Recent content by DetailSeeker

@Patrickm82 , you ****.

I took a closer look and compared it to some catalog pictures yesterday, and I think you're right. It looks very like the as-sold boxes, and even has what I think is the remnants of an inside lid sticker. Will try to identify the exact kit model sometime in July, when I am not coming home from...

You ****.

Yeah. This one is giving me more of a home-made impression; it seems like two boards hinged together with spaces routed out, and a little flip latch on front. The wooden boxes I've seen that tools were sold in (micrometers, an eight-piece punch set) seem to have had more work in the design -...

I had a moment of "$20 for a tiny socket se-- ooooh, I bet I know what brand that's gonna be." :ROFLMAO: You ****.

Just laid hands upon a Greenfield tap and die set made in Galt, Ontario, in what I think is a handmade box: Some of the taps are newer; there's an Ace, a Threadit, and one marked made in Japan. The rest is all GTD, though. ($35 Cdn, so I don't think it's suckworthy, but I did get to explain...

I delivered that thing when I was a kid. Make me feel old. Anyway! Found at a garage sale for $29: A soldering-iron--looking thing that I was told is used for sealing windows (may be misremembering some details) A vise, marked no. 88 and with a <G> logo A little carborundum sharpener A...

Right, these were not found at a garage sale, but they are going to a garage sale and I really wanted to share: Fairmount heavy-duty bumping hammer (from before the 70s AFAICT), a what-the-heck-is-this that is actually a saw set ( 🤯 ), a brass-plated glass cutter that unscrews to reveal a...

Nice finds! (And I definitely get the duplicate socket problem.)

LSI? (Although hell if I could tell you what that stood for, I'm on my phone and can't check The List.) Besides that, I'm seeing Greenfield, Threadit, Ace, and what looks like a squashed doughnut at the bottom. Which one couldn't you make out?

Catching up (and hopefully not missing anything, but it's a thin hope)... @INSP380 , @bmwrd0 , @bluebolt , you ****.

An aside on this: the machinist square with B [dot] S logo appears as early as the 1905 catalog. However, the same logo with the words "TRADE MARK" underneath first shows up (that I can find) in illustrations in the 1952 catalog. In the 1954 catalog, new illustrations of the logo with "TRADE...

:thumbup: I was definitely getting that impression, yeah. I did not cut myself wrapping and unwrapping them, but the exceedingly delicate scratching noise from them brushing against the paper put me very much in mind of the possibility. When it comes to instilling caution, that phrase is right...

Found this in a fairly large wrench (spanner) haul. Top to bottom, the text reads BRITISH BRITOOL MADE 9/16 A/F 4209 5/8 A/F CHROME ALLOY-WAR FINISH This thing is solid. It's eight inches long, but the handle is a consistent half-inch around, and it weighs 6.9 oz. (I weighed another 9/16 × 5/8...

Second bright spot in the last month: the tool library. I was in cleaning donations (someone had dropped off six files (Nicholson, Globe) and a trowel (???), with Disston StrongHold handles), and while I was doing that I spotted one of the tubs of wrenches sitting nearby. "Hey, can I go through...