John, you did a beautiful job! I love the brass pins! I am so happy you made it into a useful tool & you are wrong, you are an artist at metal restoration! Thank you!
HELO PENNY!!!!! First off I want to thank you again for thinking of the channel and providing us a look at this very unusual wrench! Our friend Bert seen one of these at a garage sale and said it came with a assortment of jaws that would clip over the pins! (I pinned his comment so people can see) Now if I should come across a set of jaws I can pop in new pins and return this wrench to the original configuration. However the chances of that are slim and the wrench works so well now and looks just beautiful! I love the Stained Glass and Pyrography work you do! I have dabbled in both and love those crafts! Again, thanks so much Penny... =D
What a great job. Those brass pins were a good idea. You are an artist and you have a good eye for knowing what will ultimately look good on any given tool.
One of the best feelings is when you start to refurb a tool and it comes apart on nice, easy to clean pieces. Great job Scout. You like lemonade? I like lemonade.
Awesome job, and like the brass look now. I have never seen a wrench like it. Very unique. Would love to find some old advertisements for it. Thanks John!
Looks like Guy W Hawkins filed a design patent in 1941 for this wrench. D130024 Boos Tool co filed a very similar design also in 1941, also Kansas City MO (bet there's a story there!) D130015 None of the patent drawings show those pins. Not much online about Super Service MFG and the only photos I could find I think are of your exact wrench. There are more examples of the Boos wrench online, but still no pins. I am suspicious that the pins were added by someone to make a custom spanner wrench.
Very nice contrast on those pins. I agree that there might be other ancillary components for that wrench. It also might be a specialized wrench used in manufacturing. The pins fit in a jig where you can't see and holds the wrench in a pre set spot to assemble muffler bearings or another specialized part. Either way it looks great. Thanks for the fun! :-)
No lightning bugs here in Idaho.....just vampire bugs at dusk... mosquitoes! Nice wrench restore! Love the brass pins! Wish you would have painted in the lettering.....oh, I don't know....red maybe!!
Lightning bugs are big here in Tennessee. About the first week of June, the Smoky Mountain National Park hosts a synchronous firefly viewing at Cades Cove. This event is so popular that they hold a lottery for tickets to it. People come here from all over the US. The male lightning bugs are the flashers and, due to the huge number and competition for the attention of a female, their flashing becomes synchronous. I know it's crazy but true. Remember that the Netflix program "Stranger Things" is based on East Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I used to work there and it does have some strange things. As a young boy in Kentucky we would catch lightning bugs and put them in a Mason (or Ball) Jar. Loads of fun running through the fields adjacent to our neighborhood and collecting them. I wouldn't think of doing that today, in fact, I won't even put any insecticides in my yard so as not to harm the insect population. The wild turkeys love the bugs.
Hello John!!!!! I have been wanting to visit Tennessee for some time now! When looking for a place to move that state just looks so appealing! Unlike where I live! LOL
John, I’ve missed you in my feed! I really enjoyed this video. I visited the US in ‘03 and I saw lots of lightning bugs as I walked back from the Arlington National Cemetery in DC to watch the USMC drill parade at the USMC monument.
What a great design. I wish they made adjustable wrenches like that again. you could really get a nice snug grip on a nut with that design. I especially like when you clean up the knurling. Nothing beats the way nice clean knurling feels.
My sister and mother used to do stained glass and they had a tool that had the equivalent of those knobs that was used to grip the leaded channels of the structure that the glass sat within. It let them make arcs and angles.
I LOVE the brass inserts! Nice touch. John, I'm having trouble with the belt sander when I try to use a makeshift platin like you do. I'm having trouble getting surfaces flat. I always seem to have a small angled facet on the face. Any tips?
Hi Brian! That is always a challenge, for flat surfaces a flat plain works best, otherwise it gets in the way! I am always walking a tight line when working on the belt sander!
Scout, i thought I've been around long enough to have seen it all, you keep proving me wrong. If I remember correctly, you do not treat your lawn; perhaps that has something to do with the lightning bugs. Thanks for always giving me something to look forward to. ( I better watch it, I might start sounding like Jack Nicholson in "As Good As It Gets", "You make me want to be a better man".)
