Tool Talk
Picture Forum => 6 Inch & Under Club => Topic started by: mikeswrenches on October 26, 2012, 12:43:51 PM
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A couple of Coes 4 5/8 in. "baby" wrenches. The wife likes these and made me buy them.
Mike
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So you each have one then! I only have ONE!
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The wife likes these and made me buy them.
Excellent.
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Cool twin baby's
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That is neat. Never seen them identical, mine are different from each other. I have a feeling those two have been together for a long time.
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Hi John,
If you look real close at the bottoms of them you'll see that they are different. The one on the left is the newer one, it has the swaged on handle retainer, while the older one on the right has the screw on handle nut. Hard to see unless you enlarge the picture.
I wish I could tell you that they had been together for long time but that is not the case. I got one back in March of last year and the other off ebay a month or so ago.
I didn't post a picture, but there are also two different all metal ones that are about 5 in. long. One has a round handle with some knurling at the end of the handle, and the other, much more common one, has a kind of oval shaped smooth handle similar to the larger all metal versions, although the larger ones have a pattern on the handle.
My quest is to find one with the round handle and the knurling, I have never seen one, only a picture in Herb Page's Coes Wrench book.
Mike
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Sure she did.
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Great pair of wrenches!
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Here are a couple more small ones.
The hand vise is the smallest one of this type I have ever seen(the smallest one I have has a handle). This one is only 3 3/8 in. long and has 1 1/8 in. wide jaws. Marked Germany.
The little DOE is unusual in that it is only 3 in. long and yet the openings are 1/2 in. and 3/8 in. Rather large for a wrench this small. The offset appears to be factory made. It is stamped G.R.C. Co. A Google search shows that it was probably made for the General Railway Signal Company.
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Some of the baby Coes wrenches also have a center mark on the top of the wrench that was used when they turned the threads for the retaining nut. I have one with the center mark and one without. Different wood was also used, not sure if they were different prices when new or not.
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Jim Bode has some on his web site. One with a rosewood handle and the hole in the end is $395.00.
One with an ivory handle is $365.00.
And one with a tulipwood handle for only $265.00
I'm pretty sure Coes didn't make any with ivory handles. Not so sure about the other woods.
Mike
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Here are a couple more small ones.
The hand vise is the smallest one of this type I have ever seen(the smallest one I have has a handle). This one is only 3 3/8 in. long and has 1 1/8 in. wide jaws. Marked Germany.
The little DOE is unusual in that it is only 3 in. long and yet the openings are 1/2 in. and 3/8 in. Rather large for a wrench this small. The offset appears to be factory made. It is stamped G.R.C. Co. A Google search shows that it was probably made for the General Railway Signal Company.
I have one of those hand vises, this is only the 2nd one I've seen. Are they machinist vises?
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HS,
I don't think they are machinists vises. They were to be handheld and would hold an object while you worked on it. For instance if you had something small that you needed to file, and your bench vise was too big. You could also put this in a bench vise if needed.
I have another Goodell-Pratt that I'll post a picture of. Totally different than this one.
They aren't particularly rare, although this one is the first I've seen in sometime.
Mike
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Here is a very small Yankee No. 991 machinists vise. The jaw width is 1 1/2 in. and a max. opening of 1 11/16 in. Overall length is 4 3/8 in.
Upon closer inspection I realized that the replaceable jaw pads are MIA, max opening should probably be about 1 1/2 in.
Mike
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This is the smallest hand vise I have, or have ever seen. The jaws are 1/4 in. wide and have a 1/8 in. maximum opening. The handle is hollow so that a long wire may be held in the jaws. Maker is the Lowell Wrench Co.
Mike
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HeelSpur,
Here is the Goodell-Pratt hand vise. The two crossed pieces between the handles keep the jaws parallel. As an aside, G-P also made the same vise with a loop at the end of the handle for use by linemen. Wouldn't do to drop one of these on your buddies head. You might not get off the pole. :) I have never seen one with the ring other than in the catalog.
The length is 4 7/8 in. with jaws that are 1 3/16 in. wide.
Mike
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No markings on this one.
(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j368/wvabe/002-13.jpg?t=1357663043)
(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j368/wvabe/001-13.jpg?t=1357663040)
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I like the looks of that G-P hand vise.
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The hand vise is the smallest one of this type I have ever seen(the smallest one I have has a handle). This one is only 3 3/8 in. long and has 1 1/8 in. wide jaws. Marked Germany.
I used one of these back in the days I was making jewelry. One was issued to Civil War artificers (I haven't yet figured out what it was intended to do for artificers. Suspect minor repairs to personal weapons.)
I would think this hand vise was made to be used for gunsmithing, jewelry fabrication, or by watch makers. They're handy little tools.