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Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: jabberwoki on January 12, 2013, 09:01:33 PM

Title: A little Thorsen goodness
Post by: jabberwoki on January 12, 2013, 09:01:33 PM

Its a  88JNR detent locking flex head

Title: Re: A little Thorsen goodness
Post by: OilyRascal on January 12, 2013, 09:04:41 PM

Very nice, and not common.

Title: Re: A little Thorsen goodness
Post by: jabberwoki on January 12, 2013, 09:16:36 PM

So is Thorsen still around?

Title: Re: A little Thorsen goodness
Post by: rusty on January 12, 2013, 09:20:07 PM

http://www.thorsentoolco.com/

(Only the name remains tho, Olympia tool group bought them at one point, then went under (2007?)....
 

Title: Re: A little Thorsen goodness
Post by: crankshaftdan II on January 13, 2013, 09:31:36 AM

I thought that I saw a Thorsen branded tool either @ Ace hardware or Sear's???  Maybe some reserected the name from the Ashes-probably offshore operation like others??

Title: Re: A little Thorsen goodness
Post by: bonneyman on January 13, 2013, 10:10:47 AM

Quote from: OilyRascal on January 12, 2013, 09:04:41 PM

Very nice, and not common.

ditto
Never saw a Thorsen flex-head rat before.