Show your pipe wrenches

[Exceller8]

I picked up this 18" Rigid aluminum pipe wrench for $25. Probably paid a little too much but I really like it. Only problem is now I want more of them!!

 

[wafrederick]

Two new brand names for me!

Are they made in Germany or Sweden or elsewhere?

I have a Knipex made in Germany version,called a Swedish pipe wrench

http://www.knipex.com/index.php?id=1216&L=1&page=group_detail&parentID=1368&groupID=1496

 

[Outlawmws]

I picked up this 18" Rigid aluminum pipe wrench for $25. Probably paid a little too much but I really like it. Only problem is now I want more of them!!

I have an 18# Toledo in forged Aluminum. I'l be really happy to have it on the next piping job which is likely to be air lines in my garage...

 

[Exceller8]

I have an 18# Toledo in forged Aluminum. I'l be really happy to have it on the next piping job which is likely to be air lines in my garage...

I would really like a 14" & 24" to go with the 18".

 

[zkling]

I would really like a 14" & 24" to go with the 18".

Don't forget the 36", 48", 60", for when things get real tough.

 

[Exceller8]

Don't forget the 36", 48", 60", for when things get real tough.

DO NOT get me started!!! I'm already complete to 2-1/2" and 50mm with my wrenches.

 

[McFarmer]

36 inch Trimont I got in return for helping clean out father-in-law's shed. Nobody knew it was there, teeth in very good shape.

 

[Exceller8]

That is very nice!!

 

[rshadd]

Found this little guy mixed in with my Grandfathers tool box. It's a 6 incher made by the Erie Tool Works (Erie, PA)

 

[Exceller8]

Another cool PW!!

 

[Outlawmws]

DO NOT get me started!!! I'm already complete to 2-1/2" and 50mm with my wrenches.

Methinks you "got started" yourself with this:

 

[toolmaniac]

I got a few, mainly German made, but my pride and joy is a vintage 15 inch, TRIMO, made in the US (it looks to be almost identical, as far as the vintage, to the one LOWENDRIDER shows above).

 

[rodm1]

So I told a friend of mine who uses pipe wrenches quite often (plumbing usually) but was really excited to hear that there are pipe wrenches that are 6" inches. However, my friend wanted to know if there is any companies that still make 6" pipe wrenches in USA anymore and if they do what brands are they and where you buy them.

Called Grainger, Fastenal and even MSC industries, but no luck at all. Any help would be exceptionally awesome and I knowing I am asking a great deal, but anyone has any pictures of a pipe wrench that 6" that would be helpful as well. Thanks.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009GF3YS/?tag=atomicindus08-20

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009W77IM/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[HTGTS350]

Pipe wrench drawer, from 4" to 18" a mixture of Snap On, Rigid and HIT. The 18", 24", 36" and 48" don't fit in the drawer and the 60" lives under the bench.

 

[jeffmoss26]

Never heard of HIT, looked them up and found a whole company I never knew existed!
Are the wrenches made in the US?

 

[zkling]

I got a few, mainly German made, but my pride and joy is a vintage 15 inch, TRIMO, made in the US (it looks to be almost identical, as far as the vintage, to the one LOWENDRIDER shows above).

I keep seeing those locking pipe wrenches, they seem more common in Europe than the states. Is there a reason for that? I image they could come in handy like a large set of vise grips.

 

[Monte]

Hit is a japanese manufacturer

http://www.hittools.co.jp/

 

[jeffmoss26]

Yeah, after I read the site again I saw that.
http://www.hittools.com/template/aboutus.asp

 

[t4runner]

This just about covers it for me.

 

[Zeke]

Shoot, I'd have to got to 3 different tool boxes to line them up nice and take a pic. Let't just say that I consider them handy enough to have them handy. Need to get the offset ones though.

 

[BearCuda]

"Show your pipe wrenches"

I would but mine are very shy

 

[littletoes]

I only use an offset if I have too!

After years of pulling on wrenches, I'm so programmed that I prefer the standard ones...but just last friday, I handed an offset 14 to a guy that needed it, and was thankful that I had it.

