Anyone missing a Cresent wrench??

I split the old fordson last night and saw something shiny laying on the bottom of the clutch housing. The tractor came frome west Virginia. I know it had a new engine put on at some point. I guess he left a wrench behind.

Funny how things come around isn't it

For future abjustments! Very nice guy to think of you. How about you
frame it and put it on the shop wall? This is NOT the first time. On
the farm the 300U my dad was doing something under the hood. NOW a
couple of days latter HE is busting MY chops about a couple of missing
tools. TWO YEARS latter I was changing the oil and tighten the
generator belt just a tweek. "HeyPop"!!!!! Are these the two
wrenches you think I lost????? Laying between the valve cover and the
exhaust manifold are a 1/2 box and a 9/16 box right where he left
them. That is why I have several "extras" just in case. He he

When I work on things, I always have spare parts and lose tools too.

When I rebuilt my 42 JD H, I found a open end wrench in the crankcase. It fit the oil lines going to the main bearings.
Son of the PO said an old man used to work on the tractor for them.
Richard in NW SC

A bit over a year ago I was putting a waterpump on my 986 and had the radiator shroud off. When finished I could not find ny SK slip joint pliers with green handle grips. Must be inside shroud but could not see or wind with magnet. Hole I am not the next to remove waterpump.

I found a 3/4 inch Craftsman combo wrench in the gas tank of my current D17....years after I bought it. Maybe dropped while checking fuel level? IDK

In the Air Force they are very fussy about leaving tools behind, over the years there have been aircraft lost and crew killed because a tool lodged somewhere and jammed a control surface. To support this
program every tool used on the flight line is engraved with a number identifying the wing, squadron and tool box it came from. The wing I was stationed at was in the process of upgrading to a new weapons
system so we were changing out all of our aircraft in about an 18 months as well as getting A.G.E (Aerospace Groundsupport Equipment) to support the new tasking. One wing out in the west was sending us
equipment and aircraft we didn't think meet the standards outlined in the Technical Orders. When this is the case you can fill out a R.O.D. (Report of Discrepancy) allowing the repair cost and out of
commission time being charged to the losing wing. We did that and it touched of a "Urinary Olympiad" (A.K.A pi$$ing contest). A few weeks later the wing out west received one of our Aircraft and they did the
required acceptance inspection and found tools loose in the Airframe, they filled out a R.O.D. and sent the tools as evidence to support their claim. When the R.O.D. and tools hit our maintenance Q.A.they were
a bit offended but did an investigation as required. They cleaned the tools trying to find the engraving to determine where the tools came from and low and behold they all had markings from the other wing. The
Aircraft in question had been assigned to them before us so we answered the flight safety inquiry pointing out where the tools came from and that they must of been rolling around in the airframe for the 4 to 5
years the aircraft was stationed with us. Didn't seem to have to many problems with them complaining about our stuff after that.

I had a friend who lost some oxen in a barn fire years ago. In the stalls where they had been, he found stomach magnets with
sockets and wrenches attached to them.

Family reunion around 1950. Some small boys, younger than me,somehow had Daddy's pliers playing with them. BIL had a 1949 Dodge coup in the yard. Boys took the cut off tomato can BIL was using for a gas cap and dropped the pliers in the tank. Car was traded off with the pliers still in it.

KEH

I took an 18" Crescent wrench and a ball peen hammer to the field to work on something, and for the life of me, I couldn't find them the next day. You'd think an 18" Crescent would be pretty easy to find, but they're still out there somewhere.

Bought a 1930 model L Case from a family. Found 1/2 dozen end wrenches in the gas tank. The tool box is near the filler opening...my guess is that kids took
them from the tool box and dropped them in the tank.

