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Picture Forum => Picture Forum => Topic started by: Wrenchmensch on June 08, 2011, 09:53:12 PM

Title: Tool-alligator wrench/screwdriver tool
Post by: Wrenchmensch on June 08, 2011, 09:53:12 PM

This was one of my earliest finds years ago. It is a combined alligator wrench and screwdriver. It is forged, possibly by a master toolsmith. The piece is 7 11/16 " long and symmetrical along its long axis.  I have not dated this tool, and would welcome estimates about that and its provenance.

Title: Re: Tool-alligator wrench/screwdriver tool
Post by: Papaw on June 08, 2011, 10:11:52 PM

Not a type I've seen before. It would be easy for a craftsman to have made that himself. 64longstep made me a very nice heavy screwdriver by forging a Craftsman ratchet handle to an H D Smith screwdriver.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5214/5397055686_5c2a960a78.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/5397055686/)
New PHakes (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/5397055686/) by Noel C. Hankamer (http://www.flickr.com/people/nhankamer/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Tool-alligator wrench/screwdriver tool
Post by: crankshaftdan II on June 08, 2011, 10:46:35 PM

Those are some might-fine looking tools there Noel!!

Title: Re: Tool-alligator wrench/screwdriver tool
Post by: Papaw on June 08, 2011, 10:54:02 PM

One of a kinds made by our member 64longstep. We call them PHakes!

Title: Re: Tool-alligator wrench/screwdriver tool
Post by: Wrenchmensch on June 09, 2011, 07:48:58 AM

Noel:

Thanks for explaining about those neat-looking tools. I thought, when I first saw them, the wrenches were created through computer wizardry. Not so! Hats off to 64Longstep!