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Bondhus in my book too. Use them every day at work and they are extremely durable. I use both straight (hex) and ball end. The nice thing about straight ends is that if they do become rounded, all you need to do is take the rounded end to a grinder or belt sander and remove it (be careful not...

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Also dug out a No. 174 straight and a No 93 A T tap handle (Zippo lighter for size comparison)

Dave, nice buckle; forgot all about mine :beer: Also found a couple other interesting Starrett marketing or promotional items. Photo 2 has two varieties of pencil clips, a 1955 money clip (75th Anniversary?), and a digital caliper tie clip. Photo 3 is a close up of the tie clip, as it is hard...

Alton, absolutely cool little ratchet :thumbup: Just added another item to the list of things I need to find :drool:

Looks beat, I will agree......but it may be possible to replace the slides. Just find a donor box in worse condition with decent slides. Could bead blast it and spray bomb any color you want, add some liners to the drawers and have a decent user for at home. Replace the missing lock and it's...

Man, things are definitely getting 'fishy' here - salmon, rainbow, brook, cut throat :beer::beer::pimpflash I have (unfortunately) never had the opportunity to fish in the Great White North or the Pacific Northwest...where I am a 3 to 4 pound brookie is absolutely ginormous in natural...

Definitely a cool mark and at least for me, a definite keeper (pun intended) :thumbup: Looked quickly and could not find anything about the company anywhere, so I wonder if it was a small regional firm that just didn't make it....perhaps some others here might be able to shed some light on that...

They look like some fairly large service wrenches to me. Usually they are used for jam nuts, shut off valves, or any hex head fastener in a tight location that does not require an extreme amount of torque . Those are larger than any I have seen/used so they are kind of neat to me. Being that...

My condolences on the loss of your Dad. The advice on the cleaning of his boxes is spot on since he was a body man and didn't see a whole lot of oil and grease since it does not mix well with paint. With the hand tools, you can also try mineral spirits as that softens and removes grease and...

Cheap as far as today's cost, but $1.00 back then is equivalent to about $14.50 in 2018. Don't know if a lot of people would give up 2 packs of smokes in a week to buy a speeder tee handle or even a pack to buy a 1" socket. Sure there was probably an equivalent of Harbor Freight back then...

Cool little piece there Dave [emoji106]. I agree with not peeling the label off - the appearance of the stone and the box looks like some Norton hard Arkansas stones I have. Too bad there isn't a way to find out without destroying it [emoji34]. Sent from my LG-M210 using The Garage Journal...

Nice looking box :thumbup: It looks like it was well cared for over the years. It should be relatively easy to get looking good again. As bubinga said, a little Murphy's oil soap will clean it up. After drying it off, following that with some dry #0000 steel wool to further clean and smooth...

Found this at a yard sale last weekend along with a bunch of Blue Point combos and some nice larger (50mm and up) engineers wrenches. To me, it looks like a late 40's or so vintage. My question is who or what was Reda Manufacturing? I have not been able to find anything about the company. Is...

Having been in the machinist/tool and die maker trade for 35+ years, I have never seeen anybody use the front panel of their box, either wooden or steel, as a 'work' surface. I may place an indicator on it so that it is safely out of the way until I need it again, but have never 'worked' on it...

:thumbup: Nice find Lugz. That's one I think that I don't have :drool:

11/16-27 ? How old is this transit? It may use an odd thread, but I couldn't find any reference to 27 tpi in my 24th edition (1992) Machinery's Handbook for 11/16" diameter unified screw threads which have been the standard since WWII more or less. Have data for 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, and 32...

That would be a handy option on mics up to 4" imo. Above that size, it probably would not be too useful. I can't see myself using the finger ring on an 18-19" mic though, but definitely on the small ones.

Good looking set there leg :thumbup: As a kid of 7 or 8, I did see the Dunlap boxes and some wooden Craftsman ones every now and then at auctions or garage sales - thought they were the coolest things in the world with all of the drawers in them. At that age I was just falling down the rabbit...

Nice book Dave :thumbup: It was part of a three volume 'set' that Starrett put out. Over the last 20+ years, I was lucky enough to find all three, but not all from the same year (mine run from 1924 to 1929). The 'set' is: 1. The Starrett Book for Machinists' Apprentices 2. The Starrett Data...