Post up your vintage Champion deArment/Channellock tools

d42jeep · Jun 28, 2018

I’m aware that there is a Channellock thread in the general tool discussion but it seems to generally focus on more modern Channellock tools. I feel that a vintage Channellock thread would be of interest here. I would propose that the cutoff between vintage and modern would be when Channellocks intoduced the rivet and did away with the older bolt and nut in the groove joint models. Although I have some modern versions in my collection, my focus is on the earlier tools. Here are some pictures of mine. I hope to see yours here too. :thumbup:

-Don

d42jeep · Jun 28, 2018

Here is an early flyer.
-Don

RubiconJK · Jun 28, 2018

I have this one pair.

bonneyman · Jun 28, 2018

RubiconJK said:
I have this one pair.

Ohhh, like that one! :thumbup:

d42jeep · Jun 28, 2018

RubiconJK said:
I have this one pair.

Those are nice. I like the early handle pattern. I actually found a pair of Channellocks on Saturday that had the handle pattern. All of my other #420s have smooth handles, even the ones with the 1933 Canadian patent. These may well be my earliest pair.
-Don

Darktone · Jun 29, 2018

Thanks guys. Great pictures!

RubiconJK · Jun 29, 2018

bonneyman said:
Ohhh, like that one!

d42jeep said:
Those are nice. I like the early handle pattern. I actually found a pair of Channellocks on Saturday that had the handle pattern. All of my other #420s have smooth handles, even the ones with the 1933 Canadian patent. These may well be my earliest pair.
-Don

Darktone said:
Thanks guys. Great pictures!

Thanks guys. Don, that is an impressive collection! I've only ever found the one pair in the wild.

d42jeep · Jul 8, 2018

Thanks, Rubicon. I found this hammer at the Tahoe flea today. It is a Champion deArment with Southern Pacific markings on the opposite side. I’ll post up some of my other hammers as well.
-Don

d42jeep · Aug 12, 2018

Here are some recent additions to my Channellock collection.
-Don

d42jeep · Oct 9, 2018

I’ve been looking for one of these for a while since I’d only seen them online. I found these on eBay for a fairly reasonable price recently. I see now why they aren’t more popular. They seem to me like a poor redesign of regular Vise Grips. I guess they are destined to just be a conversation piece.
-Don

Private Lugnutz · Oct 25, 2018

Nothing special, Don, I just thought I'd add some pics of the markings on the pair of No.420 water pump pliers I picked up at the flea this morning. For reference for others.

As I reported on the Garage Sale thread, these have the PAT. IN CAN. 1933 notice marking, and directly underneath that, they have the U.S. PAT. 1950362 marking. As you know, that was granted March 6, 1934, and the next patent assigned to Champion DeArment wasn't until 1953, so these are the pliers WWII collectors want. The ones with the Canadian patent will also do, of course. Smooth grips. Only the third pair I have ever found in the wild. Nine out of ten times I pick a pair up, I am putting them back down with the 1953 patent.

Private Lugnutz · Apr 19, 2019

I was fortunate to run into an interesting fellow at my flea market this morning. He was selling things for a friend, who is the executor of an oldtimer's estate. He only had what he referred to as a smidge of the stuff with him. It included these two Champion DeArment pliers. I am not positive what the type (model No 307) on the top is, but they look like battery terminal pliers to me. Unfortunately, they have been ground down a bit to a wedge on the head. The ignition pliers are Channellock branded, but have the original 1934 tongue-and-groove patent number on the handle (1,950,362).

Private Lugnutz · Apr 20, 2019

Before I put them away, I took a family portrait. Except for the water pumps, which I forgot to grab out of my GMTK!

MShaw · Apr 30, 2019

Here is all I have. Purchased in 1963.

Private Lugnutz · May 30, 2019

Picked up another pair of No. 307's. This example is much, much nicer than the pair I found a few weeks ago (See Post #12)!

Oregon rock crusher · May 31, 2019

Some nice Channellock pliers and collections you guys have. I pulled a few pairs out of the box for a pic tonight. Two pair. 410's and 420's. I need to find some with those cool grip patterns. Ed.

d42jeep · May 31, 2019

Those are nice. The pair with the 1933 Canadian patent marking are fairly rare.
-Don

Private Lugnutz · May 31, 2019

...and, as Don knows, the version we WWII guys hunt for, Ed. The next model 420 they made is a 1953 patent. See Post #11.

BarryWells · May 31, 2019

RubiconJK said:
I have this one pair.

