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Offline BobB

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Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« on: June 28, 2011, 08:18:59 PM »
Any opinions out there on Wright tools...sockets, ratchets, and pull handles

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Re: Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2011, 09:15:04 PM »
pretty good stuff, I keep all I find.

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Re: Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2011, 09:19:48 PM »
Keepers. Let's see some.
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Re: Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2011, 08:16:08 AM »
Any opinions out there on Wright tools...sockets, ratchets, and pull handles

Bob B

Wright started in the late 1920's making quality tools. Sometime after WW II they started making only socket tools. They made sockets for Billings and Crescent among others, under contract. They are still in business today and take pride in selling only tools made in the USA. Definetly a stellar tool company.

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Re: Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2011, 12:07:10 PM »
To me there keeps, granted I only got a few of em.
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where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
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Re: Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2011, 03:09:03 PM »
Absolutely first rate. Wright is a highly-respected industrial brand.

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Re: Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2011, 12:41:30 AM »
Good tools. See them on a lot of industrial sites I work at around the country. Have a few myself. Good industrial grade tool.
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Re: Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2011, 12:55:13 PM »
I don't know how they are rated in the trades, but in my book, they are 1st class.  I especially like their ratchets and flat wrenches.  Their sockets are not bad either.

Also worth knowing, Wright made contract tools for the U.S. government and companies like International Harvester and Montgomery Wards, just to name a few.  Their contract production tools are every bit as good as their Wright branded tools.
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Re: Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2011, 08:34:42 PM »
My step dad gave me a set of Wright's in 1958 or 59.  I stilll have them and use them.  In my opinion, and it's only my opinion, they are as good as Snap On.
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Re: Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2011, 08:48:14 PM »
Out standing tools. They took the beating of working on heavy equipment with no complaints. I have ratchets we used for 40 years on the farm that work as good as ever.

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Re: Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2011, 09:36:29 AM »
Very good brand, no two ways about it!

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Re: Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2011, 01:44:58 PM »
My step dad gave me a set of Wright's in 1958 or 59.  I stilll have them and use them.  In my opinion, and it's only my opinion, they are as good as Snap On.

Chopper1,

Could you post a photo or two of your 1958/1959 wright tool set. I'm especially interested the ratchets, breaker bars, and sockets.
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Re: Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2011, 02:29:05 PM »
I don't know how they are rated in the trades, but in my book, they are 1st class.  I especially like their ratchets and flat wrenches.  Their sockets are not bad either.

Also worth knowing, Wright made contract tools for the U.S. government and companies like International Harvester and Montgomery Wards, just to name a few.  Their contract production tools are every bit as good as their Wright branded tools.

They are still making some tools for the mechanics working in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Re: Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2011, 02:48:55 PM »

Chopper1,

Could you post a photo or two of your 1958/1959 wright tool set. I'm especially interested the ratchets, breaker bars, and sockets.

Gary,
I'm proving to myself that my memory isn't what it use to be, I got them later than I remembered.  Before becoming involved with tool sites I never paid attention to what was stamped on the tools.  The set has a date code of "63" and not the letter code of "C".  According to AA 1961 should have been the last year for showing the numerical date code.  If you still would like pics I can get them tomorrow or over the weekend.
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Re: Wright tools-----Keepers or Scrap Iron
« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2011, 05:15:03 PM »
We all want to see the pictures!
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