Recent content by sstetsen

What happened with this thread? No post from August till now... Monte?

If you are really interested in Soviet and Russian tools you could visit two very popular Russian forums: http://www.mastercity.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=23 http://forum.woodtools.ru/index.php?board=4.0 If you don't know Russian just look through messages for images. The second forum is dedicated...

Gasoline with oxygen? Unbelievable... No, this particular tool uses acetylene, kind of gaseous hydrocarbon, mixed under pressure with oxygen. By the way, such cutter could cut 12-inches steel rods as the shield tells..

The nameplate says that the tool is from Romania, not from Russia. But the shield itself is in Russian so I think that tool was imported from Romania to former USSR. That kind of tools has been very common in (x)USSR, that is an acetylene-oxygene cutter/welder. But this set dosn't have the main...

Actually, ANY pliers could be and should be checked in such manner, not only diagonal cutters. Just grab with your fingers pliers' jaws and clench the handles. Any sensitive sidelong movement of jaws testify a problem with tool's geometry. I have been using this test for years, just try it...

Yes, of course, many ones... Do you know, for example, that USSR manufactured special, small-sized tools especially for children? Not those plastic toys imitating hammers or pliers but REAL small hammers, pliers etc of high quality? No, children didn't have to work with these tools :), they...

Thank you for your greating! The hammer in the middle are just to compare sizes. :)

Hammers from my childhood...

I should say that in USSR all (at least, industry) tools had to conform to very strict industry (I'd say even military) standards, so named "ГОСТ"s. So if a wrench was marked as "Chrom Vanadium" (not "Chrome", but "Chrom") it meant that exact alloy composition and forge processes were carefully...

Today I've posted the link to this thread to the most popular ex-USSR's tools forum (mastercity.ru) so you could expect more and more questions and even discussions about Russian tools :) A "guest" in Russian is "гость", a "tool" is "инструмент", so the "instrument" could be used as a synonym...