Indestro Speeder Drive Type?

[Debcrow]

Familiar with hex and Square Drive, what is this? Only marking is the Indestro Shown.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Could be a crank for something specific , not for sockets, maybe some tamper proof fastener.

 

[four.cycle]

By process of elimination, the only thing that even comes close, but I'm still puzzled because the attachment for the drive end appears to have a square opening.

 

[JR 42]

It looks like two parallel flats... is that correct?

 

[four.cycle]

It certainly does... and i can find nothing in my catalogs that resembles that end.

 

[r_olson_06]

I remember someone having sockets with them drives on them. I cannot remember the brand but they were posted on the vintage thread this summer.

Looking for the following Plomb Pebbles Wrench 3061

 

[Private Lugnutz]

4.c,
It's not a valve lapper. The No. 636 type was pinned on and the No. 642 fit on any regular 1/2-inch square drive stud, as you alluded to.

The marking might help. That ascending letters logo is very early.

The only view of the drive we don't have is looking directly at the end head on but it would be a sort of oval shape, with two rounded ends and the two parallel flats.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Walden made a 3/8-inch Oval Drive, but I am not aware of Indestro making one, and if anyone would know, it would be 4.c.

EDIT: Deleted comment about "Double D", which usually refers to a service opening in a special socket for carb work if I'm not mistaken.

 

[r_olson_06]

Walden made a 3/8-inch Oval Drive, but I am not aware of Indestro making one, and if anyone would know, it would be 4.c.

EDIT: Deleted comment about "Double D", which usually refers to a service opening in a special socket for carb work if I'm not mistaken.

That is the one I was thinking of.

Looking for the following Plomb Pebbles Wrench 3061

 

[Provincial]

Double "D" was used on Trico vacuum windshield wiper motors. Relatively small size, male heads.

"Clutch" head screws used a "butterfly" driver, but the fastener had a head recess that had a pattern that looked somewhat like the drive being discussed, except instead of parallel flats, the head recess was narrower toward the center, sometimes with a circular recess at the very center. The "butterfly" driver had sharp corners that dug into the recess at the point the flats changed into the radius.

Some clutch head screws have a recess very much like the drive discussed, probably as a cheaper version. A driver for these would be like a round rod with flats cut on opposite sides.

All "clutch" drives are much smaller than the one being discussed.

 

[four.cycle]

It's not a valve lapper. The No. 636 type was pinned on and the No. 642 fit on any regular 1/2-inch square drive stud, as you alluded to.

The marking might help. That ascending letters logo is very early.

The only view of the drive we don't have is looking directly at the end head on but it would be a sort of oval shape, with two rounded ends and the two parallel flats.

Yes, yes, and yes, on all three points.
The "ascending letters logo" goes way back. I have at least one hex drive socket set with that logo on it.

 

[Zrxrunner]

Long shot here because it looks to be in pretty good shape, but anyone think that it may have been the press on socket style spinner with the socket pulled off somehow? I've come across a lot of them with a loose socket, but havent seen one removed. Not sure how they were attched, maybe used that style to help stop them from spinning?

 

[lardy1]

Could it be a manual drive for a pump or a winch? Some winches on the ships I've worked on had a manual crank as a backup. Never seen that drive configuration though.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Long shot here because it looks to be in pretty good shape, but anyone think that it may have been the press on socket style spinner with the socket pulled off somehow?

You could be onto something. Indestro did make speeder rim wrenches with press-fit socket ends, No. 626 (3/4"), 627 (5/8"), 628 (11/16"), and 629 (13/16"), and a 654 (3/4"). They're in a 1935 catalog shot that 4.c sent me. Maybe Debcrow will come back and tell us if there's a model number on the shank.

EDIT: With no other Indestro drive tools (flex head, ratchet, etc) or sockets with that oval drive shape ever having shown up before, I am leaning toward something like that or the crank that Otg and lardy have suggested.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I just went through all my early speeders with fixed sockets. Most of them are forged. I do have a few Walden that are press-fit and they all have a cruciform pattern to the end of the shank stuck inside the socket. Does anybody have an old Indestro or Duro speeder with a fixed socket? It would be easy enough to check inside to see what the pattern is.

 

[Mick56]

Looks home made to me. Someone cut the square drive off, and then ground the two sides for something they needed it specifically for.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

That's possible as well