[rollei_list] Re: : Stillson Wrenches

Thats not it either, I have only heard that term in
films so I presume it is US only. In fact nobody in
the UK would use the word "wrench" for a tool.
Still can't remember (I use Stillsons anyway) :-)

--- Jerry Laderberg <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  " Monkey wrench"?
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "FRANK DERNIE" <frank.dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:44 PM
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Stillson Wrenches and
> Zerk Fittings
> 
> 
> >I was brought up in Lancashire in northern England.
> > The wrench you describe was referred to as a
> Stillson
> > on the farm FWIW. I have actually never heard such
> a
> > device called a pipe wrench, though there is a
> generic
> > English term which escapes me for the moment.
> Wrench
> > is actually an American term in England it would
> be
> > rarely if ever used. (Spanner is the UK word,
> often
> > used slang term "spaniard" in the motor racing
> > business, as in pass me that 12mm spaniard would
> you?)
> > FWIW
> > Frank
> >
> >
> > --- Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >> At 08:07 PM 7/21/2008, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>  >    I _have_ a Stillson wrench_. I think
> Alemite
> >> was first
> >>  >with grease fittings and grease guns but am not
> >> sure. Its
> >>  >curious how much stuff which is everyday
> familiar
> >> to me is
> >>  >completely unheard of by the younger folks I
> talk
> >> to.
> >>  >Sometimes I feel like Rip van Winkle. Of
> course,
> >> L.A. is
> >>  >full of stuff that is not only gone but has
> left
> >> no trace
> >>  >whatever. Even streets get moved.
> >>  >    Anyone remember Autolite stores? Just call
> >> Western Union
> >>  >and ask for operator 25, "Your always right
> with
> >> Autolite,
> >>  >Goodnight."
> >>
> >>
> >> I never realized that Stillson was a brand name
> >> peculiar to western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and
> >> Michigan until I went into a hardware store in
> >> Williamsburg, Virginia, to buy one.  The clerk
> >> cracked up laughing and said, "you must be from
> >> Pittsburgh!" I acknowledged this, and he told me
> >> that the generic term was "pipe wrench" -- and
> >> then sold me a Stillson brand wrench, which he
> >> stocked, he claimed, for Luddites such as myself.
> >>
> >> Sure, I remember Autolite stores.  I also recall
> >> when Monkey Ward had outlets in every small town
> >> and when they would undercut Sears by 10% for
> >> better items.  Sears tools were great but J C
> >> Penney beat them on price and quality.  Them was
> the
> >> days!
> >>
> >> The patent for the grease nipple was granted to
> >> Oscar Zerk in 1929.  Alemite was a company which
> >> manufactured these.  It was absorbed into the
> >> Stewart instrument company, who made the
> >> speedometers for the Ford Model T,  at the same
> >> time they bought out Warner to form
> >> Stewart-Warner, the guys who used to make the VW
> >> gasoline heaters, a necessity for those of us who
> >> drive air-cooled VW's in decent climes.
> >>
> >> So, yes, it is properly a Zerk fitting.
> >>
> >> Marc
> >>
> >>
> >> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
> >>
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