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Plomb and Proto telescoping ratchets

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The Plomb 1/2" female ratchet on the left in this picture I picked up a couple years ago. Didn't know much about it at the time and still don't, except the seller suspected it was used by the Navy.

I bought this ratchet knowing it was just half of a tool, as the seller also had a picture of a complete tool for reference. Note the slot down the beam (actually a tube, and the 3 holes down one side.

It carries the part number 5450, which is strange to me as that is the part number of a normal 15" Plomb or Proto 1/2" drive ratchet.

It is pictured next to a Wf-38, and a 5449 for reference.
 

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Well, I was not too sure I'd ever find the rest of this thing because I've never seen any others.

Then the other day I stumbled upon this:
 

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Plomb and Proto.


There are three stops on the side to lock in place with the adjustment screw knob.

The range goes from about 9-3/4" to 13-1/4" overall length.
 

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Every piece of the arm, including the tube, the shaft, the handle, the knob, even the washer inside the handle, is stamped with a different corresponding part number on the Proto. I don't see anything else on the Plomb tube.

Each part number ends with an M in a circle. I wonder if this stands for military?
 

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chopper1 said:
That is really slick. Never knew they existed.
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Same here. The seller of the Plomb too apparently. It was in a junk box lot on Ebay that went unsold for the longest time. I thought it was someone's one off hack job so I never would have bid, but at the same time I thought it quite curious. Eventually he relisted it by itself with a picture in the ad that he received from another Plomb collector of a complete tool. I still have the picture saved. Let's just say he asked a little more the second time around after knowing what it was.
twertsy said:
Sweet 3Bay, on my list!
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DuroChrome said:
Wow! Very cool! I've never seen one before.
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Thanks guys! It is a neat one.
woody 73 said:
Makes you stop and wonder at all the different tools we have yet to find. :rocker:
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Woody, it never ceases to amaze me. Stuff out there that still hasn't been uncovered. At least in the GJ world. That's a big part of what I enjoy about tools, finding new (old) things and the many variations out there.
 
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On the circle M...that might be a subcontracting forge...?
It looks exactly like a logo that appears on many Ford toolkit tools. Two of the suppliers of those were M names...one showed a plain M, the other M in a circle. One was Manzel and the other I think Moore drop forging, can't remember which used the circle.
 
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Bruce Lancaster said:
On the circle M...that might be a subcontracting forge...?
It looks exactly like a logo that appears on many Ford toolkit tools. Two of the suppliers of those were M names...one showed a plain M, the other M in a circle. One was Manzel and the other I think Moore drop forging, can't remember which used the circle.
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Good point. Turns out it is Moore who used that.
 
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It looks like same handle that's on my WWII bomb hoist. No markings on that handle however but how many handle mfrs. are there?

This reminds me I still need to clean up that bad boy.
 

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Thought I'd seem most of the Plomb stuff out there, but this one was new to me to!
 
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