Let's Mix It Up - Show Your Combos!

[twertsy]

We have a DOE thread, and a DBE thread. Let's show some love for the Combos!

I'll start off with my users:

1. Toptul Satin Combos
2. Toptul Chrome Combos
3. (my favs) Toptul Long Pattern Satin Combos
4. Wera Jokers (love these too)

 

[twertsy]

More Users:

1. WrightGrip Combos
2. Williams Ratcheting Combos

Non-Users:

3. Proto ASD Ratcheting Combos
4. Proto ASD Satin Combos

 

[twertsy]

Some More:

1. Proto Challenger
2. Several sets of Proto LA (Missing 1/4" combo!--Help!)
3, 4, 5, Bonney Streamline and Bon-E-Con

 

[twertsy]

1, 2: S-K
3, 4: Plomb
5, 6, 7: Proto and Proto Challenger

 

[twertsy]

A few more partials / trying to fill.

1. Vlchek
2. Easco (missing 3/8 and either 11 or 13/32)
3. Penens
4. Huge Williams / Proto
5. Long Pattern Bonney made MAC

And the last two, my favorite (besides Bonney Streamline) designs:
6. New Britain
7. Herbrand

 

[chopper1]

Mac set. The only ones I have a pic of right now.

 

[Username already in use]

Well, looks like this threads over, and is only just began!
Nice looking Combos, Twertsy! Your collection is amazing.

Here's a combo that probably never saw much use. Does this even qualify as a 'combo'?

 

[twertsy]

Well, looks like this threads over, and is only just began!
Nice looking Combos, Twertsy! Your collection is amazing.

Here's a combo that probably never saw much use. Does this even qualify as a 'combo'?

Nice! Guess QC at Vanadium Tool Co. wasn't all that important!

 

[jumbojak]

Isn't that a striking wrench?

 

[twertsy]

Almost forgot the Mechanics Tool & Forge set.

 

[woody 73]

old geezer Woody needs some help so don't shoot me too fast...I do not know much about toptul or wera jokers could you guys tell me were they made before 1966 making them vintage?

I can see the rest being vintage but not so sure about some of these other fancy pants brands being tossed around???

 

[twertsy]

old geezer Woody needs some help so don't shoot me too fast...I do not know much about toptul or wera jokers could you guys tell me were they made before 1966 making them vintage?

I can see the rest being vintage but not so sure about some of these other fancy pants brands being tossed around???

Nope, those aren't vintage, but they are combos.

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[chopper1]

Some old pix, which I've probably sold off already
Blackhawk
Thorsen
Sears
Wrench King
Snap On stubby SAE
Snap On metric

 

[Sam'sAutoParts]

Some tough acts to follow, but here it goes.

Bonney loc-rite short combo set.

New Britain, working on a set of each 6pt and 21 pt.

New Britain metric on one side and SK RP on the other. Ignore the DBEs

1990s polished SK, long SAE and short metric.

I also have a set of RP SK metric wrenches I need to take pics of, plus some other partial Bonney sets.

 

[Username already in use]

Nice Sam! I really like those Bonney wrenches.
I've got a set of Bonney combos that I've been slowing accumulating. I think these are 50s vintage. I'd like to get the DBEs as well.
I've got #s 1166; 1165; 1164; 1162; 1159 (broken boxed end)

 

[twertsy]

Nice Sam! I really like those Bonney wrenches.
I've got a set of Bonney combos that I've been slowing accumulating. I think these are 50s vintage. I'd like to get the DBEs as well.
I've got #s 1166; 1165; 1164; 1162; 1159 (broken boxed end)

50s would have a date code.

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[Username already in use]

50s would have a date code.

Only the 2 smallest have the date codes. B.Z. and A.Y.

 

[twertsy]

Only the 2 smallest have the date codes. B.Z. and A.Y.

Sweet! Those "don't exist" according to some sources.......

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[Username already in use]

Sweet! Those "don't exist" according to some sources.......

Interesting. I didn't know that. I uploaded some pics of both wrenches to your site.

 

[twertsy]

Interesting. I didn't know that. I uploaded some pics of both wrenches to your site.

Thanks! I have a few uploaded too but mine are streamlines I believe. I was told directly by the "other source" that they have to be mistakes. A mistake 3 years later...........?

