DOE-is this junk or...?

[Stillgottimefor1]

Or a rare part of a tool kit? Looks kinda crude but might clean up okay. Just curious to know before I banish it to the junk drawer to be cut, bent, or otherwise ruined.


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[woody 73]

Why would you ruin a good working wrench? This is the GJ a place that worships tools.

 

[Stillgottimefor1]

Why would you ruin a good working wrench? This is the GJ a place that worships tools.

To make a special tool for a specific purpose. Why lash out at me? I asked before ruining it...I have a large tool box full of high quality tools. Sometimes you have to heat and bend a junky tool for a special need, but I guess YOU wouldn’t do that??...wtf? Back at you...[emoji6][emoji849]


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[Private Lugnutz]

Agreed, Dave. Plus, 9/16 x 1/2 is easily thee most common DOE wrench combination there is out there. And, scrapping HAS value. It recycles steel.

 

[woody 73]

To make a special tool for a specific purpose. Why lash out at me? I asked before ruining it...I have a large tool box full of high quality tools. Sometimes you have to heat and bend a junky tool for a special need, but I guess YOU wouldn’t do that??...wtf? Back at you...[emoji6][emoji849]


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Your money, your time do what you want...

 

[Stillgottimefor1]

Please forgive my snippy backlash, I’ve got the day off and rained-in, had too much of the first picture and not enough to the second one....[emoji848][emoji56]


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[3baygarage]

Wonder if that’s a McKaig Hatch? Doesn’t appear to be marked, but looks similar to the one on AA.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Looks like a functional wrench, but nothing special as far as collectors value.

 

[Stillgottimefor1]

Some special tools from my oddball drawer. The Snap-On was modified by my father (R.I.P.), about twenty years ago to make changing the injection pump on some tractor take many hours less, the others I have forgotten what they were for or where I got them. The little one that says Hybar Bridgeport may be original, don’t know.


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[Private Lugnutz]

The little one that says Hybar Bridgeport may be original, don’t know.

Original. One end was offset right where the head meets the shank.

 

[Stillgottimefor1]

Original. One end was offset right where the head meets the shank.

Thanks, you are truly a fountain of knowledge, sir!....too bad that wrench is a poor casting, otherwise it would be very pretty.


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[BFBOB]

I've done a modification now and then - many years ago, needed a 13/16 open for my router collet. Grabbed the dorkiest-sounding 3/4" and opened it up with a grinder.

Indestro.

Years later

 

[eschoendorff]

I've done a modification now and then - many years ago, needed a 13/16 open for my router collet. Grabbed the dorkiest-sounding 3/4" and opened it up with a grinder.

Indestro.

Years later

Ouch! Lol

 

[Stillgottimefor1]

Dad was so proud of that Snap-On that he modified because it saved many hours of work. He showed it to the local S. O. Dealer and explained what it was for and said wanted to patent it. Dealer opened the catalog and found a tool made for that purpose. . I feel bad about the Mac/Bonney wrench in that group but If I remember right it was pretty chewed up when I got it. Dad had a road box, vise, welding machine, and oxy/acetylene torches and air compressor on his truck....wasn’t much he couldn’t fix on the spot. His joking motto was “If I can’t fix it I’ll f#*%k it up so bad NOBODY can!”....miss that mean old man sometimes...

 

[bonneyman]

Wonder if that’s a McKaig Hatch? Doesn’t appear to be marked, but looks similar to the one on AA.

That's what I thought when I first looked at it.

A DBE would be worth keeping, DOE's are kinda useless to me.
Unless it's an angle wrench!

 

[leg17]

So....Does anyone know who made it?

 

[notlob]

That would go straight into the scrap metal bucket at my house...... No name, and low utility = no value = scrap metal.

X2.

It took me a few years to be able to scrap any tool, but now I no longer hesitate. No name, not interesting, low quality/ unknown asian brand, all go in the bin. Now the hard part is dumping the bin....

 

[ddawg16]

Rough crowd.....when in doubt....I'd go buy a cheap tool and modify it.

Even a no-name tool made in the USA may have an unknown value.

 

[disston]

No name common wrench. Doesn't really matter who you think made it. Use it or modify it any way needed. It's the work that is the purpose . Try not to loose sight of that.

I still have a 12 mm wrench I had to cut short and trim the open end to fit a nut on the exhaust of a Mazda that belonged to a friend. It was the only time I worked on a rotary engine. It was more than 35 years ago and that car got to live and my friend got to drive it because of that wrench.

I will never throw that wrench away. It goes when I go. (Along with the 65 lbs of so of other wrenches that are not cute enough or part of sets to have much chance to survive)