LOL! Yes! No chemicals or fertilizer. One time I made a Weed Killer that Dave showed me from Vinegar, Salt and a tablespoon of detergent. I used that for the end of my driveway and it worked great for killing weeds in the stones. =) Thanks so much!
Scout - On the belt sander what grit do you typically start with? Do you change grits during the process? If so, what would be the finest grit you would use?
Hi Steve! A good grit to start with is 220, then go up in grits like 320 and 400 but most time the belts wear down so an old 220 grit belt that's for acts like a 320 and then 400! =D
@@ScoutCrafter only one, probably 20 or more years ago. I always thought the pins, if both were there, were used on notched fasteners or plugs that they had on some old oil barrels. I really have no idea other than that. But the one i saw was broke too.
Nice job. Following up on MagDad's lead I found US Patent 2,304,072 to Joseph Boos (1939, not a pin in sight) and a second, earlier patent to a Lyal Boos (father?/son?) 1,946,669 (1932). Lyal's patent looks like a wrench you did previously, an adjustable wrench for lug or square nuts. Thanks
A specialist wrench designed for a certain type of fixing. It would be nice to know what if was intended for. Nice restoration, it was more interesting with the pins.
I just found an old eBay listing for one of these wrenches. $25 for the condition you started out with. Funny about the lightning bugs. I’m the only yard on my block with them also. All my neighbors have “low maintenance” barren yards. No trees, very few shrubs.., boring yards with no character. They don’t deserve the pleasure of lightning bugs. I also get interesting birds because I put out feeders. Most of my neighbors are recent transplants from nearby Queens and Brooklyn. It’s as though they don’t know how to be suburbanites.
ScoutCrafter ....OMG! That’s a lot of seed! The wife and I were just joking this morning how the birds are going to drive us the the poor house bc the 10lb bag of seed bought last week is almost gone...lol I could watch the Red Bellied and Downy woodpeckers all day though. Love observing their behaviors.
I think your an artist! I have no idea of the definition of an artist, but your are really creative and unique. I like the story on the bushes, must be hard to leave that behind at some point.
=D I saw a map once of the US and what States call different things. Like we call big sandwiches "Heros" and other places call them, Subs, Grinders, Hoagies... It's funny! We call it a Pizza Pie here but if I go to Connecticut and ask for a Pie at a pizzeria they say we don't sell pies! =D
Great video John the pins look fantastic where do you get your pin stock from It’s never easy to find did you use grease on the threads or 3 in 1 it works so smooth now I have been working on the Yankee push drills what are your thoughts on lube for them It is truly amazing how many versions of wrench’s were made back in the day incredible Love it great work thanks so much 🙏 👍🛠
Hi Matt, The best thing to do is get a assortment of brass rod and then if close you can turn it down to the right size, I turned this pin from 3/8" round brass to .254 and pressed the pins in with a dab of epoxy so they won't ever move. As for the threads, the key is to polish them on the buffer then a drop of 3 on 1 will make them like glass!!!! For the Yankee, same thing! Polish the mechanism then a drop of light oil will make it smooth as silk! Thanks Matt!
LOL! Ryan! I was going to go the easy way and leave the top pin in but after dinner I kept thinking like you how cool it would be with the Brass! =D Thanks!!!!!!!!
Very interesting wrench. read the comment about extra jaws and it makes sense. Wouldn't it be great to find a complete set? Love the smooth action now that you have restored it. Great look now with the Brass also - as always, thanks for the great vid John!😊👍🏻
Great display of your art! Look, far be it from me to suggest "gilding the Lilly", but I almost expected at first to see you doing some sort of "brassy" gold treatment with the lettering on the wrench. Is that simply "over the top", could I still be bedazzled by the examples in the Clamp Challenge, or am I simply suggesting something to garrish for a an "in service" wrench?
My guess (maybe wrong) is the pins could be used for bending the framing for stained glass windows to infinite radiuses. The sides are flush enough to do that quite well.
@@ScoutCrafter Yeah, I seen that but not all tools get used as intended. If she was attracted to it her intended use may have been quite different than the mfg's intended use. I do that myself.
