Plomb tool picture thread - show your stuff!

[r_olson_06]

Been a bit of hiatus on the board for me. The wife and I have been focused on buying and selling tools with goal of being fully financially independent by paying off our house by the end of next year before we turn 35. We have met a lot of amazing people during this journey. Good to see you guys are still finding some Plombs. I have slowed down a bit in Plombs but still manage to find a few to add to my collection I don't have.
Here is a couple of them over the past 6 months.
A Plomb 5402 Torque wrench. Pulled from a farm auction. I was bless enough to clean the years of dirt off of it from sitting in the barn. Nothing like seeing a this prized gem laying in the auction lines buried under some old implement wrenches.
A Plomb brace bit.
A set of 1936 and 1937 3/8" shallow sockets including a 21/32"!
The rare raised forged logo ignition electrical wrenches that are very hard to come by.
Lastly a P4 X 3/8"

Hope you are doing well!

 

[c1504]

Wow that is some good stuff there!

I picked these up at a garage sale this morning

 

[d42jeep]

Nice Plomb drivers.
-Don

 

[Outlawmws]

A couple of new finds:

 

[Macduf]

first plumb socket I've found with an naf number. it's date marked 8b

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Nice find mcduff!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Been a bit of hiatus on the board for me. The wife and I have been focused on buying and selling tools with goal of being fully financially independent by paying off our house by the end of next year before we turn 35. We have met a lot of amazing people during this journey. Good to see you guys are still finding some Plombs. I have slowed down a bit in Plombs but still manage to find a few to add to my collection I don't have.
Here is a couple of them over the past 6 months.
A Plomb 5402 Torque wrench. Pulled from a farm auction. I was bless enough to clean the years of dirt off of it from sitting in the barn. Nothing like seeing a this prized gem laying in the auction lines buried under some old implement wrenches.
A Plomb brace bit.
A set of 1936 and 1937 3/8" shallow sockets including a 21/32"!
The rare raised forged logo ignition electrical wrenches that are very hard to come by.
Lastly a P4 X 3/8"

Hope you are

Nice to hear from you roy. Hope all is well. Bought a couple of tools you had listed. Nice torque wrench!

 

[d42jeep]

first plumb socket I've found with an naf number. it's date marked 8b

That 1938 dated socket is quite early to have an NAF number stamped on it. Extremely cool find!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

"NAF" precedes WWII, Don. The Naval Aircraft Factory was built in Philadelphia in 1918. They actually built things there in the Interwar years, but it was also the procurement HQ for Navy aviation, and the term "NAF" was used as a prefix for specs and part numbers for equipment that wasn't necessarily all transported to Philly. What's interesting is that on-site manufacturing had diminished until 1934, and in 1938, the Navy really started ramping up production, including reconnaissance planes and flying boats right at the actual NAF, which they continued to make into WWII. It was a big year for Navy aviation.

 

[d42jeep]

Good info. Thanks.
-Don

 

[Boogerman]

Saw one those raised ignition plomb on ebay; with tappet wrench also. Plus other junk. Didn't know rare.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I don't come across many plomb ignition wrenches of any sort!

 

[AK4570]

A few pieces from this weekend...

Best regards,
John

 

[saukit]

Here's a strangely modified Plomb socket I picked up in a trade the other day. If it's a home made job it's well done, maybe it's some sort of special order? Everything I can find about the socket number just indicates a normal 6 point.

 

[saukit]

The socket above was part of this lot that I picked up in trade. The LA socket is a 31/32 if I remember correctly. As usual the little DBE is my favorite!

 

[Ricky Joe]

That socket has been on an impact wrench more than once. It is a regular socket, just worn out.

 

[saukit]

That socket has been on an impact wrench more than once. It is a regular socket, just worn out.

I had considered that possibility but dismissed it due to the evenness of the grooves, they are all the same. But a powered impact wrench wielded in a callous manner could certainly be the culprit! Thanks for the info.

 

[AK4570]

It's a shame, as those 74xx sockets are not super common. I've located exactly 2 in quite a bit of looking, one of which UPS lost enroute to another GJ member.

Best regards,
John

 

[Catfishdan]

My plomb prize for the day (so far). Scored another addition to the midget set- a tiny 9622 flat head.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Nice table, Dan.

 

[Catfishdan]

Nice table, Dan.

Ha. Thank you. It was a rainy day project. 390 pieces of plywood in a herringbone pattern.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

It was a rainy day project. 390 pieces of plywood in a herringbone pattern.

That's even more impressive! I was expecting to hear a story of you finding it at a yard sale in front of some ex-hippie's A-frame up in the hills. It's beautiful, and it reminds me of someone I once knew.

