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Post by pjones » Thu May 28, 2020 6:08 pm

Awesome Don! The crown jewel for you Barcalo shrine.
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Post by mudbox » Fri May 29, 2020 11:43 am

Those are really cool! Are the matches still in there?

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Post by d42jeep » Fri May 29, 2020 5:58 pm

Each match is ready to start a vintage fire. :D
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Post by d42jeep » Sat Jun 13, 2020 4:13 am

Thanks to Tin Medic I added a hard to find wrench to my pad stamped DOE wrenches.
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Post by d42jeep » Sat Jun 13, 2020 4:20 am

Phil alerted me to this hard to find shorty DBE on eBay. It’ll probably go into a keeper set.
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Post by Len Jones » Sat Jun 13, 2020 5:58 am

Don you have certainly ' struck ' lucky again, congratulations all round.

I thought this modified rather sad looking 28S was just too good to pass, but could do with a little help to return it to it's former glory.

So heat applied & some bumping = Result :D

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Post by d42jeep » Sat Jun 13, 2020 6:56 am

Nice save, Len. Looks as good as new.
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Post by pjones » Sat Jun 13, 2020 10:38 am

Len,
Nice save! I have several Vlcheks like that. I’ve always thought there was no way they would ever go back. I’ll have to try it.

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Post by gpw_42 » Sat Jun 13, 2020 4:28 pm

Nicely done, Len! That looks great.

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Post by d42jeep » Tue Jun 23, 2020 1:44 am

I found this unmarked DBE 3/8” x 7/16” wrench at a S Lake Tahoe thrift store yesterday. It has the familiar E forging mark on the opposite side.
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Post by Len Jones » Fri Jul 03, 2020 1:31 pm

That's great Don

Interesting to see that you have also found an unbranded variant in the U.S.

For no particular reason I have collected these over many years, all found here in the U.K. Worthy of note is that like yours all mine have the same ' E ' forge mark.

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Post by d42jeep » Sat Jul 04, 2020 7:56 pm

Nice grouping, Len. I have some more of those only marked on one side and no Barcalo markings. Most of mine have the E forging mark as well but not all.
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Post by Len Jones » Wed Sep 02, 2020 1:45 pm

Don I was interested to see that both your largest & smallest of the grouping are reversed when placed with the ' Barcalo Buffalo U.S.A. ' facing upwards.

Here we see that the largest in my group is the same ? Originally I thought that this change of orientation might be a clue to a manufacturing date when compared with the ' recently added ' listed sizes that can be found in the limited paper work that is currently available ? Don's smallest DBE sort of kicks that theory into touch :(

The Sept 1937 price list # 69 shows six sizes of Forged Vanadium DBE's. But by Nov 1940 two additional sizes had been ' recently added '. The May 1943 price list #139 with accompanying letter dated November 1945 does not appear to list any Forged Vanadium DBE's ?

It would be interesting to see if the Forged Vanadium range was reintroduced after the lifting of war time restrictions.

So are there any post 1945 catalogues out there :?:

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Post by d42jeep » Wed Sep 02, 2020 3:10 pm

I believe that there are a couple more Barcalo catalogs waiting to be revealed.
Here are some Barcaloy wrenches that are likely the next generation after the wartime wrenches.
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Post by pjones » Wed Sep 02, 2020 3:41 pm

d42jeep wrote:
Wed Sep 02, 2020 3:10 pm
I believe that there are a couple more Barcalo catalogs waiting to be revealed.-Don
Can’t wait to see those!!
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