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Sketchup, New Wrench

5/12/2019

 
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     So, lately I have been working on a Sketchup model of my parents' house.  They are intending to remodel their back patio/pool/porch area so I wanted to be able to mock-up different looks and materials in order to get an idea of what each option would look like.  This meant that I had to model the living room and den areas, which somehow expanded into modeling the entire house...that's how it goes sometimes!  Exciting!

     I bought a new wrench!  Found it via eBay.  Vintage, hand-made, from the 1920s or so.  I cleaned out the old grease and grime and oiled it up with some WD-40.  Took me a while to figure out how to get the ratcheting mechanism to work correctly, but now it slides up and down like a charm!  See below for the details:


H & E Wrench "HandE" 10 Inch Slide-Adjusting Nut Wrench
(Information from Alloy-Artifacts.org website)



H & E "HandE" 10 inch slide-adjusting nut wrench, stamped "HandE Wrench Co." and "New Bedford, Mass." on the fixed jaw, with a "Pat'd Sept. 20, 1921" patent date at the top (see middle inset).
The overall length is 10.3 inches, and the finish is plain steel.
The patent date refers to patent #1,391,179, filed by Evans and Hemphill in 1920 and issued on that date.

[Personally, I find that the logo might also be pronounced "Handy Handle" (HandE HandLE), since the "L" character on the end looks like the letter "L" and the letter "E" combined.]


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