ID this pressed socket

[930dreamer]

No markings that I can see.

 

[Bierisch]

Is the square drive rod removable?

 

[930dreamer]

Is the square drive rod removable?

Nope!

 

[drivesitfar]

Dreamer: not sure, but ROlson posted up some Plvmb ones that are similar over on the show your Plvmb tools thread last week. yours looks to be better made than a lot of similar ones I see in Plumber's tool boxes.

 

[CalsXS2]

I know nothing about old tools like that. But it reminds me of a shower stem socket. Or even a spark plug socket.

But like drivesitfar said. It's much better made.

 

[gdocktor3]

I think they're just cheap vintage made sockets. Posts like this come up every so often and I also thought they were shower valve sockets, but they are indeed regular sockets. Here is an idea of what I'm talking about. https://www.google.com/search?q=fra...ved=0ahUKEwji9OinuPDLAhVLk4MKHRfWB2cQ_AUIBygC

Shower valves usually have a different size on each end, with holes through them to use a rod or screwdriver to turn with.

 

[930dreamer]

I think they're just cheap vintage made sockets. Posts like this come up every so often and I also thought they were shower valve sockets, but they are indeed regular sockets. Here is an idea of what I'm talking about. https://www.google.com/search?q=fra...ved=0ahUKEwji9OinuPDLAhVLk4MKHRfWB2cQ_AUIBygC

I searched almost the entire Alloy Artifact site, Plvmb is the only socket I found with a male shank, all the rest have the insert?

 

[four.cycle]

gah! I just saw some like that on Ebay during the last week or so... but I cannot recall what brand... Mossberg? Lane? had the male square thing permanently affixed to the stamped socket.

 

[AndrewDouglasBird]

Possibly a socket for lug bolts? Factory tool in some car?

 

[sasquatch12]

I guess possibly mossberg.

 

[Roberts210]

Growing up on a Midwest farm I can tell you my pop's shop in the 1950's was full of old tools similar in appearance to that one, that had never been chrome plated and almost none of them had any ID stamped into them. I believed then and still do that most of his tools were from the 1920's, and were just inexpensive farm-quality tools... I still have some of his tools. As a kid I surmised that there must have been multiple small factories in the U.S. that produced tools cheaply and sold them inexpensively.

 

[sasquatch12]

Model A and model T fords had similar sockets in sets made by Mossberg.

 

[Waterlooboy2hp]

My dad had a few of those in his auto tools. I did a search for photos of vintage spark plug sockets. There were many photos of that same one. Most said 20s & 30s Ford and Chevy. Pop had a 36 ford and a 27 T, prior to that. ---- John

 

[r_olson_06]

I know Hinsdale made a line of them. It looks similar but they were lightly stamped so logo may be hard to see.

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[four.cycle]

possible answer:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/262353042823?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT