Elora Wrenches on eBay

[LMH]

I saw that but I don't know why it's like that. Guessing when it was struck in the forge, it moved slightly and screwed up the M and E. The line between the two words is longer, like the middle of the E was struck but not the rest of the letter.
Personally it wouldn't bother me much. I've seen other Elora stuff that's not perfect. They're good quality but they aren't Snap On or Proto (my personal favorite tools) by any means!

Larry

[Gaz64]

Originally Posted by LMH

I saw that but I don't know why it's like that. Guessing when it was struck in the forge, it moved slightly and screwed up the M and E. The line between the two words is longer, like the middle of the E was struck but not the rest of the letter.
Personally it wouldn't bother me much. I've seen other Elora stuff that's not perfect. They're good quality but they aren't Snap On or Proto (my personal favorite tools) by any means!

Larry

More than likely the die was wrong when the early wrenches were made, and eventually the mistake was spotted.
Then all the dies for each wrench would have included the correct spelling of "Chrome".

Gary

[rsk289]

I have to say I still don't really understand the point of having a set of original spanners in a replica car's toolkit. I'm all for originality to the nth degree, as anyone who knows me will tell you - but I can't bring myself to carry a tool roll in the car with a set of spanners in it that won't fit a single fastener on the car. If you convert or build your car's running gear to Whitworth threads, that makes a lot more sense. I guess the clever way to do it would be to source a set of Elora spanners of the correct pattern but in AF sizes, perhaps?

[LMH]

Originally Posted by rsk289

I have to say I still don't really understand the point of having a set of original spanners in a replica car's toolkit. I'm all for originality to the nth degree, as anyone who knows me will tell you - but I can't bring myself to carry a tool roll in the car with a set of spanners in it that won't fit a single fastener on the car. If you convert or build your car's running gear to Whitworth threads, that makes a lot more sense. I guess the clever way to do it would be to source a set of Elora spanners of the correct pattern but in AF sizes, perhaps?

It's all really just for display. For example, I wouldn't want to use the bleeder tool as it was too much work to replicate that correctly and I have 16/3 and 12/3 calipers that it fits! I wouldn't want to use the jack either unless I was stuck with no other means to deal with a flat.

Larry

[dacobb]

Originally Posted by rsk289

I have to say I still don't really understand the point of having a set of original spanners in a replica car's toolkit. I'm all for originality to the nth degree, as anyone who knows me will tell you - but I can't bring myself to carry a tool roll in the car with a set of spanners in it that won't fit a single fastener on the car. If you convert or build your car's running gear to Whitworth threads, that makes a lot more sense. I guess the clever way to do it would be to source a set of Elora spanners of the correct pattern but in AF sizes, perhaps?

Here's the point: It's fun to source "original" Cobra tool parts and assemble them for your car. It doesn't get much deeper than that.

Also, it's fun to try to fake out the "Cobra experts" which you can only do up to a certain point...when they look at an ERA frame it's over. But the time spent faking them out is priceless. I intend to do that full bore.

So when they "tut-tut-tut" it's a replica, my response will be "what took you so long?"

[my427cobra]

Well guys, here's my approach to the originality stuff:

I attend the Pismo Donut Derelicts Saturday morning car show. The cars show up every Saturday morning from 8:00 am to about 9:30 am (yes every Saturday morning - it's California). It's a very casual and laid back affair (no judging etc) with 200 to 300 cars in the shopping center parking lot and we get a lot of pedestrian traffic.

We get every kind of car, truck and motorcycle you can imagine.

Most of the attendees and especially the pedestrian traffic love to learn all about the different cars, trucks, boats , army vehicles, race cars, motorcycles etc etc.

So about once a month I put on a different display: wheels, tires, interesting parts, pictures, posters, Shelby license plates etc etc and guess what: tools.

Most people have never seen this stuff and are very interested in the history.

I'm not out to win trophies or fool/prove originality or use the tools.

It's just fun.

Cheers
Greg