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Offline lptools

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Flea Market finds
« on: August 02, 2022, 06:55:03 PM »
I'm going to to try this here, I have figured out 2 out of 3!! The one I don't know is at the top; looks like VVF-JB Co. USA. In the middle is a Snap-on M-44 9/32 Speeder with female drive broach in top handle. At bottom is a Tru Fit 1/2" L Breaker Bar.
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Re: Flea Market finds
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2022, 08:08:43 PM »
Does the Snap-On speeder handle swivel?  Or is it fixed to the shaft?  What would be the potentialuse of that female drive in either case?
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Re: Flea Market finds
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2022, 08:19:52 PM »
Hello, Al. Yes, the top handle does swivel. That being said, I have no idea of use/function!! Maybe to put a T-handle on top for stability while turning? That top handle would be tough to hang onto by itself!!
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Re: Flea Market finds
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2022, 08:39:28 PM »
Top one looks like an alignment wrench, usually came on a board with several specialty wrenches. Just a WAG
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Re: Flea Market finds
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2022, 09:50:46 PM »
The top box end wrench, looks for all the world to be a special tool for tightening-loosing the rear wheel clamps on farm tractors.  Sized 7/8 to 1-1/4, and really tight.  Access is usually  poor due to the hub design, and wheel weights.   Manufacturers knew a farmer may not have a sturdy wrench, but would surely have cheater pipe handy.   The John Deere 2-cylinder tractors also took a similar wrench to tighten the flywheel clamps,  which were down behind the big external flywheels. 
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Re: Flea Market finds
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2022, 06:32:07 AM »
Top wrench could be made by Jo Manufacturing Company.  I have a wrench made by them that looks very close, and is marked "JOBE".  They also used markings joel, joex, jote, joar, jotite, jomite, joic, jotru, and jomi
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Re: Flea Market finds
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2022, 08:55:56 PM »
That box wrench, to me it looks like a WF.  This was a Plomb tool ID for the WW2 Wright Field military contract. It could be for an aircraft engine.