Pins for maybe taking bungs out of barrels? I have no idea BUT you can always put some back in if your bung gets stuck. Thanks, CS and lightning bugs here too!
Hi Lewie! I have adjustable pin spanners and they work well, if the pins were sliding it would make more sense to me... That way it wouldn't screw up the wrench part! LOL
What would you say is your most useful tool during restorations? I don't have a belt sander or a bench grinder(I would use wire wheel). I am thinking about getting into tool restorations.
@@ScoutCrafter, I just bought and old Stanley 199 utility knife. I will probably start with it. I can do most of it with hand tools. Not sure what color I will paint it.
If you left the holes open and you had others all with holes you could use multiple all used together with a length of threaded rod and stop nuts spacing them apart? May be to clamp or lift or bend something long evenly?
I was watching a video by RetroHax today and he used an angled screwdriver in one of his restorations. The screwdriver was the same one I have (straight on one end and Phillips on the other). It made me wonder what other types of angled screwdrivers are out there. Worth a ScoutCrafter video?
Do you have a lot of shade in your yard? It’s my guess that the lightning bugs like shaded areas. My neighbors don’t have any trees, and very few lightning bugs. Just a guess and hunch on my part.
My neighbors also mow their lawn down to the dirt, and I mow on the highest setting. It’s possible that the lightning bugs like the cover of the taller grass.
Hi Anna! That might be it! I leave my grass pretty high and have lots of trees! My neighbors cut down all their trees and added lots of cement... =/ Thanks!
ScoutCrafter From one website: “Female lightning bugs need soil that is easy enough to dig through. This usually only happens during summer months. The female then lays eggs in the soil and the larvae grow underground. Some firefly species in Asia live underwater, according to Ohio State, while some species' larvae are tree-dwellers.”
Nice job as always! What do you have from the General tool mfg company? I just picked up a nice complete set of vintage center punches from General, and I have a couple of other things from them as well.
General was always a good quality tool company... They have good quality tools at a reasonable price! www.generaltools.com/catalogsearch/result/?cat=0&q=punch
Hi scout,your lucky to have the lightning bugs on your property, I would spend time watching em too, do you only see em at certain times of the year ?. Now as to the wrench ,it came out nice as usual, I guess you held back on a paint job lol, is it possible an engineer modified it whith the pins himself for a special task , in my working life as a mechanic I now and again had to modify a tool just to get to that one fastener that otherwise was impossible to reach,The ears on the designers who fostered this crap should have bean on fire. I'M sure you ,and other viewers have bean there. Another interesting project Scout, thank you.Kind regards Stuart.
I think maybe those pins were a custom job put there by someone for a specific task, they are it the worst possible place and potentially weaken the jaws.
Two things I miss about the North East. Pizza, good pizza, by the slice and catching fire flies in a jar on a hot summer night! Thanks for the memories and great work on that wrench! Could it be Hostas? We had a lot of them with our fire flies!?
Hi Walt!!!! I dabbled in knife making and you are so right! I could have made my own with brass tube and brass rod and some red epoxy!!!! =D Walt! You have me thinking!!!!!! =D
Hello ISO! That is a home made pin spanner, at first I thought this wrench might double as a pin spanner but having the pins on both sides thru me... Once Bert enlightened us it all made sense! Check out his pinned comment! Thanks!!!!!!!!
The tool looks great! I have seen anything like that so I cannot figure out it's purpose but I wonder if the pins were used maybe for bending heavy wire! I am stumped but thanks for sharing this neat tutorial.
Hi John, If the pins were removable I could see more uses! The fact that it hampers the wrench function bothers me! Unless it was made for something that was used at the same time like a flanged nut with holes! =)
@@ScoutCrafter That's odd - how about the direct link to the pdf file here? pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&idkey=NONE&SectionNum=3&HomeUrl=&docid=D0130024 or maybe it's a problem with the brackets: try this: www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?number=130,024&type=D
John, you did a beautiful job! I love the brass pins! I am so happy you made it into a useful tool & you are wrong, you are an artist at metal restoration! Thank you!
