KD Kulp-Dellinger Tools.

[Private Lugnutz]

...probably made by K-D.

Definitively, without a doubt. Everything about them, including the model numbers.

...these particular ones do not have a hex opening that goes all the way through, but have a stop lip on them.

Like the in-house K-D models. Ratcheting both directions, with the switch, there's no need to use them flipped over.

...and a K-D document.

Is that your label or purloined from the web?

How am I just finding this thread after all these years?

Not sure, it's periodically active, but as a helpful hint, note that if want to see all major GJ Vintage Forum threads at once, whether they are on page 1 or currently inactive, consult the A-Z Index of Threads in the Sticky at the top of the forum.

 

[Eric Brown]

Definitively, without a doubt. Everything about them, including the model numbers.

Like the in-house K-D models. Ratcheting both directions, with the switch, there's no need to use them flipped over.

Is that your label or purloined from the web?

Not sure, it's periodically active, but as a helpful hint, note that if want to see all major GJ Vintage Forum threads at once, whether they are on page 1 or currently inactive, consult the A-Z Index of Threads in the Sticky at the top of the forum.

All these pictures are off the web. If any objections will remove.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

If any objections will remove.

Oh no, I do it all the time. Public domain. It's the lifeblood of our research. I was just wondering if you owned the label (and could be talked out of it! )

 

[Eric Brown]

Oh no, I do it all the time. Public domain. It's the lifeblood of our research. I was just wondering if you owned the label (and could be talked out of it! )

Unfortunately I don't see it anymore. It might have been bought by somebody already. If I had it I would have given it to you. Sorry.

 

[four.cycle]

454 K-D Distributor Tool for General Motors V8 engines 1958-1974

283 K-D Brake Bleeder Wrench 5/16" x 3/8"

297 K-D Brake Shoe Spring Retaining Tool for Comet, Falcon, Valiant, Dart

3083 K-D Swivel Oil Filter Wrench 2-7/8" - 3-1/4"

 

[MisterEd]

K-D Manufacturing Co., 428 Hose Clamp Pliers

 

[MisterEd]

K-D Manufacturing Co., 2149 Brake Bleeder Wrench

 

[Leviton]

I found this non-standard ratcheting wrench - it only has one opening (1/2" 6-point). It is completely unmarked - not even a size is indicated. It is cadmium plated.
I did a photo overlay and, other than having only a single opening, it exactly matches a K-D #63, even the rivet locations match. The 1961 K-D catalog mentions that their #63 was cadmium coated.

I'm guessing this wrench has to be K-D made? Maybe a contract special? Any thoughts?


(6.55" overall length - shank thickness is 5/16” - 15 tooth.)


@Private Lugnutz appears to have a similar one (albeit with a bend) in a group photo he posted on the first page of this thread...

Keeping my promise with this slightly older group shot...

 

[Eric Brown]

I found this non-standard ratcheting wrench - it only has one opening (1/2" 6-point). It is completely unmarked - not even a size is indicated. It is cadmium plated.
I did a photo overlay and, other than having only a single opening, it exactly matches a K-D #63, even the rivet locations match. The 1961 K-D catalog mentions that their #63 was cadmium coated.

I'm guessing this wrench has to be K-D made? Maybe a contract special? Any thoughts?


(6.55" overall length - shank thickness is 5/16” - 15 tooth.)


@Private Lugnutz appears to have a similar one (albeit with a bend) in a group photo he posted on the first page of this thread...

I've seen similar used on machinery, sometimes even bolted on. Can't remember what machines though.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I'm guessing this wrench has to be K-D made? Maybe a contract special? Any thoughts?

Almost certainly a K-D and almost certainly made with the same tooling they used to make a No. 63. It's not unfinished, I don't think, in the sense of it intending to be a No. 63 and they just never completed the 9/16" end. Those shims look purposefully in place there instead of a ratcheting gear.

@Private Lugnutz appears to have a similar one (albeit with a bend) in a group photo he posted on the first page of this thread...

Thanks for the prompt. I guess I never followed up on that!

Mine is a No. 72. One could argue the bend was shop made. If so, it was very well done. Given the bend and the odd empty end (no gear, no shims, no nothing), I am inclined to think it was a special and factory made. For what, I don't know.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Here's another group shot. That's a No. 20 set (containing No. 21 through No. 24, 3/8" to 9/16"), one orphan shy of another pouchless set to the left, the aforementioned No. 72, a No. 61 and No. 62 from the 6X series (five (5) wrenches, 10 sizes from 1/4" to 7/8"), and a No. 27, which came in a pouch with four (4) double-sided screwdriver and hex bits.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I was never able to find a K-D ratcheting box end wrench with a model No. 72, or any other number, bend or no bend, in any K-D catalog available on IA/ITCL between the 30's and the 70's. They introduced the No. 20 set in 1942, the No. 27 set in 1950, and the No. 6X set in 1959. They went to metric in 1973 and by 1980 had dropped all ratcheting box end wrenches with imperial sizes.