Plomb tool picture thread - show your stuff!

[d42jeep]

Another of my rusty finds on Saturday was this combo. I rarely leave any Plomb tools behind when I see them at sales.
Apparently the rust was all on the surface of this nice 1220 5/8” wrench
-Don

 

[r_olson_06]

How about this triplicate! A set of 3 Plomb Body Files complete what appears to be original files.
Is there any other Plomb body files?

 

[Leviton]

Someone found a way to make their pesky 9/32" drive socket (WF-15) useful.

EDIT: To be clear, the someone was not me.

 

[r_olson_06]

How about some US series Crowsfoot sockets. It seems like quite a few of this style have Plomb ground off so finding some with Plomb still on them is great. Also the 1-1/2" was previously undiscovered by my records!
This is the 2nd crowsfoot in the past couple of months that has been cataloged!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Picked up a good WF-38 parts rat at the flea market this morning. The screws are unoriginal and all jacked up, but the guts are all there.

 

[r_olson_06]

Picked up a good WF-38 parts rat at the flea market this morning. The screws are unoriginal and all jacked up, but the guts are all there.

Nice. Looks like a stamped logo vs the small or large forged logos. There is so many variants of the WFs out there.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

^ Yep. I think it was @RubiconJK did a photo shoot of them all or a fairly representative (and perhaps exhaustive, not sure) number of them in his collection. Probably during your hiatus. If it was him and he sees this now that I tagged him I am sure he will post a link. This one is a beater and fugly to boot, but when guys come on here asking if there's a repair kit available for such-and-such ratchet, my first thought is always, 'salvage ratchet'!

 

[r_olson_06]

Here's another one in the category of "just when I thought I'd seen it all" and "you can never have too many variations of the same ratchet". Yet another version I found of the WF-38 1/2" drive Plomb ratchet. This one has no text on the handle and just the "Plomb" brand on the drive cover. No p/n's, just the brand. This time I limited the group photos to just the different versions I have of just this specific style.

Bump for conversation

 

[four.cycle]

The lone piece of Plomb that came out of my last "grab bag" purchase:


Plomb 8161 - 1/2" x 9/16" short double-end box wrench

* unfortunately the other side has been vandalized by a previous owner.

 

[d42jeep]

One of those is in my Plomb based GMTK.
-Don

 

[z28lsc]

Sunday's find. Plomb 3-1/8 socket. 1" drive.

 

[Mintgrun]

Nice pencil holder.

 

[z28lsc]

Nice pencil holder.

more like beer holder.

 

[Outlawmws]

Nice pencil holder.

I use a 2-5/8 Proto for that on my inside workbench...

 

[RubiconJK]

Bump for conversation

Thanks Roy and Lugz. I need to go look to see if I've added any more variants. What keeps the hobby interesting to me is the hopes of digging through a box of rusty gold and find yet another version of something I've not seen before!

 

[r_olson_06]

Thanks Roy and Lugz. I need to go look to see if I've added any more variants. What keeps the hobby interesting to me is the hopes of digging through a box of rusty gold and find yet another version of something I've not seen before!

I will have to gather what I have as well and see if I have any new variants.

 

[RubiconJK]

Guys, here are a couple pics of what I believe are all variants I possess of WF-38 and 5449 excluding duplicates. Everything to the left of the WF-38T are WF-38 variants and everything right of WF-38T are 5449 variants. I included the unmarked versions, the Craftsman circle U and SR versions in the 5449 side. The 5449-S version shown is still a mystery to me which I discussed a few years ago.

 

[RubiconJK]

This one is a beater and fugly to boot, but when guys come on here asking if there's a repair kit available for such-and-such ratchet, my first thought is always, 'salvage ratchet'!

My same thoughts for why I've kept this "fugly" one lol!

 

[RubiconJK]

Came across this oddball today while looking for x/32 examples for someone on another thread. I had forgotten I had this and have probably posted about it before but adding here since I had the photo handy. This is a 1/2 drive deep Plomb 1-3/32 socket that is not numbered, so evidently a special order for some unknown (at least to me!) purpose.

 

[r_olson_06]

Adding another Engineer wrench to the collection.

 

[r_olson_06]

Came across this oddball today while looking for x/32 examples for someone on another thread. I had forgotten I had this and have probably posted about it before but adding here since I had the photo handy. This is a 1/2 drive deep Plomb 1-3/32 socket that is not numbered, so evidently a special order for some unknown (at least to me!) purpose.

