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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: chips on October 01, 2013, 03:06:26 PM

Title: Large socket wrenches
Post by: chips on October 01, 2013, 03:06:26 PM

I have 2 of them and they look identical.  Anyone know who made them & what they were for?

Title: Re: Large socket wrenches
Post by: skipskip on October 01, 2013, 03:18:19 PM

I'll go first.

Lug wrench?

Skip

Title: Re: Large socket wrenches
Post by: Nolatoolguy on October 01, 2013, 04:20:18 PM

As skipskip said they look like lug wrenches.

If you google double end lug wrench you will see them. All the ones I have saw are larger and for trucks. You slide your handle into the whole an turn. Some even have a stabilizer bar going to the ground.

Title: Re: Large socket wrenches
Post by: Billman49 on October 02, 2013, 07:00:37 AM

We call them wheel braces (or wheel nut sockets/spanners) in the UK - brace because the early one were just that, a steel brace wih a socket at the end - as cars got bigger, so did the wheel nuts and the brace didn't have enough leverage. Detachable 'tommy bars' allowed the tool to be kept in a tool roll. often issued as part of the car's tool-kit.