My first socket set

[StillTooManyHobbies]

My first socket set, if you can call it that, arrived from my dad when I was probably about 9 or 10 years old, maybe a little earlier. I think it might have been so he could see if I had an interest or just so I could have my own. It had 7 sockets and a spinner, no ratchet, and came in a New Britain pouch, probably from a hex key set. I became frustrated very quickly as I could not remove any bolts that had been tightened, resorting to a pair of 7" mini vise grips clamped on the spinner shaft. Within the year, I was gifted a new TrueCraft 23 piece 1/4 and 3/8 set and I thought I was in great shape. The TrueCraft now resides in a road box and the small set I now see is Oxwall sits in my current box as a fond memory. Today I, from an estate sale, added an Oxwall ratchet that I never had and will probably never use. But it's there in case all my SK and Craftsman sets break and I need to fix something.

My first wrenches were real tools and came from Sears, but that's another story.

I know there are a couple threads on Oxwall, so I won't repeat that history.

 

[theoldwizard1]

My first socket set, if you can call it that, arrived from my dad when I was probably about 9 or 10 years old, maybe a little earlier.

I got mine for Christmas when I was 15. Craftsman, 1/4" and 3/8", SAE only. 3/8" ratchet and 1/4" breaker. The "jewel" was a 1/4" hand driver that had a 1/4" female driver socket in the top for the breaker. No case/holders so it lived in a cardboard box for a couple of years.

Of course, over the years, I added on to it. 1/4" and 3/8" extensions, universals and metric. 3/8" deep, but no 1/4" deep. I still have most of the originals and it is my "most used tool" in my set !