I grew up in a small town in the anthracite coal-mining region of Pennsylvania. Everybody in town was a hunky - of Eastern European descent. Everybody worked in the mines or Bethlehem steel or a machine shop, and everybody was poor. My best friend from an early age through high school lived in an old half-double. It was a ramshackle place and family. I'd go over and his mom would hug me like one of her own and offer me something to eat and one of his nine brothers or sisters would always be washing their hair in the big porcelain sink in the kitchen because one of his other nine brothers or sisters would be in the only bathroom in the house.

And his dad would be down the basement working on the art he was locally known for.

They were laid out everywhere on every available flat surface in various stages of being assembled. Just simple frames filled with thousands and thousands of tiny pieces of wood in dozens and dozens of shapes, from different kinds and colors of wood, intricately cut on a jig saw. It wasn't realism. He wasn't depicting churches or landscapes. And they were not known designs, either. Not fleur de lis, not brocade, not psychedelia, either. They were unique. From his own imagination. And no two works were the same. It was stunning then and it's even more stunning when I think about it now. He had no formal training. He was just a guy who worked at the zinc company. But this is what he did. He went down there and made these works of art. Folk art, sure, if we absolutely have to call it something. But trust me when I say that in different circumstances, in Sedona or San Francisco or upstate New York, it would transcend that basement. It would transcend friends and family. It was wonderful. I can still see him leaning over with the ever-present cigarette in the corner of his mouth that would one day kill him too soon, trying out different pieces in different places.

"Oh, here comes trouble."

"How you doing, Mr. T?"

 

[Catfishdan]

More plomb finds from the flea market this morning. The two PWA crowsfeet are not marked plomb, but I figured I‘d sneak them in here. The hex one has an elongated 3/8” drive hole I guess to pivot on an extension.

The table shot is for Lugz. Thanks for the cool story- I’d have never guessed you were a hippie art enthusiast ; )

 

[Oldtuleguy]

That table is sweet

 

[bmwrd0]

The table has a really nice mid-century modern vibe to it. Kudos on making such a nice piece.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Angling the legs, echoing the herringbone, was brilliant.

 

[saukit]

Here are a few Plomb and P&C pieces from my recent travels...1134 DBE, WF-7 breaker, and the strange little box end "crow's foot" that I posted on the GS thread.




Also grabbed a few P&C wrenches, N85 DBE and 2728 Combo

 

[d42jeep]

Here are my Plomb tools from a garage sale on Saturday.

The chisel below is a perfect 41-C-1168 3/8" Diamond Chisel 6” x 3/8” for a GMTK.
-Don

 

[stormking]

The table is really nice.

 

[twertsy]

Ok folks, Bonney was last week, this week will be Plomb. eBay seller ID is vintageratchets. Here are just a couple teasers…..

 

[twertsy]

Another

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Ya know, it would've been nice if you had gone in alphabetical order. Then we would've known what was yet to come and saved some money appropriately!


See you tomorrow.

 

[four.cycle]

^

alphabetically! yeah! hahahahahaha!

just an FYI here, gentlemen. I already have two - don't need any more. I do need a repair kit for one of the ratchets, though, in case somebody just happens to have one laying around.
meant to post this last night when it was first listed for ten bucks: https://www.ebay.com/itm/194344620014
kind of a mish-mash, unfortunately, but it's a decent start. tommy bar is a plus. finding that 3/8" and 7/16" socket is going to be Holy Grail stuff, though.

 

[twertsy]

^

alphabetically! yeah! hahahahahaha!

just an FYI here, gentlemen. I already have two - don't need any more. I do need a repair kit for one of the ratchets, though, in case somebody just happens to have one laying around.
meant to post this last night when it was first listed for ten bucks: https://www.ebay.com/itm/194344620014
kind of a mish-mash, unfortunately, but it's a decent start. tommy bar is a plus. finding that 3/8" and 7/16" socket is going to be Holy Grail stuff, though.

Or, this goes on thee block tonight too…….

 

[c1504]

Thanks for the heads up guys. Those firestone sets sure are beautiful

 

[twertsy]

Couple more teasers……

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I just spent all day picking thru the Twertsy Tool Temple and grabbed all the Plomb, so you eBay ******* can just **** eggs!

 

[Provincial]

I found some Plomb (all USA) at the local flea market Sunday. I really like the 2130 pry bar, and it is in good condition. There was also a 3030 DOE, a 3426 tappet, and a 1120 DBE.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Needless to say, I was just kidding, guys. I did grab some extra orphan 1/4- drive pieces to fill out a set. But all that Plomb and more will be available shortly. My pockets aren't that deep!!

 

[four.cycle]

Keep me in mind. I think I'm shy TWO 1/4" drive 6-point 1/4" sockets -- one black, one silvery/gray (not sure if it's cad or phosphate.)
4708 ? (Plomb isn't my strongest suit.)

I was trying to figure out how to change my "handle" to "Ebay *****" but there's no option for that!