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Farm and Implement Wrenches and Tools => Farm Implement Wrenches and Tools => Topic started by: Lostmind on August 10, 2013, 02:27:10 PM

Title: Champion OK wrench
Post by: Lostmind on August 10, 2013, 02:27:10 PM

I found this old thread , but it didn't have a wrench like this.
http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=1444.0
Not a lot on google , other than one listed on ebay.
So it's not a one of a kind!
5/8" x 11/16"  x 8" long.
looks like a part of a set , 59 on back.
Any info ?

Title: Re: Champion OK wrench
Post by: rusty on August 10, 2013, 03:36:26 PM

Well that's interesting.

Your wrench combines 3 unidentified marks, the OK, champion, and the triangular raised panels on each end......

hmm

not a clue...

Champion Corp of Hammond, Ind was using "OK Champion" to identify tillers tho....
So perhaps this one is an impliment wrench....

Title: Re: Champion OK wrench
Post by: HeelSpur on August 10, 2013, 03:52:47 PM

Now this wrench has the same odd triangle features as the one I had posted awhile back, wonder if there's a connection.
http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=8304.0

Title: Re: Champion OK wrench
Post by: jimwrench on August 10, 2013, 07:36:50 PM

 Believe the Champion Corporation of Hammond,In is the correct ID. Pete shows one in his vol I and it appears to have the diamonds. champion potato digger.

Title: Re: Champion OK wrench
Post by: wrenchguy on August 10, 2013, 08:35:21 PM

champion planter, digger and cutters were manufactured there.  i guess its correct to call a contraption to cut potato s for planting a cutter?  help ????

Title: Re: Champion OK wrench
Post by: leg17 on August 11, 2013, 12:25:03 AM

Without the benefit of holding it in my hand, I would agree that it is Eberhard.
Google 7338(A,B,C,D)

Title: Re: Champion OK wrench
Post by: Lostmind on August 11, 2013, 08:50:59 AM

Thanks for the help. I have to work on my searching skills.
Sure looks like an  Eberhard manufactured wrench for an O. K. Champion potato digger.
Now I wonder if there is a full set.
I see there are collectors seeking the diggers, and reference to them still in business in 2007.

Title: Re: Champion OK wrench
Post by: Bus on August 11, 2013, 10:02:34 AM

Quote from: Lostmind on August 11, 2013, 08:50:59 AM

Sure looks like an  Eberhard manufactured wrench for an O. K. Champion potato digger.
Now I wonder if there is a full set.

According to Rathbone the company was started by "OK" Otto Knoerzer as the Champion Potato Machinery Co, and is now The Champion Corporation.

There are only five known OK Champion wrenches. Two are double open ended s-wrenches like yours (Nos 59 and 69).

Without Eberhard's "E" in a circle logo couldn't definitely say they were made by Eberhard. John Pope's patent that was assigned to Eberhard is a little different. As a side note this was one of thirty consecutive design patents issued to Pope on the same day.

http://www.datamp.org/patents/advance.php?pn=D13434&id=15784&set=5 (http://www.datamp.org/patents/advance.php?pn=D13434&id=15784&set=5)

(http://www.datamp.org/images/15784-1.jpg)

(http://www.datamp.org/images/15784-2.jpg)

Title: Re: Champion OK wrench
Post by: TheBigTool on October 12, 2013, 08:29:40 AM

I found this one in my collection. Any chance it shares the same history? Is it the predecessor to the Champion (cheap) brand Sears has (or had)? It has the number 503 on one end and '2' stamped (and over-stamped) on both sides.

Title: Re: Champion OK wrench
Post by: rusty on October 12, 2013, 09:45:54 AM

50x was a somewhat standard number for double ended S-wrenches, it was likely part of a set of sizes. The 500 series was split when ISN's were adopted, probably because more than one type of wrench was using the 500 series numbers. (the 500 series ISN's became the standard numbers for Set screw and tool post wrenches)
I have a few Champion marked S-wrenches as well, I am not really sure who made them (Syracuse??), but lean toward them not being the same as the OK champion ones..