I Found An Unusual Walden Worcester 1/4” drive set. Feel free to post your Walden tools here.

[four.cycle]

^ I've still never found the spinner but I know there's black ratchets out there and at least one or two black six-inch extensions. They are out there in unicorn territory, though. Did find a few unmarked black units recently. No clue.

 

[d42jeep]

I picked this set up off of eBay because I had never seen that style of all metal spinner in Walden before. I did a quick check of the available Walden catalogs and couldn’t find any info on the spinner. The handle pulls up and freewheels or snaps down and works like a normal spinner. It has a female drive end so it can be used as an extension. The set also came with three sockets for use with square nuts, which I’ve also never seen in Walden before.
-Don

I recently found an unusual 1/4” drive Walden extension so I dug out the set that I started the thread with. It always gets the odd items. It has the same number as the more common extensions but is shorter and much thinner. It appears to be cad plated
Here it is in the oddball Walden set.
While I had the Walden box open I made up this postwar chrome set with a variety of chrome extras. It would just be a user set as I doubt that it matches any catalog set.

 

[four.cycle]

wth? all those components are stamped Walden? oddball spinner, oddball extension, another oddball spinner, oddball flex extension?

 

[d42jeep]

Everything is indeed Walden.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

While I was going through some sets, I completed these FSN marked sets that were incomplete or that I had borrowed some pieces from. They joined the others in the Walden section of the basement.
-Don
Dark finish set with the new ratchet.

Cad plated set in unpainted box

Cad set in green box.

 

[bmwrd0]

That black oxide set is a beaut!

 

[mritchie77]

Found these this weekend in the misc. box. 1/2 to 3/8 adapter and socket. Interesting design.

 

[LNKMK8]

They look just fine and I’m happy they came from a GJ member. Those black and yellow spinners are probably about as rare as the dark finish ratchets.
-Don

So I was going through some of my 1/4" drive sets the other day and realized that my black oxide Walden set doesn't have a ratchet. I guess I sold that one before I should have. Oh well, perhaps I will come across another

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Treated mine to a nice gray paint job

 

[d42jeep]

The late war military sets (4/45 on) didn’t include a ratchet.
-Don

 

[LNKMK8]

Ahhh.... that looks like the set I have. I added a black sliding T bar that I found to mine.

 

[Jim C.]

I traded another collector for this Walden No. 21 drain plug set. It’s missing the #1124 driver and cross bar (pictured below from AA).

Jim C.

 

[d42jeep]

This 3/8” drive ratchet arrived in the mail today. I didn’t have one with the knob direction control.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

I spotted this Walden set on eBay. The sockets were nothing special but the dark finish extensions are hard to find. They will be added to some dark finish sets that are missing them.
I found this DBE wrench at an estate sale on Saturday. It is marked the same on both sides.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

Another recent dark finish partial set purchase. A couple of these went into my keeper GMTK set as upgrades.
-Don
Keeper GMTK set upgraded.

 

[mritchie77]

Don, if I keep seeing more of these black oxide sets I might end up having to get one of my own to go with my civilian wartime cad set!

 

[d42jeep]

They are addictive.
-Don

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Here's a set similar to dons.

 

[d42jeep]

Cool. That is definitely the same rare box with many of the same pieces. Yours is only the second one I’ve seen.
Here is a black oxide set I picked up mostly to get the crossbar. They are often missing. The sockets were probably all original to the set with the same detent ball holes in all of them.
-Don

 

[four.cycle]

sent via p/m

 

[mritchie77]

I blame Don for me needing to pick up this on eBay recently. Glad I get a good amount of AMEX reward $ back each month!

 

[d42jeep]

Nice one. I gave it a couple of low bids and dropped out. I’m glad you were the one who ended up with it.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

Found a couple of interesting Walden tools at sales today. This might be a late war drag link bit based on it’s similar appearance to late war 1/4” drive sockets.
I don’t often find Walden wrenches but I found this DOE today.
-Don

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

Found this set in my school’s abandoned wood shop, has a mix of cheap **** and a few Duro-Idestros. Just thought I would share it.
-Tommy

 

[d42jeep]

If you want I would be happy to take those Duro Indestro sockets off your hands. I can trade you correct Walden sockets to go with your box. Would you like to send me a list of your Duro Indestro sockets?
-Don

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

I haven’t got it yet, going to try and get it next week
-Tommy

 

[d42jeep]

No problem. Let me know.
-Don

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

Ok

 

[d42jeep]

I spotted this dark finish Walden 1/4” drive ratchet on eBay. Looking closely at the pictures in the listing I noticed that the directional lever was missing. I pointed out the lack of lever to the seller and made a low offer which was eventually accepted. It arrived today and I pulled the lever off of a donor ratchet.
-Don
The donor ratchet box.

 

[d42jeep]

Here is a partial 1/4” drive Walden set that I hadn’t seen before. I found it at an estate sale on Friday. I filled it out with similar appearing pieces that I had on hand but when I tried to check the Internet for the correct content, I couldn’t find any catalogs that showed the set.
-Don
Filled it up

 

[d42jeep]

When this dark finish extension came up on my eBay search, I wasted no time pushing the button. They don’t show up very often.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

This set arrived in the mail today. Although it looks complete, I’m not sure what it originally came with.
-Don

 

[Ricky Joe]

I have a lot of Walden Worcester from the early years. This is the only example I have seen of a wrench like this. Both sides 7/16”, deep on the offset end.

 

[Ricky Joe]

Mostly old Walden Worcester

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

Looks like you won’t be out of restoration projects anytime soon!!

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

I came across this and was wondering if anyone had info on it? Kind of a neat design but 21/32??? What is that for?

 

[RTM]

Dunno about that one specifically, but they made some weird ones like that for ford cars.

Walden-Worcester Wrenches : 1928 : Stevens Walden-Worcester, Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

5 p., illus., 27.9 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

Love the top right on page 5 description “ fourth connecting rod”. Wonder if third and second needed special ones too.

 

[Provincial]

21/32 was used on the connecting rod castle nuts for Ford Model A engines, and I think also for the Model T.

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

21/32 was used on the connecting rod castle nuts for Ford Model A engines, and I think also for the Model T.

So what you're saying is, I definitely need to keep it "just in case"!

 

[Provincial]

So what you're saying is, I definitely need to keep it "just in case"!

As Rileysan says, "Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it!"