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Anybody got any idea what the hell this thing is? it's an older Taft Peirce tool. It has a plate on it with a part number of 12-1959-876 but nothing turns up in searches. I got it mixed in with a hoard of machinist tooling. It has a weird plug that I assume plugs into some type of "reader", or...

Maybe I'm wrong, but aren't these fairly hard to find? . http://providence.craigslist.org/tls/5673320280.html

I've been looking for a small benchtop shaper forever, and when a friend told me that he knew someone that had one for sale, I couldn't get there fast enough. What I found was this tiny thing. The "cool" factor is off the charts. There are no maker's marks on it anywhere. The first picture has a...

I recently came across this old stand, and although I'm pretty familiar with most common blacksmith/tin knocking stuff, I've never seen one of these before. The anvil stake that came with it really doesn't belong, since all of the holes in the block are round, and the stake has a squared end...

I've seen some pretty obscure items identified here at GJ, but I think this one will be a challenge. It's some type of small machine. It seems pretty old and is very well engineered. I don't have a clue what it's supposed to do. It has no markings, names, or numbers on it. It operates a series...

I just picked up a few older Snap On 5/8" drive sockets and an extension. Some of the sockets have an older Snap On logo on them, and a few others have just a "S" stamped over an "O". Is that S/O thing actually an old Snappy logo? I really don't know much about the older Snap On stuff and have...

I picked up these two ratcheting crowsfoot thingys at an estate sale today. Both are nearly identical in design, but the Proto one seems newer. The older "Tubing Appliance Co." tool also has the letters TAC on it, just as the Proto does. The part numbers seem to coordinate as well. Did Proto...

I'm sure that someone here will recognize these. A friend of mine bought a rusty old tool box at a garage sale and there was a mostly complete set of these sockets in it and nothing else. They are graduated by 32nds, and have no name on them. They have a star on either side of the size markings...

I picked these 2 up at a garage sale this morning. They weigh about 90 lbs each. I put a coke can near them for reference. I've never seen this style before. They look to be cast.

I found this big wrench at a swap yesterday. I'm pretty familiar with old "iron", and I'm usually pretty good at ID'ing old tools, but this one's got me stumped. It's about 16" long and weighs about 6 1/2 lbs. It has a 2 3/4" socket on one end and a 2 1/8" on the other. There are no markings on...