Plomb tool picture thread - show your stuff!

[Oldtuleguy]

That is sweet

 

[RagTopTA]

Man thats a cool Plomb 4 way! different than mine! Now I must find one of those! yours looks like the blackhawk I have.

Heres a start some new Plomb additions
2404 long punch set I was happy to win!
Another weed puller in a little rougher shape than the last one
old 1/4 ratchet a guy had saved a month just for me!
Pebble DBE
Set of Crowsfeet
small DOE
my very firsrt in the wild 1 dollar paschall hammer!
Also got a rubber mallet of the bay in great shape!
USN NAF box also! A bit crusty

 

[d42jeep]

Man thats a cool Plomb 4 way! different than mine! Now I must find one of those! yours looks like the blackhawk I have.

Heres a start some new Plomb additions
2404 long punch set I was happy to win!
Another weed puller in a little rougher shape than the last one
old 1/4 ratchet a guy had saved a month just for me!
Pebble DBE
Set of Crowsfeet
small DOE
my very firsrt in the wild 1 dollar paschall hammer!
Also got a rubber mallet of the bay in great shape!
USN NAF box also! A bit crusty

I’m liking the NAF toolbox! Now you need some Plomb NAF tools for it. I think it was made by Kennedy.
-Don

 

[RubiconJK]

Really nice finds guys. Especially liking the 4 way and the USN box. I don't have a definitive answer to your question Dave other than all I can remember seeing pictures of are decals on Plomb boxes.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

USN NAF box also! A bit crusty

Is it marked Plomb?! Or are you posting it by association (with Plomb being one of many NAF suppliers...)?

I think it was made by Kennedy.

If you post a photo of it open, Rags, we would be able to confirm that, or identify it as the other major maker - Simonsen. EDIT: Disregard - I see it in the Garage Sale thread. It's a Kennedy for sure.

All I ever see is water slip decals on Plomb boxes.

...all I can remember seeing pictures of are decals on Plomb boxes.

As far as physical examples go, ditto, and I think that's going to be the universal answer. The only thing I would add is that's also what the images in the catalogs indicate.

 

[r_olson_06]

Man thats a cool Plomb 4 way! different than mine! Now I must find one of those! yours looks like the blackhawk I have.

Heres a start some new Plomb additions
2404 long punch set I was happy to win!
Another weed puller in a little rougher shape than the last one
old 1/4 ratchet a guy had saved a month just for me!
Pebble DBE
Set of Crowsfeet
small DOE
my very firsrt in the wild 1 dollar paschall hammer!
Also got a rubber mallet of the bay in great shape!
USN NAF box also! A bit crusty

That's a rare ratchet. Some nice looking Plombs there.

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[RagTopTA]

Thanks yall and yes Lugz I posted it becasuse I have some Plomb NAF tooks to love in it once I get it redone. It needs a lot of love. I read on a googled post it was an armourers box. Not sure if thats correct or not . May end up putti g my grand fsthers ww2 stuff in it! He was a SeaBee in the Philippines for 4 years

 

[drivesitfar]

ALL: in case any of you have deep pockets i found a guy selling a couple Plvmb roller for more than I care to spend, but i'll pass on information if you ask and i don't think he'll ship them and located about an hour from Seattle.

always fun checking in on you guys so keep up the good work!!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I read on a googled post it was an armourers box. Not sure if thats correct or not . May end up putti g my grand fsthers ww2 stuff in it! He was a SeaBee in the Philippines for 4 years

The box had many applications during the war, Rags. Yours, with that NAF stock number marking, is not an armorer's box. Most probably used by mechanics belonging to US Navy Aviation ground crews.

 

[d42jeep]

Here is a thread on another site about the tools I've added to my box over the past two years. Lugz sent me a scan of an NAF catalog and I've mostly found examples of tools in the catalog to fill the box. I recently added most of these Plomb DBE wrenches. I can no longer lift it.
https://forums.g503.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=290425&sid=a10fc080ce71490c8cd693efe13f4c71
-Don

 

[chstrumpetdude]

I don't remember what I paid for this, but it was about $8? The tools were coated with rust that could be scraped with a thumbnail. It seems that the tools rust inside the box, I am doing testing ATM with some nails, so I keep them out of it. Only missing a couple of sockets from what I could tell. The extension and phillips are proto LA.

 

[r_olson_06]

I don't remember what I paid for this, but it was about $8? The tools were coated with rust that could be scraped with a thumbnail. It seems that the tools rust inside the box, I am doing testing ATM with some nails, so I keep them out of it. Only missing a couple of sockets from what I could tell. The extension and phillips are proto LA.

