My Small But Growing 1/4" drive Socket Set Collection

[JoCoSawdust]

Thanks. I’d like a user version of the butterflys too but not touching this one

 

[Smokeshow69]

Thanks. I’d like a user version of the butterflys too but not touching this one

Yes, please don’t. This set, as well as the rest of the set is one you put on the shelf and don’t touch! Glad it went to a good home!


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[Oldtuleguy]

Man that is mint ! I am looking for a user version of that set ! That was such a haul and many you ***** are in order!


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They pop up here and there. Just gotta watch for em! I think 1/4 sets were embossed, larger sets had metal plate.

 

[WarrenJ]

Picked up this Oxwall #3934 at a yard sale. All 11 pieces and looks like never used.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

That's a nice one

 

[ssdave]

Don't remember posting this before; strictly speaking not a 1/4" drive set; it's 9/32". Unusual in that I have all 3 adapters from 1/4 and 9/32 and 3/8 for it.

Totally worthless to me, but I've kept it because it's so neat. One of the few tools I have that I don't use.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Nice. Very complete set.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

So, it's not 1/4-inch drive, and it's not 3/8-inch drive, it's 5/16-inch drive, and hex, and I couldn't find any other examples here on GJ, so I was going to start a thread for the Otter Mfg Co Socket Set I picked up this past week anyway. But the big question is, has anyone ever seen midget sockets marked with the names of ignition systems (e.g., Remy, Eisemann, etc), like early ignition wrenches? Some of these are! Linked here.

 

[d42jeep]

Don't remember posting this before; strictly speaking not a 1/4" drive set; it's 9/32". Unusual in that I have all 3 adapters from 1/4 and 9/32 and 3/8 for it.

Totally worthless to me, but I've kept it because it's so neat. One of the few tools I have that I don't use.

There is my missing M-21 screwdriver bit sitting right there in your set! How come I can’t find one?
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I can't stop looking at the VIM driver. Other early wood-handled drivers had a ferrule, of course, but it was fairly minimal (see the NB earlier in the thread, for example). But with the big blocky close-quarter like handle and the long ferrule, it really looks like a screwdriver handle. Really neat.

Apparently 4.c's coolass VIM 1/4-inch driver with the black wooden handle and the unusually looong drive stud was so coolass it became indelible in my mind. (If you missed it, or don't recall, it can be seen here, in post #135 on this thread.) Last night as I was paging through the new (c.1929, per Todd, me, and Don) Milwaukee Tool & Forge catalog Todd just found, it leapt unmistakably off the page at me.

4.c,
I am pretty sure your VIM set was made by MTF!

 

[mark-NJ]

I stumbled my way into this forum from a Google search for bandsaw information, and managed to click on this thread out of curiosity. Halfway down the first page, what did I see? Stevens-Walden socket sets!

I never knew what these sets were called...I only knew (from the pictures posted) that "Hey, that's just like dad's!"

I grew up with a "tool guy" for a father. He never taught me to throw a football, but by the age of 13, I could change the drive belts on the washing machine! And no matter what project we worked on, it always seemed that his "little green socket box" was close at hand.

I own more tools than I can use in a lifetime, but this thread brought back all these memories of "dad's little green box". Nostalgia....powerful emotion!

When dad moved into an assisted-living facility, I can't fathom what he thought he'd be doing with his tools, but he assembled his "must have" tools and took them with him. He's still there, but now in his '90s with failing memory, his tool-turning days are behind him. The toolbox lives at my sister's house now. So I called her:

"You have dad's tools?"

"Yep"

"Is there a little green box of sockets?"

"Yep"

"Feel like mailing them to me?

"Yep"

So here I am, participating in this thread, with a little green box of memories.

I suspect these were his in the USN, and when WWII was over & dad came home, these came with him. (they still have that vomit smell that all military tools seem to have...) There's some duplicate sockets, so I guess at some time he had access to more than one set. And a few sockets are un-original, as is the S&K ratchet.

Looks like I'm missing the 3/16" 6P and the 7/16" 6P. Anybody know the part numbers for those? And the 5/16" isn't original...anyone know the part number for that one? If I stumble across them on eBay, might as well grab them.

Like I said, this is more about fond memories with my dad than they are about "having more tools"....but I'm damn glad to have them!

Thanks for listening.

ps: some of these are 8-point sockets. What is an 8pt socket??? Everything I own is either a 6 or a 12. WHat's an 8? Are these original to the kit?

