Old Soviet Socket Set. Anyone seen this kit?

[Wakefield]

Strong like T-34 tank?

 

[oldldh]

As of this post, the Google translator puts the price at $653.20 not including VAT!!!

OUCH!!!!

 

[Mr.Nutcase]

As of this post, the Google translator puts the price at $653.20 not including VAT!!!

OUCH!!!!

american dollars or euros? or other form of cash/ect........

 

[plvmb crazy]

The box tray is plastic. I say 1950's. Also chrome was in short supply during WWII.

 

[magnusk750]

They were made that way into the 90s, maybe even into the 00s, maybe even today. Isn't the date of manufacture marked on the factory slip? another way of saying what is the earliest possible date of manufacture is to search for the GOST code. G is written like a L turned upside down, -OST is OCT. These codes was the industrial standard and served as the huge work of accounting according to the five years plans. It ends with two digits showing the year it was approved by the GOSPLAN authority.

We have one tool shop here in Tallinn still selling this kind of stuff, some NOS, some looks like it's made recently. If they allow me to take pictures I will sure make you boys drool. And business propositions will be considered... russian vises, anyone, just teasing

Soviet union was very metric. Imperials was considered bourgeoise, but sockets were kept 1/2, 3/4 etc.

 

[magnusk750]

Thought a bit more about it. I guess from the tray it's 1980-1990s. 70s, maybe maybe but I pretty much doubt it. Earlier, no way they made plastic trays for such an application in the Soviet union. In 1950 and 60s rather a box made of plywood or maybe steel.

 

[kev b]

I have a Britool (made in England" socket set dating at the latest, from the Fifties.
It is hexagonal drive, very good quality and contains A/F, Metric and BSW sockets. I wonder if this hex drive was unique to Britool?

 

[shoturtle]

Interesting that it is 1/2" drive based. I wonder if that is a result of WWII lend lease? Hmmm are European ratchet sets also 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 drives...?

And it is also Russian/English, even on the ratchet. "Vanaduim"

European drive sizes are 1/4, 3/8 and 1/2 as well. Sometimes they are listed by their metric eq of 6.3, 10, or 12.5

 

[beerdog]

russian tools...there must be killer estate sales over there.

 

[neonnblack]

As of this post, the Google translator puts the price at $653.20 not including VAT!!!

OUCH!!!!

Huh? 90 rubles is 3.20 dollars... and like 4 euros.

 

[morregerbert]

i found picture of lovely Soviet vise and pipe wrench, 5L oil of bottle for size comparison, production date stamped 1966

 

[STANIMAL]

If any of you want to own a set , I can ask my cousin or some friends about it .

 

[Russianstyle]

Nice set

 

[DetroitDIESEL444]

I want to own a combination wrench set and a socket set!! Ive been trying to get one but nobody has been able to come through.

 

[Mad_Max]

I live in Europe (ex soviet block), all bolts are metric but plombing and pipes of water sistems are SAE!

 

[sensei_]

interesting, from the first post, i remembered seeing something similar in my workshop before.

now i know it is a russian set. will try and take pictures if possible.

 

[tweedlestan]

If any of you want to own a set , I can ask my cousin or some friends about it .

I'd love to have one! I'm probably not the only one too!

 

[STANIMAL]

I'd love to have one! I'm probably not the only one too!

I will check up on this and get back to you .

 

[Steevo]

A little off-topic, but does anyone know where I can find one of those 1/2" square drive push-through pieces?

I have an old Craftsman (BE) 1/2" ratchet that is missing that piece.

 

[sensei_]

Have you tried ebay? Or even a specialty tool store?

Here in australia, we have a torque wrench manufacturer that can manufactures/sells the 1/2" male > male drives.

 

[STANIMAL]

Update . I had a friend going to Moscow and asked him to have his cousin check on the kit. He said its an antique .There might be something similar , but not the exact same kit . Nothing special as far as tools go . Russian tools will just get you by . Poor quality by US standards .

 

[kukakala]

http://niz.ru/9-nabory-shoferskogo-...strumenta-№4a.-tu-3926-026-05797687-2006.html

 

[RCStocker]

Do I really want to know why you have 144 Makarov's?

I guess they could be considered a good investment

I have a 1943 built Mosin Nagant. It definitely is not the prettiest rifle out there but it is ridiculously simple and rugged!

My guess would be to shoot people that find the need why he has them. LOL

 

[Joseph_aclan]

Hello everyone, im a new member, i found this website accidentally while seaching a brand of a socket set with capital letter H inside a diamond shape. What i have is exactly the same as the socket set pictures, the box is quite old but tge tools were never been used. What im thinking is how old is this socket set could be?

