Show your Indestro and Duro-Chrome tools

[Stillgottimefor1]

I would pay good money for a custom made pouch like that, especially if I didn’t have to worry about it getting lost on a ship somewhere!

 

[Provincial]

My experience with clutch head fasteners is with GM products and cheap mobile homes. Is there a connection?

 

[d42jeep]

Yes, in my case. It does have some clutch head screws.
-Don

 

[four.cycle]

I would pay good money for a custom made pouch like that, especially if I didn’t have to worry about it getting lost on a ship somewhere!

I will let her know that.

My favorite Indestro ebay seller just shipped me a nice little "Select" box (for a 3/8" drive set) along with a very uncommon 2807S 7/32" 4-point socket and a 2755A 3/8" drive 1/8" hex bit socket:


Mark Stansbury did some investigating on the "Select Steel" LOGO:

Indestro Mfg. Corp. "Select Steel" TM 733592 05/26/61

(* that's just on THAT particular logo. it does NOT apply to earlier "Select Steel" wrenches or other Indestro products. *)

 

[four.cycle]

1971 Indestro Tool Catalog No. 55 now available for download at International Tool Catalog Library

Thanks Mark!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Some old indestro

 

[d42jeep]

Nice set. I have a few spares if you are missing any sockets.
-Don

 

[four.cycle]

^ I have one of those green boxes with that decal - I believe the box is empty. The sockets are in "grab bags" somewhere in the garage - I have dozens of them out there somewhere.
(Probably buried with the Duro stuff Don's waiting on..... )

 

[JjKk40]

Does anyone recognize this part # as Duro?

 

[four.cycle]

^ that does not appear to me to be a Duro-Chrome or Indestro made item.

==

* not necessarily "hot" *

My favorite Ebay Indestro seller just listed quite a few items - all onesie-twosies - of Indestro, S-K, Craftsman, Blue-Point, Bonney, Herbrand, and a fabulous pair of Eagle Claw pliers, among other things.

Great guy to do business with. He usually gives me a fair discount depending on number of items purchased. Well worth a look if you need to fill holes.

YMMV

 

[Macduf]

Indestro 1452 , nothing marked except for case. Missing 7/8 socket

 

[four.cycle]

1452 was originally a 19-piece set. Shouldn't be too difficult to round up the missing pieces. You have the drive adapter, which is the unicorn in that set.

 

[Macduf]

Great now its missing two sockets. Gotta hit that sale one more time just in case

 

[Old Radar]

Estate sale partial Duro-Chrome set. I haven't yet found what set they may have been part of. The sets I've seen so far in archive.org catalogs don't have 12pt sockets along with 4pts. One bonus is that I found a D-I 3/8dr partial set a few weeks ago that had a tommy bar that fits the 4550. Can anyone say this is Cadmium? Looks a little too dark to me, but I don't know what else it would be.



4550 Hinge Handle
4pt 4507S 7/32
4pt 4506S 3/16
6pt 4510 3/16
6pt 4508 ¼
6pt D - I ¼
8pt 4512S 3/8
8pt 4510S 3/16
8pt 4508S ¼
12pt 4514 7/16
12pt 4512 3/8
12pt 4511 11/32

 

[four.cycle]

ooo yeah those are nice. early stuff. plain black finish.
Don knows Duro-Chrome better than I do. (He also has way more sets of those than I do.)
probably somewhere in between these:
love the 4-points!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

A little indestro hex set

 

[four.cycle]

1982 Duro-Chrome / Indestro Catalog No. 60A now available for download at International Tool Catalog Library

thanks Mark!

 

[Moldyjim]

^ that's an amazingly cherry set for its age. are all the sockets still there?

Mr. Stansbury just sent this to me:


Chicago Tribune Thursday January 23 1992

Her TWO late husbands?
I guess her third refused to eat the mushrooms...

 

[four.cycle]

Yes, Gertrude was married to both of the men who ran Duro Metal Products Co. and Indestro Mfg. Corp.

