billymade
Well-known member
I think you need to set some "ratchet traps"; all of your ratchets are reproducing! LOL! Sorry, couldn't resist!
Is that a ratchet on the ground??


Hope everyone had a good weekend! Time for more ratchet pics...........
Here we have a bunch of 3/8" drives of mixed brands, with a few vintage models shown.
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Left to right:
1) Kraueter (S-K makes/made them, unusual handle style)
2) Fleet
3,4, & 5) Snap-On (showed up after the all Snap-On pic, yet to come)
6, 7, & 8) Proto
9 & 10) Proto Professional (think they are the same as 6, 7, & 8, Proto just added the work "Professional")
11) Bon-E-Con
12) Craftsman (older model that didn't make it into the earlier Craftsman pic's)
13) Plomb (Handles are the flat factory machined type, flat on front and back, flush with the ratchet head. #13 ratchet also appears to be a fraction longer than the other Plombs??)
14) Plomb (handle factory machined flat on front and back, flush with the ratchet head)
15) Plomb (this one has the small Plomb script)
16) Plomb (A WF model. I've heard WF means Wright Field, but also have heard WF means War Finish specifications??)
17) Bonney (Vintage)
18) Duro-Chrome (way cool, has female driver on one side, male drive on the other, and a reversing lever)
Okay..........time for the bad pun of the day......................"Hey, 'HOUND! Hows 'bout some Snap-Ons.....and make it Snappy!!!!!!!!.............and share some of that turtle soup since we're talkin' Snappy!!"
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The count to 400 continues.....................
('HOUND's running ratchet total, this thread: 218 1/2" Drives, 134 3/8" Drives, 352 Overall/All Sizes. Number needed to surpass overall/all sizes ratchet total of 400: 49. )
Very nice, post a pic of your 1937 ferret set. Does it have a decal on the lid? I just went through all my stuff to complete a 1935 ferret set, and may have any parts your missing (if any).
The case is well worn, no decal.
Look for the old Snap-On stuff to be posted in your old "Vintage Snap-On" thread, some time in the days ahead.
A few pieces from the 20's I'd be interested in adding.
The title is: "Lets make an all vintage Snap-on tool picture thread!"
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15773&highlight=antique+snap
I thought this thread would be most suitable to post many of the members antique Snap-On in??
I know Krusty's collection would be great in that thread, also.
The case is well worn, no decal.
Look for the old Snap-On stuff to be posted in your old "Vintage Snap-On" thread, some time in the days ahead.
A few pieces from the 20's I'd be interested in adding.
............we'll be back..........Some so 9/32 dr. PM70SB, PM70N,PM70M,GM70M(this sb a 1/4),M70M,M70L,
M70N,M70


..........snapmom is proving that! ). Anyway, here is a rare 3/8" female drive socket set, like new in it's original metal case. It even has the cardboard thingy that nearly always is discarded soon after purchase. I'm guessing it dates from the 30's/40's?

Speaking of viewers, at 9:50AM Central time on the morning of November 21, we officially no have had over 8000 views!!![]()




why the ratchets were in the order they are. These all belong to 1/4" drive sets, except for 2 or 3. I had to keep them in order so I got the right ratchet back to the set it belonged to.
"Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends..........Come inside..........Come inside!!"

moparhound-
I get the feeling you are just rearranging your stuff and taking pictures of the same ratchets
Nobody can have that many
Alright..........today/tomorrow has arrived........................LOL
13 More 1/4" drive beauties.....................
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From left to right:
1) Craftsman (Antique, has a H with a circle around it)
2) Craftsman (Said to have been made by Plomb in the 30s or 40s)
3) Craftsman (the old one, with the Snap On like head)
4) Craftsman (another old one, this one with the Art Deco reversing lever)
5 & 6) S-K
7) Craftsman (Another Snap On like one, this one has had the male drive turned around to face the same side as the reversing lever)
8) Indestro
9) S-K
10) Snap-On
11) Snap-On (ratchet head, shown with a brand new 1/4" drive Snap-On breaker bar)
12) Craftsman (the much respected fine tooth/thumb wheel/quick release only sold in the Sears catalog)
13) Craftsman (Sears most current flat panel offering, with quick release)
Got to wonderingwhy the ratchets were in the order they are. These all belong to 1/4" drive sets, except for 2 or 3. I had to keep them in order so I got the right ratchet back to the set it belonged to.
More 1/4" drives on deck...........
The march to 400 continues....................the view count cotinues to climb........now past 9000...............
Where will the count end?![]()
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A contest perhaps? Closest without going over, or something like that?? Maybe have a prize?? Fun to think about.
('HOUND's running ratchet total, this thread: 218 1/2" Drives, 136 3/8" Drives, 33 1/4" Drives, 387 Overall/All Sizes. Number needed to surpass overall/all sizes ratchet total of 400: 14. )

moparhound-
I get the feeling you are just rearranging your stuff and taking pictures of the same ratchets
Nobody can have that many
Well I have a strange feeling he is getting to the end because each post is getting farther and farther apart!!
Been busy opening packages full of ratchets. Wrenchr knows what I mean.
Once we get through the 1/4", then there are the 3/4" and 1".
Then, we start over again with new arrivals.![]()
".........the show that never ends......."
Not ratchets, but Ive been working on organizing all of my small loose snap on tools, heres one drawer.
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