WW X2270

[turnnut]

gibsontool,  you have to think positive when buying an old tool.

think about why you want that tool, then tell yourself that it is better to buy it, than to buy
a hamburger with a drink that you will lose the next day, but you would still have the wrench.

[gibsontool]

I allways think positive when I'm buying, it's after the fact that I question my decisions.
  I like your way of thinking, it makes a lot of sense.

[eddie hudson]

It's not how much you pay for something, it's how much you want it. I have a bunch of WW stuff but if the price was $3 I wouldn't have bought it unless it was the last piece for a set. (I'm a cheapskate)

[Chillylulu]

It's not how much you pay for something, it's how much you want it. I have a bunch of WW stuff but if the price was $3 I wouldn't have bought it unless it was the last piece for a set. (I'm a cheapskate)

Me too. It took me 2 years (and purchasing numerous 3's and 4's from pictures) to find a #2 Stanley plane for what I considered the right price. Then there are the lots I buy on a hunch. I believe I do pretty well, but I haven't ever evaluated it.

It's the rare find at a great price that keeps me going.

I like the WW stuff. I've found that in retail stores like antique malls or junk stores WW tools can be found inexpensively piece by piece.  But if there us a group of them the price gets steep pretty quickly.

Chilly

[lauver]

HeelSpur,

That is an interesting lug wrench.  What is the length across both handles?

Just looking at it, I can't imagine being able to apply more than 30 to 40 ft/lbs of torque with those short-ish looking handles.

[HeelSpur]

HeelSpur,

That is an interesting lug wrench.  What is the length across both handles?

Just looking at it, I can't imagine being able to apply more than 30 to 40 ft/lbs of torque with those short-ish looking handles.

Its 10 1/4", I suspect a person had to be pretty darn stout to loosen up the nuts.

[lauver]

HeelSpur,

Maybe a tire iron was used with the lug wrench (i.e. slipped thru one handle) to break the lug nuts loose.  The tire iron could easily double the torque of the lug wrench.  Or, maybe the tire iron was used to break the lug nuts loose & tighten them up while the lug wrench was used to spin them off & on.

Of course, I could be wrong....

[mvwcnews]

<snip>
I have seen old ads for this particular wrench, and have been trying to find those ads
to pinpoint the year of manufacture.

It has Pat. Oct. 22, 1918 on the shank so is sometime after that.  That leaves the tail end of the teens & most of the 20s for your search range.
My tries so far turned up a circa 1916 Walden Worcester "new product announcement" for an "L" handled socket series 40xx where the last two digits are the size in 32nds & the sizes range from 7/16ths to 7/8ths with a couple  sized in 32nds. It is pretty indistinct in the view one gets from a google books digitization, but here's the link if anyone is curious -- I'll stick it in the Sept. MVWC Newsletter as well.  ( https://books.google.com/books?id=DJc7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA100&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U14C3trxmV4Up9GkFG5w-q7n1Efmw&ci=367%2C458%2C305%2C818&edge=0 )