Plomb tool picture thread - show your stuff!

[davethorik]

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One of those, 'oh hey! I forgot I owned that!' moments.

Plvmb 5262 3/8 extension, 12". I'm not 100% on the # because the stamping gets light on the radius of the extension.

I got it a few years back in a 1930's Snap-On metal socket box with a bunch of old stuff inside, all correct pieces missing except the shallow 12 point 1/2 drive sockets up to 1-1/8".

I use it a decent amount. It's true, and has the hole on female end for detent ball, it stays on the ratchet which is nice, a lot of old stuff doesn't have holes or detent in smaller drive sizes.

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

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A local Ebayer had these up, so I arranged for local pickup

What's this 3026? It isn't quite a pebble..
this 1130 is a beat up example of how his tools looked, mostly deburrd and polished with a very centered broaching. Super cool guy retired jet tech, showed me his 209 MPH salt flat mustang. Judging by the material removal, his polisher must be a scary machine. I thought he had all the Plomb tools in his rollaway, but he said he was missing a lot of the aviation ones.

P&C WF's apparently don't look at all like their Plomb counterparts.
Is the N94 something similar to WF?

Then he gave me a handful of defective wrenches

 

[Rileysan]

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A local Ebayer had these up, so I arranged for local pickup


P&C WF's apparently don't look at all like their Plomb counterparts.
Is the N94 something similar to WF?

Plomb did not change the P&C design to conform with their own tools until many years later. The WF series was, according to AA, used to fill orders for Plomb's military contract and was similar in design to P&C's N-series of wrenches.

http://alloy-artifacts.org/peterson-carlborg.html

The one you have here is the first I have seen pictured outside of the AA website. Nice find!

Brian

 

[Makattak81]

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P&C on top, Hinsdale in the middle, BlackHawk on bottom

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[Ole Slewfoot]

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Both mine seem to be a lot steeper at the offset.

 

[twertsy]

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Plomb did not change the P&C design to conform with their own tools until many years later. The WF series was, according to AA, used to fill orders for Plomb's military contract and was similar in design to P&C's N-series of wrenches.

http://alloy-artifacts.org/peterson-carlborg.html

The one you have here is the first I have seen pictured outside of the AA website. Nice find!

Brian

On my site: http://toolarchives.com/wrench-find...=field_image&fields_on_off_hidden_submitted=1

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[Rileysan]

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On my site: http://toolarchives.com/wrench-find...=field_image&fields_on_off_hidden_submitted=1

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I LOVE your wrench finder, Twertsy!

Brian

 

[Provincial]

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I picked up a Plomb WF 3/8 drive set this weekend. More details in this thread:

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5894630#post5894630

 

[r_olson_06]

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I picked up a Plomb WF 3/8 drive set this weekend. More details in this thread:

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5894630#post5894630

Very cool set thanks for sharing.

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[Rileysan]

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From the same sale Provincial found his 3/8" set, I found this Plomb 1/4" WF-8 ratchet hiding in a box. This one is in amazing shape - near mint in my opinion.

I am told 1/4" WF-8s are rare (as opposed to the relatively common 9/32" drive). Can anyone confirm?

Brian

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

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Hey I have that same caliper, no WF8 though

I found this 27 USA wrench at the flea...
It walks like a plomb, it quacks like a plomb


Doubling up on pics for Provincials drag socket quest.

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

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My newest Plomb, also my eldest, arrived with 2 friends today. Shes too beat up to ever look pretty again, so went straight in the work truck.

 

[DuroChrome]

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Some new to me Plomb tools and toolboxes. I sent my set of pebble wrenches out for plating, we'll see how they come out.

 

[DuroChrome]

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Small 3/8" socket box with a small socket set.

 

[DuroChrome]

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The set of pebble wrenches I'm sending to plating. Thank you to everyone that helped me assemble the set. The 1240 has a grind mark on it, but I'm going with it...they are hard to find.

 

[DuroChrome]

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This beast is awesome and so is the tiny war finish 1/4" drive!

 

[3baygarage]

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Some new to me Plomb tools and toolboxes. I sent my set of pebble wrenches out for plating, we'll see how they come out.

