Help Identify This Tool, Please?

[MarbargerFarms]

Found this "Torque Wrench" at a local flea market. It is a Cornwell-Skidmore. The handle reads, 100 FT. LBS. with an arrow pointing left, and a model number ( im assuming) TQ 73 S(?) It is scribed SECTION E FLYWHEEL WRENCH #2 73NM. The end of the bar at the socket is much like a clicker type torque wrench,a and gives and clicks like one. Any one help me? Thanks in Advance!

 

[60 acre hillside]

It looks like a socket wrench. Something like that was used in the automotive work before the SNAP ON company started making them with a handle and detachable (snap on) attachment.

 

[MarbargerFarms]

Oh, sorry forgot to say that the socket does come off, and is 1/2" drive. Sorry!

 

[Chris (WA)]

Assembly line tool calibrated to 110 ft#.

 

[Chris (WA)]

OOps . fat fingered the ones! 100...

 

[Charles (in GA)]

As Chris noted, its a assembly line or production torque wrench. The plant calibration room would set it, and the workers would use it and every so often it would get re-calibrated. Lots of those on the market the past two years due to factories and manufacturing closing and selling off tooling, etc.

Basically useless other than for a breaker bar, for the average home mechanic.

Charles

 

[MarbargerFarms]

Thanks guys! It came out of the lima, ohio area. The production part would make sense, with the ford plant that used to be there and all. Thanks again guys!

 

[Earl Gray]

Perfect for boat trailer lug nuts!