Show off your DOE's!

[Tylermorris]

Some more with a group shot

 

[Private Lugnutz]

As first reported on the 2019 Garage Sale thread, I picked up a loose set of Bridgeport Hardware and Manufacturing wrenches at the flea this morning. These are what they referred to as "Open Stock" wrenches, as opposed to the sets they sold as kits in holders, an example of which I showed much earlier in this thread. Based on the catalogs and model number, they should be the "mottled finish," but they clearly show the remains of a cadmium finish. You can see the sizes.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I also picked up this very primitive hand-made "S" wrench. OAL is 12 inches. Nominal (and these jaws give the definition a challenge...) openings are 15/16" and 3/4". It is 1 inch thick and weighs just a hair over 1 pound. No markings.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

A few more of its hand-forged, -pounded, and -hewn qualities and thickness.

 

[LesserSon]

Anyone know what this “STAR” is for? I am especially wondering about the web in the gullet of the small end.
The cutouts remind me of Planet Jr or Iron Age agricultural wrenches.

 

[d42jeep]

I found these two recently. The upper wrench with odd size markings looks to be a totally unmarked Barcalo “double grip” wrench. I don’t know who manufactured the lower wrench marked Auto Kit.
-Don

 

[LesserSon]

I found these two recently. The upper wrench with odd size markings looks to be a totally unmarked Barcalo “double grip” wrench. I don’t know who manufactured the lower wrench marked Auto Kit.
-Don

Ooo-ooo! I know - I know!
It’s J.P.Danielson.

 

[d42jeep]

Thanks! As many Danielson tools as I have had, I’m surprised that I haven’t seen one before.
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Thanks! As many Danielson tools as I have had, I’m surprised that I haven’t seen one before.

It's probably the DOE and the solid shank that is throwing you off, Don. I'm sure you've seen the much more common Combination version of the JPD Auto-Kit wrenches with the hole in the middle of the shank for the screw and wingnut holder. Same so-called "batman" (one of the more aptly named collector-coined terms in this hobby!) size field. See post #1 in the 'Kit, Auto Kit wrenches' thread, linked here.

As I first reported on the Garage Sale thread, I found another INDIAN MOTOCYCLES wrench yesterday. Just took it out of the de-rusting bath, which worked fine, but had little affect on the permanent box rot blight. Fortunately, it's a duplicate.

 

[d42jeep]

I found a motorcycle related DOE wrench at a Nevada estate sale today. I think the initials might stand for Birmingham Small Arms. It will be traveling east at some point.
-Don

 

[Outlawmws]

Boy Scouts of America?

 

[papp101]

British Small Arms motorcycles!! My dad has a 69 firebird. Great bike.

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[Tylermorris]

My biggest DOE so far, Fairmount 3” x 2”.
Brake clean for scale

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I found a motorcycle related DOE wrench at a Nevada estate sale today. I think the initials might stand for Birmingham Small Arms. It will be traveling east at some point.

British Small Arms motorcycles!! My dad has a 69 firebird. Great bike.

Don was being coy. He knows what it is. He knows I have a 1942 B.S.A. WDM20 and "traveling east" means to my house via USPS. But that wrench goes to a later kit. 60's, I believe. You should give that to your cycle shop buddy Don!

 

[d42jeep]

Don was being coy. He knows what it is. He knows I have a 1942 B.S.A. WDM20 and "traveling east" means to my house via USPS. But that wrench goes to a later kit. 60's, I believe. You should give that to your cycle shop buddy Don!

I’ll do that. He is visiting this week and bringing up a very cool Bemis & Call monkey wrench.
Here is a a dual marked Bridgeport Hy Bar I found at the Tahoe flea on Saturday.
-Don

 

[y'sguy]

I'm still diggging thru this thread and have only made it about page 26 so far. Anyway I was looking for reference on these. Proto Los Angeles DOE metrics. Any info? I am considering trading or selling them. Is this a complete set?

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[d42jeep]

You might check this 1951 catalog.
https://archive.org/details/ProtoCatalogNo5124M
-Don

 

[y'sguy]

Yes, Thank You Don for your help. It does show the set I may be missing the #31011, 10x11mm. I take a look around in the morning.

 

[bargainhuntingking]

Special Steel, West Germany, 6mm-22mm

 

[Jazz1]

Russian DOE'S, rest is tool kit that came with my LADA years ago

 

[LesserSon]

I just need a 23F to complete my first early Bonney set. Searching...
Edit: eBay to the rescue. A complete c1923 Bonney No9 “Ford Owner’s Set.”

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Picked up a second Crompton & Knowles (Loomworks) wrench this morning at the flea market. Has the same large parabolic heads and eccentric-shaped openings as the other, which was posted here. This one is tiny.

