lunchtime score!

[krusty the clown]

i stopped at a pawn shop after lunch today, while digging through a box of cheap taiwan **** i found a snap on f-4-d speed handle with a 1945 date code. so i asked the guy at the counter how much.......he says "you picked the most expensive thing in that box (as i cringed a little) how bout a buck fifty" sold!

 

[Uncle Buck]

i stopped at a pawn shop after lunch today, while digging through a box of cheap taiwan **** i found a snap on f-4-d speed handle with a 1945 date code. so i asked the guy at the counter how much.......he says "you picked the most expensive thing in that box (as i cringed a little) how bout a buck fifty" sold!

I have routinely encountered Snappy speeders, and others of varying pedigrees through the years; it always seems that the old time wrench benders had a greater appreciation and more broad application of uses for speeders than many including myself do today! Great find though; I have bought several that way , but in recent times find myself passing on them more and more! BUT NOT FOR WHAT YOU PAID FOR YOURS, IT WOULD HAVE GONE HOME WITH ME!

 

[Merkava_4]

I'll put a screwdriver socket on the end of a speed handle if I need some serious torque.

 

[krusty the clown]

I have routinely encountered Snappy speeders, and others of varying pedigrees through the years; it always seems that the old time wrench benders had a greater appreciation and more broad application of uses for speeders than many including myself do today! Great find though; I have bought several that way , but in recent times find myself passing on them more and more!

that might have something to do with the air ratchet

if he had said $5.00 i might have passed but for $1.50 it can lay right next to my old mossberg/apco.

 

[Merkava_4]

I've got one of these, it's an F4LBK. It has that ********* knob on the end for applying brute pressure. I can drive 3.5 inch drywall screws through wood 4x4's with it.

 

[Slim-Pickins']

Never had a good use for one ... but it may be because I don't use my "mechanic-in' " tools to do wood working.

 

[bmwpower]

I still use them. I forget which snappy one I have, but sometimes you need to "feel" things.

 

[Merkava_4]

Never had a good use for one ... but it may be because I don't use my "mechanic-in' " tools to do wood working.

They come in real handy when you're too impatient to wait for a battery to charge up.

 

[Slim-Pickins']

That's why I have spare batteries.

 

[krusty the clown]

the only thing i have ever use one for is to prime an oil pump........you can feel when the oil gets to the pump, you cant with a power tool.

 

[T56 Impala]

Nice buy. They are the best thing in my box when it comes to tearing down an engine. Nothing better!

 

[goodfellow]

Nice buy. They are the best thing in my box when it comes to tearing down an engine. Nothing better!

Ditto!!! It's just a habit, but "way back when" in tech school we were never allowed to use power tools on engine disassembly and assembly -- speed handles were the norm.

 

[Sack]

Sounds like when I bought my used truck 2 years ago. In addition to all the old used .22 shells, I found a pretty good condition snap on 17mm combination wrench.

 

[Jbullfrog]

I dug mine out of the seldom used drawer to run the 24 head bolts down on a tractor last week before I torqued them.