Should be interesting to see. Will they be shiny chrome?

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

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Looking forward to seeing how that turns out too.

 

[ssdave]

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The set of pebble wrenches I'm sending to plating. Thank you to everyone that helped me assemble the set. The 1240 has a grind mark on it, but I'm going with it...they are hard to find.

If you're sending out mismatched 9/16 and 1/2, you should wait. They're not that hard to find. I think I have them and 7/16 and maybe 3/8 in pebble, unless they were in the lot I sold last spring. I can look when I get home.

PS On looking closer, maybe they're not mis-matched, just different finish level? I'll still look at what I have when I get home.

 

[DuroChrome]

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I am trying to decide which plating finish is closest to the original. They are all pebble plombs (the 5/16 is a smooth one I forgot to put the pebble in there) with the same style of numbers. I am thinking of a matte nickel finish. Here is a link to the options I have.

http://apmarusa.com

I will try to host the pics next time...sorry they are small.

 

[scooternut]

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Not a Plomb collector, but fondled this ratchet at a flea market and had to own it. Have numerous proto rats which is likely what made it a have to have.



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[DuroChrome]

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ssdave - thank you for the offer. I'm thinking the chrome over matte nickel or electroless nickel. Thank you guys for the assistance and information.

 

[Mooreag47]

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Been outa town for a while but I'm back on the search found these this morn

 

[Teenager with old tools]

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picked these plvmb wrenches up


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[Mooreag47]

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Here's a better pic of one of my favorites from this morning

 

[Smokeshow69]

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So i was minding my business on the garage journal when I got a pm from wayno10 and he said he had a mini plvmb set if I wanted it he would send it to me (I ended up trading some snappy items to him in return) He saw my signature of wanted items He send me the military 9/32nd drive plvmb set. It was complete but had some rust and overall had not been serviced in a long time. I cleaned it up and serviced the ratchet. I posted some before and after pictures. It does have 2 3/8th sockets and I am wondering if the WF sets had this and also if it is missing a driver handle like my civilian 1/4 drive? I took a before and after picture as well as a picture with my civilian set. The boxes are very similar in size and texture paint but the boxes construction is different and also the military box does not have the plvmb stamped into it but both have wrinkle paint on them but are different shades of green.

 

[ssdave]

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I know I'm late to the party, when I searched I found other ratchets like this. But, to me, it's a new Proto. 5249P, known as the big dawg. Never seen it before, had to buy 9 proto ratchets to get the two 5249P and 5249PBL.

 

[Rileysan]

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picked these plvmb wrenches up


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Teenager, you can clean those up by soaking them in white vinegar for a few days then wire brushing/wheeling them. You'll be amazed at how nice they will clean up!

Brian

 

[Teenager with old tools]

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Teenager, you can clean those up by soaking them in white vinegar for a few days then wire brushing/wheeling them. You'll be amazed at how nice they will clean up!



Brian

I haven't had time to go pick up some vinegar for them yet. Been busy sanding old resin off my bamboo fishing pole I bought so I can rewrap it.


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[hoinox11]

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Figured I'd hop in on the madness. You guys have some killer stuff that kicks the **** out of what I've got, but I also have not been at this long and I mostly keep to getting stuff I will be able to use (most of the time). Always have been a proto guy, so naturally I love the plomb stuff too...

Not everything is plomb in the pics, but if it's not that it is a company they bought like p&c, penens, calif tool, bog (surrender all to me), etc... or proto. Only exception is a 1/2 drive metric deep snapon socket set and a 1/2 drive bonney socket set from before the birth of jesus (my best guess).

 

[Provincial]

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hoinox11, welcome to the madness!

Nice tools! Nice box, too.

 

[twertsy]

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Very nice! Looks like you're well on your way to complete madness!

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[drivesitfar]

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HOINOX: AWESOME and very clean too. so you use some of these on a daily basis or as the job calls to use a tool like these? just curious how you keep them so clean because i need to clean up some of mine and was just going to use simple green or WD40 or some other cleaner i have handy?

Welcome to the forum too and happy to have another Plvmb guy especially one sort of in my area that knows tools. i also like P&C, Pennens and a few other brands besides Proto that Plvmb was involved in somehow.

