What are these tools?

[peter_x]

A couple things I picked up at garage sales over time:



Hex-drive socket? The only marking is the size, 5/8.

This is a locking plier, I was wondering if anyone has seen one like it. The marking appears to be DE-8TA-CO.

 

[NSXSOON]

Can't help with the first two but the adjustable clamp was used extensively in the aircraft manufacturing industry. They were used to pull panels together and hold them while drilling and fitting for rivets and Kliko fasteners.
From your address I'd be willing to bet it came from Grumman Aerospace in Bethpage, a great company before the California fruits and nuts at Northrop bought it and decimated it's over funded pension plan.

 

[wilbilt]

I have several hex-drive sockets. Most have no markings.

The other item appears similar to a "Knu-Vise" clamp. Indispensable for holding panels for cutting and/or welding. The release lever is a feature lacking on the ones I own.

 

[wilbilt]

From your address I'd be willing to bet it came from Grumman Aerospace in Bethpage, a great company before the California fruits and nuts at Northrop bought it and decimated it's over funded pension plan.

A bowl of granola, we are. What ain't fruits and nuts are flakes.

 

[Elroy]

The first is typical of Duro / Indesto sockets from the 40's and 50's. Typically found in sets like these:

The squeeze type pliers you have are actually Destaco Brand:

http://www.destaco.com/products.asp...ducts=Clamps&Category_1=Squeeze+Action+Clamps

 

[WOOS1]

I wonder if your pliers are actually made by De-Sta-Co (DeStaCo). They make toggle clamps and lots of other workholding devices.

 

[rsanter]

I have an old hex drive set from my grandparents ranch.

that clamp is a good clamp. I have several that I use and they are an industrial quality tool
they are very handy as you can change the bolts out if you need to clamp on something with a strange offset (unlike the C type vise grips style units that the shape is fixed)

bob

 

[peter_x]

LOL, It is "DE-STA-CO". Thanks for all the help folks.

I read that Grumman actually was the biggest employer on LI at one point (or at least the defense industry was).

 

[wilbilt]

Query to Elroy...
That Indestro socket tray was obviously made to clamp into/onto something. Can you enlighten us?

 

[Merkava_4]

DE-STA-CO model 453

 

[Elroy]

Query to Elroy...
That Indestro socket tray was obviously made to clamp into/onto something. Can you enlighten us?

The tray actually has a flip up lid. The photo shows the lid open. Look just to the left of the yellow decal. Note the small dimple that acts as a detent for the lid.

good ?

 

[olds88]

Indestro, eh? I got that little "side car" filled with the same sockets, and a allen key to drive them. I don't even know where I got it. Anyone know what the odd looking socket is for? Third from the right in the picture.

 

[wilbilt]

The tray actually has a flip up lid. The photo shows the lid open. Look just to the left of the yellow decal. Note the small dimple that acts as a detent for the lid.

good ?

OK, but why the holes in the lid?

And the "auxiliary tray" with the smaller sockets seems to have tabs of it's own...