EDIT: Never thought about it before: are the 8pt sockets for square nuts? Right? Square nuts are pretty much a thing of the past, so that's why I have so little familiarity with them!

 

[twertsy]

Re: My Small But Growing 1/4" drive Socket Set Collection

I stumbled my way into this forum from a Google search for bandsaw information, and managed to click on this thread out of curiosity. Halfway down the first page, what did I see? Stevens-Walden socket sets!

I never knew what these sets were called...I only knew (from the pictures posted) that "Hey, that's just like dad's!"

I grew up with a "tool guy" for a father. He never taught me to throw a football, but by the age of 13, I could change the drive belts on the washing machine! And no matter what project we worked on, it always seemed that his "little green socket box" was close at hand.

I own more tools than I can use in a lifetime, but this thread brought back all these memories of "dad's little green box". Nostalgia....powerful emotion!

When dad moved into an assisted-living facility, I can't fathom what he thought he'd be doing with his tools, but he assembled his "must have" tools and took them with him. He's still there, but now in his '90s with failing memory, his tool-turning days are behind him. The toolbox lives at my sister's house now. So I called her:

"You have dad's tools?"

"Yep"

"Is there a little green box of sockets?"

"Yep"

"Feel like mailing them to me?

"Yep"

So here I am, participating in this thread, with a little green box of memories.

I suspect these were his in the USN, and when WWII was over & dad came home, these came with him. (they still have that vomit smell that all military tools seem to have...) There's some duplicate sockets, so I guess at some time he had access to more than one set. And a few sockets are un-original, as is the S&K ratchet.

Like I said, this is more about fond memories with my dad than they are about "having more tools"....but I'm damn glad to have them!

Thanks for listening.

ps: some of these are 8-point sockets. What is an 8pt socket??? Everything I own is either a 6 or a 12. WHat's an 8? Are these original to the kit?

That's the kind of story we love around here!

8 point sockets are for square heads and yes, likely original to the set, probably 3 of them.

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[JoCoSawdust]

Fantastic story Mark. Thanks for sharing!

 

[d42jeep]

Here is a list of what likely came in your Father’s set when it was new.



Set ¼" Drive - Stevens Walden with Walden crossbar and 3150 Ratchet
Socket ¼” Drive 3/16” 6 point – Walden 3106
Socket ¼” Drive 7/32” 6 point – Walden 3107
Socket ¼” Drive 1/4” 6 point – Walden 3108
Socket ¼” Drive 9/32” 6 point – Walden 3109
Socket ¼” Drive 5/16" 12 point - Walden 3110
Socket ¼” Drive 11/32” 12 point – Walden 3111
Socket ¼” Drive 3/8” 12 point – Walden 3112
Socket ¼” Drive 7/16” 12 point – Walden 3114
Socket ¼” Drive 1/4” 8 point – Walden 3159
Socket ¼” Drive 5/16” 8 point – Walden 3160
Socket ¼” Drive 3/8” 8 point – Walden 3161
Handle ¼” Drive Spinner Insulated – Walden 3118
Flex Handle ¼” Drive 5” – Walden 3117
Extension ¼” Drive 6” - Walden 3115
-Don

 

[mark-NJ]

Very cool! Thanks for the info...

 

[CRTDI]

I stumbled my way into this forum from a Google search for bandsaw information, and managed to click on this thread out of curiosity. Halfway down the first page, what did I see? Stevens-Walden socket sets!

I never knew what these sets were called...I only knew (from the pictures posted) that "Hey, that's just like dad's!"

I grew up with a "tool guy" for a father. He never taught me to throw a football, but by the age of 13, I could change the drive belts on the washing machine! And no matter what project we worked on, it always seemed that his "little green socket box" was close at hand.

I own more tools than I can use in a lifetime, but this thread brought back all these memories of "dad's little green box". Nostalgia....powerful emotion!

When dad moved into an assisted-living facility, I can't fathom what he thought he'd be doing with his tools, but he assembled his "must have" tools and took them with him. He's still there, but now in his '90s with failing memory, his tool-turning days are behind him. The toolbox lives at my sister's house now. So I called her:

"You have dad's tools?"

"Yep"

"Is there a little green box of sockets?"

"Yep"

"Feel like mailing them to me?

"Yep"

So here I am, participating in this thread, with a little green box of memories.

Like I said, this is more about fond memories with my dad than they are about "having more tools"....but I'm damn glad to have them!

