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I carried those ratchets in a USAF tool bag on flight lines all over the world in the late 1960's and early 70's. Uncle Sam bought untold thousands of them, and they followed a lot of GI mechanics home. They were stolen almost as frequently as WW II 1911 pistols!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
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Jerry .... We Marines never steal anything. We merely rehome tools carelessly left unattended by our sister services... 
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I carried those ratchets in a USAF tool bag on flight lines all over the world in the late 1960's and early 70's. Uncle Sam bought untold thousands of them, and they followed a lot of GI mechanics home. They were stolen almost as frequently as WW II 1911 pistols!
Jerry An older guy I used to work on a Navy base with would make the joke that all he had to do to clean his garage was walk in and announce "TEN-HUT" because half the things in there would line up for inspection. He just up and disappeared one day. I can't help but feel those might have been related.
From the Rocky Mountains?Check in with the RM Bolters!HiPo Forum Moderator1958 Apache, long bed Fleetside, V8 w/SM420 Driveable but the rear axle needs work. 1959 Apache, long bed Fleetside that has been in the family for 25 years but in desperate need of love.
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A Navy buddy of mine kept getting nagged about why he hadn't taken that deuce and a half to the DRMO yet!
After weeks of not receiving any confirmation from DRMO to accept said deuce and a half, he simply drove it home.
It is still there 30 years later.
His CO commended him for finally squaring things away with the pesky DRMO and got that beast of a truck out of there.
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That is not a ratchet wrench. Judging by its diminutive size and gouges in the business end of it, that is a Navy hammer, designated as a SFH.
No need for the Navy to keep those clean, or out of the salt air to serve its intended purpose, thus the locked up condition in which it was found.
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Yeah, that sounds about right.
Back on topic: John, did you find the info you need? Not sure if the suggestions here before things got sidetracked covered you or not.
Last edited by Fibonachu; Sat Jan 14 2023 03:20 AM.
From the Rocky Mountains?Check in with the RM Bolters!HiPo Forum Moderator1958 Apache, long bed Fleetside, V8 w/SM420 Driveable but the rear axle needs work. 1959 Apache, long bed Fleetside that has been in the family for 25 years but in desperate need of love.
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On a more serious note, Snap-on changed script font at some point (maybe more than once) which is supposed to indicate approximately when they were make.
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I carried those ratchets in a USAF tool bag on flight lines all over the world in the late 1960's and early 70's. Uncle Sam bought untold thousands of them, and they followed a lot of GI mechanics home. They were stolen almost as frequently as WW II 1911 pistols!
Jerry Yeah, I got one of those (the ratchet not the 1911) from my grandpa. He worked for the US-Army over here at the motor pool - he said it was "fallen from a truck" ;-) Frank
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I have a ratchet like that. I traded for it almost 60 years ago. One of my high school friends was a supply clerk for the Navy. He was the one who engraved the USN on the tools. But some of them failed to get marked. Years later a Snap-On salesman told me the V in the model number denoted government issue. I still have quite a few tools I traded for. My friend traded tools for things like a set of tires. The time would have been somewhere between 1962 when we got out of high school and October 1969 when his 1957 Nomad was washed off of a bridge.
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My Snap-On truck guy told me the same thing back in the late 1970's when I tried to get a broken socket replaced- - - - -"M" or "V" in the part number designated military issue. No warranty! I had bought a whole set of ratchets, sockets, and extensions at a "surplus" sales business on Okinawa- - - - -probably liberated from a supply depot somewhere!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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