And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Since the responses were so varied, I thought I'd add another. I attempted to find more of these and saw that someone sold one in Germany on EBay and another person that was restoring an old Newcomb Loom from 1913 and claimed that this wrench was included when she bought it.
Judging from the size of it I'd say it's a drain plug multi function tool from back in the day for old manual transmissions, rear ends, machinery etc. All of them had square head pipe plugs in them.
Yep. I worked in a lube bay when I left school and one of those was in the tool box. There was another type that looked lke a miniature club wth lumps on ether end. That fitted recessed square holes in drain pugs - a horrible idea as it just slogged out the softer metal of the plugs.
I still have two of those drain plug wrenches you are talking about with the male square heads sticking out around a ball on both ends of a wrench for female square head drain plugs. Somewhere. Those things are like hen's teeth in this day and age and I doubt very many people would have the slightest idea what they are for.
I'm an old man on an old farm and have several wrenches of that type. They were commonly made by farm equipment manufactures to service their equipment. A wrench that would fit every nut on your hay rake, cultivator, stacker, plow, etc. Quite handy to have in the tractor's tool box when you are out in the field. ---ken
pipe plug tool - fits different size nipples
ReplyDeleteYah i have a similar slotted wrench for my gas meter - that square one looks like my sewer cleanout plug too
ReplyDeleteFireman's Municipal utilities tool for shutting off water and gas and opening fire mains.
ReplyDeleteRectangular slot is for shut-off valve at the gas meter's source.
ReplyDeleteWonder if the design was inspired by buggy wrenches?
ReplyDeleteSince the responses were so varied, I thought I'd add another.
ReplyDeleteI attempted to find more of these and saw that someone sold one in Germany on EBay and another person that was restoring an old Newcomb Loom from 1913 and claimed that this wrench was included when she bought it.
Judging from the size of it I'd say it's a drain plug multi function tool from back in the day for old manual transmissions, rear ends, machinery etc.
ReplyDeleteAll of them had square head pipe plugs in them.
Yep. I worked in a lube bay when I left school and one of those was in the tool box. There was another type that looked lke a miniature club wth lumps on ether end.
DeleteThat fitted recessed square holes in drain pugs - a horrible idea as it just slogged out the softer metal of the plugs.
I still have two of those drain plug wrenches you are talking about with the male square heads sticking out around a ball on both ends of a wrench for female square head drain plugs.
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Those things are like hen's teeth in this day and age and I doubt very many people would have the slightest idea what they are for.
These is a talisman used in ceremony to ward off harmful spells emitting from enchanted frogs.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like what I used for fire hydrants when I was a young firefighter many, many long years ago.
ReplyDeleteIt is a UTILITY WRENCH for all types of meters, gas lines valves and ETC. Carried by fireman sometimes utility guys other times.
ReplyDeleteI went and dug out the other style of wrenches so that you can all see what we were talking about.
ReplyDeletehttps://bustednuckles.net/this-is-for-c-w-over-at-the-daily-timewaster/
looks like a bung wrench.
ReplyDeleteThe official tool for Biden's "Build Back Better" campaign.
ReplyDeleteI know because it's crooked and made in China
I'm an old man on an old farm and have several wrenches of that type. They were commonly made by farm equipment manufactures to service their equipment. A wrench that would fit every nut on your hay rake, cultivator, stacker, plow, etc. Quite handy to have in the tractor's tool box when you are out in the field. ---ken
ReplyDeleteLooks like an early 1970's Dodgeball training device. If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a later model Wouff-hong....
ReplyDeleteI can't find Busted Knuckles anymore
ReplyDeletehttps://bustednuckles.com/
DeleteThat should get you there.