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Old 11-25-2017, 09:06 PM   #1
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After 20 years, I finally found my wrench!

A little backstory: My 70 C-10 has been in our family its entire life. When I was 16, I was tasked with swapping out the rear 1/2 ton coils for 3/4 (we had just purchased a travel trailer).

Fast forward to today, 20 years later. I'm getting ready to chop the frame, taking the rear apart when I came across this old relic lingering in the frame rail:



Looks like 16 year old me had no appreciation for tools, let alone good ones. Glad I didn't become a surgeon.

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Old 11-25-2017, 09:12 PM   #2
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Re: After 20 years, I finally found my wrench!

That wrench has held on Good for a long time. Bet it still works.
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Old 11-25-2017, 09:20 PM   #3
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Re: After 20 years, I finally found my wrench!

That is a fantastic story! Snap On too. Would have been missing that one!
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Old 11-25-2017, 09:26 PM   #4
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Re: After 20 years, I finally found my wrench!

That has been the reason for my loss of tools , the customer seems to always get a prize.
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Old 11-25-2017, 10:03 PM   #5
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Re: After 20 years, I finally found my wrench!

hmm, at 16yo I would have done anything not to tell dad I lost one of his wrenches

today, $75k later, I'd be breaking out the magnets until I found it

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Old 11-26-2017, 12:13 AM   #6
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Re: After 20 years, I finally found my wrench!

I am doing some retaining walls behind the house here. Today I was digging footers and came across a pair of tree pruners that I hadnt seen since our bad mudslide last January. They still work. Somewhat related story, but not really :-). Great find!
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Old 11-26-2017, 12:47 AM   #7
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I am doing some retaining walls behind the house here. Today I was digging footers and came across a pair of tree pruners that I hadnt seen since our bad mudslide last January. They still work. Somewhat related story, but not really :-). Great find!
Better shake-out those bedsides, you might find some more tools
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Old 11-26-2017, 12:53 AM   #8
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Better shake-out those bedsides, you might find some more tools
I just noticed that was you Josh. Never put it together til just now. I shook em out, and I popped that dent out of the pass. side with a 2x6
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Old 11-26-2017, 01:04 AM   #9
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Damn, double post
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Old 11-26-2017, 01:24 AM   #10
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Re: After 20 years, I finally found my wrench!

Betcha smashed fingers let go and was forgotten all about.
Cool find.
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Old 11-26-2017, 12:31 PM   #11
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Re: After 20 years, I finally found my wrench!

Take good pics, drop into a tub of Evaporust, time the stay, take more pics.

Send pics to Evaporust and to SnapOn, plus over to Chevrolet with a printout of the story.

That's an excellent testimonial.

Some years ago a guy found out some dredging had taken place to a river he used to fish on. He had a look for a Ruger .22 pistol he had lost off a boat decades before. HE FOUND IT. It was badly rusted but after being cleaned up, STILL WORKED.

He contacted Ruger, they traded him a new pistol for his lost one (it is still in production), and put the original on display as a symbol of how well-made their guns are, able to take decades on a river bottom.
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Old 11-26-2017, 12:44 PM   #12
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That wrench has held on Good for a long time. Bet it still works.
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Old 11-26-2017, 07:38 PM   #13
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Re: After 20 years, I finally found my wrench!

"Looks like 16 year old me had no appreciation for tools, let alone good ones. Glad I didn't become a surgeon."

Haha, I bet your dad always wondered where that wrench went!

Nice find!
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