Plomb tool picture thread - show your stuff!

[Smokeshow69]

Yes, correct....ratchet, sockets and extensions look to be Plomb 3/4 drive

 

[RubiconJK]

Picked up this nary seen box of Plomb ignition files from the 'bay the other day. I'm not sure how long it had been listed for but as soon as I saw it I couldn't hit the buy it now button quick enough. When was the last time you ever saw one of these plomb branded pocket clip files or better yet, the box? These are the 5" pocket clip version. As you can see these are not very big. A 7/16 is slightly longer than the box and a 3/8 fits inside just right. Box is in good shape and the leftover files inside are not used. Box is a bit interesting because it's green, unlike the other Plomb/proto boxes I either posses or have seen in the more common tan paper fiber color. I'm curious as to who was the manufacturer of these?? Lutz or Atkinson or ??

One of the coolest and most rare finds I've seen posted on this thread in forever! Congrats!

 

[Smokeshow69]

One of the coolest and most rare finds I've seen posted on this thread in forever! Congrats!

Thanks. I was beyond excited to find them for sure! Feels good to find one of more uncommon items posted on here in a while

 

[d42jeep]

I found these Plomb tools at yesterday’s Berkeley estate sale. A large rusty 1244 combo currently spending time in the evaporust and three 4001 puller legs. I looked around for the rest of the puller but didn’t find it.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

I finally finished de-rusting the 1244 combo. It’s not that attractive but I don’t often run across large Plomb combos at sales.
i picked up this 1943 1/2” drive ratchet at a Sunday yard sale.
It came out of the evaporust yesterday.
In the 1932 catalog.

It was an unusually hot day yesterday so I took the opportunity to make this ugly box all one color.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

I think this is an improvement.
I may redo the lid. It came out a little uneven.

-Don

 

[RTM]

Was windy in my neighborhood when I got home last night. I have a backlog of painting projects waiting for a warm calm day, maybe some time soon.

 

[Patrickm82]

Very nice Don! @d42jeep.

 

[d42jeep]

Thanks! It’s plenty warm on this side of the bay today. I’m catching up on a couple more painting projects.
-Don

 

[drivesitfar]

RTM: here’s a couple ideas if you want to paint (I’m assuming spray?) in the wind. Put project inside big appliance cardboard box with one side torn off to give you a wind break. Or if you have a few boards 1 by’s or 2 by’s screwed or nailed together in a big square with plastic stapled to the wood and you can create a red neck ish paint booth. Or buy a shipping container and set it up to paint like Don Long does (hee hee) that is a bit over the top but so cool. If you haven’t seen his party garage thread be prepared to drool a bit cause he’s painting a car in that old shipping container at the minute.

Even in our area that is known more for drizzle than wind it’s hard to count on a zero wind day.

 

[RTM]

RTM: here’s a couple ideas if you want to paint (I’m assuming spray?) in the wind. Put project inside big appliance cardboard box with one side torn off to give you a wind break. Or if you have a few boards 1 by’s or 2 by’s screwed or nailed together in a big square with plastic stapled to the wood and you can create a red neck ish paint booth. Or buy a shipping container and set it up to paint like Don Long does (hee hee) that is a bit over the top but so cool. If you haven’t seen his party garage thread be prepared to drool a bit cause he’s painting a car in that old shipping container at the minute.

Even in our area that is known more for drizzle than wind it’s hard to count on a zero wind day.

I have a little pop up spray booth, but we go from cold n damp to Gale force winds, very little in between lately. I'm worried about the booth acting like a sail, and taking the table with it

 

[drivesitfar]

I hear you and sometimes I paint inside my garage if my bride is gone for the day. Your weather should be warmer than mine, but yesterday we had 70 degrees here and it was a bit muggy so maybe some good weather is in your future too.

I'm moving stuff around (spring cleaning so to speak) and finding Plvmb this and thats so I'll take some pics and post up a few soon.

 

[d42jeep]

Twenty degrees cooler here today than the record setting temps from yesterday. No wrinkle finish painting in store until the next heat wave.
-Don

 

[Outlawmws]

Same here. What a difference!

 

[Beerhippie]

Twenty degrees cooler here today than the record setting temps from yesterday. No wrinkle finish painting in store until the next heat wave.
-Don

It's March in the Northwest--and we only have two more months of it to go!

 

[930dreamer]

It's March in the Northwest--and we only have two more months of it to go!

Summer was mon-tues in Eugene!

 

[Beerhippie]

Summer was mon-tues in Eugene!

Gotta love Summer on the installment plan.

We have two full weeks of summer scheduled for June!

 

[Provincial]

I missed summer last year. I had to work that weekend.

 

[drivesitfar]

Yep I recall one year I waited til mid June to get a day over 60 degrees. Paint and BLO sure go on and stay on better when it’s 70-80 so our window for painting outside up here is maybe June and July August and maybe September. The rest is a bonus.

