2020 Vintage Tool Goals

[wrenchguy]

A 8" or 10" International adjustable or a "GRAND" Chicago DOE.

 

[mcdye]

Goal. go thru my dads tools, he was a loyal craftsman guy back in the day. Plus odds and ends of snapon and sk.

 

[MR.X]

My goal/resolution is to spend less time on this site............................................................................................................................................................oh wait............

 

[outofbounds]

Less impulse. Focus on specifics rather than trying to be too broad . I learned this long ago collecting antique pottery and glass. Just getting a handle on it with the vintage tools.

Amen,
I've been rather scattered this winter so far. Desperate to drag the landscape for every "great deal".

I need to train myself better to understand that there will never be an end to "great deals" in tools.......

 

[Private Lugnutz]

...a "GRAND" Chicago DOE.

I'm interested in this goal, wrenchguy. Do you have a partial set you're trying to complete? If so, please post them on the 'Show your DOE's' thread. I am curious because I have two Grand vises and I didn't know they had DOE engineers wrenches. Did they make them or did someone make them for them?

My 2020 goals:

(1) Finish unfinished projects.
(2) Continue to resist the urge to post 2020 goals that will only haunt me into 2021.

 

[Rick B.]

Would like to find a 4" to 6" King **** spanner wrench on the cheap. Does not need to be all cleaned up.

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[Farmer J.]

Would like to find a 4" to 6" King **** spanner wrench on the cheap. Does not need to be all cleaned up.

There's almost always a page or 2 of those on eBayuk, and they almost always need a lot of cleaning up. I only have ever found one which is new condition like the one in that picture and it's a big one.

 

[wrenchguy]

I'm interested in this goal, wrenchguy. Do you have a partial set you're trying to complete? If so, please post them on the 'Show your DOE's' thread. I am curious because I have two Grand vises and I didn't know they had DOE engineers wrenches. Did they make them or did someone make them for them?

I had 1 like in the photo about 20 years b4 i mistakenly sold it at my D sale in 2006. Don't know of any particulars about its manufacture. When i had it i had a feeling it was a for the government some how because of the part number. Never seen another.
Then these photos came on ToolTalk several years ago when someone had 1 for sale... but too late as it sold while i was only visiting there once/twice aweek. Seems 2b a mysterious wrench as there was some cryptic post about it there.

Its other side,

 

[Private Lugnutz]

What's the number? I can't read it. You are familiar with the vises, right? They have the same logo with the big G and D and the smaller RAN in between. One of mine is a military vise with a Federal Stock Number on it.

 

[wrenchguy]

What's the number? I can't read it. You are familiar with the vises, right? They have the same logo with the big G and D and the smaller RAN in between. One of mine is a military vise with a Federal Stock Number on it.

Don't know the number, not knowledgeable to enlarge. Sorry. I know the vises as i think 454ragtop brought 1 up sometime back, I brought up the DOE then also. No responses.

EDIT, Openings are 1 13/16" & 2 3/16".

 

[Provincial]

Looks like 41-W-1085-280 to me.

 

[wrenchguy]

There was a considerable tool company with its beginnings located on Grand Ave in Chicago. I believe the searchlight glow is still visible after sunrise above New Jersey.

 

[drivesitfar]

ALL: I love GRAND tools and i've got one of their smaller clamp on quick release vises on my bench now. I also have one of their quick release clamps in my clamp drawer. the tools were made to last and their design and logo looks great too.

one of my goals for 2020 include going through all my boxes, buckets and drawers and getting my old vintage tools ORGANIZED.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Thanks, Provincial. That is a wartime FSN. Very interesting. As I said, I have an OD green GRAND vise like Drives', with a wartime FSN. But I've never seen their wrenches, let alone their wrenches with a wartime FSN. It's not a vehicle (jeep, Dodge, Jimmie, etc) wrench, but still a significant discovery.

 

[outofbounds]

Would like to find a 4" to 6" King **** spanner wrench on the cheap. Does not need to be all cleaned up.

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I have no idea what constitutes "on the cheap" and this is not my listing, nor any connection to seller. Just tripped over it on Ebay by accident and remembered your post
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Ki...221114?hash=item3d9a91563a:g:2-EAAOSwE91eDkeM

Looks like 3 bids (all by the same bidder) trying to discourage any new buyers entering the auction. 2 hours to go as I post this.

 

[BradnCali]

My goal is to complete the light restoration of my 20" Delta Band Saw so that I can sell it and get it out of my garage. I'm almost there so hopefully someone else's 2020 vintage tool goal is to get themselves a new vintage band saw. Maybe they are even on Garage Journal!