Depending upon price, I would be far more interested in the customized (not mutilated!) tools, as I am far more likely to need a special access wrench than another 9/16”. When I “mutilate”, my choice is to do so with a good brand, such as Snap-on, so the quality of my tools is consistent. I dislike low quality tools, and have a lot of high quality customs.
Did you find replacement clips? FYI Waterloo made these and one style of clips found on craftsman boxes will fit these slides exactlyI found this Proto roller at the Flea Market on Sunday.
It really looked bad when I spotted it...
The drawer retainer clips were gone so each one of the drawers pulled out too far and collapsed onto the drawer immediately below
It didn't help that the drawers were Grossly overloaded with junk tools which made each of them TOUGH to pull out in order to empty
The ole boy looked like a mess.
It looked so bad that it fooled the seller, a Flea Market Shark, so he unwittingly gave me a Good price on it
It cleaned up nicely.
Looks good now
I found clips on eBay.
. I did pick up these 2 oddish 1/2 speed handles. I haven’t seen one with the rotating bearing grip before? Also pulled this stubby which I haven’t seen before either. Anyone have one of these? A bunch of this is to flip
. I truly paid $65 for a 5 gallon bucket full of Proto, plomb, craftsman, etc 
I am cheap and probably wouldn't have paid $10 for it... I'm used to getting used tools for next to nothing.
Yes. Snap-On and Proto were major suppliers.
Well....
You should post some pictures! The wf Proto stuff is alot more difficult to find than plomb wf
Now I see. You had us confused. You posted this in the Proto thread so that’s why I asked about Proto.
It would be pretty safe to assume millers falls. They were making p&c carpenter tools at the time so it’s not a big leap to make that conclusion. Nice find!Here is something completely different for Proto, a miter box. Obviously I don’t have this in real life, though I might. This is a rebadge of a Langdon miter box, sold (& made?) by Millers Falls. Mine is older, probably 40s vintage, and has no badge to say who made it. These pix are its older brother, which I traded away some years back.
Proto Mitre Box : Instructions and Parts List : Proto Tool Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
4 p., illus., 27.9 cm, instruction manualarchive.org
Yup those were made at the “Danielson” factory and are good adjustable wrenches!
Thanks. I will be researching Danielson.
There was a time when plomb was sourcing their adjustable wrenches from Danielson but somewhere in the Proto era, they actually acquired Danielson as a subsidiary…. I can’t recall dates however
-DonWe have a thread.
That is not true. You probably read this on AA, but they're wrong. I debunked that a long time ago on the Plomb thread. Plomb was buying their adjustable crescent type wrenches and pliers from Utica right up to the time they acquired J.P. Danielson in October of 1946, when they started making them in house at the former J.P. Danielson factory. AA bases their wildly irresponsible conclusion on their erroneous dating of the Plomb acquisition of J.P. Danielson to January 1947. Because they see some adjustables with 11-46 and 12-46 date codes, they make the false assumption it must mean that Plomb was using J.P. Danielson as a source. They are wrong because of a simple but dumb mistake. Their reference for the acquisition is an article that was published in January 1947, but the sale was done in October 1946.
Good point. I forgot about the Utica/Danielson deep dive on here. I am losing track of the amount of lugz deep dives
one here but you are studious of your facts and help to keep the shooting from the hip to a minimum 
. And I would rather be corrected than have erroneous AA facts be floated about to perpetuate ongoing myths.