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[r_olson_06]

Plomb 12xx missing 1246 if anyone has a spare[emoji4]

Craftsman =v= with original metal tray



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[woody 73]

Very interesting no I don't think mistakes either!

 

[woody 73]

Sam very nice collection...

Also everyone else very nice collections you guys/gals all have

 

[twertsy]

Plomb 12xx missing 1246 if anyone has a spare[emoji4]

Craftsman =v= with original metal tray



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Nice sets Sam and Olson!

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[woody 73]

yes indeed very nice collections !

 

[Username already in use]

I found a couple of oddballs.
A pair of JC Penny combos

And, while not the traditional combo wrench, I would think this old Cornwell would still qualify...

 

[Sam'sAutoParts]

Some more....


SK metric RP set that is. Close to completion.

Mixed set I have hanging on the wall in the store room in my home shop. Williams, SK, another style of New Britain, Herbrand, and Craftsman. The 1/2" is a Proto brand, challenger IIRC.

 

[StillTooManyHobbies]

Gentlemen, I am in awe of the depth of your collections. Sam and Twertsy, good showing. Twertsy, that Bon-E-Con set looks a lot like the Bonney 237xx set I am working on. I'll post pictures after I take them.

 

[d42jeep]

I don't really intentionally collect vintage combo wrenches, but I have ended up with a few.
-Don

 

[Rileysan]

I have both been looking forward to, and dreading this thread. I love it because I want to see and learn and dread it because now I need to organize and photograph my collection.

Great collections, all!

Brian

 

[SilverDeck]

My favorite set of combos is the set of Plomb pebbles that I put together one piece at a time. As you might guess the largest wrenches and the smallest wrenches were the toughest to find. Don't even want to know what I ended up spending to complete this project. But I love them and use them and they just look great hanging on the wall of the garage.

 

[twertsy]

My favorite set of combos is the set of Plomb pebbles that I put together one piece at a time. As you might guess the largest wrenches and the smallest wrenches were the toughest to find. Don't even want to know what I ended up spending to complete this project. But I love them and use them and they just look great hanging on the wall of the garage.

Very nice. Certainly one of my favorites as well.

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[MShaw]

Here's what I have. SAE, Snap on 3/8 to 7/8 from 1961 and SK from late 50s from 15/16 to 1 1/4

Miniature SAE combos, mixed New Britain / Blackhawk from the early 70s, 7/32 to 5/16.

Metric, Craftsman 6mm to 19 mm from the late 1960s, 7mm and 20mm to 28 mm mixed New Britain brands from the early 70s

 

[chopper1]

Nice Plombs, SilverDeck. I've never seen a set that clean!
If you cleaned them, what did you use?

 

[Sam'sAutoParts]

Some good stuff gentlemen!

D42jeep nice set of new Britain made Penncraft. I have a partial set of Sparta metric i need to get pictures of.

I'm jealous of the pebble set, but I have been avoiding starting a set cuz I know I won't be able to stop. I already have to many sets I'm working on currently.

 

[Jim C.]

Here's a vintage set of Craftsman V= (not =V=) SAE wrenches with an original, mint condition Craftsman rack.

Jim C.

 

[twertsy]

Here's another I found while digging around in the shop this morning. A Vanadium Tool Co. set I'm also working on.

 

[drivesitfar]

Silver Deck: i gave up my pegboard for hanging tools in most of my small garage now cause of shelving and cabinets, but the way your Plvmb pebble wrenches look up there I might reconsider hanging a few of mine cause that looks like a masterpiece. WELL DONE and are they your daily users too?

Twertsy: thanks for starting a thread cause you should be the host of one of these. as the rainy season gets going i'll have more garage time to GET ORGANIZED and hopefully post up a few pictures of mine.

ALL: Keep posting and just cause i didn't mention your post with pictures doesn't mean i didn't enjoy looking and reading about them as i'm sure others do the same.

 

[twertsy]

Thanks Drives.

A couple more sets that are in progress:

1. Wards Master
2. Plomb War Finish 5/16-3/4 (extra 7/16, looking for 13/16 and up)
3. Plomb/Proto Dual Marked (LMK if you can help fill in some gaps)

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I don't collect combination wrenches, just wanted to say I was impressed, particularly with the pegboard Plomb collections, and to tease d42jeep and User Name Already In Use that they change avatars more often than I change my underwear.