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It's rare (for me) to find Williams tools that don't look like they were "rode hard and put away wet". So, when I see something that is this clean I have a tendency to snap it up. Got this one off of eBay recently. First 3/8" I've seen of this vintage that has any paint left on it. Reminds...

As I mentioned in the 2025 garage sale thread, I recently picked up a box of (mostly) DBEs. They were all definitely used - very thick coat of grease on most of them. Here they are cleaned up. Starting from the top left, here's a trio of Vlchek (cadmium? - definitely not chromed) coated...

I saw this lot on FBM and made an offer on a whim. The seller accepted. It's the second Snap-on FB-50 that I've found recently (this one is without a tray as well). Some nice wrenches inside, too. Plomb, Bonney, Vlchek, Blackhawk, Craftsman and some others that I need to clean up to see the...

@Tom "Python" Aycock search for "Volume" in this thread (e.g., this link). Bill

In post 4872 I shared the FB-50 box I recently acquired. It was was missing the tray and the original handle and the hasp was different as well. I love to see the meticulously restored boxes on this forum but somehow I didn't feel like that type of restore was right for this one. So, I decided...

Anybody recognize this box? As I postulated in the 2025 Garage Sale Thread (14th Annual), I wonder if it's an FB-50 box. I can't imagine that the handle and hasp are original but they're well executed if they are user modified. If it is indeed from the 1930s, would it have been black? I...

Saw a ToO garage sale this afternoon while running errands and avoiding the (what has become) daily deluge. $10 netted me: Early Snap-on toolbox (help me out with this one - looks kind of like the FB-50 on page 14 in the 1936 catalog). Williams S140A 1/2" universal. Snap-on 5/8" deep socket...

FBM offered up this lot of WWII-era goodness. From the top... Crescent 8" adjustable. CeeTee 6" pliers. Bridgeport Hardware 351 phillips #1 screwdriver. Unmarked (as far as I can tell) linesman's pliers - for you fellas to have fun contemplating as much as you have with the last pair! Bill

No date stamp. Glad you guys are having fun with it. ;)

I think that "E" date code is 1944. From my experience the sockets were probably discarded because "they didn't fit". (They look like 1/4" drive in the wild.) Ratchets and breaker bars got ground down to fit 1/4" sockets. Bill

9/32" was the de-facto "midget" driver size in the 1930s until the industry transitioned to 1/4" in the 1940s. The 9/32” Drive Tools - The Forgotten Older Sibling? thread on the G503 site has a nice discussion. Bill

$3 on the last day of a local estate sale netted me these four items. They were all pretty rusty as purchased but cleaned up pretty well. From the top... A Klein-ish looking pair of linesman pliers. (Can't really tell from the worn logo.) A late 1800s-early 1900s Peck, Stow & Wilcox...

It was DOE day for mrbill. Some pre and post WWII BluePoint. A smattering of Williams from multiple eras. Some itty-bitties from Plomb, P&C, and Barcalo. A 1954 JOS SHAW CO repack (41-W-1005-10) And a Kent Moore (KMO) 41-W-3575 tappet wrench Bill

$3 at a ToO estate sale netted me a handful of rust this morning. Top to bottom: Set of Barcalo "Convex" DOEs in a clip. Wards Master Quality 10" adjustable Wards Master Quality 8" adjustable Ridgid 6" pipe wrench Stanley 199 fixed blade utility knife L. Hugoniot-Tissot jewelers pliers...

My mom passed away last month and Mother's Day was a hard one this year. I was able to put four dollars back into the economy with a few small finds at an estate sale, though. A 7" tall Coca-Cola glass of unknown provenance. A "first generation" Williams S-52 1/2" ratchet (in way worse...

Thanks, @Private Lugnutz . FWIW, I suspect that they were my grandfather's pliers before they were my dads - which would dovetail with the timeline. My dad was not one to buy a tool unless he had a need for it (a recessive farmer gene I suspect) and I don't remember them around the house when...

I'm not sure where these fit in the S&H/Crescent timeline, but I found these S&H stamped 654 pliers at my mom's house. It looks like my dad must have been using them to fix a lamp and forgot about the project (a likely casualty to dementia). Bill

As I mentioned in the 2025 Garage Sale Thread (14th Annual) thread, I went picking in my own basement and found this offset screwdriver in a box of neglected/overlooked/unloved finds. It cleaned up really well. Bill

Sometimes it pays to go picking in your own house... I saw this video on YouTube and decided I wanted to try that approach as a substitute for Evaporust. I went picking for some slightly rusty subjects in my own basement and found these items (I didn’t clean the pliers, they were my dads)...

Small President's Day haul. BluePoint XS2024 DBE, Bridgeport Hardware crate hammer/pry bar, some Williams, Blueline, and Herbrand combos. Bill