Thanks for listening.

Very cool story....


I picked up this little Duro-Chrome set off E-bay recently from a seller that appeared to be selling off their personal 1/4" socket set collection. This is the only set that I snagged.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I saw that one. He seems to be selling off a bunch of stuff.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Here is a nice bonney fridge set

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Wartime sk set. Crossbar hole is larger in hinge handle than in my other set. Decal is unfortunately nothing but a trace. Extension and breaker unmarked.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

New britain nut spinner set, complete with crossbar!

 

[d42jeep]

That’s a nice cad plated S-K wartime set. Those amber spinners are shown in the ‘43 catalog. Looks like there’s room in the box for a plain or cad finish ratchet. The wartime 3/16” and 7/32” will fit in that longer socket section. Here is a wartime photo of an S-K set in the upper right of the shot next to a Duro set.
-Don

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Nice pic don. Looks like it had a short extension as well.

 

[d42jeep]

Yeah. Other than the spinner, I tried to match this set to that picture. I even tried to duplicate that shot in my back yard.
-Don

 

[Oldtuleguy]

You did a pretty good job!

 

[JoCoSawdust]

Very cool recreation of the catalog pic!

 

[bonneyman]

Yeah. Other than the spinner, I tried to match this set to that picture. I even tried to duplicate that shot in my back yard.
-Don

IDK guys. I think Don is the author of both pics - and just painted the grass green in one of them!

 

[d42jeep]

IDK guys. I think Don is the author of both pics - and just painted the grass green in one of them!

I’m old but I wasn’t around in late ‘42 when the first picture was taken. My wife was the technical director for the recreated pictures. Here is the old and new side by side.
-Don

 

[RubiconJK]

I’m old but I wasn’t around in late ‘42 when the first picture was taken. My wife was the technical director for the recreated pictures. Here is the old and new side by side.
-Don

Well done!!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

That's a nice one

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Not much info on this plomb set. Looks like ae contract kit of some sort.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Cool set. I've never seen an Allison Engines Plomb set before, if that's what that is. How are the sockets marked? Looks like standard 47xx sliding tee, extensions, and rat, and AE part number on the tee spinner. Is the funky wingnut/key driver marked Plomb? Lastly, not sure what's going on with that bar. Plomb cross bars (Pin Handles) typically have one recess in the middle and pinched end stops. Besides, is there anything even cross-drilled with a hole to turn with a bar? (Tangentially, I just found one of those 4748 ratchets yesterday, missing a drive plug. Posted it on the Plomb thread.)

 

[Private Lugnutz]

X-posting this Firestone set (my first ever!) from the Plomb thread...

 

[d42jeep]

Not much info on this plomb set. Looks like ae contract kit of some sort.

I was watching that auction. It was certainly hotly contested. Fortunately, I didn’t participate in the bidding. Unusual set for sure.
-Don

 

[RubiconJK]

Not much info on this plomb set. Looks like ae contract kit of some sort.

Cool looking set. The Vannatta site refers to the AE mark as "possibly" Allison Engine.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Tried to research it a bit but not finding much out. Saw the vanatta chart. Some odd bits in this set.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Some odd bits in this set.

To say the least! If I had seen that in the wild I would've wanted it just for the funky wingnut/keyhole spinner alone! Is that a 1/4-inch drive tang on the end of that thing and does it have a detent ball that's not showing in the pics?

 

[Catfishdan]

Not much info on this plomb set. Looks like ae contract kit of some sort.

Very cool set. I was watching it as well. Didn’t it come from England?

 

[Oldtuleguy]

To say the least! If I had seen that in the wild I would've wanted it just for the funky wingnut/keyhole spinner alone! Is that a 1/4-inch drive tang on the end of that thing and does it have a detent ball that's not showing in the pics?

1/4" female on that thing.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

1/4" female on that thing.

I didn't expect that! I was all turned around on that thing. I thought you grabbed those wings to turn the other end. So the wings or ears are the drive end. What do you or anyone else suppose it turned? They must fit some kind of special fastener with slots in it. I may go through the hardware section of the Navy Aviation Supply Office catalog to see if I can figure it out. Unless Provincial knows.

Thanks for the sockets pic. So it's all standard 47xx except for the T-handle, those DBE's, and the wingnut thing, which we don't know if that's Plomb-made.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

According to wikipedia, a number of allison w1710 powered p51 fighters were given to England around 1940, which may explain why it came from there.