HELO PENNY!!!!! First off I want to thank you again for thinking of the channel and providing us a look at this very unusual wrench! Our friend Bert seen one of these at a garage sale and said it came with a assortment of jaws that would clip over the pins! (I pinned his comment so people can see) Now if I should come across a set of jaws I can pop in new pins and return this wrench to the original configuration. However the chances of that are slim and the wrench works so well now and looks just beautiful! I love the Stained Glass and Pyrography work you do! I have dabbled in both and love those crafts! Again, thanks so much Penny... =D
You don't realise that stuff like lighting bugs to UK folks is just amazing! Keep up the good work scout UK loves ya
Even today I find those insects absolutely amazing! One of nature's gifts to us! Thanks!!!!
@@ScoutCrafter bless you
What a great job. Those brass pins were a good idea. You are an artist and you have a good eye for knowing what will ultimately look good on any given tool.
The brass pins were a Very Nice touch! Really classes up the look of an oddball wrench!
One of the best feelings is when you start to refurb a tool and it comes apart on nice, easy to clean pieces. Great job Scout. You like lemonade? I like lemonade.
Jacob... Real lemonade is amazing... People forget the simple pleasures that our grandparents enjoyed.,. Simple pleasures are the best!
@@ScoutCrafter I ment to say refurb. Autocorrect got me. I mowed my grass and the Mrs. fixed me up with lemonade and I felt good.
Great video unusual looking wrench.
Never seen a wrench like this. Beautiful. Love the brass
I have never seen a wrench like that it is very interesting and a nice job restoring it.
Looks beautiful. Love the brass really sets it off.
I now have 51 different pipe wrenches but I have never seen one like that. Cool wrench!
Awesome job, and like the brass look now. I have never seen a wrench like it. Very unique. Would love to find some old advertisements for it. Thanks John!
Hi Todd! The Boos company made lots of these (without pins) but I never saw this wrench!
I just love the work you do and the history we learn together!
Looks like Guy W Hawkins filed a design patent in 1941 for this wrench. D130024 Boos Tool co filed a very similar design also in 1941, also Kansas City MO (bet there's a story there!) D130015 None of the patent drawings show those pins. Not much online about Super Service MFG and the only photos I could find I think are of your exact wrench. There are more examples of the Boos wrench online, but still no pins. I am suspicious that the pins were added by someone to make a custom spanner wrench.
Check out Bert's comment!! (Pinned) extra jaws!!!! =D Awesome!!!
Hmmm, they both had the same patent attorney too.
Very nice contrast on those pins. I agree that there might be other ancillary components for that wrench. It also might be a specialized wrench used in manufacturing. The pins fit in a jig where you can't see and holds the wrench in a pre set spot to assemble muffler bearings or another specialized part. Either way it looks great. Thanks for the fun! :-)
Hi Mark! Did you see Bert's comment? (it's pinned)
What a neat wrench. The brass pins were an awesome addition. Now that Bert explained it, it makes sense.
Hi Aaron! If Bert never saw the wrench we would all be guessing! LOL
Very cool wrench. I've never seen one like that. Nice job with the brass pins!
Nice job John! The brass pins look great! We had 100s of lightning bugs at our house when I lived in College Point!
Every year I look forward to those and the Cicadas! =D
Great restoration ScoutCrafter!! I really like the look of the brass pins. The wrench looks better than brand new.
That's a beauty, good idea with the brass inserts! She's gonna be really happy !
THANK YOU...for sharing. Very much enjoyed.
No lightning bugs here in Idaho.....just vampire bugs at dusk... mosquitoes!
Nice wrench restore! Love the brass pins! Wish you would have painted in the lettering.....oh, I don't know....red maybe!!
Hi Christina! I had total pains to do that but the lettering was just a bit shallow! It would have looked awesome!!!!!!! =D
Lightning bugs are big here in Tennessee. About the first week of June, the Smoky Mountain National Park hosts a synchronous firefly viewing at Cades Cove. This event is so popular that they hold a lottery for tickets to it. People come here from all over the US. The male lightning bugs are the flashers and, due to the huge number and competition for the attention of a female, their flashing becomes synchronous. I know it's crazy but true. Remember that the Netflix program "Stranger Things" is based on East Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I used to work there and it does have some strange things.
