Budd Case Wrench

[Bruce Day]

I’m asking for a friend.

He owns Parker SN 115 and it’s unusual case full of fitted accessories. There are cleaning tools and reloading tools. Budd is known for the Budd-Kopecky cleaning tools. The gun and case belonged to Ogden Deramus Budd.

There is a short handled 3/8” opening wrench that we have not been able to determine its use. Anybody?

[Southpaw]

That is a beautiful gun and set. Only thing that I can think of is it must be in conjunction with implementation or installation of those tubes. Those in combination with another tool must have some sort of application. Those are the only big enough items that it would appear to involve a wrench of that size. Or something to do the with the hammers. These are Captain Obvious points though.

Maybe it has nothing to do with gun and it was just a spare wrench to throw in gun case to tighten a buggy wheel nut. I have seen some square buggy wheel nuts that would fit.

[Jim DiSpagno]

Could it be to hold Barrels by the lug to implement cleaning or something like that? It might make sense

[High Brass]

Nipple wrench for the strikers?

[edgarspencer]

Are there flats on the cleaning rod accessories?

[Richard Flanders]

Probably too big to fit the square hammer shafts? You could cock the gun with the hammers off if it fit. Or as offered, for the nipples.

[Dean Romig]

Wrench for the early square nipples or nuts retaining the strikers.





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[John Davis]

Absolutely no idea but that whole set up is really cool.

[winplumber]

What square nipples are we talking about ?

[Dean Romig]

The retaining nut that holds the offset firing pin in place on early lifters.

But I’m beginning to think not. The wrench looks too large to be used in such tight quarters.

Bruce, does this gun even have 3/8” nuts? And are they even square?



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