"Rugged" brand doe wrench

[JjKk40]

Curious has anybody seen these before or have any info on the OEM? To me they have that Barcalo look, IMHO, but maybe could be Plvmb/Proto, etc....

 

[d42jeep]

I agree with Barcalo. Look at the similarities in the size markings and wrench shape.
-Don

 

[JjKk40]

Thanks D42 thats what I figured and those were the wrenches I was comparing to! I wonder if I I have any more of them! I'll have to dig around.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I have tried googling them, but the results are extensive when you search "rugged tool"

 

[four.cycle]

so you ended up with that set!

Rugged / Rugged / (see Fleet / Penens) / (possibly private label?)

I've never found any documentation for "Rugged" - only the photos of the set on ebay, which apparently belongs to Oldtuleguy now.
The spinner looks somewhat familiar. If this is the same set as Oldtuleguy's (which I believe to be the case), I don't recognize the sockets, and the label doesn't offer any clues as to who it was made for.
I'm going with private label for some retailer or maybe a "second-tier" line (e.g., Thorsen's "Action")

 

[JjKk40]

I have tried googling them, but the results are extensive when you search "rugged tool"

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Thus set is what made me think Plvmb/Penens/Fleet/ Proto etc...... Definitely a challenge searching for "rugged tool" or anything with the word "rugged"! Lol!

 

[JjKk40]

so you ended up with that set!

Rugged / Rugged / (see Fleet / Penens) / (possibly private label?)

I've never found any documentation for "Rugged" - only the photos of the set on ebay, which apparently belongs to Oldtuleguy now.
The spinner looks somewhat familiar. If this is the same set as Oldtuleguy's (which I believe to be the case), I don't recognize the sockets, and the label doesn't offer any clues as to who it was made for.
I'm going with private label for some retailer or maybe a "second-tier" line (e.g., Thorsen's "Action")

Most of Those sockets are 50's style fleet/challeger/penens. I have an incomplete Fleet set with those alloy sockets with part #"s starting with "c". There's also same "alloy" sockets that start with "r" too. The other sockets i don't recognize.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

It's a penens type set, generic p part numbers. I have had it for couple years I think.

 

[RTM]

And googling "rugged power and machine" still only gets one real result, bringing you right back here.

My Small But Growing 1/4" drive Socket Set Collection

Stahlwille metric set Very nice! It's so hard to find cool vintage metric sets.

www.garagejournal.com

 

[JjKk40]

Not sure if you guys can make that out but on the -dropped forged- side there is a * forge mark by the 9/16 side. Maybe that means something and is familiar? To me it looks like a dead on Barcalo but the name rings Penens or one of those Pendleton companies.

 

[RTM]

Oh no, the Asterisk. That adds Worth into the mix as a possible.

 

[d42jeep]

Lots of Barcalo wrenches have the asterisk.
-Don

 

[four.cycle]

^ you think maybe Barcalo was the OEM on the wrenches, and the sockets and drive tools came out of the Penens/Fleet/Plomb plant?

knowing that Gambles was mixing different makers' products in the same boxes (Oldtuleguy's examples are evidence enough, with or without the anecdotal), so it certainly wouldn't be the first time outsourcing was done from more than one supplier.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Oh I'm sure. Wards, sears penneys gambles all used multiple suppliers.

 

[leg17]

I have some Vlchek with the asterisk mark.