Plomb tool picture thread - show your stuff!

[Squez]

If you're GJ Bonafide check out my Classified Ad.

Seen on eBay no shipping

 

[MR.X]

Seen on eBay no shipping

replies should probably be on the classified forum thread or PM as to not gum up this thread.

 

[d42jeep]

I got tired of looking at the rusty exterior of this 1/4” drive set in progress so I hit it with the sander and painted it with my Midwest Military matching paint.
Still missing a few pieces.

-Don

 

[Squez]

First plomb box I’ve ever found plus 4 punch/chisel 2 o & 2 v

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

If you're GJ Bonafide check out my Classified Ad.

I went up North a ways and checked out Mr.X's tool stash yesterday. I came away with some neat items as well as being impressed by his collection of significant and early hand tools as well as many other very cool items. Better yet was hearing some interesting stories on the items, where they came from, and the guys that made them. I learned a lot.

Here are a few things I bought for very reasonable prices. The toolmobile is solid and in original paint. The 9998 master top chest has a lot of drawer dividers and is the one tool chest I didn't have yet so really happy with that. I also pulled a big bertha ratchet and huge 1066 dbe. Not everything I picked out was Plomb. A couple early slate and copper panelboards came home with me as well as a pretty cool copper trash can. A few other items as well. Definitely worth checking out. Ed.

 

[1967lemans]

Used it yesterday to install some hilocks

 

[Provincial]

Whatcha workin on?

 

[d42jeep]

Nice display!
Looks like I need a 1-1/8” pebble combo.

-Don

This 1-1/8” pebble combo arrived today. It’s had kind of a hard life. Maybe someday I will find a nicer one.
-Don

 

[Squez]

Looks clean to me

 

[Mintgrun]

I enjoy tapping the sharp deformed edges back down flat with a small hammer. Make sure the hammer has a very smooth face, because it will define the surface when you're done. Shiny face = shiny surface. I like to do the same thing with screw heads that have been chewed up. Sometimes, I use a punch between the hammer and screw head to be more accurate. Simple pleasures for simple minds, I guess.

 

[930dreamer]

Spotted this today, seller is out for the long weekend.

 

[Outlawmws]

Ooo! Stay on top of that one!

 

[bmwrd0]

A friend sent me that listing, but I already have two and spent my allowance.

 

[d42jeep]

My Nevada Plomb finds today were this #1 Phillips and a dual marked 1/2” x 9/16” DOE wrench.
-Don

 

[Outlawmws]

A rare Plvmb Phillips, and a rare duel marked!

 

[Smokeshow69]

A rare Plvmb Phillips, and a rare duel marked!

Yeah he *****!

 

[d42jeep]

Yesterday’s Plomb finds at a Tahoe garage sale. They should look better cleaned up.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

Here are some of this weekend’s Plomb tools cleaned up.
1938 LA 1/2” drive flex handle
-Don

 

[930dreamer]

Raymond, WA $80

 

[four.cycle]

^ Beautiful downtown Raymond is only two-and-a-half-hours and just over one hundred miles from my driveway.
Home of the "Raymond Cafe" (if it's still there) - an awful, dimly-lit greasy spoon with a huge can of "Cream of Spotted Owl Soup" adorning the "order up" counter, and possibly one of the worst jobs I've ever seen of trying to create an embossed copper decorative piece. (How did the guy manage to get that pheasant to look cross-eyed I'll never figure out.)
The local artwork adorning the city streets is really quite interesting - tourists get out to take photos standing next to the cut-out sheet-steel elk and other animals.
There would need to be some greater impetus than those Plomb tools being offered to get me to drive to Raymond. As the offer stands, it's a hard pass.

 

[MR.X]

Just going thru the garage pulling out boxes. This was all from one box, figured I’d post in Plomb thread though there’s an interesting variety of other brands.

 

[d42jeep]

Here are a couple more of the Plomb tools cleaned up. The DBE wrenches are an 1145 and an 1135


The socket is a 3/8”drive 11/16” 12 point.
-Don

 

[930dreamer]

Meeting

Ooo! Stay on top of that one!

Meeting up a 5pm today.

 

[Samuel Anton]

My newest acquisitions, cleaned, oiled, and ready to join their stablemates. Plomb 258 Gas Burner Pliers and Plomb 268 Lineman's Pliers.

