What Are These Tools For?

[BamaPen]

In the attached picture, please look at the tools in the lower right with the blue handles and tell me what they are for.

 

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[bobaroo]

I think they are Vacuumatic wrenches?

 

The wrench is screwed onto the exposed part of a vacumatic unit, then gently close the handle unit tight and unscrew the unit from the barrel.

[Bobby Check]

Parker wrenches

 

51s, 61s ?

 

Depends on sizes.

 

Neat

 

Bobby

[TimGirdler]

These tools are Vac wrenches for Parker Vacumatics.

 

This picture, I believe, is of Dale Beebe's table at a recent pen show.

 

Dale sells a double sided Vac wrench with a transferable handle. He also sells a version of the Vac wrench for "51" Aerometrics which allows you to clamp on the barrel-less connector so that removing the shell is much easier and doesn't rely on gripping the connector or sac guard with a pair of section pliers.

 

Tim

[Ron Z]

I was tempted to buy a second set of vac wrenches. I found the double ended one to be a bit stiff though. The window cutout puts the fulcrum a bit close to the end so there's less flex, and it takes a lot more pressure to close the wrench. The single wrenches though are very well made and worth the money.

[Indy_Pen_Dance]

To be a bit more accurate, the ones with the blue handles are specific to the aid in removing the hood of an aerometric 51. It threads and clamps to the threads of the connector that the aerometric body screws onto. This allows you to hold the connector while turning the hood once the sealant has been softened. The photo is of Dale Beebe's table who is known as Pen Tooling.

[TimGirdler]

I have been very tempted to get one of Dale's Aero wrenches. I think it would help greatly with the really stuck Aero shells. I've unscrewed WAY too many sac protectors trying to wrestle with a super-stuck shell.

 

Just a note: I think Dale offers regular Vac wrenches too, and I think all of his handles are blue.

 

Tim

[Indy_Pen_Dance]

They use to be red for standard and yellow for oversize.

[TimGirdler]

They use to be red for standard and yellow for oversize.

 

My set is Red and Yellow--but I got them from Woodbin, I think.

 

-Tim

[risingsun]

I bought my aero "wrench" from Laurence Oldfield (not really a wrench, per se, but more a clamp that works under the same principles with a Loggerhead wrench or a three-prong chuck). Works great for a better price than Dale's aero wrench (for the price-conscious). Dale has a ton of great pen-gadgets, though.

 

My Vac wrenches also came from Woodbin, red and yellow like Tim's. They work just fine with minimal pressure.

[qpens]

Bought my 51 "wrench" years ago from Ariel Kullock at Ron Zorn's suggestion and have used it extensively. Thanks, Ron!!

 

Michael Quitt

www.charmcitypens.com

[Paul80]

Hi

 

Whilst on the subject of the 51 version of this wrench, I think I see this info on the Pentooling website.

 

It showed the 51 tool have a triple start thread, how common was this and when did they stop using it. All my Aero 51's have a standard single thread, although all of mine are English models.

 

This is the barrel thread not the hood thread.

 

Thanks

 

Paul

[ac12]

Paul

Are your 51s the Mark-3 pens?

If so, maybe that was when it was changed to the single thread.

Now you have me curious, I have to go check my Aeros.

[Paul80]

Hi

 

No they are mk2b but I count the vac as the mk1 if you don't then mine are mk1b

 

Paul

Edited November 15, 2013 by Paul80