Diamond tool & Horseshoe Question...Is this a Transition Wrench?

[MysteriousGT]

I Was Cleaning Some Diamond Wrenches up i just Purchased, and Noticed One Says "Special Alloy" With the Diamalloy logo...is this a Transition into the Diamalloy Era?...Never Seen one like this!

[john k]

There are at least a dozen Diamond adjustables hanging in my shed, and none have the special alloy stamp, now i'll have to hunt a little harder. 

[dimwittedmoose51]

That extra metal on it certainly makes that adjustable unique.  I too, have a lot of Diamond adjs, but never seen one like this.


DM&FS

[Papaw]

Extra metal? Click on the picture- that is a fold in the paper used for background.

[DM11]

I like those kind of surprises. I have a 12" one. Found it on ebay awhile back. It's the only one I remember seeing till this thread. Since they have Diamond Tool on them I doubt they are a transition wrench. According to AA Diamalloy came into use in 1931 and the company name change to Diamond Tool in 1958.

[MysteriousGT]

I like those kind of surprises. I have a 12" one. Found it on ebay awhile back. It's the only one I remember seeing till this thread. This one has Diamond Tool on it so I doubt it is a transition wrench. According to AA Diamalloy came into use in 1931 and the company name change to Diamond Tool in 1958.

Just Like the One I Have, Wonder why the Special Alloy Stamp if Diamalloy has been Used for that Long?

[DM11]

I like those kind of surprises. I have a 12" one. Found it on ebay awhile back. It's the only one I remember seeing till this thread. This one has Diamond Tool on it so I doubt it is a transition wrench. According to AA Diamalloy came into use in 1931 and the company name change to Diamond Tool in 1958.

Just Like the One I Have, Wonder why the Special Alloy Stamp if Diamalloy has been Used for that Long?

I have not a clue. Been wondering about that also. But have yet to find an answer. Hopefully some one will know.

[Lostmind]

A new catch phrase " Special alloy" is cheaper than a new product.
Probably a marketing tool.

[rusty]

The phrase appears breifly in mid 1960's advertising, so yea,...
Perhaps people were writing them asking them what the heck Diamalloy was supposed to mean?

[jh]

Any Diamond Tool that has a random number forged into it was manufactured after 1972. I worked there for 25 years.

[dimwittedmoose51]

So, where do the older "Diamond Calk and HOrsehoe Co." wrenches fit in??  My guess would just be a guess.....


DM&FS

[pritch]

Just the other day, I had need of a big adjustable and I remembered one I got from my dad. As I was using it, I was wondering about the Diamond brand, as I hadn't really ever noticed it before. That's why I love this forum. Looked here tonight and here's a thread about this very thing!

I looked around and found I had two of them, a 15" & a 10 ", but from different eras I think:



See, the logo's are different:



And the 10" is marked in MM's, too:





But then, I noticed something else. I was born in LA, and when I was a little kid, every time we happened to pass by this certain building, dad would always tell us about it being the biggest job he ever worked on (he was a plumber). As I was looking the 15" over, I saw that someone had engraved 'Arabian Gardens P, H & E' on it:



That was the name of the building! What a blast from the past! I was born in '58 and I'm pretty sure dad worked there before I was born, so if he stole that wrench from the Plumbing, Heating & Electrical dept of the finished project, it must be at least older than late '50's.

[eyeboltman]

Those are coolwrenches !  I had a 8'' one I got used from friend . back in 1980  . it look old then .  It had a horse standing up on two legs  along with the Diamond tool an horseshoe company  on it .  I was at a job site working in shop 's celler   with one other guy from the plant . He wanted to buy the wrench ,   so the next day I found it missing !      years later I am still  piss off .    All so never seen one like it again !   Thanks  nice wrenches !   

[mrchuck]

They are marked Metric because they are "adjustable metric wrenches".

[oldtools]

That's funny...