Plomb tool picture thread - show your stuff!

[Smokeshow69]

Does a Plomb toolbox count?

Yes! This most certainly counts. It is a pre war stamped tool mobile. Very nice.

 

[gpw_42]

Patty Paint sure made a splash with that entrance! NICE ToolMobile!

Anyone know a movie reference for a French 75 (cocktail, not howitzer)? Without googling... I found that an apt name for the cocktail, always made with cognac in my experience; this is the first place I've seen a gin alternative. Cognac fits with the "French" motif, but gin fits with...wartime shortages of everything except ammo and the enemy. Any more than two French 75s and it was going to be "one of those nights." Ooof, I don't miss that!

 

[Outlawmws]

Which leads to the morning after the night before!

I stopped at 23.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I never heard of cognac in a French 75 until seeing it here, so I googled. First 7 or 8 places that popped up (Liquor.com, Bon Appetit, Epicurious, etc) all say gin. Wikipedia says gin. Way down the page I finally ran into a recipe with cognac, but saying it was not traditional, and then a second site that called it a French 125. I'm trying to think of the most authoritative way to resolve this. How about we call three world famous bars and ask the head bartender?

 

[MR.X]

There's a pretty good history at diffordsguide.com. They even go into how Arnaud's French 75 Bar in New Orleans (which uses Cognac) should probably call theirs a French 125. It's clearly been made with either for quite awhile but the writer's extensive history ID's Gin as being in the first written recipes.

 

[AK4570]

Some random singles and an interesting owner’s mark on the 1 1/4 Pebble combo...

Added ‘cause I like the way the picture turned out!

Best regards,
John

 

[Private Lugnutz]

There's a pretty good history at diffordsguide.com. They even go into how Arnaud's French 75 Bar in New Orleans (which uses Cognac) should probably call theirs a French 125. It's clearly been made with either for quite awhile but the writer's extensive history ID's Gin as being in the first written recipes.

Thanks, X. I'm going to chalk that one up for dear old dad. A run of alcohol jokes just broke out on the Garage Sale thread, too. I think it's Covid Spring fever.

...an interesting owner’s mark on the 1 1/4 Pebble combo...

"O.S." in Morse code.

 

[MR.X]

Hi Lugz. One more for what it's worth, my girl grabbed this from our bar while I was asking her what she thought.

 

[Catfishdan]

I got two plomb pieces in the mail today. One is a 4748 ratchet, which I’ve been looking for for a long time. The other is a piece I’ve never seen before: a plomb la 9722 electrical screw driver. The handle shape is something I’ve never seen before.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Hi Lugz. One more for what it's worth, my girl grabbed this from our bar while I was asking her what she thought.

Thanks. I just made one with a bottle of exquisite gin that DD#1 got me for Xmas. The Botanist Islay Dry Gin 22.

One is a 4748 ratchet, which I’ve been looking for for a long time.

Congrats, Dan. I'll drink to that!

 

[r_olson_06]

I got two plomb pieces in the mail today. One is a 4748 ratchet, which I’ve been looking for for a long time. The other is a piece I’ve never seen before: a plomb la 9722 electrical screw driver. The handle shape is something I’ve never seen before.

Dang! Nice scores. Sad the drive plug is missing. I was gonna make some but haven't had much spare time to devote to it.

Looking for a Round Beam Plomb 1068 Double Box End Wrench

 

[Catfishdan]

Dang! Nice scores. Sad the drive plug is missing. I was gonna make some but haven't had much spare time to devote to it.

Looking for a Round Beam Plomb 1068 Double Box End Wrench

Thanks. Count me in for one when you finally retire.

 

[d42jeep]

I got two plomb pieces in the mail today. One is a 4748 ratchet, which I’ve been looking for for a long time. The other is a piece I’ve never seen before: a plomb la 9722 electrical screw driver. The handle shape is something I’ve never seen before.

Nice ratchet. I’ve never even seen one. Was that the only 1/4” drive ratchet offered in 1940?
-Don

 

[Catfishdan]

Nice ratchet. I’ve never even seen one. Was that the only 1/4” drive ratchet offered in 1940?
-Don

I think so. Mine is certainly a ‘40.

 

[r_olson_06]

Thanks. Count me in for one when you finally retire. [emoji481]

Will do.

Looking for a Round Beam Plomb 1068 Double Box End Wrench

 

[Catfishdan]

A wf 103 and a LA flooring chisel from the flea market today.

 

[AK4570]

Yesterday’s finds:

5425 (chrome), 5431 (needed for the 5400T I picked in Jan), PWA1948, and 276 slip-joint plier.

I’m still looking for a 5421, 5424, and 5434 to complete the 5400T...

Best regards,
John




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[d42jeep]

A big shout out to Stillgottimefor1 for sending me this very cool Plomb pickle fork.
-Don

 

[Smokeshow69]

A big shout out to Stillgottimefor1 for sending me this very cool Plomb pickle fork.
-Don

Very nice!

