Recent content by JonahBrown

Here is mine.

I have never seen pictures of all four of these sets together so here goes. These are the 4 styles of large c-series sets I know of which have speeders. The bottom left is the first cantilever style with the short handle ratchet offered in 1932 and 1933. The second variation was likely...

I was actually using an old rosco #2 phillips this week.

The thread needs to be updated to mention Hinsdale and as company SK made/supplied tools for. Here is the Tombstone ratchet shown in the 1933 Hinsdale fyler.

The top plier handles remind me of octopus tentacles.

Kinda like you can block sellers like ourjunkfinds and dumbledork on ebay who relist 10,000 things every day.

We use variacs for testing generator rotors (ac-pole drop).

Handyset I’m working on

The handle looks like a twizler.

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EDIT: I have looked closer at the extension and breaker bar and they were painted (not cadmium plated). I still have one socket BE I am suspicious of. I have not come across any of the new britain/none better alloy sockets, drive accessories, or ratchets with CAD plating. They have all been...

Greg, That set is the one I’ve been building around my female ratchet. It is absolutely perfect and I doubt anyone else is going to have a nicer SK set than that one. Are the drive accessories marked? I know i’m using a WWII box right now. I do have the correct smaller midget box but have...

Yes. Same ratchet I posted as well.

Some old SK ratchets: