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Thanks for the info. I have no idea where he may have picked that up, knowing him I bet he didn't buy it new!

Here is the one I found.

I tried the search engine without luck before posting. I found a 3/8" drive breaker bar labeled "Republic" and "Forged in USA" on the handle in a toolbox that belonged to my dad. I don't believe that it's real high quality but is made in the USA. I googled this and found some rather vague info...

When I quit wrenching for a living in 1991 most of my stuff was and still is SAE. I only had a few metric wrenches and sockets. Since then I have purchased metric sockets in 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2" in deep and shallow plus combinations up to 30mm. I still use the SAE most of the time because I'm a...

I turned wrenches as a career for about 15 years. Over the years I managed to collect quite a number of 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2" ratchets. Here are some pics. SK, Snap-On, Mac, New Britain, Craftsman and a few others. Some were used a lot, some have never been used. I don't have a pic of the...

When I quit wrenching for a living in 1991 air and corded tools were the only thing available other than battery screwdrivers and low power drills. I now have some battery operated tools and wish they would have been available back then but I still have all my air powered tools and wouldn't...

That bottom 5/16" looks just like mine. So do the finishes just degrade over time with exposure and use?

Here are pics of the two with the questionable finish along with another wrench that has been used hard. I used some brake cleaner on a rag and yesterday tried some carb cleaner on a rag. Neither removed the discoloration.

I didn't find these in 2026 but in about 2013 I didn't know about this site. My wife and I stopped at a farm house with a yard sale sign and I began looking at tools. Most was junk but I found a couple of Snap On combo wrenches in a pile and started searching. I found a set of long combo...

That's what I do. I was selling a Craftsman snowblower that was like new for $250. Just didn't need it anymore and wanted it our of the way. Guy offered me $175, I counted with $275. We haggled for a few minutes and he bought it for $260.🤷🏼‍♂️

When I bought my SO roller cabinet 40 or so years ago there wasn't much to compare with then. The bottom of my New Britain bottom cabinet (who knows who made it) was cracked where the casters attach and the wheels would go flat because of over loading. There weren't any big boxes available...

Sorry if this has been asked about and discussed before. I tried the Search feature and didn't find anything. What is the quality of the Husky brand hand tools being sold by Home Depot? I have some old Husky stuff, probably made by New Britain that is good but I'm curious about the stuff from...

Nice! Those look new! They aren’t low clearance though, are they?

I have the same breaker bar, in fact I have 8 of them I bought brand new years ago still wrapped in the paper they were shipped in from the factory. They reside in the bottom of my toolbox and probably 5 or 6 are still wrapped in paper. I believe they were originally shipped "in the white"...

I bought a Tool Force metric short 1/2" drive impact socket set. I was in a bind and needed something quick. I noticed it's missing a 15 and 20mm socket. I went to Amazon and noticed many of their sets don't include those sizes either. I needed the 15mm yesterday while working on my F-150...

I graduated from high school in 1976 without any idea what I wanted to do with my life and went to work for the local mechanic that I had worked for in HS. In 1977 the local NAPA sales rep stopped and announced that he had some deals on New Britain tools. It was a certain percentage I think...

The shop I worked at had a Sioux seat grinder and a Sioux valve grinder. I ground thousands and thousands of valves and seats in the 14 years I worked there. If the guides and seats were worn we would send them to the machine shop to be replaced. I always used a 1* interference fit and a...

I found these yesterday at a garage sale in the little town where I live. $0.25 each, $1.00 for the lot. When I was a kid about 10 years old a bunch of old timers would congregate at the local lumberyard to drink coffee and soak up heat from the Warm Morning oil stove. I fondly remember one...

What were these designed for or are they just version of pliers. Seems they would have been made for a specific purpose?

I used to buy Ballantine beer when I was broke and in college! $0.98 a six pack, I think it might have been made by Fallstaff but not sure. Cool bottle opener!