCondition=4)
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