 

[Outlawmws]

Hello everyone, im a new member, i found this website accidentally while seaching a brand of a socket set with capital letter H inside a diamond shape. What i have is exactly the same as the socket set pictures, the box is quite old but tge tools were never been used. What im thinking is how old is this socket set could be?

A pic helps a lot with questions like this, but you should really start a new tread unless you think this socket is Russian.

 

[Gordon YCK]

HI Gordon YCK from the sunshine coast Qld Aust , Funny i recently acquired 2 of these exact sets and were told they were Russian 30 maybe 40 years ago , One set has supposedly not been used and possibly is true as grease paper is still on most of the sockets , all metric 12 mm to 32mm The other set is complete and used but not much , the foam is still all good , will get a few pics later thanks Gordon

Gordon said , be interesting what year and where the sets were made , Belarus tractors found there way here in quite big numbers durinf the 80s and early 90s Thanks Gordon

 

[Jack_K]

I have a set by the same manufacturer and am also in QLD, I made a thread about it.

Thread 'Russian socket set Новосибирский инструментальный завод H logo in Diamond' https://www.garagejournal.com/forum...strumentalnyj-zavod-h-logo-in-diamond.502025/

 

[Jack_K]

There is an ebay seller which is a small tool store selling a couple of sets new. I had thought of asking them if they know the history previously but hadn't done it but now I have.

 

[Jack_K]

I got a response but it doesn't solve anything.

 

[Lassen Forge]

My initial thought - if it was made in the USSR, the rachet handle would have been marked "Хром-ванадий", not Chrom-vanadium... my guess is it's a Herbrand from any various lend-lease or other programs like that... I've seen other stuff with both English and Russian instruction sheets... It could be they "borrowed" the Herbrand diamond H for Новосибирский инструментальный завод, but, well...
Either way, what a score!

 

[ecotec]

Not sure why, but inch drive sizes seem to be a de facto standard world-wide. Not being extremely familiar with early ratchet history, it seems the US must have led in this area, because much of the world was already metric (e.g. metrification in 1870's for most of central Europe) before ratchets and detachable sockets became mainstream tools (1920's-1940's?).

Does anyone know of any square drive sockets that are a true metric size, like 15mm or something? Often you see them listed as metric but they are inch sizes, like 12.7mm for 1/2, etc.

Every pipe plug socket, that I have seen, is SAE.

 

[bonneyman]

Their guns are the same way. I have a gross of Makarov pistols as well as a few Tokorev pistols and Kalashnikov rifles. All are very ugly and the machining is awful but well designed and functional.

I read that the Soviet secret police used the Tokarov pistols. Those must have been tough, as I can't see Soviet agents using crappy weapons.
And I've watched alot of restoration Youtube videos featuring old Russian items. Not the prettiest things in the room but always very functional.

 

[TheRealSlimPhilthy]

Boy I hate to revive a dead thread, but I just watched a tool video on YouTube with the same socket set, except his drive sizes are somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4.

He measures the ratchet, and says it’s 12mm, but he must be off as the American sockets won’t fit on the drives. I wonder if the set pictured at the top of this thread also had a larger drive size?

 

[Chipm]

Yup, German ratchets drives are also standart size.

They actually use 6.35 drive size instead of 1/4.

 

[acer66]

They actually use 6.35 drive size instead of 1/4.

Haha I did not know that.

I only heard them being called „halb zoll“ etc but is also over 30 years ago.

Was it always like that?

 

[Outlawmws]

Haha I did not know that.

6.35MM = .25 inches...

 

[acer66]

6.35MM = .25 inches...

You guys are killing me.

 

[four.cycle]

@ 8:40 into the video he holds up an extension and a ruler and says "It measures about 12 centimeters."

The scale he is reading is marked in millimeters, and if it were in fact 12 millimeters it would be smaller than 1/2" (.04375"), in which case the American-made sockets (and those from the other green-boxed set) would fall off the drive tools. What he is showing is exactly the opposite.

The "Niz" set in the first post of this thread was claimed by the owner - 13 years ago - to be standard 1/2" drive:

BTW. It's all 1/2" drive, 12mm though to 32mm.

The comments in the video don't make sense.

Niz / see Novosibirsk Tools Plant /

Novosobirsk / Novosobirsk Tool Plant, 177 Bolshevistskaya str., Novosibirsk, Russia, 630083 / https://www.niz.ru/ / "H in a diamond" logo /