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I was down in the basement this evening on my knees looking through some drawers for combination wrenches to picture and post I heard a crash and a shelf full of wrenches tipped over and nearly buried me alive. Guess I will have to start wearing a hard had when in the wrench dungeon.
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/message-board/wrench-avalanche-1.jpg)
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/message-board/wrench-avalanche-2.jpg)
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Hope you're not hurt!
but WOW
Nice view! I'll be studying these pictures tomorrow.
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That looks like a narrow escape. Those are big enough to do some damage.
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I have to show this to my wife. She thinks I am the only guy that "Keeps every tool he buys." Looks like I'm a novice. Good Post. rnb
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Had the same thing happen to me once.
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I bet could hurt.
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Just to see if there are any farm boys on the list, put the things with the stars sticking out of the top bucket in the what's it. They are not tools.
Except for the ones on the floor, you do have a good sorting system going.
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Are the wrenches ok?
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(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb373/johnsironsanctuary/SGWarning.jpg)
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1. I dont know what a basement is. Florida boy!
2. I wish I had a basement like that.
3. If you remove the frying pans, you will have plenty of room.
"Are the wrenches ok?" Too funny !!
Brian L.
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A word of advice (collect lighter wrenchs) Thats wrenchs that weigh less not wrenchs for lighters. What a confusing language we use.
Glad you escaped unscathed.
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I think I have had a glimpse into my future!!! Glad you dodged the avalanche.
Jim
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Perhaps it is time for Maximum Capacity signs on the shelves LOL!
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If that's a HINKLE in the top photo (the one nearest the frying pan bucket under the bronze MASTERWRENCH), I've got some info about the maker in the September MVWC newsletter.
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If that's a HINKLE in the top photo (the one nearest the frying pan bucket under the bronze MASTERWRENCH), I've got some info about the maker in the September MVWC newsletter.
Good eye Stan, It is a Hinkle self adjust and the bronze Masterench type is marked VIKING Mfg. Co. - K.C MO. Reverse is marked PAT. PEND.
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/message-board/hinkle-and-viking-wrenches.jpg)
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Bus,
You got some cool stuff! Have anymore pics of your collection?
Skylab
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Momma don't 'low no avalanches roun' here![/center]
These are strays and outcasts destined, as far as I know now, for the melting pot. (They are too heavy to move around, let alone lift into the rear of an SUV).
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Looks like you have to many wrenches on the shelf, I guess ile have to take some off your hands for you. Just send em my way.
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..They are too heavy to move around....
NEVER! How do you eat an elephant?
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Looks like you have to many wrenches on the shelf, I guess ile have to take some off your hands for you. Just send em my way.
I'm agreeable, but let's agree on a per pound price first, and there is a 100 pound minimum!
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NEVER! How do you eat an elephant?
I believe the first steps involve locating and catching an elephant that wants to be eaten.
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Bus,
If you are really going to send them to the melting pot, how about selling them by the pound? Or try $20 for a mystery Large priority box + $12.50 postage. I'll bet that if you donated a pile to Tooltalk for the weekly wrench giveaway, Dispatcher Papaw could finagle a way to get them to Texas. We all know how the stash can get out of hand and especially in your case. People with OCWCD should not come in contact with large quantities of free or near free wrenches. Just remember, friends don't let friends scrap wrenches.
John
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It is not Bus , but Wrenchmensch with the scrap pile.
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Methinks Wrenchmench is an awfull tease. He can't scrap an old wrench anymore than the rest of us can, because it just *might* not be what he thinks, and therefore it just *might* be the rare special one.... ;P
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Rusty:
Truth is these wrenches have been "judged, and found wanting". My problem is inertial, or so I say to myself.
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I'd just as soon give up a body part as take my wrenches to a scrap dealer. BTW just the handle end nuts on some of those monkey wrenches will cost $30 or so if one of the tool restorers has to make one.
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These are strays and outcasts destined, as far as I know now, for the melting pot.
Are any, or all, of them for sale?
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These are strays and outcasts destined, as far as I know now, for the melting pot.
