Vintage tools

[rmdoherty]

I was thrilled to find my SpeedeeRatch on here complete with how it works! Now I'm stumped on the one beside it; a wrench of some sort (obviously) about the same era, but no company name. There is a single U with the #15659721 beneath it, a d an 8K 29 under the head. One side says UP, the other DOWN. Between there is a gear (no pic, sorry). Any ideas? I love old tools, their simplicity, their ingenuity, their mystery.

 

[RTM]

Since it says Up and Down vs Tighten or In, I'm guessing Jack or Scaffolding.

Googling your number and wrench says its a GM part.

Lots of hits.

 

[Provincial]

+1 on the left one being a jack handle. We will need to know more about the markings and dimensions to identify the other one.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

That's a jack wrench

 

[Private Lugnutz]

He was giving GJ some nice credit for having already helped him ID the one on the right as a SPEEDEE-RATCH, Jock. It's one of the multitude of obscure ones I don't have in the Index (trying to keep it not too long...), but if you search on that name it'll come up.

 

[rmdoherty]

Since it says Up and Down vs Tighten or In, I'm guessing Jack or Scaffolding.

Googling your number and wrench says its a GM part.

Lots of hits.

I did a brief search but will try again I've managed to collect a lot of unusual and typically vintage tools whose purpose I don't know. Sometimes it's difficult to search one if you don't have a general idea what it might be. It's often quite a surprise when I discover what they're for.

 

[Username already in use]

That's a handle for a tire jack from a GM vehicle.

 

[rmdoherty]

That's a handle for a tire jack from a GM vehicle.

I think someone mentioned that as a possibility. I wonder what the jack looks like.
Another post has me wanting to go through my ratchets and compare them because I know many of them are old as well .

 

[rmdoherty]

I think someone mentioned that as a possibility. I wonder what the jack looks like.
Another post has me wanting to go through my ratchets and compare them because I know many of them are old as well .

Thank you everyone.