Plomb tool picture thread - show your stuff!
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Ole Slewfoot
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Interesting the 3/4" and 1" stuff is still pebbled.
mustangSR70
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As an aside, do these bend easily? They look like they do.
They don't bend easily. I've got a few of the Plomb ones, round O, V as the O, etc. I carry one on my daily driver keys, as well as I have one on the others cars. They are not heavy duty, but they do come in handy for light use.
ssdave
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Thanks for that link. I finally downloaded the catalog, and the boxes are different than mine, none of the same drawer configuration. Interesting that the handles on them are the newer style like found on the Duplex boxes, but the box corner supports at the side of the drawers are the wider (about 1 1/2" wide) of the older Plomb boxes. The Duplex boxes reduce the corner bracing to about 1/2" width, to give more drawer room.
Since mine has the older solid handles instead of the newer hollow metal handles, and has the wider corners, I'm going to hazard a guess that it's older than that 1954 catalog. That might explain the green color, more like the Plomb stuff.
The paint appears to be 100% original, as does all other features of the box. but I've never seen another green Proto box.
The box was owned by a local Oldsmobile dealership owner, who retired in the early 1980's (information relayed by his children, running the estate sale). He brought all his Oldsmobile manuals home, along with his tools and quite a few small spare parts like switches and light bulbs, and they've been in his small home shop ever since. It was all for sale last weekend, I was lucky to walk in to the sale at the right moment when nobody else had claimed the boxes. I had to fight off numerous potential buyers as I looked through the rest of the stuff while waiting for the person running the sale to put sold tags on them.
ssdave
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I've been buying Proto tools for over 25 years, and have never had the opportunity to purchase a Proto or Plomb keychain screwdriver in "the wild". Craftsman ones? Nearly every toolbox. Colt one? Yes. S&W? Yes. Got 5 snap-on ones a couple of weeks ago. But, never a Plomb or Proto!
Smokeshow69
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Ok guys, this kills me but I need to pass on this one as the timing is not right but the price is for a local guy! Plomb tool mobile listed in so cal on offer up. Seller has the tool mobile listed for $150 with the lock bar, piston rack but no key. He also has the pictured stack with the snap on boxes for $250 . This one is one of the earliest ones with the perforated drawers and stamped logos! Someone please grab this and report back ! It has shipping listed at $30 but shipped to the nw was $150. Also tell Twertsy I don’t hog all the pressteel 
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Private Lugnutz
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I picked up this short 1/2-inch drive PENENS 1666 extension at the triple early bird flea market this morning, not sure if I needed one for the Master Wrench set I have been building or not. Turns out to be not, I already have one. But I'm glad I got it - if only for the novelty!
Anybody else notice anything peculiarly familiar about it?
Anybody else notice anything peculiarly familiar about it?
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Anybody else notice anything peculiarly familiar about it?
That model number...
Private Lugnutz
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Er, no, unlike the Emmys, apparently, no anti-Christ references here (if that's what you meant by model number followed by the devilish emoji)!That model number...
However, you are inadvertently warm with that answer, because you would definitely get a few of the features I am hinting around about in hell!
tin medic
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The burn marks.
Private Lugnutz
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Yup. Two on the top side, and one right in the middle of those on the flip side, exactly like the marks left on Plomb wrenches by their late 40's electroplating rack! Maybe it's just me, but I have never seen them on any other tools before. And here they are on a PENENS extension!
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Ok guys, this kills me but I need to pass on this one as the timing is not right but the price is for a local guy! Plomb tool mobile listed in so cal on offer up. Seller has the tool mobile listed for $150 with the lock bar, piston rack but no key. He also has the pictured stack with the snap on boxes for $250 . This one is one of the earliest ones with the perforated drawers and stamped logos! Someone please grab this and report back ! It has shipping listed at $30 but shipped to the nw was $150. Also tell Twertsy I don’t hog all the pressteel
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Smoking deal, someone will snap it up
twertsy
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Ok guys, this kills me but I need to pass on this one as the timing is not right but the price is for a local guy! Plomb tool mobile listed in so cal on offer up. Seller has the tool mobile listed for $150 with the lock bar, piston rack but no key. He also has the pictured stack with the snap on boxes for $250 . This one is one of the earliest ones with the perforated drawers and stamped logos! Someone please grab this and report back ! It has shipping listed at $30 but shipped to the nw was $150. Also tell Twertsy I don’t hog all the pressteel
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Well, my daughter is lives in Silicon Heaven er...Valley and just bought a jeep. Time to send her on a road trip!!
Private Lugnutz
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Just when you think you're in a territory his vast net of agents and tipsters and friends-of-friends doesn't have covered...
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d42jeep
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I finally had a chance to check my miscellaneous 1/4” Plomb box. Other than color, it looks identical to your unstamped red box. I wasn’t sure it was Plomb but now I believe that it is.
-Don
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Picked up this 10" pipe wrench to go along with Rick's 14" wrench.
Also 1 more DBE eBay sourced. Only 3 left to finish and then on to DOEs and flares.
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d42jeep
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Today I gathered my prewar and wartime Plomb green box sets for some photos. Except for some minor tweaking, I consider them pretty much complete with several extras. The last shots include the red box postwar sets.
-Don
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RubiconJK
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Don, those are awesome!
Oregon rock crusher
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Those are some very nice sets Don. Neat to see them all together. Ed.
Private Lugnutz
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Yes, a collection to be rightfully proud of.
d42jeep
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Thanks, guys!
-Don
-Don
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d42jeep
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Thanks again, guys. I didn’t really set out to collect Plomb but I just kept finding them at estate sales and I am into wartime tools, so it was kind of natural.
-Don
-Don
gpw_42
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Don, those sets are impressive, well done! Thanks for sharing; the chrome present in your sets gives me encouragement for my project.
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Steve
r_olson_06
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And then there were 2. Picked up another for the set leaving just the 61 and 64. I think these are going to be the tough ones (escpically the 64)
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r_olson_06
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Wow that is impressive. Never seen a Plomb handle before are they marked or can you tell just by the handle shape and color pattern?
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Capt. Spaulding
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I love finding old NOS handles. Congrats on your score!
Smokeshow69
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Not a tool per se, but I was happy to find these handles at the flea market yesterday!
Those are proto as near as I can tell due to the color of the green. Plvmb handles are a darker green!
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Capt. Spaulding
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Just picked up a Plomb 1/4” breaker bar and a few sockets. One of the sockets has a bunch of strange (to me) things stamped into it. I’ll get pictures up later.
So, green handles for which types (or is it eras) of hammers? This body one on the ‘bay has a red bottom. (Seller has it listed as Plumb, but it’s Plomb.)
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/173554857911
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/173554857911
bmwrd0
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I don't think that is the original handle, look at the gaps at the top of the eye. Don't know about the Bonney though...