Recent content by ickysplatt

Ha! Cadmium, good old Cadmium.. I forgot about the Alloy Artifacts info on that. Thanks everyone.

Just a quick silly question here to satisfy my curiosity. So I recently got this box of sockets and extensions from a large and old tool distributor here in Columbus Ohio who is being liquidated. And quiet afew of these seem to be if I had to guess 1940s production from the war. Snap on stamped...

I love asking dumb questions. Just LOVE, so let me.start off with that disclaimer. So was this fine Defiance Ohio forged wrench made this way with a slight bend before the head or was it the victim of some horrible accident many many years ago?

Some small additions, a C1, BE and a ?. All from a tool tray I got at an auction a few months ago.

Thanks everyone for taking a moment out of there day. I am definitely finding SK to be more "interesting" to put a date to then say Snap On. The set has, without digging it back out, a 2" and 6" extension, along with a spark plugs socket with it. Can't remember aize. Also the fist row of sockets...

Hello everyone Been looking around here for awhile and just decided to post something. I am purely a collector really, it's nice to have nice tools around but mostly they get used to adjust the feet on the dishwasher. I work in print and really with a set of metric hex wrench's you can solve...