Plomb tool picture thread - show your stuff!

[glenmore]

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Where did you find this estate sale? Did you find it online or happen to drive by and just see it?

Saw the estate sale on CL and they had a photo of the garage area and that's what made me go to this particular sale.

I am a little sick I know but most every Friday night I make a list of promising estate sales. I do a rough plot on a map (I am in the SoCal area) and try to combine a bunch of sales in one area and then try and go to 4-5 sales first thing in the morning. If you go to estate sales, you know it is pretty hit and miss, and you really don't know what you're going to find. Even if there are clear pictures of something you think you want, you'll get there real early and there will already be a line of a half a dozen guys who have seen the pic also.

 

[jwitt]

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My Plomb and Proto stamped adjustables 4",6", and 8"




Jim

 

[GRX]

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That body hammer is great. Was looking through my stuff again last night and I have more Plomb than I realize. Will try to post more pix later. And I'll snap some images of my Blackhawk stuff for that other thread too.

 

[jusridin]

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just aquired these today the tool bag is amazing!

 

[bigcaddy]

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Saw the estate sale on CL and they had a photo of the garage area and that's what made me go to this particular sale.

I am a little sick I know but most every Friday night I make a list of promising estate sales. I do a rough plot on a map (I am in the SoCal area) and try to combine a bunch of sales in one area and then try and go to 4-5 sales first thing in the morning. If you go to estate sales, you know it is pretty hit and miss, and you really don't know what you're going to find. Even if there are clear pictures of something you think you want, you'll get there real early and there will already be a line of a half a dozen guys who have seen the pic also.

I do the exact same thing every weekend. I pick out the sales and get a general area that i'm going to be in but i travel all over the place if they are spaced out over a large area. I'm used to a very early work schedule so i'm usually one of the first few guys in line.

I've gotten pretty good at decoding CL ads and estate companys pictures to figure out what is going to be a good sale and i don't always buy tools. Today i bought 1 Proto pebble finish wrench along with a gold nugget inside of a velvet lined ring box, it was overlooked in a box of junk but i found it, and 4 etchings that should sell for at least 200.00 each. My girlfriend thinks i'm crazy but what ends up in the garage is my business

 

[blue dog]

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New to me today, marked proto on one side, plomb on the other.
Anyone have an idea how old this thing is.

 

[jwitt]

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New to me today, marked proto on one side, plomb on the other.
Anyone have an idea how old this thing is.

Around 1948-9

 

[jusridin]

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Has anyone seen a Plomb tool bag like the one posted above with the lettering still intact? Thought I might get a you **** from that one? Part number 2410

 

[GRX]

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just acquired these today the tool bag is amazing!

Has anyone seen a Plomb tool bag like the one posted above with the lettering still intact? Thought I might get a you **** from that one? Part number 2410

Nice roll up bag. Great score. (thanks for the PM by the way)

Coincidentally, I just discovered the bags that I have are indeed Plomb. I'll post up some pix later once I get them transferred from my camera.

 

[jusridin]

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Looking forward to it

 

[Rusik]

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I was in shock. A beautiful instrument. Unfortunately the tool of America - we have a rare

 

[jusridin]

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lol, more! found these by accident

 

[GRX]

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The more of these tools passed down through my family that I look at, the more Plomb and Proto I discover.

Plomb tools bags ... #2401 and #2402. Filled with various Plomb & Proto chisels and punches.
Funny thing, I have been using these for years and never thought to look who made them until recently.

 

[jusridin]

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Wow, that's a nice collection! I have the. 80-5/8- plumb that goes with that, Damn.... you ****

 

[GRX]

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Feeler gauges. Both #000D. Proto on the top, Plomb on the bottom with round 'O' which would seem to indicate pre-1934 manufacture.

 

[chumley360]

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This is a wall hanger in the garage. I thought it was a cool tool, I'd just never seen on like it. It's stamped "1AM(1 1/2) PLOMB 2624" and appears to be copper(?). Anyone know anything about it? I've also got some random 3/4" drive sockets and an adjustable wrench at work.

 

[whelenfan]

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awesome collections! I love the "pebble" texture on those!

