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Title: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: p_toad on September 03, 2018, 12:10:19 AM
Pretty decent condition considering.   Those little "wings" on the adjust wheel are a bear to get back in.
Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: mvwcnews on September 05, 2018, 12:13:46 PM
Trimo "NUT Guard" patent #1,012,036  (http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?number=1012036&typeCode=0 )
Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: p_toad on September 05, 2018, 08:08:59 PM
Thanks for the info.   I like this 6" size.   I'm pretty sure it's the first one of theirs i've found.   Now i'll have to keep my eyes open for other sizes. :smiley:
Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: Yadda on September 05, 2018, 09:09:50 PM
Keep an eye out for the Trimo Emergency Wrench. 
Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: gibsontool on September 06, 2018, 09:30:14 AM
OK whats a Trimo emergency wrench look like?
Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: Lewill2 on September 06, 2018, 10:06:23 AM
He might be referring to one like this. This is a Millea's Emergency Tool.
Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: gibsontool on September 06, 2018, 12:22:10 PM
That interesting, first one I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: Yadda on September 06, 2018, 07:02:25 PM
Check the second picture.

http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?pn=429088&id=31577

Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: pritch on September 06, 2018, 09:58:39 PM
I have one very similar. Not sure what brand it is and it's too late right now to go out to the shed and check.

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/gpritch/tools/moreoldtools005_zpsf7ecde77.jpg)
Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: mvwcnews on September 10, 2018, 08:51:38 PM
OK whats a Trimo emergency wrench look like?
Links in this reply go to FLICKR images.  End of the TRIMO EMERGENCY  handle unscrews to reveal a screwdriver within (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mvwcnews/8415093617).  The Gas Fitter's version (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mvwcnews/8424640766 )  with a slot in the handle & a blade to clean the slot in gas light burners ca. 1895 is even rarer (only heard of two examples in 20 years).   I was acting as absentee bidder agent on a sale where a Gas Fitter's sold & though I wanted it for myself was honor bound to let it go to the absentee on whose behalf I was bidding.
Walworth also made a 6 inch Stillson pipe wrench with screwdriver concealed within an extended end cap.  I have four variants of that one & at least one  TRIMO EMERGENCY.
Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: Yadda on September 10, 2018, 09:38:01 PM
I wasn't aware of the Walworth version orthe Gas fitter's Trimo.  More items to add to my watch list.
Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: d42jeep on September 12, 2018, 05:36:08 AM
Here is a 14” Trimo that is stamped USN on the handle that I keep in my Navy toolbox.
-Don
Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: p_toad on September 12, 2018, 02:36:58 PM
That's nice.   I'll definitely have to keep my eyes open for more (something else to erm, collect).   :tongue:
Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: Northwoods on September 12, 2018, 03:07:55 PM
That's nice.   I'll definitely have to keep my eyes open for more (something else to erm, collect).   :tongue:


I have the big brother to yours, exact in every way,  in 10" and I like to swap. 
Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: d42jeep on October 08, 2018, 07:46:55 AM
Here is a Trimo ad from 1935 and a few more wrenches
-Don
Title: Re: Trimo six inch pipe wrench
Post by: p_toad on October 08, 2018, 02:27:03 PM
Nice.   Thanks for the ad.   I feel bad now about not photographing my two other Trimo's that I found at the local Restore.    :sad: