My 2021 old tool finds.

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My 2021 old tool finds.

Post by d42jeep » Thu Feb 11, 2021 3:32 am

It’s time to start a new thread since I have come across several old tools since the new year. Due to the ongoing pandemic, it has seemed prudent not to attend sales in the wild for the time being so most of my acquisitions have come via the Internet, trades and gifts from my tool friends. Here are a few finds, hopefully in chronological order. One of the most exciting finds to me so far was a WW2 vintage S-K toolbox, one of which I had been looking for for a few years. It came as a gift from a fellow west coast collector.
-Don
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Indestro 1/2” drive ratchet with removable plug from eBay
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Plomb 3/8” drive sockets from eBay
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A second much nicer pair of Diamond NAF marked longnoses from Len to join my eBay ones.
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S-K wartime sockets from eBay
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Duro circle DC wrenches from eBay
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Post by d42jeep » Thu Feb 11, 2021 3:48 am

More recent tool finds.
-Don
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Wartime S-K toolbox with tools added. This will be an ongoing project.
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Postwar Plomb partial 1/4” drive set from eBay
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7/16” S-K wartime universal socket to go with my 11/16” example
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Plomb 1/4” drive sockets from eBay
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Partial Walden 1/4” drive set from eBay
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Partial S-K cad plated 1/4” drive set from eBay
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Post by d42jeep » Thu Feb 11, 2021 4:15 am

Another picture of the S-K wartime toolbox and some more recent acquisitions.
-Don
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Page from the 1943 S-K wartime catalog
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Old Forge marked prewar S-K made 3/8” deep socket set from eBay
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Individual Duro ignition wrenches from eBay
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Duro ignition set. I was alerted to this eBay buy it now sale by a collector in Washington state
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Wartime S-K spark plug socket from eBay
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S-K 1/4” drive sockets from eBay
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Unmarked offset screwdriver and steel screwdriver from eBay
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Post by d42jeep » Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:02 am

I was gifted this mid 30s S-K ratchet recently and the two Stanley Phillips screwdrivers arrived from an eBay seller yesterday. They may end up in my MVMTS.
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Post by d42jeep » Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:51 am

This Arcturus 731A that arrived yesterday will be going into the Cosmoline collection box.
-Don
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Post by gpw_42 » Sun Feb 14, 2021 4:27 pm

Additions to the cosmoline box are hard to beat, but those Stanley's are sweet, Don! Are they WW2 era? I've always struggled to ID the non-perfect handle screwdrivers.

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Post by d42jeep » Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:41 pm

With Phillips screwdrivers the starting point is to make sure they have the early patent, not the much more common post 1950 patent. Here is a page from the 1941 Stanley catalog, the closest to wartime available.
-Don
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Post by d42jeep » Mon Mar 01, 2021 6:59 pm

Although I didn’t really need a partial Plomb 1/4” drive set, it was more cost effective to pick up missing sockets this way rather than trying to find them individually. The box turned out to be nicer than the one that I was trying to complete, which was a plus.
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Post by d42jeep » Sat Mar 13, 2021 5:03 am

My best friend since the first grade had picked up a bunch of tools that an elderly woman friend of his was going to throw out. He knew I would want to pick through them so he brought them home. Here are some of the things I picked up on Wednesday.
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Pair of Alemite grease guns, one Jeep correct
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Pratt & Whitney tap in it’s own box
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Early Bridgeport DOE wrench with metric sizes on the opposite side
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Bridgeport other side
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Vlchek DOE wrenches
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Assorted files and handles
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Post by d42jeep » Sun Mar 14, 2021 12:36 am

A couple of recent acquisitions. The undamaged spark plug gapper was a buy it now on eBay. Since a dark finish example with the magnifier in place is rare, I grabbed it. A local collector friend attended a sale a couple of bocks from my house and picked up this Navy box for me. With some suggestions from Wingnutt, I was able to find out a little about its original contents.
-Don
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Post by d42jeep » Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:41 am

This addition to my Plomb toolbox arrived yesterday from another collector.
-Don
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Post by d42jeep » Fri Mar 19, 2021 2:02 am

This was an eBay pickup that arrived Tuesday. It will be going into a keeper set.
-Don
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Post by d42jeep » Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:20 am

This box with the early S-K decal was found at a local estate sale on Saturday by a friend who picked it up for me. I cleaned and added tools to the early ‘30s S-K set and cleaned up the rusty New Britain ratchet.
-Don
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Saturday’s estate sale find
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Cleaned out the trash
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Post by d42jeep » Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:07 am

Here are some estate sale find from yesterday. Here are my Duro and Indestro finds. A 3211 Indestro 10” extension (41-B-309), a Duro circle DC 2013 DBE 9/16” x 5/8” wrench (41–W-601), a 9/16” D-I 1/2” drive socket (41-W-3009) and a 1/4” drive Duro fridge ratchet. The Williams DBE wrench is 7/8” x 3/4”.
-Don
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Post by d42jeep » Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:20 am

Here are some recent eBay finds. I bought the D-I set because the decal was so intact plus all of the sockets were included. The canvas roll for the Duro G series ignition wrenches is rare and will be a good addition to a late war GMTK.
-Don
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