Recent content by Toolman 1912

This wouldn't of happened with H.K Porter tools forged in their Boston, Mass plant! That plant closed in the late 1980's. I have tools made their that are over 100 years old! My dad worked there as a machinist! He never would let that pass inspection!

I have and would choose an H.K. Porter impact driver always! My dad help make those tools at their ppant in Boston in the 1960s. Any import one I would throw out!

Hi Toolman 1912 here,those impact drivers were made in the late 1950s into through the 1960 at least. Their were several sizes of straight and Philip's screwdriver bits for this tool. The plant or foundry as it was know had been at Assembly square from at least 1900 till 1988. The location first...

Hi Shelby Those H.K. Porter impact drivers were probably made in the 1960s. I know that's about the time when my dad had them in his tools, since he worked at the plant they were made at. I have 2 impact drivers as well as screwdriver bits to go with them. I have about 18 tools made at that...

Hi Dura chrome on one side of the handles they should have the place where they were made. I have a pair that somerville, mass. I estimate they date of about 1916. Tools made at this plant have a warm spot in my heart because my dad worked their from 1950s through his retirement in 1978. They...