American Heavy Metal

[Zrexxer]

Made a quick trip to our favorite pawn at lunch and came away with our pockets lighter and our boxes heavier.

Couldn't resist these... there were 19 wrenches in the lot and a buddy and I went halves. I came away with 8 of my choosing, he took the Armstrongs from 2 to 2-9/16 and a few Protos as well.

I got five Wrights, a really nice Proto 2", and a couple of more experienced Protos. Replacement cost on these behemoths adds up to about $1175... I paid about 10% of that. 10 cents on the dollar for US wrenches almost always goes home with me, need them or not.

That's a regulation full-size Lone Star beer can in the pics for scale...

 

[May Pop]

You ****!!!

 

[DrkMtnDew]

hey, those are good looking wrenches. my local pawn shop has never had anything close to that big. nice find.

 

[kams1973]

You Sir...****!

 

[redman43]

Christ!!! Heavy Metal indeed.

 

[american lockpicker]

DAAAAAAMN those are some big wrenches.

 

[toolmaker1]

Probably from an oil or gas rig. You won't find any better than those Wright's. You sir ****!!

 

[wornoutoldman]

Great Score! I too would have bought those in a heartbeat!

 

[davesnothere]

<---- jealous

 

[mikevango]

Those are cool! I like the last photo. It almost looks fake.

 

[Monte]

wow those Wright wrenches look very nice !!!

 

[guthriea]

Im in Austin and I can never seem to find anything decent at any Pawn, mind sharing your secret location?

 

[Scout Driver]

Those big Wrights made me smile!

Scott

 

[DARKSCOPE001]

those things are cool. those are the kind of tools that you can show to a non tool lover and even they will understand. "This is an awesome tool only wielded by someone who knows what they are doing"

 

[leod]

heavy equipment

 

[eborcim]

those Wrights are the coolest things I have seen in a long time!

 

[Zrexxer]

Im in Austin and I can never seem to find anything decent at any Pawn, mind sharing your secret location?

I've been hitting the pawns in the Austin area almost weekly for 26 years, looking, digging, buying, getting to know managers and staff, and figuring out which ones are the sweet spots and which are the wastes of time.

So I'm sure you'll understand when I say "Not a chance!"

 

[Zrexxer]

The Wrights are definitely growing on me... some more gratuitous wrench pics:

 

[Gregg33]

That's just balling out of control! lol Cool converation pieces though. That's a good price you paid too, but I suspect there isn't much demand for wrenches this size, especially among the average pawn shop customer!

 

[Thumper]

Great for when you got big nuts to tighten up..........LMAO

 

[nissan_crawler]

You couldn't have bought one of those wrenches in a pawn shop here for that price. I haven't seen Snap-On under 80% of retail, even with rust.

 

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Those are cool! I like the last photo. It almost looks fake.

That's what she said.

 

[bart1]

Those are awesome

 

[csmitty]

Wow, those are BA! I wouldn't have thought twice either. Heck I'd keep one by the front door, just in case.