 

[d42jeep]

I finally got around to cleaning up the #4001 Plomb puller jaws I found at an estate sale on Friday.
I had to dig deep in the Plomb box to pull out my other puller pieces.
Here is the two jaw puller dated 1932.
All of the pieces together for the three jaw puller #4001While I had them out I took the opportunity to rub them down with Fluid Film.
-Don

 

[Smokeshow69]

Found a few panels and a sign locally from a seller from the swap meet I bought 2 Proto mfd tool panels from last year. These wet not even on the market but my persistence paid off I think! Plomb boards are the early wartime ones! One is 1/2 sockets and 1 is dbe wrenches

 

[Smokeshow69]

Pictures continued

 

[Smokeshow69]

Final picture since the site isn’t letting me uploaded multiple

Edit the site isn’t letting me upload at this time. Placeholder for last picture

 

[Outlawmws]

Nice finds Smoke!

is the wood block with holes for punches or drivers, or ??

 

[Smokeshow69]

Nice finds Smoke!

is the wood block with holes for punches or drivers, or ??

It’s for punches or extractors. I haven’t researched these yet. I just picked these up on my lunch break 1 hour ago

 

[drivesitfar]

Smoke: are you putting these new boards inside the house or taking the old boards down and replacing with these cause if I recall the last time I saw your wall of wrenches it was pretty full (of boards not quite full of wrenches, but that was a while ago)? nice find!!

 

[Shelbylex]

Great find Smokeshow!!! Congratulations!

 

[930dreamer]

A time when everything looked beautiful!

 

[Beerhippie]

A time when everything looked beautiful!

Especially the flying nekkid ladies!

 

[930dreamer]

Especially the flying nekkid ladies!

I wonder if they really noticed?

 

[3baygarage]

Great sign! Is that metal? Looks like it from here.

 

[Smokeshow69]

Smoke: are you putting these new boards inside the house or taking the old boards down and replacing with these cause if I recall the last time I saw your wall of wrenches it was pretty full (of boards not quite full of wrenches, but that was a while ago)? nice find!!

Thanks! I have changed the wall o plomb quite a bit since last posted on here. I have actually run out of room and have quite a few Proto tool boards in the attic. Hopefully I can build a small garage soon that could help some of this.

Especially the flying nekkid ladies!

I wonder if they really noticed?

The sign is a bit noticeable given the flying lady logo. On the tool panels and tool boxes it’s not so noticeable but it’s pretty noticeable on this sign. I am still trying to figure out if I will keep the sign or maybe move it to another collector.

 

[Smokeshow69]

Great sign! Is that metal? Looks like it from here.

Sign is made of Masonite. I’ll take better pictures of everything and post to the respective threads once they are cleaned up. Seller told me most of this stuff he got in ‘92.

 

[Smokeshow69]

I posted a full write up on the Plomb/proto advertising haul over on the gs thread

 

[Outlawmws]

I found this yesterday:

I was about to leave my third stop empty handed and saw an old Plvmb tool box. not a dream box, but after looking it over and asking for the price; I offered $15 and it was accepted. He even cleaned out most of the **** inside.

I have another the same size, (Approx 24 X 12-3/4, X 11) and from two, I should be able to get one good one together with parts left over. My old one is missing the cantilever tray...

Old one is OD green this one seems to be red originally.

 

[Smokeshow69]

I found this yesterday:

I was about to leave my third stop empty handed and saw an old Plvmb tool box. not a dream box, but after looking it over and asking for the price; I offered $15 and it was accepted. He even cleaned out most of the **** inside.

I have another the same size, (Approx 24 X 12-3/4, X 11) and from two, I should be able to get one good one together with parts left over. My old one is missing the cantilever tray...

Old one is OD green this one seems to be red originally.

Nice find! That’s absolutely worth what you paid. Even if you part it out, it’s totally worth it!

 

[Outlawmws]

Thx Smoke! Thats what I was thinking also

 

[3baygarage]

This wrench turned up at the flea today. I was flipping over all the open end wrenches for anything interesting, as is my habit, and was quite surprised.

Single end engineer’s wrench. Stamping is light.

9/16”. Looks like #3518

AA has a larger example and says these weren’t catalog items. Is that so?

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I have a few, look like armstrongs

 

[Private Lugnutz]

AA has a larger example and says these weren’t catalog items. Is that so?

Not quite. AA doesn't have a copy of "Numerical Price List Effective 1 January 1944", which was enclosed in the copy of Catalog 19-A that I have. That PL lists all the SOEs (see thumbnail excerpt below) and cites them as being shown on page 69A. Unfortunately, there is no page 69A in that particular copy. It was almost certainly an insert. Pages 68 though 71 are all the end wrenches (30xx, 32xx, 33xx, and 34xx) in Catalogs 19 (generally, 1942) and 19-A (generally, 1943). Roy Olson had a few 35xx's, and he and I talked about the difficulty in finding information about these a few years ago upthread here, but never really finished the conversation.

EDIT: This PL is the one that is replete with WPB Limitation Order L-216 references. If you recall my research on this topic, Plomb was using this PL, stuck in the back of older catalogs (e.g., 19-A) to show WPB restrictions, to forestall having to create a new catalog showing the WPB restrictions, right up through 1944. Their first catalog that actually shows redlines and markups in the catalog pages is 19-R - and I have postulated the "R" actually signifies "Restrictions." They used 19-R for 1944 and 1945 and 19-R REPRINT FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, and FOURTH PRINTINGS right up through Catalog 4820 in 1948. I did not re-check, but my notes say the 35xx SOE's do not show up in any of those.