Plomb tool picture thread - show your stuff!

[RagTopTA]

Great finds there! My favorites are the long handle 1/2 ratchet and the Proto la slide hammer steps in the box!

Those are your steps! sitting there in your pile in my tool room. Be there soon!

 

[Smokeshow69]

Those are your steps! sitting there in your pile in my tool room. Be there soon!

I need to get yours out soon as well!

 

[d42jeep]

My stubby screwdriver is snowed in for the next 6 or 7 months. I’ll get the dimensions of the short spinner and you can compare the handle size to your screwdriver.
-Don

Here are some pictures that hopefully show the size of the handle on the small spinner.
-Don

 

[nailheadmatt]

I don't know if this is allowed on here but I just finished this wallet that's up for sale for a hundred bucks plus small flatrate box. 4/5oz veg tan. Will last the rest of your life. Thanks. Logo was copied from the 39 catalog cover.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Kidding. It is verboten, though, because it used to get pretty crazy in the old days, looking more like Ebay or CL than a respectable forum. That's why we have a Classifieds section now. Scroll down on main page. Can't miss it.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Here are some pictures that hopefully show the size of the handle on the small spinner.

Thanks, Don. (It's funny how annoying parallax is on tools forums. It's impossible to get a photo of the same view you have with your own two eyes of a mark on a rule and the edge of a tool lined up. And if you lay the rule on top of the tool, it just reverses the parallax. Drives me nuts.) Looks like 1-3/4" to me, which is what the handle on my screwdriver is. The catalogs say 1" blade and 2-7/8" OAL, which would make the handle 1-7/8", but I am convinced they're the same handle.

 

[Provincial]

Measuring with a slide caliper eliminates the parallax. Sometimes a cheap plastic caliper has easy-to-read markings because they are not trying to be precision with vernier scales and such.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Measuring with a slide caliper eliminates the parallax

True. I tend to use mine more for ID, especially old socket openings, than for OD or OAL for some reason.

 

[RTM]

I use my calipers for the large, easy to read font

 

[Catfishdan]

I haven’t found much of note to post here lately, but a fairly cool ebay purchase came today. 4 more 47xx pieces for the giant midget set, plus the box looks awesome next to its cousin, the screw extractor set.

 

[Smokeshow69]

I haven’t found much of note to post here lately, but a fairly cool ebay purchase came today. 4 more 47xx pieces for the giant midget set, plus the box looks awesome next to its cousin, the screw extractor set.

That is considered the “h” word of you have more than 1 wood plomb box . You need to send one to me. Heck of a find!

 

[RagTopTA]

I haven’t found much of note to post here lately, but a fairly cool ebay purchase came today. 4 more 47xx pieces for the giant midget set, plus the box looks awesome next to its cousin, the screw extractor set.

I have the same sets, but my extractors are in a cardboard box!

 

[RubiconJK]

I haven’t found much of note to post here lately, but a fairly cool ebay purchase came today. 4 more 47xx pieces for the giant midget set, plus the box looks awesome next to its cousin, the screw extractor set.

Nice! That cap screw set in the wood box is sweet!

 

[bmwrd0]

My extractors are in a cardboard box, I have no cap screw sockets, but I do have flaring tools in a wooden box!

 

[Catfishdan]

I wanna see the cardboard boxes!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Extractor set in cardboard box

 

[Username already in use]

You guys are finding and posting some amazing stuff. I never find Plomb cardboard or wood boxes.
What I seem to have a knack for finding, is user modified wrenches.

I bought this once great 1-1/4” combo from the recycling yard for scrap prices. Now missing the boxed end.
I think I’m going to make it into a door handle.

 

[Catfishdan]

It amazes me a cardboard box can survive 75 years. Nice piece!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Thanks It's a bit rough but I like it!

 

[Smokeshow69]

Picked up this early valve lifter tool today. It’s not as long as I would think the needed leverage would be. It’s about 2/3 the length of my metal handle one

 

[d42jeep]

My Plomb find today is this wood handled screwdriver. I’m hopeful that it will clean up okay.
-Don

 

[Mintgrun]

You guys are finding and posting some amazing stuff. I never find Plomb cardboard or wood boxes.
What I seem to have a knack for finding, is user modified wrenches.

