Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Branson on June 25, 2011, 08:45:54 AM
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Attached is a picture of a 6 inch Pexto monkey wrench pulled off the web. Last weekend, I picked up an 8 inch monkey wrench that looks virtually identical, except that it is marked:
SAMSON
PS & WC
MADE IN U.S.
Since I still can't access Alloy Artifacts (download too slow according to my server) I wonder if anybody here can give me more information about the manufacturer.
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You have probably already done this but maybe you need to clean your internet files, cookies, and history. Any time I have the type of problem you describe this procss solves it for me. Just a thought --- hope you solve the problem.
BTW the pic isn't showing up for me. But since the old site went away I haven't had much luck with pics
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>PS & WC
These are just the initials for the same company, Peck,Stow & Wilcox Co, AKA Pexto
The 'Pexto' martk was registered in 1914, your wrench may be from before then....
From AA: "The Peck, Stow, & Wilcox Company was organized in 1870 by a three-way merger of the Peck, Smith Manufacturing Company, the S. Stow Manufacturing Company, and the Roys & Wilcox Company"
is it this wrench? (http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/Photos/tools/pexto_adj_solid_bar_pat_cropped.jpg)
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>PS & WC
These are just the initials for the same company, Peck,Stow & Wilcox Co, AKA Pexto
The 'Pexto' martk was registered in 1914, your wrench may be from before then....
From AA: "The Peck, Stow, & Wilcox Company was organized in 1870 by a three-way merger of the Peck, Smith Manufacturing Company, the S. Stow Manufacturing Company, and the Roys & Wilcox Company"
is it this wrench? (http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/Photos/tools/pexto_adj_solid_bar_pat_cropped.jpg)
I couldn't find your picture either, but the information you provided seems conclusive. It's a pre-1914 wrench by Peck, Smith, etc. Thanks for identifying it for me.