Bostitch Adjustable Found Today

[Wrenchmensch]

Out on the trail today, hunting unusual wrenches, I came across this unusually configured 8-inch Bostitch adjustable. The handle has an unusually shaped hang hole, the handle has 3 notches on one side and 1 on the other side, and the jaw has instructions regarding which side to use when loosening or tightening.  Jaw openings are indicated both in fractional inch sizes and mm sizes. One jaw face is pinned in. 

This is a special purpose tool, I just don't know what it is.  Does anyone know?

[rusty]

I think Stanley tried to turn Bostich into their alter ego tool brand, I have seen some really odd things branded Bostich....

Not sure that there is a special use, might just be an oddball style thing....The designers get odd out in the lonely woods down there...

[Wrenchmensch]

Rusty,

Try this site for answer to what this thing is:

http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Bostitch-99-079-Ratcheting-Adjustable/dp/B004X9CV9M

[rusty]

Ahh...I didn't notice the notched jaw.

Yup...the designers are getting *really* strange down there....;P

Wear yer knuckle protectors using that thing ...

[Wrenchmensch]

Rusty,

I won't be using it. It's already been tossed into one of the Rubbermaid tubs.

Update to Rusty:

This wrench's execution was stayed.  I hung it up as an another example of mediocre wrench design. 

[Bill Houghton]

This wrench's execution was stayed.  I hung it up as an another example of mediocre wrench design.

That must be a big, big wall, to accommodate all the mediocre designs out there.

[Wrenchmensch]

Bill:

The walls are distinctly finite in size.  I tend not to pick up wrench mediocrities unless they were made 100 or more years ago.  This one was an exception.  Upon further reflection, it probably does not come up to even mediocre status.

[Bill Houghton]

Bill:

The walls are distinctly finite in size.  I tend not to pick up wrench mediocrities unless they were made 100 or more years ago.  This one was an exception.  Upon further reflection, it probably does not come up to even mediocre status.

I am reminded of the question I asked once about the "Warranted Superior" medallions you find on a lot of handsaws: whether there was another line of saws out there with "Warranted Mediocre" medallions.  Apparently the "Warranted Superior" saw works was located in Lake Wobegon, though: that's the only non-brand-name medallions to be found.

[rusty]

"Where ann the children are above average, and all the saws are...uh...LOL