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Offline coolmercury

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Stubby homemade wrenches
« on: May 21, 2019, 02:25:13 PM »
These wrenches are both one inch, the Craftsman is normal thickness and the Blackhawk has been ground down.  No, they were probably not broken as they look to have been cut and then smoothed on a wire wheel.  Obviously someone had a need for these to destroy the original wrenches.

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Re: Stubby homemade wrenches
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2019, 02:54:48 PM »
Sad to see, but I also I have a whole drawer full of those cutoffs. Years ago I started buying cheap Taiwanese and POC wrenches and used those for special jobs. HF used to sell bulk packs of the most common sizes in metric and SAE, and those came in quite handy when the need arose to cut one up.

That said, I'd be hard pressed to cut up a Blackhawk -- or even a C-man raised panel, unless absolutely necessary.

Offline ken w.

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Re: Stubby homemade wrenches
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2019, 04:31:03 PM »
Been there. Done that. I even cut down a nice adjustable wrench out in a pasture once so I didn't have to drive 30 miles back home to get a shorter wrench. Sometimes it happens.

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Re: Stubby homemade wrenches
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2019, 04:46:18 PM »
Sung to the Sesame Street tune of "One of these things, is not like the others...."

Can you guess the stand-in for the missing size in this ATD cheap-o stubby set?

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Offline slip knot

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Re: Stubby homemade wrenches
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2019, 05:32:22 PM »
I've got a 9/16 short snappy that I ground the head @1/2 down to fit a nut in a hydro tank. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. O:-)

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Re: Stubby homemade wrenches
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2019, 06:30:52 PM »
Sung to the Sesame Street tune of "One of these things, is not like the others...."

Can you guess the stand-in for the missing size in this ATD cheap-o stubby set?

 :))
Looks familiar, it's not a williams is it ?
« Last Edit: May 21, 2019, 06:32:43 PM by hickory n Steel »
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Offline ken w.

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Re: Stubby homemade wrenches
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2019, 06:31:56 PM »
And just think if this was posted on GJ. Those tool polishers would be having a meltdown over doing this.  :))

Offline oldnslo

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Re: Stubby homemade wrenches
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2019, 07:03:48 PM »
Looks familiar, it's not a williams is it ?

That would be a quality Japan inspired (formerly) Sears combo wrench.

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Re: Stubby homemade wrenches
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2019, 07:36:39 PM »
Gotta do what you gotta do to get the job done.

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Re: Stubby homemade wrenches
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2019, 08:13:03 PM »
Looks familiar, it's not a williams is it ?

That would be a quality Japan inspired (formerly) Sears combo wrench.
I had one of those that I tossed In a box of random junker tools i sold in my yard sale last year.
A lot of Centech Taiwan and Bench top Japan went in that box.
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