Friend of mine found this in an antique shop, on the floor, in Eastern Oregon. I wanted to see if the board could help guess what it could be and for what. Thanks.
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Friend of mine found this in an antique shop, on the floor, in Eastern Oregon. I wanted to see if the board could help guess what it could be and for what. Thanks.
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Looks like a homemade low-profile box end wrench, by what looks like saw cuts (or they burnt the hex out with a torch, hard to.see on my phone) in the corners. Nice work but it could have been used for a lot of things.
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Crudely made wrench, probably used for setting bolts in mining headframes. I'd name it Ralphie.
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Hmmm looks like a wrench, I have built a number of them myself, when I needed a bigger or thinner wrench than I had available.
+1Originally Posted by JSnover
I have made one that looks the same.
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so not a custom tool for a special farm implement? this is more a hand made on the job tool? and you think rafters, mining, maybe forest industry over say farming?
very cool info thank you
I can't think of farm equipment using a 3-31/2" nut which is what I got from the hand size. The flats to contact the nut seem to have too much variation to be factory as does the slenderness of the body.
[The Montana Gianni] Front sight and squeeze
Great!!
Looks like a wire wheel hub nut knock off wrench, to be used when changing wheels.
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Home-made on the fly wrench. Not worth much. And probably not that old. Looks like it was hogged out with an oxy cutting torch. Note the larger "burn in" hole at 9 and 11 o'clock. And
the drilled holes in the corners to know when to stop burning!
Great!! Thanks!
My friend who got this, she is more interested in the story, that is the value to her.
It may have been intended for fitting electric elements in water tanks. Those have been around a while now.
Hey I was just in that antique shop in Oregon and that fell out of my pocket on to the floor. I want it back. Seriously though, larger wrenches are being made all the time because of the price goes up as the size goes up. A single box end wrench that big from a manufacturer would cost you the better part of a hundred dollar bill. Pretty good torch work on it also ...or it could be from a small drill where the maker made a zillion holes to cut a line. In an case it takes a bit of skill to make one.
looks like a crude version of mine.
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Could the holes in the corners be there to reduce stress and stop cracks.
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For the nut on a wagon wheel axel
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you can see where they sawed across from one side to the other.
I'd guess a drill a saw blade some file work and probably a torch was involved.
it looks something like the wrench I made to fit the top bolt on my old international pick-up.
it cut the time to take the one bolt out down to 6 hrs.
only took me 2 to make the wrench.
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