The original multi-wrench?

[volvo92906]

Anybody have any idea if this is anything special? Got a box of old tools a while back, finally picked stuff out. Found some useful things, found some odd things... This is one of them I think I have an idea of what it is, but if anybody has some more info, cool.

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[Rezeppa]

Idk I have that same thing somewhere I always figured it was from the late 80's early 90's and junk

 

[DARKSCOPE001]

My "oppinion" its a bike tool. I have seval of them myself. I think most of mine are import knockoffs. but its called a dogbone wrench (it looks like a dogbone, duh! ) They are designed to be carried in your saddle bag for quick fixes on the go.

Just my 0.02
Sean Scott

 

[volvo92906]

My "oppinion" its a bike tool. I have seval of them myself. I think most of mine are import knockoffs. but its called a dogbone wrench (it looks like a dogbone, duh! ) They are designed to be carried in your saddle bag for quick fixes on the go.

Just my 0.02
Sean Scott

That is kinda what I assumed it to be.. Not necessarily for bikes, but that make a lot of sense. Maybe ill stop up at the local bike shop and ask them up there.

 

[RCL]

Have one just like it I picked up somewhere. Mine say Oxwall, made in USA as I recall.

 

[FiveFinger]

Yep it is a tool that I know was marketed to the bicycle crowd. They are cast and are crude but they work for that application because of lack of clearance issues and low torque requirements.

 

[woody 73]

The op made my day Back in the early 60's when I was around 10 my Father (A man who had only a few hand tools) had that tool in his small tool kit. Well long story short version I grabbed that tool and headed to our neighbors house because he had an old broken VW motor laying in the grass, and he told me I could play with it.

I put that sucker on the first bolt and gave it a pull in my small hands and that sucker I swear was made out of pot metal it snapped into two pieces.
Needless to say my Father was not a happy camper that day

Thanks for the memories of childhood, before I-pods,cordless items and the web.

 

[Wakefield]

My father had a thing almost exactly like that but says "Germany" on it. Only about 4 or 5 inches long. Broken. I think it is made of zinc or pot metal.

 

[Thumper]

Hhhmmm....it says "Pennys" on it.....if it's J.C.Penny it's probably back in the 60's.

 

[woody 73]

My father had a thing almost exactly like that but says "Germany" on it. Only about 4 or 5 inches long. Broken. I think it is made of zinc or pot metal.

Dad's tool also said Germany on it, he sure was pissed at me that day

 

[woody 73]

I left Monte a pm maybe he can shed some more light on the above multi-wrench.

 

[Monte]

these wrenches are still made today in germany, they´re cast zinc i think, but they´re only for light duty work and usually are available at bicycle stores and come in bicycle repair sets.
http://www.bumm.de/produkte/mehr/ersatzteile-und-zubehoer.html

 

[Wakefield]

Dad's tool also said Germany on it, he sure was pissed at me that day

I still keep it,it is still in one piece but a hex wall in each end is cracked.
It might have come back with him from World War II so is kind of a keepsake.

 

[rsanter]

I used to use one of those as a kid in the 70s ant it wasn't new wham I claimed it for my use.
I used it on my bike

Bob