Plomb tool picture thread - show your stuff!

[RagTopTA]

I was guessing around 10 wrenches, but I don't like guessing. I went through my spreadsheet to count up the wrenches and I have 14. I also have a few sockets, but I didn't go through and count them. It's a very large spreadsheet.

i have all my Plomb on spread sheet also! its getting pretty crazy bout 350-400 pieces so far. but Im a newish collector/gatherer.

All of the original handles I have seen are green. I've never seen a blue one, but the green does fade a lot.

The blue ones are the P&C same handles but the end is painted a bright blue.

 

[RubiconJK]

i have all my Plomb on spread sheet also! its getting pretty crazy bout 350-400 pieces so far. but Im a newish collector/gatherer.



The blue ones are the P&C same handles but the end is painted a bright blue.

Do you guys have a good spreadsheet format that you would mind sharing? I need to do this, but I wouldn't be seen for several days while I'm out in the shop doing inventory!

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

Thanks All for the words of encouragement on my Plomb pebble board. 3bay, RagTop, 48548, tym, and ssdave your comments are appreciated.

ORC: WOW!! that is a lot of work and it looks AMAZING!! WELL DONE!!

are those paper clips holding those cool looking pliers? how did you attach the nails to your board and what's the board made out of.

Thanks Drives, I tried quite a few different ways of holding the pliers on the board and knew it would take some kind of spring clamp to secure them. These common paper binders worked better than anything at conforming to all of the plier profiles. Unless I find something better I think they are on for good. The board was just a common scrap of beadboard ply I had left over from a remodeling project. I just drilled undersized holes for the pins and put a dab of glue on them before sticking them in the holes. They seem to be pretty solid.

I'm looking forward to seeing that in person when i come down to pick up my welder in the near future.

i'm not sure what you said you are missing so can you post up a picture? I don't think I own it since i don't know what it is.

All I really need to finish it are three pebble breaker bars. 1/2", 3/8", and 1/4". I left room for 1/4" wrenches in the combos and DBE's but doubt there are pebbles in those sizes.

Fantastic, Ed. Well-conceived and executed. Also - I don't think I've seen that many Name-Nurl pliers in one place other than a catalog!

Thanks Lugz, The pliers were a very fortunate pick up. I'm not sure but they look like they have been together for a very long time. Ed.

 

[RagTopTA]

Do you guys have a good spreadsheet format that you would mind sharing? I need to do this, but I wouldn't be seen for several days while I'm out in the shop doing inventory!

Ill send you mine tonight when I get off work and you can see my format. Its still a bit OFF and mines got some personalized catagories. I have a column to mark things that came with a Masterkit in the Toolmobile even.

 

[RubiconJK]

Thanks RagTop.

 

[RubiconJK]

I've been working on an all pebble board for a while now and am getting really close to done. I have room for three hinge handles between the ratchets but haven't come up with them yet....5766, 5265, and 5466. Anyway it is pretty full now so I'll throw up a few pics. Most the hooks are bent from square cut horse shoeing nails. I just fabbed up the ratchet cradles this morning for it. This board hangs right by my bench and the tools will see some use...but hopefully no abuse. A few pics. Ed.

Very nicely done! The binder clips are a great idea.

 

[tin medic]

All I really need to finish it are three pebble breaker bars. 1/2", 3/8", and 1/4".

I have 1/2 & 3/8 Pebble breaker bars.

 

[RagTopTA]

All I really need to finish it are three pebble breaker bars. 1/2", 3/8", and 1/4".

I have 1/2 & 3/8 Pebble breaker bars.

I dont think they made a 1/4 pebble breaker. I havent seen one or a catalog specimen either.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I dont think they made a 1/4 pebble breaker. I havent seen one or a catalog specimen either.

I've never owned one, and I can't recall seeing one, but the 4766 hinge handle is shown with a pebble field grip in Catalog 19-R REPRINT, which I date to no earlier than February 1944.

Here is a summary of 1944 pebbled tools from my Plomb Pebble Period dating thread, linked here.

