A 14" Fuller pipe wrench. The handle is bright red; the metal is clean and lightly oiled. The moving jaw is black except for the jaws and geared shaft. The knurled adjuster knob is unpainted also. There is, obviously, no particular need a pipe wrench needs to be pristine. Their job is not to stay pretty (especially since one ose for them as a improvised hammer.) You could transport them to the hardware store in a half-full gravel truck and they'd do their entire service life just as well.

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   Devin (carraway@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 14:07:20 JST Devin

   When cleaning out my late father's place, one of the things I did to process the end of his independence was restore a bunch of the hand tools he'd used most of his working life. I looked forward to the ones I remembered from summers working on his job sites.

   This was not one of those, nor was it complex. But it was one of the first, and I let myself go pointlessly overboard (it was fall 2020, you might remember the feeling; there were a few things going on.) It's just a pipe wrench (he did fancy kitchen and bathroom remodels, understandable he'd have one.) When I found it it was rusty and half-seized. Got it apart, wire-wheeled it down to clean metal, masked it, primed and repainted it, etc.

   It was a good mourning-the-everything evening project.

   #FathersDay #ToolRestoration