GRANDFATHERS TOOLS

[Bob/Ohio]

While cleaning out my garage, I opened a wooden box that had some old tools of my Grandfathers. I haven't looked at these in 30 years. I have enclosed a picture of the contents.

Bob

 

[d42jeep]

Nice collection of oldies.
-Don

 

[Roberts210]

Did your grandfather get them from his grandfather? Those are oldies.

 

[Pileit]

My grandfather was a maintenance supervisor for a very large paper company. He was fairly good at loaning himself lots of paper company tools. 1 inch snap on sets, 3/4 snap on sets, 1/2 and so on. Bolt cutters, pliers all kinds of stuff from the 30s and 40s. The mill manager told me years later that good thing the paper machines were bolted down or they would have probably been behind the family farm. I hate thieves and my grandfather was a snake. Got too many tools. The ones i use daily are bought and paid for by me. I bought my dad's place a few years ago after he drowned. He got all gramps tools and they are still here. My dad was about as opposite as it comes to his dad. He did have 1 brother that was as bad as my grandfather. His other 4 brothers were real honest hard workers. Hard to beleive family members can be so different. P.s. I just went up in the garage attic, first time since i was a kid. I found over a 100 brand new files, rasps and all kinds of other tools. Never used since the 40s or 50s. Unbeleivable.

 

[Bob/Ohio]

Did your grandfather get them from his grandfather? Those are oldies.

Some could have come from his father. Gramp was born in 1901.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Anyone else get a Dr Suess vibe from all those odd shaped wrenches? lol

 

[Ricky Joe]

Many of those are automobile tools. Ford is well represented. If you don’t need them, I might be interested in the valve seat cutters. I am also curious what size the third one down on the far left is.

 

[3baygarage]

I’m curious what the three pieces with bolts are, below the torque wrench.

 

[AreBeeBee]

I have only one tool that I know for a fact came from my grandfather (my mother's father). He worked as a handyman in boatyards up the Massachusetts coast from Boston in the years after the First World War. He must have acquired the brace second hand: the tool is a model 102 10-inch sweep brace made by Peck, Stow, and Wilcox (latterly Pexto) around the time he was born (late 1880s).

It's the brace on the left in the photo here.

I use it whenever I have need of a brace, which isn't always to bore a hole in something. I also have several screwdriver bits (some show in the photo at the link) and I'm collected many more, plus countersinks, bat-wing bits, and gimlets. I also have modern adapters that take Torx bits and others unheard of in 1880. (Skipper, as I called him, would be pleased to have known this.)

The brace collection has 10 in all, including a barebones (all-metal) Spofford brace and a North Bros (Bell System). I have also recfurbished a Peck Stow brace with a Samson chuck, disassembling it and replacing all the ball bearings. Works as good as new....

 

[Jim C.]

These are some of my grandfather’s tools.

Jim C.

 

[Bob/Ohio]

Many of those are automobile tools. Ford is well represented. If you don’t need them, I might be interested in the valve seat cutters. I am also curious what size the third one down on the far left is.

Not sure yet what I am going to do with them. I am thinking about hanging them in my shop.

 

[Bob/Ohio]

I’m curious what the three pieces with bolts are, below the torque wrench.

Been trying to figure out what they are myself. They are stamped with the bolt size, 5/8,3/4. The bolt is turned down on the end so the the threads don't get distorted, like a puller bolt.

 

[pandapike]

I got all my grandfathers tools up on my wall. Most of these tools are mine that I bought and restored and use but my grandfathers sit with those tools as well but don’t really use them much.