As a young boy in Kentucky we would catch lightning bugs and put them in a Mason (or Ball) Jar. Loads of fun running through the fields adjacent to our neighborhood and collecting them. I wouldn't think of doing that today, in fact, I won't even put any insecticides in my yard so as not to harm the insect population. The wild turkeys love the bugs.
Hello John!!!!! I have been wanting to visit Tennessee for some time now! When looking for a place to move that state just looks so appealing! Unlike where I live! LOL
Beautiful job. Brass = nice touch.
805ROADKING brought me here. Great video. I love restoration project like this one.
Awesome! He is really a great guy! All we did was laugh that day! Thanks so much!
What a neat looking wrench I always learn so much every video thanks scout :3
Another great job done. I loved the long wire brush idea I thought the same thing for lubricating door hinges I'm guessing harbor freight?
John, I’ve missed you in my feed! I really enjoyed this video.
I visited the US in ‘03 and I saw lots of lightning bugs as I walked back from the Arlington National Cemetery in DC to watch the USMC drill parade at the USMC monument.
That sounds like a awesome trip you had!!!!!!!!
What a great design. I wish they made adjustable wrenches like that again. you could really get a nice snug grip on a nut with that design. I especially like when you clean up the knurling. Nothing beats the way nice clean knurling feels.
Tron- Knurling is one of the coolest processes EVER!!!!! =D Like you said, a good knurl is unbeatable!!
That came out really well, good work ! I appreciate the effort
What a very interesting wrench. Brass pins are a good accent!
Looks great with the brass pins!
My sister and mother used to do stained glass and they had a tool that had the equivalent of those knobs that was used to grip the leaded channels of the structure that the glass sat within. It let them make arcs and angles.
Joe! Remind me to tell you about my stained glass fun!
S.C. very nice job ... I love that pin set collection.. never seen one of those before...
Hi Gary! They really come in handy twice a year! LOL
@@ScoutCrafter well at least you have them for those 2 times... lol
I saw one of these referred to as a machinist wrench. Maybe the pins are for installing or removing a chuck or tooling on a lathe or Bridgeport.
Nice touch with the brass really came out nice John
Thanks so much Ben!!!!
I LOVE the brass inserts! Nice touch. John, I'm having trouble with the belt sander when I try to use a makeshift platin like you do. I'm having trouble getting surfaces flat. I always seem to have a small angled facet on the face. Any tips?
Hi Brian! That is always a challenge, for flat surfaces a flat plain works best, otherwise it gets in the way! I am always walking a tight line when working on the belt sander!
You did a beautiful job on a very strange wrench. Cutting the pins flush with the jaws improved it.
Hi Rick! Definitely made this wrench usable again! Thanks!
Scout, i thought I've been around long enough to have seen it all, you keep proving me wrong. If I remember correctly, you do not treat your lawn; perhaps that has something to do with the lightning bugs. Thanks for always giving me something to look forward to. ( I better watch it, I might start sounding like Jack Nicholson in "As Good As It Gets", "You make me want to be a better man".)
LOL! Yes! No chemicals or fertilizer. One time I made a Weed Killer that Dave showed me from Vinegar, Salt and a tablespoon of detergent. I used that for the end of my driveway and it worked great for killing weeds in the stones. =) Thanks so much!
@@ScoutCrafter OK. I've seen "Hints from Heloise" - I'll have to look for "Tips from ScoutCrafter" the next time I'm at The Strand Bookstore.
Beautiful wrench & good job 😃👌
Scout - On the belt sander what grit do you typically start with? Do you change grits during the process? If so, what would be the finest grit you would use?
Hi Steve! A good grit to start with is 220, then go up in grits like 320 and 400 but most time the belts wear down so an old 220 grit belt that's for acts like a 320 and then 400! =D
Stirling job mate
Really nice job! Btw, what grit sand paper do you normally use on your belt sander before polishing? Thanks
I missed it So glad to find it. Great job.
