Recent content by Leviton

I appreciated the information on this tool from @Shelbylex. Eight years later, the Jonard link in the post directly above is dead. Here is an updated link: The History Of The Can Wrench And Why We Still Use It Today

Who made this speeder? (Rescued from a wooden crate of 1 dollar tools.) It has no markings. I looked through all the speeders I could find on Alloy Artifacts, I looked in this thread. I’ve seen similar-ish rotating handles on Armstrong, Blackhawk and S-K speeders and looked through those...

C'mon. Where's your spirit of adventure?

Nothing out of the ordinary, but it begged me for a summer sun glamor shot after so many decades in the dark. Square shank, flathead stubby with 4-sided amber handle. 3.25" overall length. Marked: Duro-Chrome No. 4731 Found in 1951 and 1962 catalogs. By the 1972 catalog it had a...

When I saw these in a $2 bin of various clamps at a garage sale I thought: “What the heck kind of clamps are these?” I tried turning the slotted screw at the top and that did not change the jaw opening. (At this point, I know some of you are laughing at me.) Turns out, these are made to clamp...

This was made by Diamond Calk Horseshoe. (I posted this on the stickied Adjustable Wrench thread, and it was suggested to also post it here.) I'd like to think there was a perplexed homeowner who, every time he picked this up, for his entire period of wrench ownership, would spend a few...

Found a 551 wood octagonal-handled stubby square-shank screwdriver in pretty good shape. Markings (all on handle, none on ferrule): "P&C (R) 551 U.S.A.” Overall length: 4-3/8”. Tip width: 3/16”. Top of ferrule to tip: 1.57”. Across handle flats: 3/4+”. For dating: the 1948, 1953 & 1958...

I brought this home from the swap meet because it was an odd looking little wrench that had no markings. Turns out it is a bicycle hub wrench for specific New Departure bicycle hubs. For a production era, I found a WorthPoint advert on one of these that said: "For the rear hub on "New...

80 years ago at the Diamond Calk Horseshoe plant, definitely on a Friday afternoon...

I found a double open end with a marking I haven’t seen before. It has “VLCHEK” in a depressed rectangular box. There were no other markings anywhere on the wrench. Measured size openings were 1/2” and 3/8”. Overall length was 4.81 inches. I did my best to search through this whole thread and...

s I found a General Tool socket this weekend at a swap meet. It is marked: "G.T. 3 13-16". (The G.T. is inside a smooshed hex outline like seen on P&C tools). Unsure if this is a regular deep socket or a spark plug socket. @MR.X is the Xpert on this company. This thread is the...

I found a Consolidated Tool Works No. 27 pistol grip hack saw with a composite grip. It was part of their Pilot line. It was in their 1923 "Miniature Catalog" that they published in Hardware Age and Hardware World. (I need to do a little surgery to provide a more correct front blade holder...

International Harvester Corporation (IHC). An I and an H inside a larger C.

General Tool, Portland, Oregon. A "G.T." in a smooshed hex like the hex outline for the P&C logo. For more info on this company, see the Thorsen thread.

You're right. It looks like a little inter-company fraternizing occurred when the Wera screwdriver jumped over the fence and got into Quick-Wedge backyard.