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Offline Bad 31

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Brazil Wrench
« on: February 13, 2017, 07:51:27 AM »
Is this one of the SK economy line tools or just a foreign import? If it's SK, how rare are they to find? 
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Offline kwoswalt99

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Re: Brazil Wrench
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2017, 02:53:15 PM »
What's it say on the other side? Looks like an import to me.
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Offline skipskip

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Re: Brazil Wrench
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2017, 04:23:39 PM »
I think Brazil would have been a raised panel like this one, made by Lectrolite.

I just dont know if this is one of those
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Re: Brazil Wrench
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2017, 04:39:58 PM »
This has the raised panels on the sides. The other side says " Drop Forged Steel".
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Offline bill300d

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Re: Brazil Wrench
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2017, 05:54:46 PM »
It looks alot like a Lectrolite of the same era, and They made S-K wrenches, so that may very well be the real McCoy.
If not its a very good replica.
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Offline Chillylulu

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Re: Brazil Wrench
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2017, 09:34:01 AM »
Brazil was an S-K brand.  Marketed to the homeowner crowd.

It is domestic.

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Re: Brazil Wrench
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2017, 10:40:56 PM »
Well, I found a second one yesterday. The 1st was 5/8" and the second is 1/2".
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Offline Yadda

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Re: Brazil Wrench
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2017, 05:32:18 AM »
Quote from: Bad 31 on February 15, 2017, 10:40:56 PM
Well, I found a second one yesterday. The 1st was 5/8" and the second is 1/2".

Different size, Good!  Now you have the start of a collection.
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Offline amecks

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Re: Brazil Wrench
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2017, 08:07:59 AM »
If I found one at a flea market I would pass it by thinking it was Made in Brazil and just another import.  Why did S-K pick Brazil for the name of a wrench series?
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Re: Brazil Wrench
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2017, 09:49:41 AM »
Per AA, "By 1928 Sherman-Klove had established a Brazil Stamping Company subsidiary, which presumably would have manufactured tool boxes and other articles made by stamping. The "Brazil" part of the name probably derives from a Brazil Motors vehicle maker in nearby Brazil, Indiana, which at one time had a stamping plant in Chicago. A later catalog for "Brazil Tools" lists the address for the Brazil Stamping Division as 4715 South Central Park Avenue in Chicago."
I'm still not sure mine are SK or imports. I can't find definitive information on the wrench manufacturing.
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Offline Chillylulu

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Re: Brazil Wrench
« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2017, 03:18:04 PM »
Thats an S-K wrench.

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Re: Brazil Wrench
« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2017, 05:01:13 PM »
The only "SK" Brazil I have is a tool box very similar to  SK, but crackle brown paint

DSCF3171 by Skip Albright, on Flickr

and all the wrenches I have that are made in the country of Brazil, are spelled Brasil

DSCF3178 by Skip Albright, on Flickr
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Re: Brazil Wrench
« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2017, 07:19:58 PM »
Thanks Skip. I really like the tool box!
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