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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: sumner52000 on January 05, 2012, 02:34:45 PM

Title: Spinut Ratchet
Post by: sumner52000 on January 05, 2012, 02:34:45 PM
Got a few new toys in the mail today.  Now trying to learn about one.  It is a 3/8 drive ratchet roto head type.  Shown next to a 4" for size comparison.  Any info on this ratchet or this tool company?  This is what it says.

 "SPINUT TM ---- DAV. TOOL CO. - ELDRIDGE IOWA - PAT. PENDING"
Title: Re: Spinut Ratchet
Post by: Papaw on January 05, 2012, 03:58:03 PM
Found an ad in Popular Science Dec 1979- on Google Books- 
http://books.google.com/books?id=PAEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=spinut+ratchet&source=bl&ots=AGvfxS3K18&sig=umUSD3-KBztKCSziIyH-734zDb0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FBwGT-jCGaPYiAKHoPBN&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBA

Hah! I need to remember how to make a "Tiny URL" !
Title: Re: Spinut Ratchet
Post by: rusty on January 05, 2012, 04:55:27 PM

The company seems to be Davenport tool co, who also seems to have specialized in reinventing old things. in a different PS is an ad for a quick adjust  type wrench of the type where the handle pivots and closes the jaw....

http://books.google.com/books?id=auIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA212&dq=DAV.+TOOL+CO.+-+ELDRIDGE+IOWA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sikGT7LCMMSW2AWApdGbAg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Title: Re: Spinut Ratchet
Post by: 1930 on January 05, 2012, 07:23:52 PM
Now I like that ratchet
Title: Re: Spinut Ratchet
Post by: lauver on January 05, 2012, 08:33:39 PM
I think it could be classified as a stuby roto ratchet.  Never run across one in the wild, and I don't think I've seen anyone else post one.  The price in 1979 does not seem unreasonable.  On the other hand, in 1979 I owned but one ratchet, a Crafty  3/8" LLTD with quick release (new in 1966).
Title: Re: Spinut Ratchet
Post by: m_fumich on January 06, 2012, 09:31:00 PM
Quote from: rusty on January 05, 2012, 04:55:27 PM

The company seems to be Davenport tool co, who also seems to have specialized in reinventing old things. in a different PS is an ad for a quick adjust  type wrench of the type where the handle pivots and closes the jaw....

http://books.google.com/books?id=auIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA212&dq=DAV.+TOOL+CO.+-+ELDRIDGE+IOWA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sikGT7LCMMSW2AWApdGbAg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

The wrench you speak of is just like the Cochran Speednut Wrench. I have one and used it not too long ago to pull the crank pulley on my wife's PT Cruiser. 100 years old and works like new.

(http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/Photos/tools/cochran_speednut_wrench_pend_f_cropped_inset.jpg)