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Identify Huge Wrench

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BobOHIO

05-06-2007 16:47:44




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I don't have a digital camera so will have to describe a wrench my friend gave me. It looks old and is huge. Bought from an industrial maintenance auction. I would say it is about 3 ft. long and weighs probably 40 lbs. It could probably take a 3" or 4" nut. The only marking I can find is a diamond shape with either a "W" or "M" inside the diamond. Anybody know the brand and what a wrench this big would ever be used for? Railroad work? Thanks

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BobOHIO

05-07-2007 20:42:12




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 Re: Identify Huge Wrench in reply to BobOHIO, 05-06-2007 16:47:44  
Thanks everybody. It is a neat piece of tool history to have. It would take a real man to work with this thing all day long. Bob



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730virgil

05-07-2007 19:56:54




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 Re: Identify Huge Wrench in reply to BobOHIO, 05-06-2007 16:47:44  
my dad had set of wrenches marked like that. i
don't remember name of them. i don't know what ever became of them either.



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rhouston

05-07-2007 13:49:29




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 Re: Identify Huge Wrench in reply to BobOHIO, 05-06-2007 16:47:44  
There are many large wrenches around here left over from the oil days around 1900.



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NC Wayne

05-06-2007 20:34:45




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 Re: Identify Huge Wrench in reply to BobOHIO, 05-06-2007 16:47:44  
A diamond with a W sounds like a Williams. A wrench that size could have been used on anything from the RR, adjusting tracks or tightening counterwight hold down bolts on a crane, or a thousand other things. I laugh when I see catalogs offering BIG wrenches up to maybe 1 1/2 inch when we've got wrenches that Dad cut out of 1 inch plate, have a 6 inch hex and weight 40+ pounds, that fit sprocket nuts on the older dozers....and they are small in comparison to others made to work on the REALLY BIG machines.

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Steve Crum

05-06-2007 19:03:19




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 Re: Identify Huge Wrench in reply to BobOHIO, 05-06-2007 16:47:44  
I have 2 old large wrenches that Dad gave me. One has LV (Lehigh Valley) stamped into it. LV's Sayre shops were 2 miles from here. Dad said these were rod wrenches that were used on the 'side rods' or drive rods on the steam locomotives.
Hang on to your wrenches, they are a testiment to what America once was. Otherwise they will become some Chinese trinket that will be sold back to us.



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JMS/MN

05-06-2007 18:34:45




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 Re: Identify Huge Wrench in reply to BobOHIO, 05-06-2007 16:47:44  
Another possibility- wrench used on a rock crusher to adjust the rolls. BTDT.



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1936

05-06-2007 17:29:26




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 Re: Identify Huge Wrench in reply to BobOHIO, 05-06-2007 16:47:44  
Stationary engine with a 6 to 8 foot fly wheel used many different sizes of one ended wrenches. Next time you are in Mt Pleasant, Ia the old thrashers has a couple of working engines.



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dds-inc

05-06-2007 17:25:54




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 Re: Identify Huge Wrench in reply to BobOHIO, 05-06-2007 16:47:44  
It comes from a time when there were huge belt driven machines in a factory. A place I know of has a few machines, one a 10 foot shear, and the other a giant lathe. they have big nuts on the shafts and such, in which it'd take a big wrench like yours.



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Davis In SC

05-06-2007 17:10:50




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 Re: Identify Huge Wrench in reply to BobOHIO, 05-06-2007 16:47:44  
The "W" is probably Williams, they make/made a lot of big industrial wrenches. The size sounds too big for a RR track wrench.



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Jim in Ma.

05-06-2007 17:09:37




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 Re: Identify Huge Wrench in reply to BobOHIO, 05-06-2007 16:47:44  
old "Williams" wrench ??



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