I bought this once great 1-1/4” combo from the recycling yard for scrap prices. Now missing the boxed end.
I think I’m going to make it into a door handle.

Someone had a similar idea with this wrench I have... but I got the short end of the deal. It sure looks like Plomb to me.

 

[c1504]

Nice finds guys! And since we are on the subject of cardboard boxes...

I am sure that all of you that watch ebay saw all the new old stock sockets that popped up recently. I bid on a couple of them but they went for more than I wanted to pay. Much to my excitement the seller messaged me afterword with a second chance offer and said that he had another he was planning on selling later but he would sell it now. So I got this for the price of my highest bid. The seller opened all the boxes he had listed to show the contents but this one is still sealed!

 

[d42jeep]

Nice. Great acquisition. The box might have some like this inside.
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

It's funny how they just keep popping up. I used to have several surplus boxes of 9/32 drive. Love the anchor.

 

[Catfishdan]

What?! I wasn’t expecting the faux alligator skin bottom.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

That's a neat box c1504! A while back someone was selling boxes of these 5/16 sockets

 

[Smokeshow69]

Nice finds guys! And since we are on the subject of cardboard boxes...

I am sure that all of you that watch ebay saw all the new old stock sockets that popped up recently. I bid on a couple of them but they went for more than I wanted to pay. Much to my excitement the seller messaged me afterword with a second chance offer and said that he had another he was planning on selling later but he would sell it now. So I got this for the price of my highest bid. The seller opened all the boxes he had listed to show the contents but this one is still sealed!

Very nice box. As others have mentioned, they do pop up from time to time. I like your non opened one the best! Now if we can just find a stash of unopened embossed logo tool mobiles

 

[RagTopTA]

You guys are finding and posting some amazing stuff. I never find Plomb cardboard or wood boxes.
What I seem to have a knack for finding, is user modified wrenches.

I bought this once great 1-1/4” combo from the recycling yard for scrap prices. Now missing the boxed end.
I think I’m going to make it into a door handle.

I started picking up every owner modified Plomb I find. I have a small collection of them also! Some are pretty neat!

 

[vintagetoolhoarder]

Here’s My P&C collection I have collected over the past 2ish years

 

[d42jeep]

Although P&C tools are sometimes posted on this thread, if you check the sticky at the beginning of the section you will see that P&C has it’s own thread.

P&C Stuff

No mine yet but working on it.

www.garagejournal.com

That sticky can save a lot of time.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

Here are additional pictures showing the dimensions of the shorty 1/4” drive spinner’s handle.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

I spent some time today doing some (over) restoring of this rusty screwdriver.
-Don

 

[Smokeshow69]

I spent some time today doing some (over) restoring of this rusty screwdriver.
-Don

Really nice turn around Don! Way to go

 

[d42jeep]

Thanks. I couldn’t tell if it was Plomb or Proto when I found it. My new 3M disc does a great job of making the stained metal look better. I don’t know how I got along without it. Here is how it looked before.
-Don

 

[saukit]

Picked up a batch of Plomb yesterday via CL, I got lucky and the guy that had this stuff was willing to trade, so no cash out of pocket. I did give him pretty much all my 1/4" Craftsman stuff as well as a bunch of wrenches though!

 

[d42jeep]

Looks like they each have several of the original pieces.
-Don

 

[saukit]

Thanks Don! Always appreciate you posting the full sets, then I can bookmark them and keep track of what I need to fill them out. It's super helpful and very much appreciated!

 

[d42jeep]

My pleasure. I may have a couple of extra sockets in the lower set. I think they only went up to 3/4”
-Don

 

[Ricky Joe]

Although unmarked with a company name, I have thought for years that these may be Plomb, World War 2 vintage, partly because they were on a 3/8” drive Plomb WF handle. There was also a Bonney example with the group. So, Plomb or something else? They are very thin, and the set is incomplete, I think.