When I found this wrench I was excited, the first wrench I'd seen from South America, but Brazilians spell their country name Brasil, so there had to be an explanation and from Alloy Artifacts and Garage Journal it appears that this is an SK tool, though both sites focus on ratchets and sockets rather than flat wrenches. I don't recognize the simple "K" logo, apparently Craftsman used K in a circle to identify the tools they sourced from SK.
Sherman-Klove (SK tools) may have acquired the Brazil Stamping Company in Chicago, a subsidiary of a car manufacturer located in Brazil, Indiana in the 1920s. Anyways, more information welcomed.
Without a full set of these, your life would be full of loose Brazil nuts.
ReplyDelete"K-Mart Professional" is my guess based on the logo and my memory.
ReplyDeleteI thought the K was very definitely K-mart-ish. But When did Kmart open for business? This tool might be newwer than I think.
ReplyDeleteMid-70's through mid-80's was the K-mart heyday in the US but they had stores open back in the 60's. Our local K-mart opened in 1976 (per the internet). The imprint lettering on that wrench looks relatively modern to me, so maybe it's from the early-mid 80's?
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