 

[Smokeshow69]

Plomb/Proto tool board question - Do we know the total amount of "panels" offered by plomb/proto ? I have these photos in proto mailers showing 21 "panels" or boards mounted on a wall and also this picture of the "Proto Merchandiser". While you cant see every side of the display, if we apply the logic of 4 boards/panels per side, this would be 32 panels in all... I have a 1/2 size panel that is numbered 106-B but i dont think there is over 100 panels, I think proto was including all their advertising panels, not just display boards. Anyone know this answer ?

**also, I was winning this 1/2 drive board until the last minute yesterday on the bay...which one of you jerks sniped me? Now I need to find another 1/2 drive board to buy

 

[Adam Aragon]

My first Proto Plomb socket, I think it has dual markings. Proto Plomb tool co and manufactured in USA. The o’s are the triangles. Is this normal?

 

[d42jeep]

Yes. The dual marked (lawsuit) tools were only made in 1949. In 1950 no mention of Plomb was allowed and the Proto markings had gone from PR∇T∇ to PROTO.
-Don

 

[Catfishdan]

Plomb/Proto tool board question - Do we know the total amount of "panels" offered by plomb/proto ? I have these photos in proto mailers showing 21 "panels" or boards mounted on a wall and also this picture of the "Proto Merchandiser". While you cant see every side of the display, if we apply the logic of 4 boards/panels per side, this would be 32 panels in all... I have a 1/2 size panel that is numbered 106-B but i dont think there is over 100 panels, I think proto was including all their advertising panels, not just display boards. Anyone know this answer ?

**also, I was winning this 1/2 drive board until the last minute yesterday on the bay...which one of you jerks sniped me? Now I need to find another 1/2 drive board to buy

I don’t know how many there were, but hat would sure make a fine looking wall in a garage.

 

[Smokeshow69]

I don’t know how many there were, but hat would sure make a fine looking wall in a garage.

What do you think I am working on ?

I asked the same question in the proto thread and a member posted a link to this merchandiser catalog. This shows a ton of available advertising panels/boards

https://redirect.viglink.com/?forma...forum.toolsinaction.com/topi...-catalog-5445/

 

[Southern83]

A rare sighting in my neck of the woods. It has been loved on a little too much for me.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Wow, look at that old trooper. If that thing could talk it would have some stories.

 

[bmwrd0]

Swinging by the local scrap yard today, I found some oldies-but-goodies from the Plomb world:

A Plomb rope braid socket from 1930, DBE from the same time frame, and a USN marked impact socket:

(ignore the Craftsman socket)

 

[d42jeep]

Swinging by the local scrap yard today, I found some oldies-but-goodies from the Plomb world:

A Plomb rope braid socket from 1930, DBE from the same time frame, and a USN marked impact socket:

(ignore the Craftsman socket)

Here is a listing for the 7/8” 6 point deep socket in the 1944 NAF catalog. For some reason 7/8” was a popular aircraft spark plug size.
-Don

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Nice haul. That wrench is interesting. Don't see those around here.

 

[Provincial]

The 7/8" hex on aviation spark plugs evolved as the plugs became smaller. At first, spark plugs were pretty bulky, mostly due to being designed for disassembly and service. As aircraft engines developed, there was pressure to make the spark plugs smaller in order to provide more cooling airflow and less interference with baffles, wiring, etc. 7/8" hex was about as small as an 18MM spark plug body could be and still be disassembled. Around WWII electrode design evolved that provided enough access to service the plugs without removing the center electrode, and permanently-assembled plugs started to appear. Soon, they were the only design available, but the 7/8" hex had become so dominant that no effort was made to reduce the size of the hex.

 

[Ricky Joe]

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[Oldtuleguy]

It looks pretty thin. You may be onto something rickyjoe. Neat wrench.

 

[bmwrd0]

If I am not mistaken that wrench is a brake wrench for old Dodge cars in the late 1920s. Is it a thin wrench?

It is thin.

 

[Smokeshow69]

A rare sighting in my neck of the woods. It has been loved on a little too much for me.

Does the price say $20 or $200? $20 is way worth it for parts $200, no way

 

[Southern83]

$20. It was hard to leave it behind. The holes in the logo did it in for me.

 

[Adam Aragon]

Thank you, I will get better at this.

 

[piehammer]

In an estate sale haul from last weekend. Plomb WF-21.

 

[r_olson_06]

Winner winner chicken dinner. Dodge brake wrench from the 20s!

Looking for a Round Beam Plomb 1068 Double Box End Wrench

 

[d42jeep]

Smokeshow sent me one of his Plomb tool board stickers and it motivated me to get going on a project that I had been planning. I had some leftover redwood pieces from a home repair and a retired carpenter buddy made this display shelf for my Plomb sets. Now I have to figure out a place for it.
-Don

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Sweet set up. Redwood looks good.