Walden-Worcester Ratchet Code K

[northwoods]

Got an oddball (but heavy and interesting) W-W ratchet No. 716 exactly like the one in Figure 85: It has the same forged in K code. Anyone know who was making rats for W-W back in 1919?

http://alloy-artifacts.org/walden-worcester-p2.html#interchangeable

 

[Private Lugnutz]

As far as I now, Walden was making all their own early fixed and detached socket drive wrenches. I have the No. 8 and No. 16 sets and they both have the same ratchet, a No. 516 (just 2 inches shorter than the No. 716), also with the forged in "K". It may have been a foundry code. Or have another meaning that has never been found or interpreted, again, as far as I know.

 

[d42jeep]

Mine has the K as well.
-Don

 

[woody 73]

Strange thing but some time back (mind is blank), I called a tool company, and asked about the forging marks and the engineer at the time told me they were a proprietary process that only the company in question could use and he was not at liberty to divulge to the public. Lots of lawyer double talk...

Such as life as they say...