The only othet pliers like that, that I've ever seen had a busted pin too! Great Video!! Great Job!!
LOL! Bill, you've seen another! I can't even find pics of these on the web! =) The one pic on the web I think is this wrench! =D
@@ScoutCrafter only one, probably 20 or more years ago. I always thought the pins, if both were there, were used on notched fasteners or plugs that they had on some old oil barrels. I really have no idea other than that. But the one i saw was broke too.
Man that old wrench is so cool!! Nice Pop with the brass pins :]
Awesome job sir! thnx for video...
Cool transformation with the brass. If you ever find the jaws you can easily make up some new pins.
You always do such an amazing and creative job 👍
I think everything looks better with some contrasting brass!
I love Brass!!!!!
Beautiful!
That brass really adds a nice touch to the wrench. I miss seeing fire flies. There aren't any out here. - Kathie
This year they really are abundant here. I also let more of the hedges blossom! Maybe that is the reason!
Great job 👍 the fireflies must be fans too!
Nice job. Following up on MagDad's lead I found US Patent 2,304,072 to Joseph Boos (1939, not a pin in sight) and a second, earlier patent to a Lyal Boos (father?/son?) 1,946,669 (1932). Lyal's patent looks like a wrench you did previously, an adjustable wrench for lug or square nuts. Thanks
Hello HF! I have a Boos wrench... Similar... Look at Bert's comment (pinned) Mystery solved!
As per usual - fantastic job!
As always a beautiful job.
I love lightning bugs! Sweet memories of my childhood....🇺🇸🧰🥽
Very Well Done.
Thanks Gregarious!!!!
A specialist wrench designed for a certain type of fixing. It would be nice to know what if was intended for. Nice restoration, it was more interesting with the pins.
Interesting and useless
@@ScoutCrafter Yes, useless
An usual wrench for sure. great job for Penny's wrench
We are back in service.
Vaughn
I just found an old eBay listing for one of these wrenches. $25 for the condition you started out with.
Funny about the lightning bugs. I’m the only yard on my block with them also. All my neighbors have “low maintenance” barren yards. No trees, very few shrubs.., boring yards with no character. They don’t deserve the pleasure of lightning bugs. I also get interesting birds because I put out feeders. Most of my neighbors are recent transplants from nearby Queens and Brooklyn. It’s as though they don’t know how to be suburbanites.
It's our duty to nurture the wildlife in our areas! I go thru over 100 pounds of seed a month!!!!
ScoutCrafter ....OMG! That’s a lot of seed! The wife and I were just joking this morning how the birds are going to drive us the the poor house bc the 10lb bag of seed bought last week is almost gone...lol
I could watch the Red Bellied and Downy woodpeckers all day though. Love observing their behaviors.
I think your an artist! I have no idea of the definition of an artist, but your are really creative and unique. I like the story on the bushes, must be hard to leave that behind at some point.
Thanks so much Alex!
We call them lightning bugs here, too. Commonly pronounced “lite-nun bugs.”
=D I saw a map once of the US and what States call different things. Like we call big sandwiches "Heros" and other places call them, Subs, Grinders, Hoagies... It's funny! We call it a Pizza Pie here but if I go to Connecticut and ask for a Pie at a pizzeria they say we don't sell pies! =D
What a great job, one if your best. Keep up the good work SC
Thanks Wire!!!!
Another great video Scout
Looks awesome, kind of looks like a dinosaurs head with the pin placement and jaws 😊
T-Rex!!!!!!
Great video John the pins look fantastic where do you get your pin stock from
It’s never easy to find did you use grease on the threads or 3 in 1 it works so smooth now
I have been working on the Yankee push drills what are your thoughts on lube for them
It is truly amazing how many versions of wrench’s were made back in the day incredible
Love it great work thanks so much 🙏 👍🛠
Hi Matt, The best thing to do is get a assortment of brass rod and then if close you can turn it down to the right size, I turned this pin from 3/8" round brass to .254 and pressed the pins in with a dab of epoxy so they won't ever move. As for the threads, the key is to polish them on the buffer then a drop of 3 on 1 will make them like glass!!!! For the Yankee, same thing! Polish the mechanism then a drop of light oil will make it smooth as silk! Thanks Matt!