 

[Gasgt1]

Lots of cool wrenches for sure.
I will have to round up mine for a family portrait

 

[Jbullfrog]

Here are a few of my pipe wrenches and the storage rack I made with my press and brake. I have Ridgid from 4"- 48" standard and offset from 6 - 36". The rack is a section of hog panel that I formed and stapled to the wall. I have my offsets hanging from pegs that are the scrap hog panel wire (1/4").

 

[jeffmoss26]

That is pretty cool!

 

[BullfrogJohnson]

If any of you guys that have a surplus of big chain tongs feel like selling one let me know. I need a heavy duty one that can hook my service truck crane to while repacking big hydraulic cylinders.

 

[Gmonkee]

My lame collection, I'm a part time plumber, full time home handiman.

The 8" Olympia and the 10" Mexican Proto are by far the stars of the lot. A robust tool just gives the feeling that you won't get hurt using it.
Of interest would be the Gedore stilson type made in Brasil, 60's vintage.

The rest are Asain imports, with that red 8" from Spain like another showed here. Some are clearly light duty while others are as heavy duty as I could afford. They all have a place on the job.

 

[shooting4life]

Repainted a few old pipe wrenches of mine, a couple of rigids and a craftsman.

 

[jeffmoss26]

Those look good. I painted several of mine Chevy Engine Orange which is the color Ridgid told me to use, since they do not sell touchup paint.

 

[EOC_Jason]

If any of you guys that have a surplus of big chain tongs feel like selling one let me know. I need a heavy duty one that can hook my service truck crane to while repacking big hydraulic cylinders.

Should of asked 6 months ago...

 

[EOC_Jason]

Okay, back to being on topic...

 

[jeffmoss26]

How do you have that pegboard fastened?

 

[EOC_Jason]

How do you have that pegboard fastened?

There are some strips of wood along the edges and a couple vertical strips that are screwed into the studs. Which in turn you can see the screws along the edges in the pegboard that are screwed into that.

 

[b974k]

I have Ridgid from 6" to 48" The 36" and 48" are brand new and for sale if anyone is interested

 

[rockinacummins]

Here are a few of mine. All my Rigids anyway. I have a few old vintage USA made ones somewhere else. I'm partial to the Rigids. I'm extremely partial to the offset type Rigids. Only have two 45's now but I hope to one day have a complete set of straights, 45's, and 90's.

A straight 18, a 45 offset 14, and a 45 offset 10.



And here's the daddy. 60" next to two 36's. Thing weighs probably close to 50 pounds!

 

[Jbullfrog]

Why are Ridgid 60" pipe wrenches not 5' long? They have bigger jaws than a 48", but they are slightly shorter.

 

[rockinacummins]

I wonder that all the time myself...

 

[beatcad]

heres what I got.
from the top down.
craft 14"
proto 14" (I restored)
trimo 10"
ridgid 6"
ridgid 24"
ridgid 18"

 

[the gypsy]

Hi guys a question for you experts. Why don't we see more of those pipe wrenches that are offset at 90 degrees? They saved my *** one time when the drain pipe was real close to the walls in a corner. I could not get any of my pipe wrenches into that tight spot. Now remember this I was not a pro plumber but had to solve this problem, went to the store and discovered this 90 degree offset wrench. Let me tell you it made the work alot easier. A DRAMA queen would tell it saved her life, but let's not go there. So it surprises me that me doi not see many posted. DAH?

 

[Exeter]

I'm pulling this thread up out of the deep with my latest restoration. Picked up an 18" Ridgid at a garage sale for $10.
Here's the only before pic that I snapped:

Here it is after bead blasting the handle, sanding the flats on the hook jaw, polishing up the nut and giving it some new paint. You could almost mistake it for a brand new one. But if you notice the logo, it has the overlapped D & G forming the diamond. I'm pretty sure it was made after 1955 based on the rounded bottom on the hook jaw. Does anyone know when they stopped using this logo and moved to the current logo? It would help in narrowing down it's birthdate.