That box is in amazing shape. You did well.

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[tym]

I don't remember what I paid for this, but it was about $8? The tools were coated with rust that could be scraped with a thumbnail. It seems that the tools rust inside the box, I am doing testing ATM with some nails, so I keep them out of it. Only missing a couple of sockets from what I could tell. The extension and phillips are proto LA.

Perhaps a vapor capsule rust inhibitor will help if you plan to keep tools in it.

 

[Smokeshow69]

Thanks yall and yes Lugz I posted it becasuse I have some Plomb NAF tooks to love in it once I get it redone. It needs a lot of love. I read on a googled post it was an armourers box. Not sure if thats correct or not . May end up putti g my grand fsthers ww2 stuff in it! He was a SeaBee in the Philippines for 4 years

The taco wagon is out of control! You found a lot of good stuff in that haul! A run of crows feet, weed puller, hammer and the punch set. Major suckage!


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[3baygarage]

To go along with Rags’ 1/4” ratchet, a couple drive plugs. These came in a Plomb parts kit.

The 1/4 plug would go into a female ratchet like normal.

And the 9/32? Well, at first I stared at the 9/32 trying to figure out how it would be used. Sure won’t pop in a 1/4 ratchet. I was like . It has a step down to 1/4 in the center, so it clearly went to a 1/4 ratchet somehow, but I hadn’t seen one. Plomb put a screw in it for a reason.

It didn’t look like the screw came out, the square and washer looked like one solid piece that had never been taken apart. I carefully clamped it in a vise and applied some pressure on the ol’ screwdriver, and much to my surprise

Complete with gears.

SO reefer rat standing in just to show how it would work in an actual rat. I need to find me a stripped down 4748,4749, whatever it is.

A 1940 catalog online shows these plugs and their part numbers.

4752 1/4” plug

4753 9/32” plug

 

[RubiconJK]

To go along with Rags’ 1/4” ratchet, a couple drive plugs. These came in a Plomb parts kit.

Very cool and super rare find 3bay.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Yeah, I could use the 4752! Haha.

Good photo-to-cat tutorial, 3bay. We have gotten into the plugs before, with the big drive size rats (Outlaw, as I recall), and I know I just referenced the rat part number differences with Roy not but a few pages ago, but I never noticed the 1/4 to 9/32 plug distinction before. Very cool.

 

[r_olson_06]

To go along with Rags’ 1/4” ratchet, a couple drive plugs. These came in a Plomb parts kit.

The 1/4 plug would go into a female ratchet like normal.

And the 9/32? Well, at first I stared at the 9/32 trying to figure out how it would be used. Sure won’t pop in a 1/4 ratchet. I was like . It has a step down to 1/4 in the center, so it clearly went to a 1/4 ratchet somehow, but I hadn’t seen one. Plomb put a screw in it for a reason.

It didn’t look like the screw came out, the square and washer looked like one solid piece that had never been taken apart. I carefully clamped it in a vise and applied some pressure on the ol’ screwdriver, and much to my surprise [emoji106]

Complete with gears.

SO reefer rat standing in just to show how it would work in an actual rat. I need to find me a stripped down 4748,4749, whatever it is.

A 1940 catalog online shows these plugs and their part numbers.

4752 1/4” plug

4753 9/32” plug

Wait. You have a Plomb parts kit!?

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[Private Lugnutz]

Wait. You have a Plomb parts kit!?

Jaw, meet floor. Haha. I remember that haul! Recently. Earlier this year or late last, right, 3eeb? There were on the order of a hundred rats, too. Smalls. Misc brands.

 

[Username already in use]

Wait. You have a Plomb parts kit!?

Jaw, meet floor. Haha. I remember that haul! Recently. Earlier this year or late last, right, 3eeb? There were on the order of a hundred rats, too. Smalls. Misc brands.

3bay has 2 (TWO)! parts kits... one Proto and one Plomb... and a ridiculous amount of ratchets...

I'm only slightly green with envy.

Original thread is here.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=409423

 

[Private Lugnutz]

That's it! The ammo-belt lineups!

It's interesting that his drive plugs are dark natural steel (unless I'm mistaken 'from here' about the finish). My 4748 female reversible ratchet is chrome, the last time it appears in a Plomb catalog is 18-A (which I date to at least 8/40 to 5/41 based on the Price Lists it has been found with), it's gone by catalog 19 (which I date to 1942 through April 1943, because it was printed before WPB L-216 took effect), and I have never seen a natural steel 4748 female reversible ratchet. That could mean the drive plugs were made during wartime to make prewar 4748 ratchets useable. Just a premature thought.