That is amazing. I know herbrand had some 64 sizes in deep sockets.

 

[Outlawmws]

That is amazing. I know herbrand had some 64 sizes in deep sockets.

Did that include metric?

 

[r_olson_06]

Did that include metric?

It has been about 10 years since I seen them but I would suspect it was likely a metric conversion.

 

[four.cycle]

I didn't realize until I got them home and scraped a bit of the rust off that one of the hammers I picked up yesterday (below) was a Plomb.
I sawed off the splintered green striped handle and cleaned it up a bit.
Plomb 1425 body hammer

 

[r_olson_06]

I didn't realize until I got them home and scraped a bit of the rust off that one of the hammers I picked up yesterday (below) was a Plomb.
I sawed off the splintered green striped handle and cleaned it up a bit.
Anyone looking for a 1425 hammer head? Shipping and its yours.

PM sent

 

[d42jeep]

Please throw it my way.
-Don

 

[four.cycle]

^ Roy claimed it already!
I had a feeling somebody here would be looking for that thing..... it was half-buried in the gravel out in the lot at earthwise.
I have to run over there tomorrow to pick something up. I need to find a wing nut for that old Union hacksaw. Maybe I'll find some more hammers. The place is kind of a mess.

 

[d42jeep]

-Don

 

[four.cycle]

Roy just sent me a P/m and said "send it to Don", so it's in your box now.

 

[d42jeep]

Thanks to both of you guys. I probably can find an appropriate handle for it. I’ll find something cool to send to Roy
-Don

 

[four.cycle]

OH WOW! I didn't know you had all those!
Think you might have something for those three I sawed the handles off of yesterday?

 

[d42jeep]

Very likely.
-Don

 

[four.cycle]

I'll have to figure out how to get the sizes to you... those two little ones have tiny eyes... especially that "Occident" number.

 

[d42jeep]

Re: ~ Plomb tool picture thread - show your stuff!

^ Some nice Plomb.

I'm on an ancient Plomb kick. My latest find, a 5/8" offset screwdriver marked PLOMB T.M.C. , like the old tappet wrench I found several weeks ago. This thing is beastly looking.

3Bay’s post from 2016 (thanks, 3bay) seems to confirm my thinking about this babbitt scraper I found yesterday at an estate sale. I believe it to be a very early Plomb. I already posted it on the Babbitt Scraper thread but It seems to belong here even more.



-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I believe it to be a very early Plomb.

Indeed. If you're interested in gnat's-assing it, Don, no later than 1924, when Plomb first starts popping up in all kinds of trade mags and other technical literature as "Plomb Tool Company". The name and marking practices between 1907 and 1917, when Ol' Alphonse left and Morris B. Pendleton took over, are very murky. But your scraper (and 3Bay's offset screwdriver) can be definitively dated to at least as early as 1917, because that's when the name "Plomb Tool Manufacturing Company" (that is the "PLOMB TMC" marking) was first registered with the L.A. County Chamber of Commerce.

Nice find.

 

[r_olson_06]

3Bay’s post from 2016 (thanks, 3bay) seems to confirm my thinking about this babbitt scraper I found yesterday at an estate sale. I believe it to be a very early Plomb. I already posted it on the Babbitt Scraper thread but It seems to belong here even more.



-Don

Nice score! Goes to show there is still early Plomb in the wild yet!

 

[r_olson_06]

Snagged this beauty of a 1/4" drive set with 1/2 the pieces dated 1935 and the rest 1939. The early 1/4" was not stamped with the Los Angeles or LA markers as typical with this period by the Plomb logo was very tall almost stretched vertically.

 

[z28lsc]

Snagged this beauty of a 1/4" drive set with 1/2 the pieces dated 1935 and the rest 1939. The early 1/4" was not stamped with the Los Angeles or LA markers as typical with this period by the Plomb logo was very tall almost stretched vertically.

Nice set. Specially the ratchet.

 

[d42jeep]

I like the early ratchets with the positive detents. I have one in 1/2” and 3/8” drive but haven’t run across a 1/4” drive one yet. That one is very cool.
-Don

 

[r_olson_06]

Nice set. Specially the ratchet.

Thanks. Love the teardrop shape.