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Are you an engineer or just a shop nerd??
Many years on now from buying my own first one and you would not think it has been used as a hammer, bludgeon, impromptu vice for hammering, I use it when I need something to hold a watch case steady and is still my "go to" wrench. Dunno what Eric did to the steel but its just impervious to anything I can throw at it, best tool investment for years and no joke I have written it in my will that it goes with me to the next world when I croak. Right now its sitting here holding a massive Zlatoust Soviet deep sea diver watch case as I drill in two 1mm holes, super all rounder and kudos to Eric for taking a British icon and making it way better ๐ Now my big one I used to wrench off a lathe chuck from my 1930's Portass lathe, chuck hasn't been off in 90 years or more, locked the shaft, engaged the girder wrench on the chuck jaws and bit o' rizz and off it come.
37 freedom eagles???? Man inflation sure made cheese out of that milk cause thatโs gonna be 75 simoleons to get her across the border here. 37 shmackers and Iโd be all over it.
Those imperfections might be appropriate for the era represented by the tool.
Just weld some grade 8 bolt threads on instead of the stock threads, and use a proper grade 8 nut instead of the knurled one, you'd be able to throw a wrench on her for more torque, and the threads wouldn't pull put as easily. You could size up the threads too to say 3/8" thick for even more clamping force. Last note it needs a hole at the bottom of the handle to hang it on a belt or the wall
I get that this was 4 years and pre covid ago, butt – what if the tool was reversed, so it was under the square, pushing up into it rather than up "away" from… ( That's how I still use the old one I have down here in New Zealand)..
Plus you said the thread was already compromised – those two "things" would even the score me thinkum – but a handy solid tool to have…
Youโve run a laser before havenโt you. Just the couple words talking about the kerf and getting the nest right. No one outside my work would know what a nest is.
You use that piece of junk
He makes a small one, one for the Mrs due to a familiar size of the cock-ford dolle
Now on the old tool about the milling of the letters, if itโs vintage wouldnโt you want it to look a little more beat up and rustic looking instead of super clean lettering?
THAT is why I got a Craftsman knuckle buster…Lifetime guarantee – who knew it meant the Life of Sears? I add on an additional 2 feet to the handle via cheater pipe…or I beat on it with a 3 lb ball peen hammer on the handle end. Not broken yet. As for the antique wrench what if those threads were fine threaded vs coarse threaded – would that not give more strength to the clamping force?
You can pick me and display it on your wall. ๐