Ahh!! As soon as I saw that hole and you said you were going to plug it up i thought, dang, that would look sweet with brass pins! :)
LOL! Ryan! I was going to go the easy way and leave the top pin in but after dinner I kept thinking like you how cool it would be with the Brass! =D Thanks!!!!!!!!
Hi from the UK could the pins be used to bend metal strip or wire onto scrolls or similar or to undo a lock ring ??
Very interesting wrench. read the comment about extra jaws and it makes sense. Wouldn't it be great to find a complete set? Love the smooth action now that you have restored it. Great look now with the Brass also - as always, thanks for the great vid John!😊👍🏻
Hi Lee! I would love to see what the jaws looked like! Heck, if they were good I could fabricate some!!!!!!
I have one of the twist handle adjustables in the collection. It's way too far gone to do much with, but it's neat to mess with.
Great display of your art! Look, far be it from me to suggest "gilding the Lilly", but I almost expected at first to see you doing some sort of "brassy" gold treatment with the lettering on the wrench. Is that simply "over the top", could I still be bedazzled by the examples in the Clamp Challenge, or am I simply suggesting something to garrish for a an "in service" wrench?
Hi John! I think we are due for an over the top wrench! A little bling in the mix! LOL Thanks!!!!!
great video brother keep up the good work
My guess (maybe wrong) is the pins could be used for bending the framing for stained glass windows to infinite radiuses. The sides are flush enough to do that quite well.
UD! Look at the pinned comment!
@@ScoutCrafter
Yeah, I seen that but not all tools get used as intended. If she was attracted to it her intended use may have been quite different than the mfg's intended use. I do that myself.
Pins for maybe taking bungs out of barrels? I have no idea BUT you can always put some back in if your bung gets stuck. Thanks, CS and lightning bugs here too!
Hi Lewie! I have adjustable pin spanners and they work well, if the pins were sliding it would make more sense to me... That way it wouldn't screw up the wrench part! LOL
I understand but maybe you'll find out is was a specialized somethingorother. Who knows? Not me!
What would you say is your most useful tool during restorations? I don't have a belt sander or a bench grinder(I would use wire wheel). I am thinking about getting into tool restorations.
Bench polisher- You can mount wire wheels on it, fiber wheels, and buffing wheels... This is a awesome hobby!
@@ScoutCrafter, I just bought and old Stanley 199 utility knife. I will probably start with it. I can do most of it with hand tools. Not sure what color I will paint it.
Cool wrench. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one!
I never did!!! Not with the pins!
Desde Chile....!!!!👍👍
Hi Scout Crafter 👋👋👋very good restoration 👍👍👍I like the way you restore 🤝🤝🤝
If you left the holes open and you had others all with holes you could use multiple all used together with a length of threaded rod and stop nuts spacing them apart? May be to clamp or lift or bend something long evenly?
Hi Alex, I was trying my hardest to figure out how to adapt this wrench to other uses but couldn't. =D
Those pins are an odd thing to have on that tool..I have many lightning bugs but when they spray for mosquitoes I think it kills some of them
Mosquitoes are such a nuisance! The Carbon Dioxide traps seem to be a great way to control them!
I was watching a video by RetroHax today and he used an angled screwdriver in one of his restorations. The screwdriver was the same one I have (straight on one end and Phillips on the other). It made me wonder what other types of angled screwdrivers are out there. Worth a ScoutCrafter video?
John, Do you mean those right angled screwdrivers?
@@ScoutCrafter yes
Do you have a lot of shade in your yard? It’s my guess that the lightning bugs like shaded areas. My neighbors don’t have any trees, and very few lightning bugs. Just a guess and hunch on my part.
My neighbors also mow their lawn down to the dirt, and I mow on the highest setting. It’s possible that the lightning bugs like the cover of the taller grass.
Hi Anna! That might be it! I leave my grass pretty high and have lots of trees! My neighbors cut down all their trees and added lots of cement... =/ Thanks!