 

[GRX]

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This is a wall hanger in the garage. I thought it was a cool tool, I'd just never seen on like it. It's stamped "1AM(1 1/2) PLOMB 2624" and appears to be copper(?). Anyone know anything about it? I've also got some random 3/4" drive sockets and an adjustable wrench at work.

Let's see them.

That box end wrench is pretty interesting. Looks copper colored. You think it's solid copper
or copper plated?

 

[chumley360]

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Let's see them.

That box end wrench is pretty interesting. Looks copper colored. You think it's solid copper
or copper plated?

I'm not sure. It feels about the same in weight as my 1 1/2 combo wrench, but that just me holding them. I'm thinking it's for non-sparking conditions, but most of the older tools I've seen for that are bronze looking, not copper. Maybe someone will know from the part number.

 

[CRTDI]

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My son and I picked up a couple of Plomb items this weekend. These are the first and only Plomb tools that I've come across. I must say, I really like the action of the ratchet.

 

[barcalo]

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those are pretty cool, i am also in the mid atlantic and it is damn hard to find Plomb, but I run across a lot more Proto

 

[bigcaddy]

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I might of already posted a picture of the wrench in a different thread but it was my only find a few weeks ago.

The puller set was another item i found a few weeks ago but didn't have a use for it so i ended up selling it. Besides, it was too nice to use and i rarely pull off pulleys/gears at the office. The sticker is a bit worn but its in the original box tool.

 

[justin10054]

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This is about 75% of my collection. Most of these came from swap meets.
combos:

box end:

open end:

got these this weekend:

blurry pic of some punches:

the two pliers in the right corner are Plomb. a couple screwdrivers, too:

3/8 drive box:

3/8 drive tools:

plomb tool box:

1/4 and 1/2 drive tools, etc.:

misc tools, mostly plomb:

plomb body hammer (got it this weekend) and proto soft-face hammer:

i polished the head and peen to a mirror finish:

 

[stormking]

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Justin, That 100 HR box is not one you see very often. Here's one of mine.

By stormking3 at 2012-01-05

 

[jusridin]

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I love this thread, from the boxes to the bags, wrenches to chisels, all great stuff. I look forward to more.

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

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Yes...fantastic stuff. Especially neat to see original sets all together and things that have served three generations in one family!
I got started many years ago with random bits of Plomb that just came along with other tools...just junk in the bottoms of boxes. Then I discovered that the rusty old Plomb ratchet down there with the bent screwdrivers and K-mart sockets was the smoothest ratchet I had ever held...

 

[chumley360]

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Just got these in my latest E-bay mixed tool purchase. Are the extensions drilled at the top for use with a slide bar, or was that an owner mod?

 

[Dale B]

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I have several like that , they are stock that way .

 

[dieselmike]

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I just picked this stuff up at a fleamarket... i have a couple other chisels, wrenches etc

ive never seen a plomb wrench big, how big do they get

 

[1967lemans]

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Got this 1/4" on ebay

 

[Bolster]

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I've already told the story somewhere on GJ how I found this box of Plomb at a local garage sale. A sweet little old lady had just lost her husband and she was selling his tools to pay for his failed surgery. She was all broken up so I knew she was vulnerable. She wanted $30 for the whole box but I worked her over until I got it for $15. As I was leaving her garage sale I accidentally ran over her little poodle but did not stop as I was afraid she'd regret selling the tools.

Relax, the story above is completely bogus, but I like to pretend it's true. It took me years to assemble this collection. No little old ladies or poodles were harmed, but my pocket book sure was.

 

[justin10054]

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Nice collection. How long did it take you to get the full set of pebble combos?

 

[GRX]

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http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j435/Bolsterman/PlombComboCollection2.jpg

I've already told the story somewhere on GJ how I found this box of Plomb at a local garage sale. A sweet little old lady had just lost her husband and she was selling his tools to pay for his failed surgery. She was all broken up so I knew she was vulnerable. She wanted $30 for the whole box but I worked her over until I got it for $15. As I was leaving her garage sale I accidentally ran over her little poodle but did not stop as I was afraid she'd regret selling the tools.

[IMG]http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/j435/Bolsterman/PlombBox2.jpg

Relax, the story above is completely bogus, but I like to pretend it's true. It took me years to assemble this collection. No little old ladies or poodles were harmed, but my pocket book sure was.[/QUOTE]hahaha .... that made me laugh. :D Nice collection. Thanks for posting.