 

[drivesitfar]

3bay: thanks for the catalog pics and yes the reminder that you found a parts kit. GEESH that must make you smile when you open up the drawer it's in or do you have a shelf so you can see it everytime you go in your garage/shop?

 

[d42jeep]

The 1940 Plomb 1/2” drive ratchet I bought lately has a removable plug and a plain steel finish. My 1939 3/8” drive ratchet is nicely chromed. I have no idea why the change.
-Don

 

[3baygarage]

I like the look of their plain steel rats.

The parts kit is newly aquired. I'll post some pics when I can.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The parts kit is newly acquired.

I realized it was the Proto kit I was thinking of when Unaiu posted the link. If there is a parts kit labeled Pendleton Tool Industries Inc out there, you will probably find that too.

 

[r_olson_06]

I should have an exciting arrival today. Can't wait to get home and open it.

I like the look of their plain steel rats.

The parts kit is newly aquired. I'll post some pics when I can.

I will be waiting... Impatiently[emoji1].

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[drivesitfar]

3Bay: sorry I thought you bought that parts kit a while back.

ALL: i'm just getting up to speed again in my tools memory, but didn't somebody else find a new old stock parts kit or maybe there have been a few? I think I recall Lug finding a box of new parts, but not sure that was Plvmb.

anyway it's good to be thinking about tools again instead of moving my shop.

cheers

 

[nicks78camaro]

I have a Plomb 5220, just pay shipping and it's yours. Just want it gone and someone to have it who would appreciate it.

 

[Smokeshow69]

3Bay: sorry I thought you bought that parts kit a while back.



ALL: i'm just getting up to speed again in my tools memory, but didn't somebody else find a new old stock parts kit or maybe there have been a few? I think I recall Lug finding a box of new parts, but not sure that was Plvmb.



anyway it's good to be thinking about tools again instead of moving my shop.



cheers

I think old man Taylor has it ?


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[r_olson_06]

Thanks to a fellow GJ I have some more additions to the Plomb Wall. 5 screwdrivers, 5 sockets, a DA8 drive stud, and an early V1112. Not sure on the V wrench appears to be tappet but only see U series in the catalogs.
Also a group shot of the screwdrivers.

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[r_olson_06]

Delete

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Here is a little spinner set I snagged.

 

[3baygarage]

Cool, guys. Yet another drive plug appears, R. Nice. The little ones I posted aren’t branded.



Drives, no shelves. Had to make room in the drawer for the new box. Some pics next to the boxes from that other haul.

Same green box, a bit nicer lid on this one.

It has a good amount of used parts someone was saving. Some new parts. Some Proto, misc parts in all drives including a bunch of 3/4 stuff, a mini 4751 plate, a few punches for repairs (one is broken).

 

[3baygarage]

Punches, and a look in all three boxes.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Those punches are sweet

 

[Smokeshow69]

Punches, and a look in all three boxes.

What an amazing set! I hope to one day be lucky enough to find one. What is the story on those sets? Did you find them in the wild or on eBay or trade from another collector? Can’t be more than a handful of those left in the world.


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[3baygarage]

They all were from Ebay. I knew this one had to join the other two. It was a lucky find again.

 

[bargainhuntingking]

So I was in my local Habitat store and stumbled upon a junky pile in the tool section with a few small metal boxes. The larger blue one formerly contained a cheap socket collection, was priced at $0.10, worth it despite the thin metal.

Next to it was a smaller heavy green boxed priced at $7.00. Intrigued, I opened it and found the SK Wayne label dating it to sometime after 1962.
But the smaller box inside was what really caught my eye:

I think these are my first Plomb tools!

 

[d42jeep]

So I was in my local Habitat store and stumbled upon a junky pile in the tool section with a few small metal boxes. The larger blue one formerly contained a cheap socket collection, was priced at $0.10, worth it despite the thin metal.

But it was next to a smaller heavy green boxed priced at $7.00. Intrigued, I opened it and found the SK Wayne label dating it to sometime after 1962.
But the smaller box inside was what really caught my eye:

I think these are my first Plomb tools!

Here are some complete sets if you want to add the missing pieces to your new find.
-Don

 

[RubiconJK]

Oh my word 3bay, what a great collection of parts! Are the punches beveled on the ends to be used for detent ball repair?