Are any, or all, of them for sale?
Here we go again!
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These are strays and outcasts destined, as far as I know now, for the melting pot.
Are any, or all, of them for sale?
Here we go again!
YES, I agree. The ask was designed to "stop it". Having tackled much more logistically complex problems in life I feel good saying I will give them a home, or find them one.....no expense to wrenchmensch
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Sorry Bus, I have been suffering from cerebral flatulence for the past week or so.
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Ratchets? where are the ratchets,,,,,,,??????
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Ratchets? where are the ratchets,,,,,,,??????
Here's a few:
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/message-board/ratchets-7.jpg)
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/message-board/ratchets-9a.jpg)
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/message-board/ratchets-9c.jpg)
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/message-board/ratchets-9b.jpg)
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/message-board/ratchets-2.jpg)
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/message-board/ratchets-6.jpg)
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/message-board/ratchets-3.jpg)
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/message-board/ratchets-4a.jpg)
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/message-board/ratchets-5.jpg)
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/message-board/ratchets-8.jpg)
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Ahhhhhhhh, thanks!! I'm not sure what is wrong with me,,,but I love ratchets.
I just bought a 3 piece tool box because it had about 14 ratchets in the 1000 lbs of made in the USA tools in the 3 piece roll-a-way that I just bought yesterday.
What am I gonna do with a 3/4" air impact wrench with 31/2"S-K sockets down to 1"???
about 1000lbs of tools overall, just to get to the "ratchets".
I may have to check into AL-ANON cause I am definitely an addict!!!!!!
As for the refrigeration wrenches you show,,, there was a "Bonney" refrig in the box.
I put it with the "other" same type refrig types.
I like Bonney, as they are no longer making tools.
Thanks immensely for the ratchet photos,,,,as it calmed me down,,, and the straight jacket I wear when sleeping now will fit again!!!!
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Bus seems to have enough refrigeration wrenches to fix every refrigerator in Texas ;P
Bus, what is the neat wood handle cog type ratchet in the last picture on the right side above the tagged ratchet?
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Bus seems to have enough refrigeration wrenches to fix every refrigerator in Texas ;P
Bus, what is the neat wood handle cog type ratchet in the last picture on the right side above the tagged ratchet?
It's not marked and I have never found a patent or any other information. Have you seen a similar patent.
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Bus in the picture of the wrenches on the wall is a rusty 6 point hanging on top of a red one. Can you ID it as I have 1 and no info on it. Thanks
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It's not marked and I have never found a patent or any other information. Have you seen a similar patent
The earliest patent I know of for a ratchet (which you seem to have a nice example of ;P) is also the last one I know of with an exposed external face gear and pawl. So the most I can do is speculate it is before 1850's and perhaps french from the pawl's curvy brass style.....
I asked mostly because it is a very striking ratchet :)
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It's not marked and I have never found a patent or any other information. Have you seen a similar patent
The earliest patent I know of for a ratchet (which you seem to have a nice example of ;P) is also the last one I know of with an exposed external face gear and pawl. So the most I can do is speculate it is before 1850's and perhaps french from the pawl's curvy brass style.....
I asked mostly because it is a very striking ratchet :)
Yes especially when it strikes you in the head
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Bus,
That's a very nice collection of stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Skylab
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Bus in the picture of the wrenches on the wall is a rusty 6 point hanging on top of a red one. Can you ID it as I have 1 and no info on it. Thanks
The red one is an International Harvester combine cylinder turning wrench but I don't know what the top one is for (there are actually two of them hanging there).
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It's not marked and I have never found a patent or any other information. Have you seen a similar patent
The earliest patent I know of for a ratchet
That's the one on the left with the tag, It's Z. W. Avery's patent of March 13. 1847, patent No. 5,009. It was assigned to Benjamin Webb and is marked: "Webb's Patent 1847". I would love to find at least one of the inserts.
http://www.datamp.org/patents/advance.php?pn=5009&id=13679&set=12 (http://www.datamp.org/patents/advance.php?pn=5009&id=13679&set=12)