Ratchet id help!?!?

[zoomieport]

Came accross this 1/2" ratchet at a garage sale today. Not sure if I want to clean it up or not, so I can't find a maker on it...
On the "male stud" there is what looks like an "H inside a triangle" stamped opposite the BB side, maybe...?
It's marked Made in USA.
And it stamped with "R-718".
Any and all help is appreciated, thanks!
Mike

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Herbrand used a Diamond-H logo, and is known for male drives, although I don't recognize that particular ratchet, which is early/pre-modern, or the model number.

 

[lbgradwell]

Although that ratchet is very reminiscent of an early Snap-on style, I would put my money on New Britain...

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Oooo, that's a good one, LG. NB did make an early ratchet with those 4 studs arranged like that, but I thought it was an open style. And it doesn't look like an NB model number either. But what do you make of the Diamond H logo?

 

[lbgradwell]

But what do you make of the Diamond H logo?

I'd like to see a nice, clear close-up of the logo - diamond or triangle - but NB was a manufacturer for many other companies so that may be an explanation...

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

Why wouldn't you want to clean it up?

 

[zoomieport]

Here is a close up...

Sometimes I just leave 'em dirty... LAZY! HA!

 

[lbgradwell]

I've never seen that logo...

Quite clearly an "H-in-a-rounded-triangle"!

 

[Flatintoone]

http://www.collectingsnapon.com/catalogs/catalogs.php?loggedin=0&catalogPage=3980

Left side of the page, halfway down. Yours looks like it has a female hex-to-male square drive adaptor in it, but I can't be sure without seeing the top of the head.

 

[Flatintoone]

Looking closer, it looks like that should be a 9/16" hex. Like I said above, I bet it has an adaptor in it, or has been modified somewhere along the line.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I've never seen that logo...

Quite clearly an "H-in-a-rounded-triangle"!

Me neither. But it's on the male adaptor, so my guess is one of the thousands of inocuous foundries that once made this country great.

 

[4x4gearhead]

A lot of times I find those male drive ratchets dont have the oem square drive in them, could have come from another ratchet, ran into this on an old walden.

 

[lbgradwell]

A lot of times I find those male drive ratchets dont have the oem square drive in them...

That's certainly true. Mike, is the drive plug removable on your ratchet? It appears to be a bi-directional model so a removable drive-plug would not be required. It is reversible, correct?

 

[lbgradwell]

Left side of the page, halfway down. Yours looks like it has a female hex-to-male square drive adaptor in it, but I can't be sure without seeing the top of the head.

Well how about that?! Hard to argue.

 

[zoomieport]

Thanks!!!! It looked like it "belonged there"...
Not a bad pick up for a change!!!