"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 09/21/2018 at 12:57 • Filed to: Tools

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While we’re posting early twentieth century stuff, here is an original patent Stillson by Walworth I have acquired. ca. 1910s, or earlier. Should go well with the 20s/30s Ford wrench and the King Dicks.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/21/2018 at 13:05

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classic anti theft device

mk 1 adjustable whacking stick

ateamfan42 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/21/2018 at 13:39

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Years ago I was helping a friend disassemble a shock assembly with a large threaded cap that held the damper insert in place. The “official” instructions said to use a Stillson wrench. We both turned to each other and asked “What the hell is a Stillson wrench?”.

We said screw it, we’ll use a big pipe wrench instead. Only much later after some Google work did I figure out we had in fact effectively used a “Stillson wrench” after all.  (No, it wasn’t a genuine Stillson brand wrench.)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ateamfan42 09/21/2018 at 13:52

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We’ve got two King Dick adjustable wrenches like this in the toolbox:

We’ve also got 1 or 2 Model A/Model T adjustable wrenches like this:

I was told early on that a monkey wrench was not the same thing as a pipe wrench, but for a while I erroneously thought straight-jaw right-angle wrenches were Stillsons. Nope. Monkey wrench.

The only thing making a Stillson different than a modern Ridge patent (Ridgid) style one is that the Stillson has a pivoting sleeve for the slide rather than pivoting on the slop in the slide hole and the nut on the other side.

EngineerWithTools > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/21/2018 at 15:41

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Is that the left or right hand version?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > EngineerWithTools 09/21/2018 at 16:01

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Depends on whether it’s more important to be able to read “STILLSON” or “WALWORTH MADE IN USA”. The “10" to indicate that it’s a #10/nominal 10" wrench is on both sides and the patent stamp is too small to read in normal use anyway.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/25/2018 at 10:00

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It would be fun to gently sand blast that tool and see how it looks. Unless it’s a candidate for Antiques Road Show and doing so would reduce its considerable value.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > EngineerWithTools 09/25/2018 at 10:02

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I asked a butter bar lieutenant that in the Army one day as he inventoried my tool box for the umpty-seventh time and he totally took the bait. I felt bad for him though, and spared him the brunt of the humiliation that would typically follow.

EngineerWithTools > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/25/2018 at 16:54

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Oh the guilt when they actually believe you!

You could have followed that up by asking for a bucket of prop wash.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > EngineerWithTools 09/25/2018 at 21:58

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Or a sky hook or a can of compression or some shore line. Muffler bearings...