Hello, All. I was cleaning up some old screwdrivers and came across this one. Wood handle, and the ferrule is stamped "Mechanics Tool & Forge Co. Sabina O. " Could this be an early MAC tool? Hang hole is off center, so I am guessing that was drilled by FO. Thanks!!
Possibly an early Mac Tools Screwdriver?
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RTM
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Might want to read this thread, from the stickies above. Might need to add Mechanics Tool to the MAC header @Private Lugnutz
Mechanics Tool & Forge Company
This is a story that is sweet yet bittersweet in nature, the first part is the sweet part and the last part of the story is the bittersweet part. During the Great depression of the 1930's when money was very hard to come by; seven men in a sleepy small town in Sabina, Ohio got together and...
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Thanks!
Private Lugnutz
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If by "header" you mean the name I use for the link in the A-Z index, I try to keep it simple and use the most recognizable term. In this case, that's "MAC". If someone is searching GJ on "Mechanics Tool & Forge," it's likely they don't know it's an early form of MAC. But they'll find that thread. If someone is using the Sticky Index looking for a thread on MAC Tools, "MAC" is best. In this case, I suspect @lptools either knew the name was connected with early MAC, or derived a connection intuitively from the location. Either way, if they had opened the Sticky and scanned the A to Z index, they would've eventuslly seen "MAC", clicked on it, and confirmed their intuition. I could expand it and also use the early name, parenthetically, but that would be long and messy, and, MAC actually had a few predecessors, including Mechanics Tool & Forge, Mac Allied Tools, and Clinton Tools. Even longer and messier. The thread itself eventually gets into the history and the names.