woody 73
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I happened upon a very abused and rusty Auto 11 Wrench, as a matter of fact so much rust and abuse that it no longer worked anymore. So the challenge was on to clean and fix it along with finding the maker.
Talk about a challenge, I hate too say it but I used my belt sander just to clean up years of hammer abuse. In all fairness it did have spots of the original black paint from the factory, hiding underneath years of heavy rust.
Now that I could make out everything it did not have the usual identification marks so the hunt was on. I remember that Vlchek from Cleveland made these type of wrenches so I started from there.
By luck I found a close up shot and my old eyes caught a V stamp mark (see the following link).
http://alloy-artifacts.org/Photos/tools/vlchek_11auto_wrench_adj_vshield_f_cropped_inset.jpg
The only other mark I could find was on the handle but I can only guess it was a mark from the forge as it got pressed ?
So the Mystery was solved just from that small V stamped into the wrench.
Talk about a challenge, I hate too say it but I used my belt sander just to clean up years of hammer abuse. In all fairness it did have spots of the original black paint from the factory, hiding underneath years of heavy rust.
Now that I could make out everything it did not have the usual identification marks so the hunt was on. I remember that Vlchek from Cleveland made these type of wrenches so I started from there.
By luck I found a close up shot and my old eyes caught a V stamp mark (see the following link).
http://alloy-artifacts.org/Photos/tools/vlchek_11auto_wrench_adj_vshield_f_cropped_inset.jpg
The only other mark I could find was on the handle but I can only guess it was a mark from the forge as it got pressed ?
So the Mystery was solved just from that small V stamped into the wrench.
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