Smokeshow69 said:
I know what you sent to d42, and there is no size comparison between that and a wrench roll.
I refuse to buy from sellers that gouge on shipping
Yeah that’s bs.
Well those are not worthless junk. Nice find.This pair of Plomb 268 lineman's pliers turned up in the bottom of a box of worthless junk at the local flea market last Sunday.
Danielson pattern handles.
. About 50% of this came from 1 booth that was the scrapper.
I bought the partial 1/4” drive set because it had the pieces I need to make a complete set. Here are some pictures of the results.A partial 1/4” drive set arrived from an eBay seller yesterday.
I added these dykes to my Plomb based GMTK as well, replacing a rusty, plain handled pair.
-Don
That’s a good one! Not a super exciting purchase but you don’t see that saw every day.This large addition to the Plomb based GMTK arrived in the mail today. It is replacing a Forsberg hacksaw.
-Don
Well done! Not super easy to find since most got blown up from abuse.Here are before and after pictures of the Plomb tools I found at a tool sale this morning.
-Don
I filled a gap in this set with the #2 Phillips today. From top to bottom, 9682, 9684, 9686 and 9688.
The little 9682 was a mess when I found it.
Nice job! How did you clean up the handle?I filled a gap in this set with the #2 Phillips today. From top to bottom, 9682, 9684, 9686 and 9688.
The little 9682 was a mess when I found it.
Thanks for the tip on the restoration process. I will try that some time. In terms of your question about age....you are correct. The phillips you pictured is the latest Plomb but they also made that handle style in proto as well. I call it a 1st gen bet'r grip.Thank you. I chipped that hard old paint off with a razor blade and then used a fine wire wheel on a grinder to take the last of it off of the shank. The handle had crumbling 'skin', so I wet sanded that, followed by a little 3M rubbing compound. I'm not usually that aggressive, but that paint was very hard (and very ugly). I did a little bit of the sanding with the shank stuck in the drill press chuck.
These are all marked PLVMB on the handles, except for the #3 (9686), which is marked on the shank. Is that an early/late difference?
Here's a (crappy) shot of (most of) the rest of the family.
I'm also wondering if the lack of a (painted) groove around the handle indicates early/late. The two up top don't have the groove. EDIT-- those two are marked <P&C>, not PLVMB.
That stubby Phillips is #9671.
I think this was the latest handle iteration.
All of the Phillips tips are in fairly good shape, except for the big 9688. Someone butchered that one.
One of the most interesting re-applications of a branding in the vintage hand tools world, as I've noted before. The term went from describing the square throat of the fixed and dynamic steel jaws on J.P. Danielson's adjustable wrenches in the 30's and early 40's to describing the fluted shape of CAB handles on Plomb screwdrivers, which J.P. Danielson never made, in the late 40's and 50's. Quite a lift-and-shift.
Hear hear. 1 is never enough and 75 is just getting startedI'd bet a few of these guys with lots of Plvmb feel the same!
All the face plates on all the WF- ratchets I have ever had, even the no-namers, are like that. More like a satin vs plain steel finish. I won't postulate how they arrived at that finish, and I'm not going to scratch one up to find out, but I don't think it's cad. Or I should say, I never considered it cad until you asked - and as you know, I have lots of cad plated tools. I suppose it's possible, although I am skeptical of them cad-plating just the face plates. The frame, drive wheel and pawls inside are plain steel. Whatever it is, it results in an attractive two-tone appearance that these probably don't get enough credit for. Here is a current stable.
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