I belive they made stamped hollow metal sockets of different sizes which fit into the ratchet handle.
Span On???? S'taht cool!!!! Looks like Snap On to me.....but then.....what do I know.... ....mean I what know???
Come on, all you guys can come up with are old rachets?????? What about model A hub pullers? Specialty tools for WORKING on banjo's? Double ostrasized gonculators and such.
What about model A hub pullers? Specialty tools for WORKING on banjo's? Double ostrasized gonculators and such.[/QUOTE] Got 'em all. One of these days I'mm gonna get one of those patent Marconi cameras and put on a KRW show here--imagine disassembling a banjo without breaking a sweat! Snap! Click! Done! Even Model A pinion gears!
"The perfect gift for the Do-Nothing Friend" "Designed for those who are going in both directions and a reduction gear for 'Big Wheels"! Made by Pickles Gap Creek Crafts in Conway, Arkansas I gave it to my Dad for a joke birthday present when he was my age and he usta sit and crank the dumb thing while watching the news. I wish I hadn't inherited it back so few years later... If ya hold a pencil verticle against the knob end of it you can use it to scribe elipses.
I have the same wrench. It has removable jaws. I halso have a pipe jaw, a tubing cutter jaw, a bender jaw and one or two others. I really love mine as well.
Here's a couple of pics of stuff I had laying around........... First one is of the Kent-Moore gages for setting the oiling pipes on a 216 Chevy (top picture "target" gage is one I made from an original, the others are originals): This is a Kent-Moore wrench (J933) for tightening the retaining nut on a stock '37 Chevy tranny: Here's a neat one I picked up at a swap meet. It's a Hunter, model 48L tire runout gage for checking the radial runout of a mounted tire: The last one is a tool made for greasing wrapped leaf springs, common in the 30's-40's:
My Model T didn't have any original tools when I bought it in 1986, but the 36 Ford came with all the original tools and even the plastic tool pouch for them. And the 36 came with the original tire pump still in the card board wraper.
My father has one, works great. Eiffel-geared Plierench. Finding one now is a crapshoot, especially with the extra jaws. Nicely made, with a blued finish. This is supposed to be a link to the modern version, which I haven't tried yet: http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?vertical=TOOL&bidsite=&pid=00947255000&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&subcat=Pliers Hope that worked. Sorry for bogartin' the post
The last one is a tool made for greasing wrapped leaf springs, common in the 30's-40's: [/QUOTE] Here's some instructions that I just found in my box of auto manuals and stuff.
Just check ebay, thay are on there all the time and you can find the whole set in the original box. Pretty reasonable. I've had several.
Old tools are cool. There are lots of them around and most don't fetch much. I have boxes full of them from buying lots to get one or two things I wanted. I mostly look for Stanley and Winchester but there are lots of other cool things. I like the 40s art deco gas station stuff. I also have a fair collection of the S shaped wrenches and I always like finding tools that a blacksmith made from old files and rasps.
There's lottsa old tools in Dr Bluto's Lab........ The torch is a lead thrower...... The Allen is from 1941...... You can figure out the rest.....
Here's a few I have. I couldn't find my granddad's timing light. Not a timing gun, more like a flashlight with a bubble lens and wires off the back. The AC spark plug is some kind of squirt bottle.
This has to be one of Allen's earlier testers. I liked this. The tool tray has a channel on the bottom that slides onto the radiator cap of late 40's early 50's cars. Check out the box.
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