Looked at some of my tools again and discovered even more Plomb. And they didn't cost me a penny. :bounce:

 

[GRX]

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Plomb and Proto pliers ...

Plomb and Proto adjustables ...

 

[WWIIjeep]

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Some very nice stuff in this thread.

Plomb and Proto are my favorite brands. Most of my work tools--ratchets, sockets and pullers particularly--have been Proto for over 40 years. My dad had a mix of Plomb and Proto, and I have only a few of his Plombs. My older brother and a cousin got most of dad's Plombs, so I've kind of been collecting replacements for a while, just to feel like I've got more of his tools than I actually do.

Here's some of them. Only one Proto in the bunch, and a couple of dual-marked Plomb-Protos. All the rest strictly Plomb:






Missing the 1/4" combo to make a set from 1/4" to 1" and the 5/16" isn't a pebble. Based on what I've seen in old catalogs, $2.49 would have been the price of the leatherette tool roll around the mid-1940s.



The DR8 ratchet above is probably my oldest Plomb tool, circa late-1920s. Behind it is a 5451 from 1937.






The 1/2" ratchet, 2 breaker bars, and t-handle above were dad's Plombs that I ended up with, and the slide hammer below. Also the 3/4" ratchet, which is the only Proto I'll post. The one at the top is a Plomb Big Bertha 1" ratchet:









There's more--mostly open-end and box wrenches, and some duplicates of combos and sockets. And there's a few Wright Field contract tools, but mostly I look for non-contract stuff a civilian would have had at the time.

The idea was to put together a reasonably complete Plomb tool set to use when I work on something vintage, like our Ford 8N or maybe even a WWII jeep. As you can see, I'm more than a little weak on pliers and screwdrivers, among a few other things. I could easily fill in the missing things with Proto, but that's not the way I wanted to do it. So the search goes on....

 

[WWIIjeep]

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I looked around for another place to post this, but there isn't much in the way of vintage Proto threads, and since GRX said it was ok to post Proto here too, here goes....

This is a Proto product you probably won't see very often:

Late 1950s, early 1960s vintage tach-dwell meter. Yes it works, and yes I use it. I mostly work on vehicles even older than the meter, so it's perfect, and it has outlasted the fancy Sun and Snap-On meters I've had along the way. Got it used around 1970, and for free, because it wasn't working. When I called Proto back then, it took them a while to find it in their archives. Proto referred me to whoever manufactured it for them, but now I can't remember who that was. The manufacturer didn't have parts anymore, but I was able to figure out what was wrong with it and get it working, and 40+ years later, it still works, and looks kind of cool besides.

 

[930dreamer]

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I've already told the story somewhere on GJ how I found this box of Plomb at a local garage sale. A sweet little old lady had just lost her husband and she was selling his tools to pay for his failed surgery. She was all broken up so I knew she was vulnerable. She wanted $30 for the whole box but I worked her over until I got it for $15. As I was leaving her garage sale I accidentally ran over her little poodle but did not stop as I was afraid she'd regret selling the tools.

Relax, the story above is completely bogus, but I like to pretend it's true. It took me years to assemble this collection. No little old ladies or poodles were harmed, but my pocket book sure was.

This box looks like the one I saw in a antique store last weekend for $30, I better go back and see.

 

[justin10054]

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Missing the 1/4" combo to make a set from 1/4" to 1" and the 5/16" isn't a pebble.
The DR8 ratchet above is probably my oldest Plomb tool, circa late-1920s. Behind it is a 5451 from 1937.

Did Plomb make a 1/4" combo wrench? I've seen Proto ones, but never a Plomb and they're not in any catalog I've seen. That doesn't mean a whole lot, though.

I've got a DR8 ratchet and a DD9-1/2 socket (19/32) to go with it, but alas no drive plug. I wonder what the likelihood is of ever finding one orphaned.

How does the 5451 ratchet differ from the 5449?

 

[bigcaddy]

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930Dreamer,

If you end up missing a Plomb box as nice as the one Bolster has, I'm going to have to drive all the way out to Texas and have a talk with you

Hopefully it will be sitting right were you left it and it will be yours for 30.00 bucks. Good luck!!

 

[930dreamer]

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Here's the one I found, I don't think it's a Plvmb though?