My $1 flea market find

[NHBandit]

Nothing that's gonna make me rich but I thought it was cool for a buck and I would never have known what the prefix on the part number meant if I hadn't read a thread on here awhile back. Plomb WF-102 ignition wrench. 7/16 on both ends. I knew from that thread that the "WF" stood for Wright Field which I thought was cool being an Air Force veteran who turned wrenches on C-130s for a little while. Can't complain for a buck. The sad part is now I have this weird desire to look for the rest of the "set".. Do any of you other guys start with 1 tool and decide you need to find the rest even though you already have way too many tools ?

 

[woody 73]

I hear you brother...I picked up a bonney and now I want a set it never ends

 

[jakemac]

........... The sad part is now I have this weird desire to look for the rest of the "set".. Do any of you other guys start with 1 tool and decide you need to find the rest even though you already have way too many tools ?

You're kidding, right ?

30 years ago I started out trying to find a few sockets, and now it seems like I'm trying to duplicate the whole 1960 Craftsman catalog !!


Hello .......... My name is jakemac and I have a ....................

 

[David99]

..Do any of you other guys start with 1 tool and decide you need to find the rest even though you already have way too many tools ?

Yes...
My original Craftsman set only included 12 pt. 3/8 drive standard depth metric sockets, the drain plug on the Honda is 17mm, so I got that in a 6 point and then decided I may as well get the rest.

 

[Tsquare]

Nothing that's gonna make me rich but I thought it was cool for a buck and I would never have known what the prefix on the part number meant if I hadn't read a thread on here awhile back. Plomb WF-102 ignition wrench. 7/16 on both ends. I knew from that thread that the "WF" stood for Wright Field which I thought was cool being an Air Force veteran who turned wrenches on C-130s for a little while. Can't complain for a buck. The sad part is now I have this weird desire to look for the rest of the "set".. Do any of you other guys start with 1 tool and decide you need to find the rest even though you already have way too many tools ?

That's pretty much how I built my tool collection - long as it's Craftsman USA I'll search down the entire set

 

[jmm]

I had a couple of WF Plvmb ignition wrenches last year. Ended up selling them on the classifieds here just a few months back!

 

[RM209]

Do any of you other guys start with 1 tool and decide you need to find the rest even though you already have way too many tools ?

Yup; first I started looking for Plombs, and after picking up a couple of WF's, I began collecting them. It still amazes me that I can find 60-year old NOS tools.

Good luck in your search.

RM209

 

[NHBandit]

I'm cheap and I have all the tools I'll ever "need" already but I do watch for oddball stuff like this at the flea markets and grab it if it's cheap. Digging through piles of tools gives me something to do while the wife is bothering people with babies & puppies and looking at cheap fake jewelry...

 

[bonneyman]

Nothing that's gonna make me rich but I thought it was cool for a buck and I would never have known what the prefix on the part number meant if I hadn't read a thread on here awhile back. Plomb WF-102 ignition wrench. 7/16 on both ends. I knew from that thread that the "WF" stood for Wright Field which I thought was cool being an Air Force veteran who turned wrenches on C-130s for a little while. Can't complain for a buck. The sad part is now I have this weird desire to look for the rest of the "set".. Do any of you other guys start with 1 tool and decide you need to find the rest even though you already have way too many tools ?

All the time!

I have one of those Plomb wrenches in 11/32". Perfect for electric motor nuts in totally cramped areas. Really fighting the "urge" to find the whole set.

 

[7th Kahuna]

I found my first Plomb in my late grandfather's tools. I had never heard of Plomb. Looked it up and now I want the set. I find it particularly cool that it is a Los Angeles company.

So I guess in a sense you could say that I was hooked before I acquired my first wrench as technically the one that started it belongs to my dad. I now have three of my own. I'm not addicted, I can quit any time. My grandfather also had some Firestone ratchets and extensions. Not going there.

 

[davethorik]

i have a few Plvmb WF series sockets in 3/8 and 9/32 drive as well as a WF-21 3/8 ratchet. Are the plumb bobs facing different directions? That seems to be an oddity that shows up in the WF's.

 

[NHBandit]

Are the plumb bobs facing different directions? That seems to be an oddity that shows up in the WF's.

They are. One up & one down. 7th Kahuna I also have a Firestone 1/2 drive ratchet and 3 sockets. The sad thing is that at one time I had the whole 1/2 drive set and my son "borrowed" some of the sockets and the extension and lost them.

 

[Outlawmws]

Nothing that's gonna make me rich but I thought it was cool for a buck and I would never have known what the prefix on the part number meant if I hadn't read a thread on here awhile back. Plomb WF-102 ignition wrench. 7/16 on both ends. I knew from that thread that the "WF" stood for Wright Field which I thought was cool being an Air Force veteran who turned wrenches on C-130s for a little while. Can't complain for a buck. The sad part is now I have this weird desire to look for the rest of the "set".. Do any of you other guys start with 1 tool and decide you need to find the rest even though you already have way too many tools ?

This should have been the title of the thread, and possibly the whole forum!

In fact, that woulds be a good thread to start!

 

[7th Kahuna]

7th Kahuna I also have a Firestone 1/2 drive ratchet and 3 sockets. The sad thing is that at one time I had the whole 1/2 drive set and my son "borrowed" some of the sockets and the extension and lost them.

Sorry to hear that. My grandfather worked for Firestone for years after WWII, opening and fixing stores around Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Ventura Counties. I imagine he might have had a complete set at some point. Wonder if my dad and his brother borrowed them. Only a few seem to have survived.