Edison even make a lug nut wrench?? -
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Hi John,
It is called a GENERAL CATALOGUE and on the last page it says Form
PB1073 Rev. 1/62. I think with the INC. on your wrench that yours
would be older. These batteries were made in the 1910's for railroad
and your tool could be that old. Email me if you have any more
questions or
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AMEN! Carl, could you scan or take a pic of that page and email it
to me?? Any mention of date??
Thanks
John
C Wright taeri...@earthlink.net wrote:
It is called a Pole-Nut Wrench for a Edison Nickel-Iron-Alkaline
storage
Hi Carl ~
Does your catalog have a printed date or other indication of
approximately when it was made?
Andy
On Jul 9, 2007, at 11:40 PM, C Wright wrote:
It is called a Pole-Nut Wrench for a Edison Nickel-Iron-Alkaline
storage battery. I have a catalogue from Thomas A. Edison
] All you phonograph/old car guys - check this out
Hey Andy
That is about what I assumed, given the name stamped in it. I thought
maybe even fifty, but that is starting to seem a bit high.
Still, it is an interesting piece of automotive technology. The only
other thing I could think
I believe the rail roads still use the Edison cells for the signal system. The
batteries might even still be
being manufactured. The wrench would have been a common item in use until they
were replaced with
the modern socket set. The socket set is a comparatively recent development.
The
The GENERAL CATALOGUE I have has on the last page 1/62 and was sold
by THOMAS A. EDISON INDUSTRIES. I also have a book on EDISON STORAGE
BATTERIES and it has a 1920 date on it with the same battery numbers
in both books. It looks like they made the batteries for many years.
Carl Wright
On
is a link to pics.
http://s197.photobucket.com/albums/aa39/john9ten/Edison%20Wrench/
John
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From: a...@popyrus.com (Andrew Baron)
Date: Mon Jul 9 14:37:46 2007
Subject: [Phono-L] All you phonograph/old car guys - check this out
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Hey Andy
That is about what I assumed, given the name stamped in it. I thought maybe
even fifty, but that is starting to seem a bit high.
Still, it is an interesting piece of automotive technology. The only other
thing I could think of was a tire iron, but it doesn't seem like there would be
I thought of tire iron too and ruled it out for the same reason. I
don't think that $50 sounds unreasonable. If you have an age-
appropriate car and the Edison Splitdorf plugs, then it's not too
hard to talk yourself into paying the cost of a tank of gas for the
tool with the famous name
If I had the car and the plugs, I'd sure go for it! Time will tell...
Andrew Baron a...@popyrus.com wrote: I thought of tire iron too and ruled it
out for the same reason. I
don't think that $50 sounds unreasonable. If you have an age-
appropriate car and the Edison Splitdorf plugs, then it's
with the shallow wrench head.
Art Heller
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From: a...@popyrus.com (Andrew Baron)
Date: Mon Jul 9 19:39:36 2007
Subject: [Phono-L] All you phonograph/old car guys - check
: Monday, July 09, 2007 10:01 PM
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In a message dated 7/9/2007 6:13:33 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
john9...@pacbell.net writes:
If I had the car and the plugs, I'd sure go for it! Time will tell...
I don't know why you
Yeah, I am starting to think that too. The handle and the rod are only 5 long
- and the depth of the socket is not that long either. But did Edison make
automotive tools??
aph4...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 7/9/2007 6:13:33 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
john9...@pacbell.net writes:
If
Art Heller wrote: I don't know why you guys think that its a spark plug
wrench--or even a tire iron--looks like a lug nut wrench to me with the
shallow wrench head.
I know that Edison used to sell little glass jars with his name in raised
letters filled with oil so that the water reservoirs of
)
,
and why would Edison even make a lug nut wrench??
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Well, for the price paid, it's no loss. What were the storage batteries held
down to? I am not conversant with them...
John
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From: esrobe...@hotmail.com (Robert Wright)
Date: Mon Jul 9 22:30:00 2007
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Tim, I doubt that it's anything like a dynamo wrench, First of all, I
don't think there are such wrenches, and I'm in that business (I work
for GE). But more importantly, Edison didn't make any equipment like
that (motors, generators, lighting, etc.) after the GE company was
formed in
It is called a Pole-Nut Wrench for a Edison Nickel-Iron-Alkaline
storage battery. I have a catalogue from Thomas A. Edison Industries
that show it and it came in three different sizes.
Carl Wright
On Jul 9, 2007, at 11:00 PM, john robles wrote:
Yeah, I am starting to think that too. The
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