Who made this?
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Unusual for a recessed panel wrench to be made with a tapered shank like that. Probably a contract wrench if the other recess is blank, which would have been where the mfr would have marked its name on its regular line. Have you tried trolling through Alloy Artifacts for a similar wrench?
Yea, I've been looking thru AA, nothing yet though.
woody 73
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Heelspur I am going to take a stab at this...
Deep inside my old memory banks, (wish I was 21 again) it has the "LOOK" or at least reminds me of wrenches made for the Montgomery Wards Company by Duro & Indestro.
Well that is a start anyways for you to look at the AA web-site hope that helps you out a little bit, it ***** because I can not remember what I had for lunch today!
Deep inside my old memory banks, (wish I was 21 again) it has the "LOOK" or at least reminds me of wrenches made for the Montgomery Wards Company by Duro & Indestro.
Well that is a start anyways for you to look at the AA web-site hope that helps you out a little bit, it ***** because I can not remember what I had for lunch today!
r_olson_06
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Seen alot of them in DOES usually just throw them in the bulk scrap.
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Heelspur I am going to take a stab at this...
Deep inside my old memory banks, (wish I was 21 again) it has the "LOOK" or at least reminds me of wrenches made for the Montgomery Wards Company by Duro & Indestro.
Well that is a start anyways for you to look at the AA web-site hope that helps you out a little bit, it ***** because I can not remember what I had for lunch today!
That's what I thought. Reminds me off some old lectrolite stuff too
Yeah, I'm thinking that, too.
Maybe a Tru-Fit? Something in the memory just keeps nagging on that.
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I would be very surprised if this was Lectorlite for several reasons:
1. Every contract wrench I have ever seen made by Lectrolite (many having an LC code forged in them) has always been of a style it already made, simply re=branding it or having no brand name at all.
2. I have never seen such a radical graduated shank taper on any LC wrench. In fact, all its recessed panel (Tru-Fit style) wrenches have no taper along the shank length at all. I've seen a few DOE raised panel from them that look like there's a taper, but it's so minuscule you have to really scrutinize it to notice, certainly nothing like the OP wrench.
3. I have never seen an LC wrench with an open end where the head is so much thicker than the shank where the two connect as on the OP wrench. Go look and see.
4. Have never seen an LC tool where the die-making was so sloppy that there was such a wider gap between S and A relative to the gap between U and S in the USA. Remember that its tool-making heritage was from Milwaukee Tool & Forge. MTF lettering is always quite precise, as is the LC.
So, to support the LC notion, one would have to argue that LC uncharacteristically used a completely different custom style for this lone contract customer bearing features not found in any of its other wrenches, and then employed a less-than-competent die maker (at least compared to its normal standards) to cut the dies. Good luck with that. I think we need to look elsewhere.
1. Every contract wrench I have ever seen made by Lectrolite (many having an LC code forged in them) has always been of a style it already made, simply re=branding it or having no brand name at all.
2. I have never seen such a radical graduated shank taper on any LC wrench. In fact, all its recessed panel (Tru-Fit style) wrenches have no taper along the shank length at all. I've seen a few DOE raised panel from them that look like there's a taper, but it's so minuscule you have to really scrutinize it to notice, certainly nothing like the OP wrench.
3. I have never seen an LC wrench with an open end where the head is so much thicker than the shank where the two connect as on the OP wrench. Go look and see.
4. Have never seen an LC tool where the die-making was so sloppy that there was such a wider gap between S and A relative to the gap between U and S in the USA. Remember that its tool-making heritage was from Milwaukee Tool & Forge. MTF lettering is always quite precise, as is the LC.
So, to support the LC notion, one would have to argue that LC uncharacteristically used a completely different custom style for this lone contract customer bearing features not found in any of its other wrenches, and then employed a less-than-competent die maker (at least compared to its normal standards) to cut the dies. Good luck with that. I think we need to look elsewhere.
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I spent some time trolling AA and came up with a few possible candidates having both a recessed panel and a pronounced tapered shank. The following four photos were pulled from AA. 1st, Billings, 2nd Bonney, 3rd Mckaig Hatch, 4th Vlchek.
Of these, the McCaig Hatch seems the closest: It has a pronounced taper, the head is proportionately thick compared to the shank, and the die lettering is sloppy (note the 'double-die' R in FORGED and the offset lettering in USA).
Based on these, my vote for a recognized brand name contractor for the OP wrench is MH. Of course, back in the day there were many small private drop forge shops that could have made it--if that's the source, we may never know who made it.
Of these, the McCaig Hatch seems the closest: It has a pronounced taper, the head is proportionately thick compared to the shank, and the die lettering is sloppy (note the 'double-die' R in FORGED and the offset lettering in USA).
Based on these, my vote for a recognized brand name contractor for the OP wrench is MH. Of course, back in the day there were many small private drop forge shops that could have made it--if that's the source, we may never know who made it.