ALL: speaking of cleaning and restoring some of these Plvmb tools back to their original shine without doing a complete re chrome like DC is doing anybody have a favorite method? do tell and give as many details as you can like brass brush or tooth brush, wire wheeling or just using a rag or an old cloth diaper so some of us can learn from the best.

thanks in advance

 

[twertsy]

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HOINOX: AWESOME and very clean too. so you use some of these on a daily basis or as the job calls to use a tool like these? just curious how you keep them so clean because i need to clean up some of mine and was just going to use simple green or WD40 or some other cleaner i have handy?

Welcome to the forum too and happy to have another Plvmb guy especially one sort of in my area that knows tools. i also like P&C, Pennens and a few other brands besides Proto that Plvmb was involved in somehow.

ALL: speaking of cleaning and restoring some of these Plvmb tools back to their original shine without doing a complete re chrome like DC is doing anybody have a favorite method? do tell and give as many details as you can like brass brush or tooth brush, wire wheeling or just using a rag or an old cloth diaper so some of us can learn from the best.

thanks in advance

Hot evapo-rust. I use an old commercial coffee pot.

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[Rileysan]

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Figured I'd hop in on the madness. You guys have some killer stuff that kicks the **** out of what I've got, but I also have not been at this long and I mostly keep to getting stuff I will be able to use (most of the time). Always have been a proto guy, so naturally I love the plomb stuff too...

Not everything is plomb in the pics, but if it's not that it is a company they bought like p&c, penens, calif tool, bog (surrender all to me), etc... or proto. Only exception is a 1/2 drive metric deep snapon socket set and a 1/2 drive bonney socket set from before the birth of jesus (my best guess).

Wonderful set of tools! Welcome to GJ from another Salem area member ...

Brian

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

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ALL: speaking of cleaning and restoring some of these Plvmb tools back to their original shine without doing a complete re chrome like DC is doing anybody have a favorite method? do tell and give as many details as you can like brass brush or tooth brush, wire wheeling or just using a rag or an old cloth diaper so some of us can learn from the best.

thanks in advance

Get old ones from when they were "polished with no coating to hide defects and flaws"

 

[DuroChrome]

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added these to the collection...missing the 7/16 and 9/16. They are immaculate original finish with some scuffs and shelf wear. I love these dual marked ones!

 

[chrislehr]

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I need to dig my plomb WF tools out and take some new pics soon

 

[hoinox11]

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@drivesitfar: I use them more or less daily, but not professionally at the moment. Usually my own cars and a few friends' cars + whatever project I have scheming at the time. Good to hear that there are others out this way too that have a good sense of taste hahaha.

As for the clean tools part there are a couple of ways that I've used in the past as most of what you see in the pics was quite rough when I got it believe it or not. Evaporust I've used only a time or two and same with soaking in vinegar or electrolysis also. Only problems with any of those three is that I feel like it's really hard to re-moisten/lubricate the steel afterwards and you're left with something that looks unnaturally clean for the surface condition with all of it's clean pits.
I've found my favorite method is to soak the tools in a couple gallons of wd40 for a day, then using a brass wire brush that has most of the yellow gone from the metal (otherwise it'll stain the tool) and gently go at the rough spots with it. Once it's pretty even looking I either put it back in the wd for a while more or cover it in EP Moly-Graph grease over night. Then I come back and wipe/scrub it with a shop towel. This way does not dry the steel out and I feel like it looks correct since it doesn't remove absolutely everything but rather blends in what is there to stay.

Really the best trick I think is making sure to wipe things down after using them to prevent new rust. Using the tools will clean them also just in handling them alone.

@Rileysan: Thank you very much! It's a humble section of the bigger picture of tools, but it's one of my favorites. Right on that you're from Independence, I go out that way often.

@Provincial/twersty: Thank you for supporting my addiction to good steel lol! Though the rest of the world may not understand people like us or the real value of the tools we may or may not buy too many of, at least with this addiction there is always something useful that'll come out of it unlike crack cocaine which just ends in broken hopes & dreams and a hankering for more crack.

 

[four.cycle]

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