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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: skylab on December 05, 2011, 09:38:04 AM

Title: Todays finds
Post by: skylab on December 05, 2011, 09:38:04 AM
some cool stuff I found
Title: Re: Todays finds
Post by: Stoney on December 05, 2011, 09:59:06 AM
More details on the small wrench please.
Title: Re: Todays finds
Post by: skylab on December 05, 2011, 09:13:18 PM
here's some better pics of the small wrench.   It is about 4 inches long, no markings.
Title: Re: Todays finds
Post by: KeepinOldBolts on December 05, 2011, 10:54:24 PM
Sure looks like a bike wrench to me!
Title: Re: Todays finds
Post by: amecks on December 06, 2011, 09:39:56 AM
Most certainly a bicycle wrench, intended for carrying on tool pouch on bike.

Thorsen made some interesting tools but some of their items seemed to be low quality. I have some chisels that do not hold an edge very well. But I also have a set of 2 curved 3/8" socket (lateral or horizontal) extensions - they are about 4" long and are used to reach around obstacles. They can be used together to make a U or switched around to make a S shape, there's a lot of ways to use them alone or together and with regular extensions for hard to reach places. Makes a great tool for distributor timing bolts. Really useful, I don't know why they stopped making them or no one else has made them. Al.
Title: Re: Todays finds
Post by: Stoney on December 06, 2011, 06:44:38 PM
Skylab that one cool wrench.
Title: Re: Todays finds
Post by: rusty on December 06, 2011, 07:53:31 PM

The second wrench down has history: http://www.dvrbs.com/camden/CamdenNJ-WarrenWebster-Employees-1938.htm
Title: Re: Todays finds
Post by: bonneyman on December 06, 2011, 11:04:12 PM
Is that bicycle wrench steel? I've seen alot of those kinds of wrenches, but they've all been aluminum.
Title: Re: Todays finds
Post by: skylab on December 07, 2011, 09:46:21 PM
bike wrench is not steel.  It does appear to look that way.  Tested with magnet

what do you guys think the top wrench was for?

Thanks
Title: Re: Todays finds
Post by: Stoney on December 07, 2011, 11:16:49 PM
Skylab, it looks like a basin wrench my son, the plumber, uses.