A little back history of this tractor, from what I remember. It belongs to the father I law of a guy I work with and have known for about 10 years. His father in law is in his early 70s. His great uncle bought this tractor new and used it on the farm. It got sold to an ol boy and he did some work to it. He had a new engine for it and swapped it out. Don't know about how many years went by. He got in touch with the guy that had the tractor and drove back to west Virginia and bought it, got it to Texas. It was running and burning oil, he had new rings put in. It sat in his barn for a while. The manifold had a big crack in it. He got a new manifold and I helped him put it on. We pulled it and got it running, didnt run long and it is spitting water out of the radiator. Went over a few weeks later to look at it and we changed the oil, milky. Hauled it to my house, pulled the head off and it had a blown head gasket, and here we are. Got the engine tore down and going to the machine shop. Going to rebuild it with a fresh coat of paint. Sorry for the long reply

I was working on my 2000 Ford Explorer and I dropped a 11 MM, S-K socket under the air-cleaner box. I can't figure out how to get the box off the fender well, so it's still under it.

Some stuff like that you find the bolts up in the fender well or such. Try taking a fender off! You need to remove the whole front bumper. There is one bolt right behind the edge of 5he bumper. Been there.

wisbaker, my dad was an aircraft mechanic in WWII.
He said they checked out their tool box every morning.
When they did, they inventoried it and signed for each tool.
At the end of the day they checked it back in and it was
again inventoried. If they weren't all there, no plane they
worked on left the tarmac until the missing tool was found.
He treated his tools at home the same way.
I wish I had such discipline, but alas, I still lose tools.

Thanks for finding my wrench! I've been looking for that for the longest time! I'd ask you to ship it to me, but I finally broke down and bought a new one just last week.

I pulled the radiator out of my son's Bronco last summer so I could get to the AC condenser that was leaking. Pulled out the radiator and found a curved needle nose pliers that had jammed through the condenser. Looked back through the pile of invoices from the PO in the glovebox and found a $400+ bill for replacing the radiator. Bet that's when the AC quit working.

Pulled the intake manifold on a small block chevy and found a pair of pliers sitting in the lifter valley. The rubber handles were deteriorated but the pliers well oiled and worked great.

Anyone missing a Cresent wrench??

I noticed that you used the "Brand Name" of a popular adjustable wrench. For a good part of my life that's the name we used in my circles. We
had a standing joke about a "metric" Crescent wrench. Well laugh or not, I got one a while back that wasn't the Crescent brand, but was a look
alike and had the addition of marks on the jaws indicating the size of the opening. Sure-nuf, on one side it said metric and was marked in
millimeters. Ha!

When I was working, my company had numerous self designed, produced, and marketed products. Locally we referred to them by the brand
name because that's how we knew them. The company used the brand Kleenex as an example......who refers to a box of facial tissues as facial
tissues? In my circles the term is "Gimme a Kleenex". Company said that you can loose your patent rights when the Namesake becomes the
generic term. Okayeeeeee.

I can see that happening easily, and the crescent wrench riding forever .

my son and his pal removed 4 speed in my F250 and replaced the clutch,.trouble was they laid the clutch down on a bench and a greasey quarter inch nut adhered itself to the back side of the clutch ,,. no one seen it ,, clutch was installed and tightened down , tranny in , job completed , time for test drive,

started up ,no clutch , we started it in gear and glided into all gears into hi ,, the clutch slipped , but itwould run up like normal , depressing the clutch pedal gave different results everytime . I am thinkin "guys you got the clutch backwards ,.. " they are sayin ," NO way , we are pulling it and we are gonna find out why " that's when they found the nut ,,. it worked fine after the nut was removed ..

another one,..


800 case has ferruls for the exhaust manifold ,they came with the headset . and I recall seeing them , when my nephew held them up and asked what they were for ? and telling him how important they were , but they disappeared ,.. spent 2 days organizing and cleaning shop , figuring I would find them ,,.. bought another set of ferruls ,. . about a month later i put a new muffler on the 800 and i found one of the ferruls stickin out from the exhaust neck ,. i pulled it out easily enuf ,,. but the other is hopelessly jammed in there ,,. and is still there ,.. the 800 runs fine..