Recent content by mritchie77

Ended up at an estate sale for an office desk and file cabinet for my wife's classroom. First time in a couple years. Apparently the husband had been a machnist at one time as they had multiple machinist boxes (50's Craftsman, Kennedy, etc) filled with machinists tools. Unfortunately, they were...

Lugz, I'm still on here....occasionally. Kids, professional life, guard, etc. have ramped up over the last two years and depressed all available free time. However, I just came across the new catalogs uploaded on ITCL. Great work!!

Bump for 2025!

Picked these up on a fishing trip to Northern WI last week. Hadn't seen something like this before. Reinhard and McCabe Co. lever pliers.

@Oldtuleguy and @Patrick Eubanks, forgot to put this one up earlier, but the original "Set No. MC" decal is present next to the latch.

Apologies for the delay. Here are some.

Bonney "CV" 4091 1/2dr extension that I picked up on eBay for the MC set that I am very slowly building. Honest wear, not beat up.

Don, since that spinner was already dull, do you think it's going to degrade like that Duro one you had and corrode all the sockets?

Just a couple more of the harder to find items and I'm done! 2024 bump!

Great set! Before I found GJ, I had gone through some of my grandfather's items sorting into the "keep" and the "donate to my redneck neighbor" piles. I ended up donating an identical box and ratchet like this one to the neighbor (I kid about the redneck part, but he is a really great guy...

You can find the whole thing scanned here: 1939 P&C Tools Catalog 40

From the P&C 1939 catalog.

A couple of hex extensions on eBay right now. I searched the forum, but didn't turn up any of these before. 5" extension 17" extension

@Mark Stansbury not only uploaded a 1942 Plomb ad that I scanned, but also found a period article that talks about the very same add! Great work! 1942 Ad and Article Interesting read @Private Lugnutz

Additinonally, here are some photos from the above referenced Facebook post. Credit to Steve F. Credit to (I believe here) @RagTopTA