Tool Talk
Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: OilyRascal on June 24, 2012, 06:45:03 PM
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I found this guy, and a few of the sockets to pair, at a pawn shop a few days ago. It smells like S-K to me but I can't determine that for certain.
Does anybody have information on who made this ratchet and/or when it was made?
(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/2012-06-24_18-33-27_953.jpg)
(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/2012-06-24_18-33-38_609.jpg)
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We had a nice thread on the old forum about Penncraft and J C Penny..sadly it's long gone..
Both SK and New Britain made ratchets for J C Penny....
General concensus on GJ is that that is an SK ratchet,,,,,
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Let me get this straight? Oily, that has socket sets he stumbles over, roughly a 2-ton truck load of wrenches, more bizarre seldom seen iron than many of us have seen, is still surfing the local pawn shops for a good deal? OH Yeah, the thrill of the hunt. That must of been near the end of Penneys tool business? I have some wrenches that are all Pennens.
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Let me get this straight? Oily, that has socket sets he stumbles over, roughly a 2-ton truck load of wrenches, more bizarre seldom seen iron than many of us have seen, is still surfing the local pawn shops for a good deal? OH Yeah, the thrill of the hunt. That must of been near the end of Penneys tool business? I have some wrenches that are all Pennens.
I was in there inquiring about a Winchester model 07 .351 rifle (1906 production) left to me by my pawpaw, and the ratchet just jumped into my hand.
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>>a 2-ton truck load of wrenches...
Shhh!
Remember forum rule #1
...:There is no such thing as 'enough tools'" -P
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Do I understand correctly that Pennens and Penncraft were also JCPenney brands?
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Penncraft was a J C Penny store brand name
Pennens was a Chicago tool company..
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Ditto what Rusty said about Penncraft and Penens. Thorsen also produced ratchets and such branded for JC Penney - likely the final runs before JCP dropped out of the tool business. The Craftsman juggernaut just couldn't be overcome.