PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by d42jeep » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:39 am

It looks to me like it’s part of the Packard Merlin toolset, like the wrench you forwarded to Len.
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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by Gordon_M » Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:07 am

AT 8040 1/2 W .919 on the list
AT 8018 5/16 W .601 on the list
AT 8017 1/4 W .525. on the list
AT 8016 3/16 W .448
AT 8015 5/32 W .387 on the list
AT 8014 1/8 W .338 on the list

Thanks Don. Looks like only AT 8016 isn't on that list, but there's no way it wasn't related, maybe a previous variant. I have a bunch of AT marked tools in one of my Type II cases, I think I'd better sort through then. I've saved that image, but if you have a larger version please e-mail it to me.
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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by d42jeep » Sat Dec 15, 2018 4:58 am

Here is a 7/16” Barcalo combo that was made for that set.
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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by Gordon_M » Sat Dec 15, 2018 11:38 am

I'm going have to have a major set out of my aircraft tools over the holiday season. I have a bunch of PWA, Ranger AT, and AT marked items that I've had no reason the sort or list so far, like this adjustable, AT 8029, which is also in that kit:
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PWA is Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, I believe Ranger AT is Fairchild Aviation - is AT just an Aircraft Tool identifier?
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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by mudbox » Mon Mar 21, 2022 7:50 am

Hey Gordon!
I thought I'd share a picture of this Plomb Toolmobile with you. I brought it home this past weekend. Originally green, but was primered in gray and spray bombed black.

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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by Gordon_M » Mon Mar 21, 2022 12:46 pm

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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by Gordon_M » Mon Mar 21, 2022 12:51 pm

Nice one, Jason. That looks to be a 9969-1 Master Tool Chest rather than the 9969-4 Toolmobile though. Wartime catalogue shows it in red originally.

Was it OD green or just generic green? never seen anything like that this side of the pond.

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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by mudbox » Tue Mar 22, 2022 8:31 am

Hard to tell what color it was. For sure it was green at one time, but I haven't cleaned up those parts yet.

This model shows up in the 17-B catalog (1939 I t think) and is marketed at the 9969 Toolmobile.

The 18-A catalog (Aug. 1940) shows the newer model Toolmobile with the rounded corners.

Here's the page from the 17-B catalog:

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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by d42jeep » Thu Apr 07, 2022 2:22 am

I wonder how much shipping would be from Cincinnati to the West Coast for a Toolmobile? :lol:
I grabbed this rusty box with a few extras off of eBay just because I had never seen one like it. It looks a little different now.
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Rusty interior
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Possible set from 1943
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After evaporust bath. Seem to have originally been red
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1939 drive tools and 1940 sockets
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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by d42jeep » Thu Apr 07, 2022 2:30 am

The story continues. It was unseasonably warm yesterday allowing for spraying some wrinkle finish.
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11 minutes later
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Let it dry a while and added the tools
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Exterior view after drying
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Did some S-K sets as well
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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by Gordon_M » Thu Apr 21, 2022 1:31 pm

It's different. I wonder how religious the army was about having stuff OD green? If they wanted a thousand tool kits that already existed but the bees were red, how much would the colour bother them?
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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by d42jeep » Sat Apr 23, 2022 5:18 am

Normally I try to paint the boxes their original color and so I did that with this fairly unusual box. I believe it to be prewar accounting for the red paint.
I picked up several Plomb tools at an estate sale yesterday.
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War Finish marking on 3/8” drive ratchet
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Cleaned up
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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by d42jeep » Fri Aug 12, 2022 11:03 pm

I’ve been looking for one of these 1” cut Plomb cold chisels ever since I put together my Machinists set. I found this well used one on eBay and dressed it up and sharpened it.
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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by d42jeep » Fri Sep 15, 2023 8:15 pm

I recently acquired the longer version of the Plomb 1” cut cold chisel. Sharpening and dressing up the striking end has taken off approximately 1” from the original length.
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Re: PLOMB progress, questions, & stuff needed

Post by d42jeep » Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:28 pm

I picked up a partial Plomb 1/4” drive set off of eBay recently and filled it out with tools on hand (except the crossbar, of course).
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