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Offline international3414

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help id S shape adjustable
« on: October 30, 2015, 07:57:47 PM »
found this hanging on a wall,after several others passed it off as just another S...different handle and odd name..at lease for me.
i could find nothing other than one that sold on worthpoint..
its a 10' made in newark,NJ
looks like U S & M CO





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Offline stanley62

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Re: help id S shape adjustable
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2015, 11:00:42 AM »
United Shoe and Machine company.
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Always looking for Stanley planes and parts, Mossberg and Plomb wrenches.

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Re: help id S shape adjustable
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2015, 12:14:03 PM »
Quote from: stanley62 on October 31, 2015, 11:00:42 AM
United Shoe and Machine company.

Were they in Newark NJ?
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Offline wvtools

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Re: help id S shape adjustable
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2015, 12:47:18 PM »
EAIA lists it as United Shoe Machinery Co. in Boston, MA.  All of their wrenches I have seen are marked USMC, and the ones I have seen are DOE or SOE.  I think this company is a different one.
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Offline international3414

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Re: help id S shape adjustable
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2015, 05:06:58 PM »
i did start looking for newark,NJ...but only found boston....maybe usmc started in nj....would this wrench be a casting,opposed to forged?
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Offline leg17

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Re: help id S shape adjustable
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2015, 08:30:09 PM »
Quote from: international3414 on October 31, 2015, 05:06:58 PM
...would this wrench be a casting,opposed to forged?

Look at the parting line and let us know the answer.
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Offline mvwcnews

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Re: help id S shape adjustable
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2015, 12:19:37 AM »
I've seen a couple of these U.S.M. ..adjustable "S" wrenches -- the ones I've seen were drop forged.  United Shoe Machinery was formed by merging all the shoe manufacture related machinery makers & eventually held a monopoly.  Although headquartered in Boston, the company had operations in several locations & also was incorporated in New Jersey.   I have not been able to verify that they owned a tool making operation in Newark, but they certainly were big enough to have done so.
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Offline Twertsy

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Re: help id S shape adjustable
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2015, 06:54:19 AM »
If you pull up the company in DATAMP, the patents for "tool" (grinder) related items list the address in Paterson, NJ.
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Offline international3414

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« Reply #8 on: November 03, 2015, 05:20:04 PM »
ok thanks...i have been watching some video on drop forging...not a fun job
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