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Offline PFSchaffner

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RICO
« on: August 26, 2015, 03:26:36 PM »
I think JimWrench mentioned one of these earlier this year (dismissing it as not old and probably a basin wrench?). Anyone have further opinions and/or info? Aside from the cast "RICO" name, its only marking, on the other side, is "SEMISTEEL" (which does suggest a little age to me??) This came in as a donation, along with a bunch of saw sets, the check-wire corn planter pliers, a few alligator wrenches, an Emerson farm-machine wrench, a nice 10" Coe's, a Stanley no.59 dowel jig, hog-ring pliers, a Gilchrist ice pick, some lasting pliers, and an assortment of W&B, etc. I.e., it had the look of coming from someone (perhaps as an estate-sale remnant) who accumulated interesting tools. We get a lot of estate-sale remnants, i.e. the stuff left unsold at the close of an estate sale.



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Re: RICO
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2015, 09:47:03 PM »
Plumber's spud nut wrench.  Go back a few decades to when sink drains, etc.   (the attached illustration from a toilet repair article in Jan 1941 Popular Science shows the spud nut on a toilet bowl where the tank was wall mounted )  were made of very thin lightweight usually nickel plated brass.  The large nuts on the fittings that connected those pipe sections were called spud nuts & this wrench fit them.
Have no clue as to company name that would abbreviate to RICO.