[rollei_list] Re: : Stillson Wrenches

Hi:
I know a certain very large english gentilhomme, D. M.A. Virgo who might have a few words to say about the english never using the term "wrench". 

John Saldanha
----- Original Message ----- From: "FRANK DERNIE" <frank.dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Subject: [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> 
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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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