Engineers' Wrenches

[Downwindtracker 2]

I think that's the name for open end wrenches. I'm only 71 and outside of one on my quick change tool post, I can't remember ever using them. I have two sets in my working box and I'm collecting post war Gray.

They seem to me as being rather short in the larger sizes . Were they much used ?

We have established the time line when the combination wrench took over as the standard wrench in a previous query.

BTW at the fleamarket I picked up a couple of prewar Dreadnought and a couple of ETF. That's what got me thinking.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I think that's the name for open end wrenches.

Not exactly. Engineers' wrenches are open end wrenches with the heads placed at opposing 15* angles on the shank. There are other kinds of open end wrenches (e.g., ignition, tappet, obstruction, textile, etc) that do not have that configuration. Scroll through the "Show off your DOE's" thread for a sense of the variety of open end wrenches, if you're interested. It can be found under the Index in the Stickie.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

BTW at the fleamarket I picked up a couple of ... ETF. That's what got me thinking.

What sizes? Do they look like these?

 

[Downwindtracker 2]

What I thought one of them that might have been an ETF, wasn't, when I cleaned the shank and I still couldn't make out the trade mark. It was better finished than the ETF. Both were 3/8 x 7/16. The other one was easily read and like those you have posted. He had a box of rusty wrenches, mostly ETF. They weren't as well made as Grays, even Dreadnaughts or Maple Leafs, so I passed. They had stamping ridges .

 

[Private Lugnutz]

He had a box of rusty wrenches, mostly ETF. They weren't as well made as Grays, even Dreadnaughts or Maple Leafs, so I passed. They had stamping ridges .

If he has a 5/8" x 3/4" wrench in the style I am showing in my link above, PLEASE buy one, regardless of the lack of fine finish!!! I need one to complete a set. It is the wrench I am missing, the 5th wrench in the 5-wrench ETF No. 2000R set. (I don't have the roll-up.)

Here are some excerpts from a 1950 ETF catalog showing my wrenches in their set (see Pics 1 & 2). Note that they also sold carbon steel wrenches separately (see Pic 3), not in sets, with a black enamel shank, and polished faces, and they weren't panelled with the fancy logo.