[TheForge] RE: TheForge digest, Vol 4 #604 - 3 msgs

Tue Sep 9 10:43:00 2003

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: pipe wrench mystery (Barking Crow)
   2. Re: pipe wrench mystery (Bruce Freeman)
   3. Re: pipe wrench mystery (Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer)

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Message: 1
From: "Barking Crow" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] pipe wrench mystery
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:19:53 -0400
Organization: Barking Crow
Reply-To: [email protected]

Bruce,

When you say "pipe wrench movable jaws" do you mean JUST the L-shaped
piece from a stilson wrench?

Right,  Just the l shaped pieces from two pipe wrenches, slanted groves
for
gripping the pipe on the short leg of the L and threads on the long leg
of
the L that would in a pipe wrench have the round knurled "nut" for
adjusting
the fit of the wrench.

I found several of these L-shaped pieces welded together Long leg to
long
leg with both short legs pointing the same direction so as to make a
wide
short "U" shape.  Boy wouold a picture be worth a lot of my words.
Anyway,
I have no idea what they might have been used for, but I did bring home
several non welded moveable pipewrench jaws to add to my collection of
pipe
wrench parts, one from a 48" wrench, which is bigger than I'd like to
use.

Jeff Valentine, dancing this morning as the temp was 66 at 7AM.

a

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 13:25:35 -0400
From: "Bruce Freeman" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] pipe wrench mystery
Reply-To: [email protected]

Well, actually that is what you said in the first place.  I just wasn't
so =
sure about it meaing what you MEANT. =20

All that comes to mind is a C-clamp, non-adjustable variety.  But
usually =
non-adjustable C-clamps are used with cross-wise wedges, between one of
=
the flanges and the work ( to make them adjustable).  I suppose the =
weldments you describe could have been used as C-clamps, but it sounds =
like overkill.

Nor can I see how they could now be used for their original function =AF
=
namely as jaws on stilson wrenches.  We may never know...

Bruce
NJ

>>> [email protected] 09/08/03 01:19PM >>>
Bruce,

When you say "pipe wrench movable jaws" do you mean JUST the L-shaped
piece from a stilson wrench?

Right,  Just the l shaped pieces from two pipe wrenches, slanted groves
=
for
gripping the pipe on the short leg of the L and threads on the long leg
of
the L that would in a pipe wrench have the round knurled "nut" for =
adjusting
the fit of the wrench.

I found several of these L-shaped pieces welded together Long leg to
long
leg with both short legs pointing the same direction so as to make a
wide
short "U" shape.  Boy wouold a picture be worth a lot of my words.  =
Anyway,
I have no idea what they might have been used for, but I did bring home
several non welded moveable pipewrench jaws to add to my collection of =
pipe
wrench parts, one from a 48" wrench, which is bigger than I'd like to
use.

Jeff Valentine, dancing this morning as the temp was 66 at 7AM.

a

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"Cramp" is the British word for "clamp."

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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 23:38:51 -0700
From: Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TheForge] pipe wrench mystery
Reply-To: [email protected]

I recall seeing a reference to "cramps" used to set up repetitive work 
in place and the drawing was the same sort of shape as described minus 
the teeth and threads. Any evidence of hammering them on and off?..Pete