 

[d42jeep]

Here are some more Double Grip Barcalo DOE wrenches. From top to bottom the sizes are 7/8" x 25/32", 3/4" x 5/8", 11/16 x 19/32", 9/16" x 1/2" and 13/32" x 5/16".
-Don

 

[outofbounds]

A few of my very vintage DOE ditties.

Early Vlchek

Early Hy Bar

 

[honcho]

Picked up a set of vintage DOE metric Craftsman recently. Price tag of $5.89 was on the tool roll. These are =v= wrenches

 

[tombell572]

For working on my BSA's, my set off King **** DOE's, 1/8W-9/16W. They team up with a set of Bedford DBE's.

Tom B.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

That's a sweet set, tom! Tell me more about the symbols I see forged in to the shanks next to the brand name, opposite the model numbers. On the A704, for example, I see a star and two other symbols. What's the story there?

Also, we have a few things in common. I am working on a set of metric KING **** Double-Offset DBE wrenches (linked here), and I am slowly ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶o̶n̶ [color=#FF000]neglecting to do much of anything with[/color] a WDM20 (toolkit thread linked here).

 

[tombell572]

Thanks, Lugz. Unfortunately, I don't have a clue about the markings that you have noted and have wondered about them myself. As you said in your linked post, a real K/D collector is needed here. I accumulated these via a flea market at the Dinosaur bike show in Queens, NY and two or three Ebay buys from the UK. When I finally put together the set I got rid of the cheap modern set I had been using.

Good luck on the DBE set--that'll be a nice one to see.

Tom B.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Thanks. And thanks for the 'Dinosaur bike show in Queens, NY' reference! (I am not really a biker and I had never heard of it. I rode Enduros as a teenager in the 70's, gave them up for the married-with-kids life etc but just recently and sneakily moved from a Willys MB jeep to the BSA I linked above.) That show looks fun.

 

[r_olson_06]

A few DOE Plombs for the wall. The one second from the top has me puzzeled. I don't think it is Plomb. The angles are sharper and the bar stock is much thicker than a standard 1920s O series DOE. Any one have any input?

Looking for the following Plomb Pebbles Wrench 3061

 

[tombell572]

Lugz, I somehow missed the original thread on your BSA and also the link showing it above until I saw your reference to it tonight. That is beautiful!! What a great project. I'm finishing up a "62 B40 350cc single now. I also rode before marriage and kids then got back into it once my boys were grown. the '68 Thunderbolt below is my first restoration about 15 years ago.

For reference for anyone enjoying old motorcycles, the Dinosaur show is held the second Sunday of September at the Queens Farm Museum on Little Neck Parkway.

Apologies for running off topic.

Tom B.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

That's a sweet ride, Tom. And since you prefaced your King **** set as bike maintenance, we're right on topic! Maybe Farmer J. or one of the other Brits will be along shortly to explain the symbols.

 

[d42jeep]

Here is a set of Wards DOE wrenches I found at a garage sale recently. Made in Japan.
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I picked up this 3/8" x 5/16" DOE "S" wrench this morning at the flea...

...that also happens to do double duty as the T-handle (or S-handle, in this case) for a socket wrench with a 9/32" (or sloppy 1/4") square service opening.

It was forged this way, obviously. But no OEM markings.

I unabashedly love things like this. First time I have seen one like it. I was guessing machinery wrench in a factory, or possibly printing press, someone else suggested a wrench for valve nuts etc on compressed gas bottles, cylinders, etc. Anybody know? Anybody seen one before?

 

[misterbill]

...
I unabashedly love things like this. First time I have seen one like it. I was guessing machinery wrench in a factory, or possibly printing press, someone else suggested a wrench for valve nuts etc on compressed gas bottles, cylinders, etc. Anybody know? Anybody seen one before?

At that size it could be a wind-up key for something, too - industrial clock, Stuart Little's car, etc.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Oh yeah, I always forget about those. In that case the DOE wrench is just decorative?

 

[Username already in use]

That little guy could technically pass in the combination wrench thread as well.

 

[d42jeep]

Oh yeah, I always forget about those. In that case the DOE wrench is just decorative?

My neighbor texted me this picture yesterday. I don’t know any of the details but the DOE on the right looks like a Williams Superrench to me.
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

My neighbor texted me this picture yesterday.

Now that's just a crime! HAHA. Just kidding. You've seen my laptop bag and you know my feelings about re-purposing. Better that than smelted down (although the CINC-HOUSE would put the nix on patio doors!). Antique wrenches (buggy, farm implement etc) are very popular as pulls on restomod furniture.

 

[d42jeep]

Username sent me this Barcalo DOE set with holder. They came out of the evaporust today and they look unused. I couldn’t be happier with them!
-Don