Elegant little Elora

[Clipper]

Another one from amongst my late father's tools - "Elora 18 4-1 W. Germany" - two square drives, ¼" and 5/16".

IIRC, Dad bought this in about 1970 when he ran an 850cc Mini Traveller and the brakes got so bad, they needed constant attention. Soon afterwards he afforded himself a new car. The wrench has been hidden away in a tool box ever since and is essentially as good as the day it was bought. Them Germans knew a thing or two about mixing a good batch of steel.

These things aren't particularly uncommon. They come up on Ebay from time to time.



I particularly like the way the arm flares out at each end.

[Plyerman]

It is rather elegant looking. Very nice. Naïve question here, but what would the square drives be used on?

[Papaw]

Brake bleeders?

[Clipper]

IIRC, it was used on the so-called "snail" adjusters. You had to periodically wind them on another notch. Later ones (and more up-market contemporary ones) had a mechanism to adjust automatically when the over-travel became too great.

[Lostmind]

Ford brakes had square brake adjusters. Many makers of wrenches had a model . That's a nice wrench