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    Needed to call a buddy to help me get my new buys back to town...

    Makes you wonder why someone invested so much in tools only to turn around and sell them so cheap and most look hardly used. Must be a good story behind this.
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    Plomb 1 1/8" combination wrench value?

    Looks like it has some engraving which is going to knock the price down by half for most people. Here's my Plomb 1 1/8 box wrench that I picked up this summer for $3. Do you have a better pic of the lettering?
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    what a fluke!

    To clean grease and grime you can use WD-40 on holsters or the yellow overmolded part of the 179 meter, not sure if it will take off pen ink though.
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    Color of Columbia vise?

    Here's what my 70's Columbian 504-M2 looks like painted with Ford gray from Ace hardware (rust stop paint). Best $15 I spent this summer.
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    mystery plomb plier

    Not sure they were ever used as a clamp ring plier. There is no damage to the through holes that you would expect to see from that use. Looking again at the number it likely is 22? The only other clue was the owner worked at Honeywell starting in the 60's so there's a chance his father was into...
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    mystery plomb plier

    Hello all! Time for me to come out of the shadows and ask for any help to ID this 7" Plomb plier. Picked it up for a $1 at a tool estate sale last weekend and didn't think much about till I tried to locate it in the old catalogs. All you can see is 23? and made in USA near the hinge, no other...
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    newb from PNW

    After hanging around in the shadows for too long it's time to start making a meaningful contribution to the board. Although I grew up working in my dad's Union 76 3-bay station, I decided that I enjoyed working on my own cars instead of everyone else's. BTW, my avatar is my grandfather working...
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    test

    Columbian 504-M2
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