Proto Tools Picture Thread - Post Yours!

[Oldtuleguy]

Here's a proto 4748 and a 4847, 9/32 to 1/4" and visa versa

 

[Private Lugnutz]

...out of the acrylic.

My first thought was the exact opposite: putting special antique and vintage tools into it! Seriously, recreating those would be cool. All you'd need is a base, some graphics about the tool you want to display, the tool, a mold, and some acrylic or other resin to pour into it. Mrs. Lugz, who's been going crazy with free county programs (e.g., painting, mah-jong, etc) just made her own paperweights with flowers inside. I think I just talked myself into some tiny tool displays.

 

[MisterEd]

PROTO 710-S 10 Inch Adjustable Wrench Los Angeles X-10-1

 

[d42jeep]

Probably 1951
Here is my drawer of Proto Professional tools. I don’t really collect Proto but they build up.
-Don

 

[montanafordman]

I had a 1/2" deep well socket tray that was a little rough, and recently bought a 3/8" shallow socket tray that was very rough. Yesterday I spent some time cleaning, degreasing, stripping, derusting with evaporust, and painting them. I like how they turned out. These socket trays are handy how they can be placed to hang on the edge of my Plomb Toolmobile.

 

[Squez]

Protos added today

 

[d42jeep]

Sometimes I should leave rusty tools behind when I see them at garage sales, even free ones. Even with my best efforts this pair of hose clamp pliers are still pretty ugly.
-Don
Before
After

 

[Garage.Girl]

Chevron (I assume the standard oil company of California) branded Proto pliers? Probably for service workers or oil riggers? (The other slip joints were for the style comparison) both California companies? It would make sense they would do a lil business?

 

[d42jeep]

Living fairly close to the Chevron refinery in Richmond, CA I have found quite a few tools either marked Chevron or SOCO (Standard Oil Co).
Plombpire screwdrivers
Mag flashlight
Snap-on combo
Nutdriver set
-Don

 

[Garage.Girl]

Living fairly close to the Chevron refinery in Richmond, CA I have found quite a few tools either marked Chevron or SOCO (Standard Oil Co).
Plombpire screwdrivers
Mag flashlight
Snap-on combo
Nutdriver set
-Don

Haha I would say those screw drivers definitely confirm my suspicion

 

[Squez]

Made a rack for my <<<>>> and adjustables… working on a flying lady and proto Los Angeles to weld to the rack

 

[Squez]

Getting closer

 

[Private Lugnutz]

working on a flying lady

Getting closer

I'm loving it! What's the material? and are you doing everything (layout, cutting, etc) by hand? I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but not doing it with a CNC enhances the appearance, because it looks authentic. Also, it's interesting that the logo is so familiar that you don't need all the details. Just the shape alone resonates with any late Plomb and early Proto collector. It looks really cool in plain silhouette! Brilliant idea.

 

[Squez]

Just sheet metal and hand cut with a plasma cutter

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The Flying Lady was actually first used on the cover of the Plomb 1942-1947 catalog 19R series. In reply to a thread about a 1951 Speed Age article on a Plomb blonde bombshell advertising model named Paula Doretti, I speculated that Paula was the model for the Flying Lady. Subsequent research by others on that thread revealed her to be a little too young, but she has an interesting biography. You may be interested in reading it here: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=315857

 

[four.cycle]

Proto boxes... some new, some old...

Proto boxes 11/15/23

Proto boxes 11/15/23

 

[Squez]

Todays haul
2 screwdriver
1 nut diver
5 hex sockets
Proto socket rail
3/4 socket
2 chisels
1 ignition wrench

 

[d42jeep]

Given my known weakness for nutdrivers, I ordered these from an eBay seller.
I added some others that I had around.
A couple of them replaced some Vaco nutdrivers in my user toolbox, not that I have anything against Vaco.
-Don

 

[four.cycle]

^ I just listed my two sets on ebay but you're not going to want to pay my prices.

I must have given that Proamerica set to somebody for Christmas last year. Couldn't find it anywhere.

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

Can you post a link to your store?

 

[d42jeep]

This might work. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?ite...=p4429486.m3561.l170197&_ssn=kiski.us.yj4babu
-Don

 

[S-K Tool Fanatic!]

Yup it works

 

[four.cycle]

^ there's already a bag with your name on it here.... let me know if you're looking for something else... although I did NOT get to the "S-K" or "Proto" boxes yet.... I did get all the New Britain listed.... another batch of stuff will appear Sun. 11/26.

who was the "Wizard" collector? Rileysan? He hasn't been around lately, has he?

 

[bmwrd0]

These are my users, never mind the missing one, it was on the bench.

I tend to go and use these as opposed to a 1/4" socket set, although that also goes up to 5/8".

 

[Squez]

 

[Squez]

 

[Smokeshow69]

That’s a nice set of wrenches! However I think you might get a lot more traction if your posted pictures where turned right side up. I see you post pictures like this on the garage sale thread and people don’t comment like they would if the photos were turned. Just a respectful/ helpful observation

 

[Squez]

Picked up these bet’r grip pliers… I would bet these are made or made Protos can anyone confirm

 

[Squez]

 

[misterbill]

I can't find this specific set in any of the vintage Proto catalogs. I think all the wrenches are there. What's missing? 235 pliers? Points file? What else?



Bill

 

[d42jeep]

Here is mine but I’m not vouching that it is entirely correct.
-Don

 

[four.cycle]

the point file is always missing, if not broken.

proto or otherwise

 

[genog]

Not much going on around here.

I've been looking for a 15/16 to complete my set of Proto Pro's with chevrons

Then I found this big 1-1/4"er at a garage sale
Thought about leaving it behind......


Does anyone have a Hot Lead on a 15/16"?

 

[bmwrd0]

I don't have one, but I will keep my eyes open. Those look very nice.

 

[shanny19]

That’s a great set! I run into very few chevron combos compared to chevron dbe’s and doe’s. Built good sets of dbe’s and doe’s via picking over the years, but no way could I do a set of combos without leaning heavily on ebay.

 

[genog]

Proto Pro Chevron DBE's?
Wow....
I have never seen one out in the wild
Are they polished in the middle (between the chevrons) like the combo wrenches?

The combo chevrons turn up around here every now and then
One here, one there...
I have accumulated a fair number of culls along with my chevron keepers

 

[Squez]

The doe are

 

[d42jeep]

I always like the looks of those but haven’t run across very many.
-Don

 

[Squez]

I always like the looks of those but haven’t run across very many.
-Don

They have been hard for me to come by aswell… I’ve been on the hunt for a 5/16 and 1/4…

 

[shanny19]

Proto Pro Chevron DBE's?
Wow....
I have never seen one out in the wild
Are they polished in the middle (between the chevrons) like the combo wrenches?

Wait, you’ve managed to put up a nearly complete set of chevron combos but have never seen a chevron dbe in the wild? It’s so great how this hobby is as fickle as a feather in a stream. I’ll put up a pic or two of some dbe’s later today. No, not polished. That saves you the embarrassment of grabbing a polished beam Wizard out of a bin only to be disappointed like what happens with the combos
So with that many chevron combos, do you have any three-star combos?