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SK Wayne 12" adjustable Wrench bent handle

ickysplatt

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I love asking dumb questions. Just LOVE, so let me.start off with that disclaimer.

So was this fine Defiance Ohio forged wrench made this way with a slight bend before the head or was it the victim of some horrible accident many many years ago?
 

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d42jeep

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It’s likely that it can be straightened. I’ve straightened some Crescent brand wrenches. My S-K tools wrench isn’t bent.
-Don
 

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DadsTools

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This may be factory. I've seen it called a forging bend or 'sway'. I've handled a ton of vintage wrenches and have seen dozens of examples, a few rather severe. Somewhere in the forging or tempering process they acquire a bend. I've seen them in a lot of old Craftsman wrenches. I had a set of larger Barcalo DBEs where every wrench had a sway. I've seen a few adjustables bent just like OP's. The two clues are that the bend is typically perpendicular to the plane of applied mechanical force and the tool shows no other signs of damage from having sufficient force applied to it aftermarket to cause such a bend. In OP's wrench for example, the jaw faces look too perfect for having been cheater-piped that extremely and the bend would require a force perpendicular to the force of normal use. Not saying for sure it wasn't run over, just saying that examples of wrenches coming from the factory with such bends is not all that uncommon.
 
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DadsTools

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Here's an early carbon steel example. Also, cruise through the Alloy Artifacts site for side view photos of wrenches and you'll find a number of them. Some bends are more severe than others. I had a large Craftsman combo at one time that was so severe it should have been pulled by quality control.
 

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