09/20/2026
This is what really gets my engine running. Intricate restoration that's not altogether straightforward. A friend found this buried in the dirt, it had caked on old rust and dirt, impacted into it. I'm on Day 2 now. It's come a long ways but still needs a bit more. The raised lettering came out. It says "K232", which grain-of-salt AI tells me could be a John Deere after the Killefer acquisition (1930s) farm implement wrench. Like something that would come with a tractor or other equipment so you'd have 1 tool that has different sizes to fit anything you'd need on the equipment. John Deere used a single leading letter to ID which factory a part came from, so it tracks. But this specific one was not found in a catalog. By AI.