- Ratchets: 4749 (1/4"), 5249 (3/8"), 5449 (1/2"), 5649 (3/4"), and 5849 (1")
- Hinged Handles: 4766 (1/4"), 5265 (3/8"), 5466 (1/2", 9-1/2" long), 5467 (1/2", 15" long), 5468 (1/2", 18" long), and 5668 (3/4").
- Flare nut wrenches: one shown, implication is all sizes.

 

[twertsy]

I've never owned one, and I can't recall seeing one, but the 4766 hinge handle is shown with a pebble field grip in Catalog 19-R REPRINT, which I date to no earlier than February 1944.

Here is a summary of 1944 pebbled tools from my Plomb Pebble Period dating thread, linked here.

Also pickle forks and pullers, off the top of my head.

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[Private Lugnutz]

Also pickle forks and pullers, off the top of my head.

I'm glad you said that!

The cross arms (4011 and 4021, at least) on puller sets that have been collected and shown here clearly have the rectangular pebbled field branding, but they are not shown as pebbled in the Pebble era (1944-1948) catalogs (19-R REPRINT, 19-R FOURTH PRINTING) that we have access to, almost certainly because the figures are exactly the same as the figures used in Catalog 19-A (1943), and obviously re-used in those subsequent catalogs, despite production being different.

Ditto the pickle fork.

By the way, in the process of re-checking, I noticed an anomaly I had not noticed before. The 1" hinge handle (5868) is shown as round and knurled in the 1-inch drive tools section of the Pebble era catalogs, which we found odd, given the fact that all the other breakers in all the other drive sizes are rectangular and pebbled. But I noticed that on the previous page, showing 3/4- and 1-inch drive tool sets, that the 1-inch drive tool set 5700-OC shows the 5686 breaker with a rectangular and pebbled handle. It's almost certainly just another documentation contradiction.

I'm going to revise my summary in my thread to reflect all this.

 

[RagTopTA]

I've never owned one, and I can't recall seeing one, but the 4766 hinge handle is shown with a pebble field grip in Catalog 19-R REPRINT, which I date to no earlier than February 1944.

Here is a summary of 1944 pebbled tools from my Plomb Pebble Period dating thread, linked here.

Welp, now I must find one!!!

 

[48548]

Welp, now I must find one!!!

I have been looking for one as well. (4766).... i also need a 5266 and 58xx breaker bar as well.

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[48548]

Here is some of my stuff...

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[RagTopTA]

man thats a lot of good Plomb stuff! that Proto elite ratchet is awesome never seen one!

 

[oldmantaylor]

Welp, now I must find one!!!

I have 13 of the 4766's, but they are in sets that I have.

 

[tin medic]

Now that's just greedy.

 

[RagTopTA]

I have 13 of the 4766's, but they are in sets that I have.

so they are pebble breakers?

 

[RagTopTA]

Now that's just greedy.

I thought I had a bunch with bout 25 ratchets!!

 

[oldmantaylor]

so they are pebble breakers?

Yes. Plomb calls them Hinge Handles. I think you can make out a couple of them in these pictures. This is about half of the quarter inch sets that I have.

 

[oldmantaylor]

I thought I had a bunch with bout 25 ratchets!!

I have over 100 ratchets, 49 of them being 1/4" drive.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I have 13 of the 4766's, but they are in sets that I have.

so they are pebble breakers?

Yes. Plomb calls them Hinge Handles.

Thanks for confirming its existence in the pebbled style, Jim. Not just Plomb, by the way. Many (probably most) mfgrs' use that term in vintage catalogs and marketing literature. It was one of the two most common terms for the tool, the other being flex-head. "Breaker bar" is a relatively modern, colloquial term.

 

[48548]

I thought i was lucky to have two proto lite ratchets and three 5668 pebble breaker bars....

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[Oregon rock crusher]

Wow! When oldmantaylor and 48548 break out the Plomb pics I am humbled. Truly great collections you guys have. Very nice. I missed the chance for a 1/4" pebble hinge handle I saw recently. Shouldn't have hesitated but thought it was a little high. Saving grace is swap meet season is just around the corner. Ed.

