Plomb tool picture thread - show your stuff!

[d42jeep]

It’s newer than Plomb because the hanging hole isn’t broached. What is the date code?
-Don

 

[Etchase]

Got this one for $2 I think it’s something for the plombpire, the name is ground off. I think its plomb era because its held together with a screw and not a pin.

Hard for me to tell, but is that a date code near the hanging hole in the bottom picture?

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

I'll have to take a closer look tomorrow and report back.

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

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[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

The date code is either: A•B•2 or A•8•2.

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

What year does that code say it is?

 

[d42jeep]

What year does that code say it is?

The last digit indicates the year so likely 1952.
-Don

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

Thanks guys, now my next problem is trying to keep @JohnDeere from stealing it from me.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Here's the smallest dual marked wrench I've come across

 

[Outlawmws]

WOW! nice find!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I had to squint to read it the lettering was so small

 

[d42jeep]

I found a nice #4 Plomb Phillips driver at an estate sale in Gardnerville NV this morning.
-Don

 

[Smokeshow69]

I had to squint to read it the lettering was so small

I had to double check mine. Same wrench. It is really small

 

[KnurledNut]

Just how rare is the WF-2?

 

[JohnDeere]

They seem very rare.

 

[d42jeep]

I don’t know much about WF tools but I believe that the WF-3 and the WF-1 examples are among the most rare. These examples are definitely not mine!
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

My dual marked 6” Plomb/Proto adjustable arrived from John Deere today. It looks like it has a 1948 date code. Thanks for the trade!
-Don

 

[RubiconJK]

Just how rare is the WF-2?

They were hand-made from unobtanium by a specific tribe of elves who raised a breed of spotted unicorns that only eat purple four leaf clovers. They made them on Feb 29th but only if that coincided with a full eclipse.

 

[Rusty Musket]

Finally found a bottom box locally to park under my top box. Haven't had a chance to research if these are a decent match for one another but at least they were both once red!

 

[Smokeshow69]

Finally found a bottom box locally to park under my top box. Haven't had a chance to research if these are a decent match for one another but at least they were both once red!

Nice find! Those need to be posted over in the pressteel thread if you would like?

 

[Squez]

Not as far along as some of your collections but I’m working on it.. this is my favorite set of wrench’s

 

[Outlawmws]

Nice progress!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Picked up this "spud wrench" today. Have to give the vendor credit. He was thinking plumbing. I was thinking hub wrench. He was right. I was wrong. This No. 139 is in the back in the Plumbing section with the caulking irons etc. If you didn't know (I didn't!), a spud is a piece of obsolete piping that acts as as seal between the tank and the bowl on older toilets.

 

[3baygarage]

…and the $#!%tiest Plomb wrench award goes to…

That’s a nice find. Quite unusual.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

…and the $#!%tiest Plomb wrench award goes to…

I was thinking the exact same thing. It may be unusual, but it has to be one of the most ignoble unusual wrenches ever.

 

[Smokeshow69]

I was thinking the exact same thing. It may be unusual, but it has to be one of the most ignoble unusual wrenches ever.

That’s a pretty “crappy” find of a “Plombing” wrench! Really nice find!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I bet that wrench has seen some ****

 

[Private Lugnutz]

There's gotta be a second and a turd one floating around Plomb collecting world somewhere!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

That one's #2 I've seen

 

[Outlawmws]

OK it started funny, but than the Dad jokes took over...

 

[Smokeshow69]

OK it started funny, but than the Dad jokes took over...

Are you saying we should flush this and move on?

 

[Oldtuleguy]

It's kinda clogged up this thread

 

[FrankLee]

Found this at an estate sale today. It's a TRI-TAP-TOOL with the Proto style grip.
I thought it was rather unusual that it was not branded Proto.

I can part with it.

 

[Outlawmws]

Used by electricians for repairing/tapping threads in the boxes and such. I have a number of these, with and without handles, but none Proto.

 

[Outlawmws]

My Plvmb/Proto haul today:

DOE's - Proto Prof. Proto, a Grind off, adn a Plvmb DBE



And a Proto Wood handle driver

 

[RTM]

. It's a TRI-TAP-TOOL with the Proto style grip. I thought it was rather unusual that it was not branded Proto.

Used by electricians for repairing/tapping threads in the boxes and such. I have afr number of these, with an without handles, but none Proto.

I think mine is a Craftsman or Klein, without any of the class of a Proto.

 

[RubiconJK]

unicorn? or just a drawing they made up for the ad?

4C as Mr X said, I think the Ranger AT-160 may be a match for the tool you show in that ad. On the Plomb Ranger list, AT-160 is described as "Tee Handle Tool With Piloted Slot, 4 1/2"". I didn't find one shown anywhere on GJ, but seems like I remember seeing one elsewhere online a few years ago. I wish I had taken a screen shot of it, because I don't remember if it was configured as a fixed tee handle or if it was a removable cross bar.

^ Hey, I was just curious... I figured somebody here would recognize it.... it's a screen shot I came across yesterday and figured it would be appropriate for this thread.
Purely wild-*** speculation on my part, but I would imagine along with the very odd widgets like that "Ranger AT-160" (or the odd Packard-Merlin tools or British-made wrenches made for adjusting machine guns) there's a gazillion military-only tools most of us will probably never know about.

A couple years ago 4C had found an ad for a tool that we decided looked like the Plomb Ranger AT-160 which was described as "T handle tool with piloted slot, 4 1/2" but until now I haven't seen one in real life and jumped at the chance when it was presented to buy this one. The "0" is missing off the end of the p/n and now reads Ranger AT-16, but it is in really nice shape otherwise. I've also included a copy below of the ad that 4C included in his original post.

 

[Provincial]

That is a valve lash adjusting tool for the Ranger 6-440 (L-440 in Air Corps designation). The pilot engages in the hollow stem of the adjusting screw and the tangs engage the slot. The screw has no head and the threads extend the full length of the screw, which has a hemispherical pivot.

 

[RubiconJK]

Thanks Provincial. I was hoping someone here would know the application of this tool.

 

[RubiconJK]

This Ranger tool reminded me a little of a similar tool I found several years ago that is attached to a 7216-H impact socket.