That certainly is a hint where the CL Nutbuster idea came from

cag · Nov 4, 2019

Is there a proper name or pat. # for that grip pattern, might I ask?

d42jeep · Jan 9, 2020

Here is an early #415 smooth jaw pair that arrived yesterday. These are the first vintage #415 I’ve seen.
-Don

outofbounds · Jan 9, 2020

My humble offering: Champion DeArment Nippers. Pre-dating any reference to Channellock.

d42jeep · Jan 9, 2020

Nice early end nippers. Here is the smooth jaw #415 after a visit to the evaporust.
-Don

outofbounds · Jan 9, 2020

d42jeep said:
Nice early end nippers. Here is the smooth jaw #415 after a visit to the evaporust.
-Don

Don,
Have you or Private Lugnutz ever had a thread on how to produce consistently excellent photos? I'm woeful by comparison, and I'd love to know how to up my game.....

GalaxyRat · Jan 9, 2020

Here is my No. 307 Battery Pliers, and my No. 420 and 430 ChannelLock Pliers with associated patent numbers. View attachment 965406

GalaxyRat · Jan 9, 2020

GalaxyRat said:
Here is my No. 307 Battery Pliers, and my No. 420 and 430 Channellock Pliers with associated patent numbers. View attachment 965406

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d42jeep · Jan 9, 2020

outofbounds said:
Don,
Have you or Private Lugnutz ever had a thread on how to produce consistently excellent photos? I'm woeful by comparison, and I'd love to know how to up my game.....

Most of my shots are taken outside on old redwood fence boards with my iPhone. If it’s raining I use my old garage office chair for a background. Not too sophisticated.

GalaxyRat said:
Yikes, not sure what happened with my pictures... [emoji2369]

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Nice group. I haven’t run across any Champion deArment battery pliers yet.
-Don

GalaxyRat · Jan 9, 2020

d42jeep said:
Most of my shots are taken outside on old redwood fence boards with my iPhone. If it’s raining I use my old garage office chair for a background. Not too sophisticated.

Nice group. I haven’t run across any Champion deArment battery pliers yet.
-Don

Thanks, I was pleasantly surprised to find a pair.

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d42jeep · Mar 3, 2020

I found a well used #420 pair at an estate sale on Saturday. This is my second pair with the Channellock pattern on the handles. I was curious so I checked the 1944 wartime Champion deArment catalog and was able to make out the pattern on the handles of the #420.
-Don

Private Lugnutz · Aug 15, 2020

Found a No. 417 this morning. Family shot (no dupes!) in Pic 6.

d42jeep · Aug 15, 2020

You are getting to have quite a collection of the early ones.
I found a pair yesterday and today. Both needed a bit of restoration. The 420 pair was early and had some unique markings. I’m wondering about the significance of the G43 on one handle.
-Don

redlines · Aug 18, 2020

First post.
Been searching the web, can't find another like. Found at estate sale Friday in Plattsmouth NE.

I think this is a pre patent example. No Channellock or patent. Straight handles. Only marking are the cast 0 and Champion-DeArment, Meadville PA USA. Pictured with a newer 420.

Private Lugnutz · Aug 18, 2020

d42jeep said:
You are getting to have quite a collection of the early ones.

Thanks. I plan on making a display board out of the first 4 pages of the 8-page catalog update they published in 1944.

redlines said:
First post.
Been searching the web, can't find another like...[ ]...I think this is a pre patent example. No Channellock or patent. Straight handles. Only marking are the cast 0 and Champion-DeArment, Meadville PA USA.

Interesting. I have seen 420's and also 410's without much sway in the handles, but never without the markings.

mritchie77 · Sep 10, 2020

Dug this out today after recognizing the name from this thread. After a little wipe down with WD-40 it looks pretty good.

Champion No. 516

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Private Lugnutz · Sep 11, 2020

That's an interesting logo. I have about a dozen or so Champion-DeArment tools and none of them have that particular logo.

d42jeep · Sep 12, 2020

Me neither. I like that logo. Something else to look for.
-Don

Provincial · Sep 12, 2020

mritchie77, you should post that logo in the Cool Tool Logo thread!

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=461958

d42jeep · Sep 12, 2020

I overpaid for a pair of Channellock adjustables today at a Tahoe garage sale. I had to leave a bunch of other stuff behind.
-Don

RTM · Sep 20, 2020

Here is my contribution, a hammer. The logo is a bear to shoot, but a three line logo, curved top and bottom.

CHAMPION
TOOL (anvil) CO. (Assuming CO)
De ARMENT

Picked it up at a Garage Sale, thought the shape odd.

Looks like it should have the 344 price sheet logo.

Outwest · Sep 20, 2020

That’s a shoeing hammer- for driving horseshoe nails.

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