 

[oldmantaylor]

I notice that I did not record the style of the 4766's that I have. I know at least some of them are the round handles. I'll have to go through them to see how many (if any) are the pebble style.

 

[oldmantaylor]

I don't think I have ever posted this before. I have a notebook that appears to have been a marketing aid for Plomb salesman/retailers. Here are a few scans. If interested I can post more, but it's about 80 pages total - plus the complete 19 and 19-X (Spanish) catalogs. It looks like it was printed in 1943.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I notice that I did not record the style of the 4766's that I have. I know at least some of them are the round handles. I'll have to go through them to see how many (if any) are the pebble style.

Uh-oh. Spoke too soon. Please do check them, Jim. There's nothing rare or unusual about the knurled round-handle 4766's. It's an example of a pebbled 4766 that we were talking about. Of the hinge handles that are visible in your sets, I only see knurled round, but a few are hiding.

 

[davethorik]

man thats a lot of good Plomb stuff! that Proto elite ratchet is awesome never seen one!

Yeah every time I see his nos Proto Lite ratchet, the pants start fitting a little tight if ya know what I mean

 

[RagTopTA]

I have over 100 ratchets, 49 of them being 1/4" drive.

I don't think I have ever posted this before. I have a notebook that appears to have been a marketing aid for Plomb salesman/retailers. Here are a few scans. If interested I can post more, but it's about 80 pages total - plus the complete 19 and 19-X (Spanish) catalogs. It looks like it was printed in 1943.

I'll get there someday!!! Working on it! that Plomb BLuebook is awesome! do you remember where you picked it up ?

 

[ryan20021982]

Found this in a toolbox full of tools I bought

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[48548]

Nice.

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[oldmantaylor]

I'll get there someday!!! Working on it! that Plomb BLuebook is awesome! do you remember where you picked it up ?

On eBay years ago. I have another neat book: "Leadership In Industry". However, I've only scanned a couple of pages of that one. It's also an old eBay purchase.

 

[Smokeshow69]

On eBay years ago. I have another neat book: "Leadership In Industry". However, I've only scanned a couple of pages of that one. It's also an old eBay purchase.

That is a good one ! Looks like a leadership development "taylored" (pun intended) to the production field and then the plomb tool company name was placed on the cover ! Really nice ephemera that all of us would love to find in the wild.


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[Catfishdan]

No wonder I have never found a 1/4 inch pebble breaker bar. 48548 has them all.

 

[48548]

I dont have a 1/4 pebble, just 3/8 to 3/4... missing the longer 3/8, 1/4 and 1 inch.

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[thehorse13]

Found this in a toolbox full of tools I bought

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That little fella will fetch around 20 bucks on FleaBay. It's hard to find the 5/16th pebble. It took me about a year to turn one up.

 

[RagTopTA]

That little fella will fetch around 20 bucks on FleaBay. It's hard to find the 5/16th pebble. It took me about a year to turn one up.

I found one also sat at the flea diggin in a old tool box fulla stuff. $1. Sunday same thing but found one of the smaller DOE pebbles for $1.

 

[thehorse13]

Plomb stuff is not common around here. You find 2 or 3 at a clip every so often. I wish I was in an area that had a better local selection.

 

[RagTopTA]

the Flea markets always seem to have a few pieces. If I goto Dallas to the big flea markets I can find a lot usually. just a 2 hour drive.

 

[RagTopTA]

So, I did a search on 4766 1/4 pebble hinge handles/Breakers. Zero on Ebay, even on the Completed listings. Zero pics in Google images or Bing. Is there an actual 1/4 pebble 4766 out there? Does anyone have one in their possession? Lugs, didnt you say they showed it in a catalog as a pebbles handle at one point? I cant imagine them making the 1/4 ratchet pebble and leaving out the hinge handle.... if there is one out there post a pic please I need to see it!