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Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: anglesmith on May 05, 2013, 06:33:12 PM

Title: Sidchrome Rachet on Ebay
Post by: anglesmith on May 05, 2013, 06:33:12 PM: How many ratchets could survive that abuse and still be (according to the seller "in very good used condition")!? Using an extention on a ratchet is beyond belief, has any one ever seen a ratchet with the handle that bent or even slightly bent?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/VINTAGE-SIDCHROME-RATCHET-1960s-RARE-CAR-WORKSHOP-/281101564411?pt=AU_ToolsHardwareLocks&hash=item4172f579fb
Graeme
Title: Re: Sidchrome Rachet on Ebay
Post by: rusty on May 05, 2013, 07:59:38 PM: Ouch!

I don't think it entirely survived tho, look closely, the cover plate screws don't match in color, the guts probably had to be replaced after ;P

Weird to bend the handle, usually the head explodes (do NOT ask how I know THAT ;P)
Title: Re: Sidchrome Rachet on Ebay
Post by: Papaw on May 05, 2013, 08:10:38 PM: Don't you guys know that is an "Obstruction" ratchet????????????
Title: Re: Sidchrome Rachet on Ebay
Post by: rusty on May 05, 2013, 08:35:32 PM: un huh

They used it to snap the obstruction off the top of the motor so they would have a clear shot with the box wrench.
Title: Re: Sidchrome Rachet on Ebay
Post by: anglesmith on May 05, 2013, 10:14:30 PM: Not sure I can come to terms with the fact that an Aussie "developed" the first obstruction ratchet!! I'll have to think about that for while. At least it's comforting to know that we weren't the first to try!
Graeme
Title: Re: Sidchrome Rachet on Ebay
Post by: Batz on May 05, 2013, 11:44:39 PM: Quote from: anglesmith on May 05, 2013, 10:14:30 PM
Not sure I can come to terms with the fact that an Aussie "developed" the first obstruction ratchet!! I'll have to think about that for while. At least it's comforting to know that we weren't the first to try!
Graeme

It's Vegemite Graeme, these blokes don't know it but we do.

Batz
Title: Re: Sidchrome Rachet on Ebay
Post by: Papaw on May 06, 2013, 12:17:51 AM: Oh yea?
Men at Work-
Quote
Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscle
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,

"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover." (Yeahhh!)
Title: Re: Sidchrome Rachet on Ebay
Post by: Batz on May 06, 2013, 01:45:28 AM: It was something we all ate before it was a song.

Of course there was this very embarrassing commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yA98MujNeM

Batz
Title: Re: Sidchrome Rachet on Ebay
Post by: Branson on May 06, 2013, 07:48:12 AM: Vegimite on toast -- yum!
Title: Re: Sidchrome Rachet on Ebay
Post by: HeelSpur on May 06, 2013, 06:25:26 PM: On my do not eat list, I gots to much potassium, guess I'm a missing out.
Title: Re: Sidchrome Rachet on Ebay
Post by: mrchuck on May 07, 2013, 10:35:47 AM: Well,,,, it is a 1/2" drive, short handle,,,,so someone most likely used a "cheater" bar on it,,, and the steel was not brittle.
A collectible? Absolutely not.