Plomb tool picture thread - show your stuff!

[d42jeep]

Is that price sheet available on internet Archive?
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Apparently not, Don. Their copy, which AA now links to from their catalog library table in the Plomb section, does not include it. I will send it to Mark, who could just strip the catalog part (redundant), and list it as the Price List.

 

[d42jeep]

Thanks. I would like to be able to access it in my Plomb wartime tool searches.
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I'm surprised you don't have it. It's not mine. I got it from somewhere else, either the old TA site or Bartlett Street, etc, or tin medic. This is a case of one PDF of Catalog No. 19-A out there in the ether including the PL in the back (and the scan), and another PDF of Catalog No. 19-A that made it into IA/ITCL not including the PL, but nobody realizing it's not the same PDF/No. 19-A. As for wartime, do you have any of the No. 19-R catalogs? The 19-R's are essentially 19-A, but instead of the WPB restrictions handled in the PL (by omission!), they are now applied to the catalog pages as strikethrough redlines and annotations.

"We" (me, tin medic, Mark, etc) probably need to do a major scrub of the Plomb catalogs on IA/ITCL and the superset. I would be willing to bet there are other catalogs that have not been uploaded. This all goes back to the demise of TA and not all of those being moved over despite everyone's best intentions.

But I will split the PDF I downloaded years ago into two (catalog and PL) tonight and let you know when I send the PL to Mark.

 

[d42jeep]

Thanks. If you want to include me if you are emailing it, I will hang onto it.
-Don

 

[3baygarage]

Thank you Lugz. It appears they offered a full line if single ends.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Astoundingly full! 3/8" to 2-3/8". But it looks to me as if they added the line during the war, ironically, and discontinued it shortly thereafter. My hunch is for a military customer, and as long as they were making them, might as well insert them in the catalog, too.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Eight (8) Plomb catalogs and other ephemera, all from the mid 1940s, all from @tin medic 's amazing collection, most of them never seen before in the public domain, have been uploaded to IA/ITCL! More details here.

 

[Smokeshow69]

had a good weekend at the swap! I even found a spud bar #2124. How many of these are floating around out there? My guess is probably not a whole lot.

 

[d42jeep]

A couple of pebble wrenches I found on Thursday.

Cleaned up.
-Don

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

had a good weekend at the swap! I even found a spud bar #2124. How many of these are floating around out there? My guess is probably not a whole lot.

Good find on that bar and the rest smoke. I picked up a little Plomb over my two days in Portland. The wife and I spent Thursday at the track and Saturday at the Expo. Good seeing you there and I saw several others I knew that are not on GJ. I passed on quite a few wrenches at the track as they were fairly common, pricey, and ones I already had. The best Plomb find I had was a bunch of deep sockets where the vendor said $5 for a full tote of at least 50 sockets including Plomb and other drive tools. And yes, I did pick up a few vises as well.... Ed.

 

[Smokeshow69]

Very nice haul in the deep sockets! I picked up a craftsman heritage vise for Riley on Friday. It’s posted in the garage sale thread

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

I did see, and pass by that nice craftsman heritage vise early Thursday.... I already have one so it needed to go to someone else who would love it. Glad to hear Riley ended up with it. He's lucky to have you as his proxy picker.

 

[d42jeep]

I took some pictures of the label in the box on the left. I printed out the pictures and cut out some duplicates of the labels. I’ve added the duplicates to some sets.


Three more glued in.
-Don

 

[Outlawmws]

New labels look good Don!

 

[Smokeshow69]

I got the Plomb and Proto tool panels cleaned up that I picked up a few weeks back. Just some light cleaning and then some furniture wax/polish and they look a lot better! The 1/2 drive board is an 8 out of 10 in terms of condition. The offset dbe/prybar board is in decent shape given its age but it has some water damage on the top and the board actually has some termite damage on the back of it but luckily the tools on it are not heavy. The wood holder on the dbe board is for extractors... hopefully my stash of uncleaned tools from the past year will hold some fillers for the missing pegs.

