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Title: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: lauver on August 15, 2012, 01:13:34 PM: Gang,

Just wanted to share an unusual wrench I ran across this weekend at a sleepy little pawn shop. This DBE wrench is unusual in several ways:

1) only one end is offset,

2) both box ends are the same size (9/16", 12Pt), and

3) the offset box end is broached deeper and is a different shape than the non offset end.

Here's a couple of pictures for your inspection:

(http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo109/lauver_photos/Walden2118Wrench2.jpg)

(http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo109/lauver_photos/Walden2118Wrench1.jpg)

I've never run into this wrench pattern before, but AA indicates this pattern was popular in the late 1920's thru the 1930's. AA also indicated that several OEMs, in addition to Walden, produced this patern of wrench.
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: Fins/413 on August 15, 2012, 05:06:33 PM: I always like those style of wrenches though I've never even held one.
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: HeelSpur on August 15, 2012, 05:29:23 PM: Don't believe I've ever seen one like that, it seems odd that both ends are the same size. I guess it had its purpose though.
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: rusty on August 15, 2012, 06:30:56 PM: APCO had that pattern also, and mossberg carried it for a short ime after the aquisition, but later dropped it. Doesn't seem to have been all that popular , perhaps the advantages of combining a box with an open end just made more sense to mechanics than an offset plus straight box....
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: lauver on August 15, 2012, 11:02:26 PM: Quote from: rusty on August 15, 2012, 06:30:56 PM
APCO had that pattern also, and mossberg carried it for a short ime after the aquisition, but later dropped it. Doesn't seem to have been all that popular , perhaps the advantages of combining a box with an open end just made more sense to mechanics than an offset plus straight box....

rusty,

According to AA, Blackhawk, Blue Point, Bonney, and Williams also offered this pattern of wrenches. Walden referred to theirs as "Boxtite" wrenches in one of their catalogs, but no trademark was found.
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: RedVise on August 17, 2012, 10:19:24 PM: Here is the 3/4 version, pretty stout wrench.

Brian L.
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: bleonard on August 18, 2012, 03:39:51 AM: I have some Blue Points in this pattern from the 1940`s
Bob
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: rusty on August 18, 2012, 10:24:50 AM: So...what should we be calling this pattern? DOB ? DESOB ? HOB?
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: lauver on August 18, 2012, 12:40:13 PM: Quote from: rusty on August 18, 2012, 10:24:50 AM

So...what should we be calling this pattern? DOB ? DESOB ? HOB?

rusty,

How about Single Offset DBE, or SODBE? That's what Walden called it.
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: lauver on August 18, 2012, 12:46:22 PM: Quote from: RedVise on August 17, 2012, 10:19:24 PM
Here is the 3/4 version, pretty stout wrench.

Brian L.

Redvise,

I just noticed the spinner handle in your photo of the Walden wrench. Is that a Deco 9/32" driver? I have a thread on one I recently found. Yours is only the second one I've seen. Do you know anything about the Deco brand or time frame? Were there other Deco tools?
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: RedVise on August 18, 2012, 05:42:02 PM: Lauver, I posted a pic in your thread in the Classic Auto and MC tools section.
UnfortunatelyI do not have any data on Deco, but check my posts in that thread as another Tool Talk member has a ratchet on his Deco spinner and I posted the link to that thread. Ratchet may give more clues...

Good Luck!

But hey these offset BDE's would look good on a pegboard...

Brian L.
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: HeelSpur on April 11, 2015, 06:10:25 PM: Anyone putting a set of these together? I found a 2122 today (11/16")

(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j368/wvabe/005_9.jpg)
(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j368/wvabe/006_8.jpg)
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: bonneyman on April 12, 2015, 11:07:03 PM: I wouldn't have given a wrench like this a second look in the past, but, since having recv'd a Bonney single offset DBE, I find myself liking them more and more.
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: humber2 on April 14, 2015, 04:41:33 PM: I have a 2120 available. PM me if interested please.
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: gibsontool on April 20, 2015, 08:12:58 PM: I'd love to put a set together but right now I've got too many irons in the fire.
Title: Re: Walden 2118 Single Offset Box Wrench
Post by: coolford on April 24, 2015, 05:05:49 PM: I would be interested in the 2120 5/8" wrench, I am putting a set together, well at least trying. I recently bought four of the larger sizes on EB which included 3/4, 7/8, 15/16 and 1 inch, and I had an 11/16.