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Offline Wrenchmensch

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Today's Finds
« on: October 15, 2011, 06:49:44 PM »
I came across these today, and scooped them  up.  One is a Bonney 8-inch Automotive Stillson wrench ( I've already shown the Automotive 6-incher; at's 2-inches shorter and lighter in construction). The second wrench is a Barnes Tool Company bicycle wrench with one of those square projections on the top jaw (Chas. Metz bicycle wrench below also has one, but at an angle).
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Offline gibsontool

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Re: Today's Finds
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2011, 07:32:24 PM »
What is the square projection for? I've never seen that before.
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Re: Today's Finds
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2011, 09:47:58 PM »
Kinda like the square on the end of a Ford Auto wrench, which is for the transmission and differential plug, but on a bicycle wrench? Not likely. I wonder also what it was for.
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Re: Today's Finds
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2011, 10:54:41 PM »
Maybe the square plug was used to open an acetylene, e.g. carbide, tank.  Bicyclists once used acetylene lamps for nighttime riding; water added to calcium carbide generates acetylene gas. 
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