 

[930dreamer]

Spotted this one today?

 

[3baygarage]

Puller case?

 

[Outlawmws]

Spotted this one today?

Dimensions?

 

[930dreamer]

Dimensions?

Just what the pictures shows.

 

[bmwrd0]

It is for hub pulling sets. I have on in Proto LA trim.

If it is still there this weekend, I will see about swinging out that way.

 

[d42jeep]

I could maybe use one of those!
-Don

 

[mapolus]

Found these in my father-in-law's tool collection as we are packing up for our move from the storage unit in St Pete, FL, to Oak Harbor, WA (our house flooded last fall in Hurricane Helene, so we're living with family while our new house on Whidbey Island is being renovated). Hopefully more to follow!

 

[mritchie77]

Eight (8) Plomb catalogs and other ephemera, all from the mid 1940s, all from @tin medic 's amazing collection, most of them never seen before in the public domain, have been uploaded to IA/ITCL! More details here.

Lugz, I'm still on here....occasionally. Kids, professional life, guard, etc. have ramped up over the last two years and depressed all available free time. However, I just came across the new catalogs uploaded on ITCL. Great work!!

 

[humber2]

Three duplicate Plvmb PWA numbered 3/8 drive sockets added to my collection.

Cadmium plated WW2 era for Pratt and Whitney Aircraft engine toolkits.

PWA-1404 being 7/16”

PWA 1948 being 9/16”

PWA 1402 being 1”

 

[Private Lugnutz]

However, I just came across the new catalogs uploaded on ITCL. Great work!!

Team effort. Between that trove and your newsletter windfall a few years ago, it's amazing how much our insight into wartime and immediate postwar has grown.

 

[d42jeep]

This abused socket was in with a Craftsman 1/4” drive set at today’s estate sale. I guess I will sacrifice a hex wrench to fix it up.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

Fortunately, I was able to break the tiny set screw loose and cut a US made 5/32” hex key down to put into the Plomb socket.
-Don

 

[Squez]

These were in a box I won at a estate auction

 

[d42jeep]

I found quite a few Plomb wrenches at a tool sale yesterday. Three are in the evaporust at the moment. I found a DBE at another sale that didn’t get into the picture
-Don

 

[Catfishdan]

I scored a nice hoard of plomb sockets at the flea market this morning, including a bunch of war time 3/8” drive and some 1/4” sockets. The bell of the ball is the 5221 socket (21/32), which I did not have. Date coded 1a.

 

[g556]

Just got this plomb soil pipe cutter chisel. Can’t seem to narrow down the date on this chisel. I’m an avid collector of plumb/proto/p&c plumbing tools

 

[d42jeep]

With the round O in Plomb, it would have to be 1933 or earlier.
-Don
Edit. I found this undated catalog image on eBay.

 

[d42jeep]

I cleaned up my Plomb wrench finds from Saturday.
-Don
Plain steel 1220 & 1222.
Chrome plated 1226 13/16”
Just one little issue.
Chrome plated 11/16” 1222 combo.
Halfway done 3045 pebble

Dark finish DBE 1147 wrench.

 

[Mintgrun]

Just one little issue.

Time to make a pry bar?

 

[d42jeep]

A true dual purpose wrench!
Finished up the pebble this morning.
-Don

 

[four.cycle]

^ That's some nice work on that tire iron/pry bar there, @Mintgrun!

 

[Mintgrun]

I agree! I wish I could take credit, but I found it that way. They did a nice job. It looks like they used a DBE to make it, based on the size(s).

 

[Provincial]

Auto swap meet finds. All a dollar, except $5.00 for the breaker bar.


#80 3/8 round nose chisel
USA 1126 DBE 1/2 x 9/16 It was bent, but came right back straight with a little tweaking
USA 1226 combo 13/16. Rusty, but no pitting. Should clean up nice.
Pebble 5467 breaker bar

 

[d42jeep]

I found these #278 Plomb 8” pliers to replace another brand in my Plomb based GMTK. I had been looking for a pair for a while.
In place in the GMTK.
-Don