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Offline chips

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Large socket wrenches
« 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?

Offline skipskip

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Re: Large socket wrenches
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2013, 03:18:19 PM »
I'll go first.

Lug wrench?

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Offline Nolatoolguy

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Re: Large socket wrenches
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Large socket wrenches
« Reply #3 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.