 

[930dreamer]

My first vintage tool buy this summer in Oregon. This will give me something to do.

 

[Outlawmws]

Well done Dreamer

 

[d42jeep]

Here is a cad plated Plomb flex handle I found at a second visit to a tool sale on Sunday. It came out of the evaporust tube looking much better than when I found it.
I also did what I could with cleaning this 1150 (1-1/8” x 1-1/16”) DBE wrench. The finish wasn’t in great condition.
-Don

 

[Patrick Eubanks]

Guys I need some help. D42jeep has me fired up about some wartime sets. Did Plomb Los Angeles have any of the green boxes solely for 3/8 sets? I want to collect a fairly modest WF set.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Look out, that wartime stuff is a slippery slope!

 

[Patrick Eubanks]

Look out, that wartime stuff is a slippery slope!

Tell me about it. I’m looking at 6 different boxes and ten tool brands. I would like to get the plomb stuff and try for one of the big sets while simultaneously trying to fill a mossberg mercantile board

 

[Patrick Eubanks]

Tell me about it. I’m looking at 6 different boxes and ten tool brands. I would like to get the plomb stuff and try for one of the big sets while simultaneously trying to fill a mossberg mercantile board

Kids don’t need college.

 

[930dreamer]

Tell me about it. I’m looking at 6 different boxes and ten tool brands. I would like to get the plomb stuff and try for one of the big sets while simultaneously trying to fill a mossberg mercantile board

I have a Mossberg No. 101 if you need it?

 

[930dreamer]

The Los Angeles Period, 1934-1938​

In 1934 Plomb started using a stylized inverted triangle for the "O" in "PLOMB", so that it looks more like "PLVMB" at first glance. The tools were still marked with "Los Angeles", so we'll use that as the name for this period. Date codes in this period will include one of the digits {4,5,6,7,8}, and sometimes "9". (Date code changeovers didn't necessarily occur at a year boundary, and sometimes took a few months to complete.)

So is this box pre 1934?

 

[d42jeep]

It seems like Plomb usually had a large supply of boxes that would have lasted some years and I’ve seen PL∇MB toolsets in round O boxes.



—Don

 

[930dreamer]

I forgot to say I picked this all up for $25. The not so desirable pile, and then the desirable pile. MAC, Craftsman, S-K, Plvmb , Indestro, Williams, Snap On.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Did Plomb Los Angeles have any of the green boxes solely for 3/8 sets? I want to collect a fairly modest WF set.

What do you have and what do you need? I have some extra WF pieces. PM me.

One thing you want to be careful about is the speeder. Plomb's wartime contracts expanded so fast they had to set up a shadow corporation just to manage the dozens of machine shops and forges they loosely acquired to meet the demand, and not every speeder produced for them fits in every box. The divider is not always friendly to the various OAL's and bends on the handles. If you search the thread, there's a deeper discussion on it. I provide this caution in particular because I know you shop on-line. I've had at least a half dozen WF-23's in my possession at one time or another, at one time four of them at once, and only one of them fit in this box!

 

[d42jeep]

^The same situation exists with the conventionally numbered speeders as well.
I found this 1228 Plomb rusty combo at a sale this morning. Hopefully it will look better tomorrow.
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

^The same situation exists with the conventionally numbered speeders as well.

Indeed! I remembered these marked-up photos. 1, 2, and 4 will not fit!

 

[Patrick Eubanks]

What do you have and what do you need? I have some extra WF pieces. PM me.

One thing you want to be careful about is the speeder. Plomb's wartime contracts expanded so fast they had to set up a shadow corporation just to manage the dozens of machine shops and forges they loosely acquired to meet the demand, and not every speeder produced for them fits in every box. The divider is not always friendly to the various OAL's and bends on the handles. If you search the thread, there's a deeper discussion on it. I provide this caution in particular because I know you shop on-line. I've had at least a half dozen WF-23's in my possession at one time or another, at one time four of them at once, and only one of them fit in this box!

And down the hole I go. I will definately be contacting you

 

[four.cycle]

The same situation exists with the conventionally numbered speeders as well.

Plomb is not the only tool maker whose 1/2" drive speeders were not all created equal.

Rather maddening when the part number is the same but the widgets are different.