ScoutCrafter From one website:
“Female lightning bugs need soil that is easy enough to dig through. This usually only happens during summer months. The female then lays eggs in the soil and the larvae grow underground. Some firefly species in Asia live underwater, according to Ohio State, while some species' larvae are tree-dwellers.”
@@annachrissy4874 Wow! I wonder how long they are underground? Cicadas stay under for 17 years!!!!!!!!
Nice wrench do they make anything like that today
Amazing !!!!!!!
Nice job as always! What do you have from the General tool mfg company? I just picked up a nice complete set of vintage center punches from General, and I have a couple of other things from them as well.
General was always a good quality tool company... They have good quality tools at a reasonable price! www.generaltools.com/catalogsearch/result/?cat=0&q=punch
🔧Now that's a man's wrench 🛠️
I'm gonna take a guess and say the pins were to use the wrench as some sort of Spanner.
Bobby- Turns out there were additional jaws that would attach to the pins!!!!!! Never seen any for sale though...
Hi scout,your lucky to have the lightning bugs on your property, I would spend time watching em too, do you only see em at certain times of the year ?. Now as to the wrench ,it came out nice as usual, I guess you held back on a paint job lol, is it possible an engineer modified it whith the pins himself for a special task , in my working life as a mechanic I now and again had to modify a tool just to get to that one fastener that otherwise was impossible to reach,The ears on the designers who fostered this crap should have bean on fire. I'M sure you ,and other viewers have bean there. Another interesting project Scout, thank you.Kind regards Stuart.
Hi Stuart! They only come out in the summer. They are just lovely.. I think Bert solved the mystery on the wrench! See pinned comment!
Cool wrench but would be nice to find out the mystery pin reason. I did see the comment by Bert Alice’s but just can’t visualize it. Thanks
Hi Tony! If I know Bert, he will be back there with questions and maybe an offer! LOL!!!!!!!!! I would love to see the pics of the jaws!!!!
Big 👍!!!
I think maybe those pins were a custom job put there by someone for a specific task, they are it the worst possible place and potentially weaken the jaws.
OIFE- Look at Bert's comment (pinned) Mystery solved!
Two things I miss about the North East. Pizza, good pizza, by the slice and catching fire flies in a jar on a hot summer night! Thanks for the memories and great work on that wrench! Could it be Hostas? We had a lot of them with our fire flies!?
Maybe! I have a bunch of Hostas... You're right about the Pizza! =) Nothing worse then bad Pizza! =D
Adjustable pin wrench?
Next time You need a decorative pin check knife maker supply for Mosaic pins
Hi Walt!!!! I dabbled in knife making and you are so right! I could have made my own with brass tube and brass rod and some red epoxy!!!! =D Walt! You have me thinking!!!!!! =D
Its an early pin wrench, see here for updated version
images.app.goo.gl/sznwfWEJ3yGSTY9E8
Hello ISO! That is a home made pin spanner, at first I thought this wrench might double as a pin spanner but having the pins on both sides thru me... Once Bert enlightened us it all made sense! Check out his pinned comment! Thanks!!!!!!!!
them pins look like they might of had some kind of strap like a strap wrench
Steve! I thought the same thing until I read Berts comment!! (Pinned)
reminds me of a file vise
Hello Val! Extra points to you for even knowing what a file vise is!!!! =)
The tool looks great! I have seen anything like that so I cannot figure out it's purpose but I wonder if the pins were used maybe for bending heavy wire! I am stumped but thanks for sharing this neat tutorial.
Hi John, If the pins were removable I could see more uses! The fact that it hampers the wrench function bothers me! Unless it was made for something that was used at the same time like a flanged nut with holes! =)
@@ScoutCrafter Yeah, I have to agree that has to have more uses to it.
Interesting that the patent application (www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?number=130,024&type=D) doesn't show pins there.
Hi Bob! I couldn't get a image on that link... =)
@@ScoutCrafter That's odd - how about the direct link to the pdf file here? pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&idkey=NONE&SectionNum=3&HomeUrl=&docid=D0130024 or maybe it's a problem with the brackets: try this: www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?number=130,024&type=D
Bob! Both of those links worked! That design is like the other wrench I have with serrated jaws... Thanks very much!!!!!