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Title: dumpster diving paid off
Post by: p_toad on May 22, 2019, 03:17:49 PM
picked these up a while back...cleaned them a tiny bit on the brass wheel.   Wish i had found more.   :undecided:
Title: Re: dumpster diving paid off
Post by: p_toad on May 22, 2019, 03:18:42 PM
second set... 
Title: Re: dumpster diving paid off
Post by: p_toad on May 22, 2019, 03:19:29 PM
and one lonesome george - didn't really see any markings.
Title: Re: dumpster diving paid off
Post by: international3414 on May 22, 2019, 04:44:11 PM
what are those metric wrenched,are they stainless? :huh:
Title: Re: dumpster diving paid off
Post by: p_toad on May 22, 2019, 06:24:27 PM
what are those metric wrenched,are they stainless? :huh:

They don't appear to be...just stuck a magnet to them.   Just nicely polished and very well finished.
Title: Re: dumpster diving paid off
Post by: amecks on May 22, 2019, 08:10:10 PM
Interesting metrics.  Do we know who made them?  I like when they put 12 and 13mm on the same wrench.  You know you have an 8mm bolt but some 8mm bolts/nuts have 12mm hex head and other 8mms have 13mm heads.  With both sizes on one wrench it can save you some steps.
What kind of a place threw these things out?
Al
Title: Re: dumpster diving paid off
Post by: Plyerman on May 22, 2019, 09:34:42 PM
Those metrics look sexy. What's with the not-quite-hex-shaped openings? 
Title: Re: dumpster diving paid off
Post by: Papaw on May 22, 2019, 09:42:18 PM
Those metrics look sexy. What's with the not-quite-hex-shaped openings?
Ratcheting maybe.
Title: Re: dumpster diving paid off
Post by: p_toad on May 22, 2019, 10:29:43 PM
no idea who made them, but i think that is a type of "ratcheting" wrench.   They're very smooth in the hand.   Wish i had found a full set.   :embarrassed:   I can't tell where i found them...might cause problems.   :tongue:
Title: Re: dumpster diving paid off
Post by: bonneyman on May 27, 2019, 12:10:31 AM
I found a similar double ratcheting open end wrench recently in SAE sizes. The thin, flat profile should be useful for a back-up wrench. Figured it was worth the $1.

I think I recall AA had a wrench called a Ratcho back in the early 19 teens with that broaching. So it's an old idea.
Title: Re: dumpster diving paid off
Post by: Bill Houghton on May 28, 2019, 12:28:13 PM
Always interesting, what people dump.  I found a full set of Whitworth open end wrenches on the top layer of a (lidless) garbage can in the neighborhood, back when we had a dog to walk daily.  My brother's been equipped to restore an older British car ever since.

At the very least, had I been that family, I'd have found the metal recycling bucket.  But I'm glad they left the set where I could find it.

Nice finds.
Title: Re: dumpster diving paid off
Post by: kayjayjay on May 28, 2019, 11:23:47 PM
second set...

Sexy has already been used in this thread, so... Those are pretty cool!