 

[LesserSon]

THAT is an informative article!

 

[four.cycle]

^ You may have noted that in both the Chicago Tribune artlcle of July 23 1992 and the artlcle posted at "The Made in Chicago Museum" website that the founding date of Indestro Manufacturing Corporation was 1917.

 

[four.cycle]

^ It is appropriate at this time to also point out that VintageMachinery.org also notes the founding date of Duro Metal Products Company as being 1917

 

[Private Lugnutz]

THAT is an informative article!

I didn't know that the original Indestro guy was not originally from Chicago.

Gotta love Gertrude.

"If I had my life to live over, I’d be a farmer.”

 

[Tynee]

I picked up a set of Duro-Chrome 2111 laying in the road today. They were in the middle of one of the busier intersections in town. I had to dodge 6 lanes of traffic on one side and 4 lanes on the other side, but I would not be deterred...

 

[RTM]

Found this fun pouch at Surplus Tools Denver. Doubt I will ever be able to fill it with the correct D/I tools, but even the correct NSN tools may prove elusive, as all my metrics are combos. But it was quite cool and clean, and oh so expensive.

Edit: Just noticed that the sizes on the roll don't match the sizes in the NSN record. It calls for
METRIC WRENCHES SIZE 6 X 8, 7 X 9, 10 X 11, 12 X 14, 13 X 15 AND 17 X 19MM. Errors in Bold

 

[four.cycle]

I earlier mentioned my observations about the individual Indestro ignition wrenches becoming orphans (see post #2009, page 51).
Indestro was also packaging single magneto wrenches on cards at least as early as 1935, which would in part account for the number of those seen in the second-hand market.

1935 Indestro catalog pp 41 ignition tools and wrenches

They also made a 3-piece magneto wrench set which was held together with a small knurled screw:


Indestro 137 Handy Ignition Set

Indestro 137 Handy Ignition Set

Indestro 137 Handy Ignition Set

Only one wrench is threaded (10-32). The other two are punched with 15/32" round holes:

 

[four.cycle]

Indestro 208 spark plug wire feeler gauge (or 208C in the package, which had previously been opened. looks like it may have been used once.)

Indestro 8-blade wire spark plug feeler gauge

Indestro 208C 8-blade wire spark plug feeler gauge ca. 1950s-early 1960s

 

[four.cycle]

1961 Indestro Catalog No. 22MA now available for download at International Tool Catalog Library!

curiously, the catalog No. 22A shows the open-gear ratchets (2839, 6070, etc.) as being discontinued and replaced with the later RHFT models (2875, 2775, 3275) or the oval-head models (6072, 6272, 6472) but the pocket-size catalog No. 22MA does not.

thanks Mark!

 

[LesserSon]

Thanks for the continuing catalog analysis, four.cycle!
I had suspicions, but was not positive these were Indestro.
Now I wonder if I overlooked the third wrench and screw…

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Hole is a bit smaller

 

[four.cycle]

^ As I noted above, only one of the wrenches was threaded. The other two just have round holes punched in them. That they were sold simply stapled to a piece of cardboard in part explains why there are so many orphans in the second-hand market.

 

[Mintgrun]

Hole is a bit smaller

Actually, looking at the holes in Lesser-son's wrenches, they both look smaller than the two drilled to clear the little screw. Yet, the Delco wrench doesn't look tapped. I assume they were consistent with which wrench got threaded, but maybe not. Someone sort of counter-sunk the threaded hole on my Delco wrench, but fortunately there are enough threads to catch the screw.

 

[d42jeep]

This ratchet came from a San Jose eBay seller today as a throw in along with some. Plomb sockets I needed. It‘s appearance is quite different from most of the non-reversing D/I ratchets I’ve seen.

 

[four.cycle]

^ In the Duro Ratchet? thread, where I posted all those photo images of various models I'd harvested from ebay listings, I think it became evident that "paintbrush handle" model was made for Ward's "Riverside" label.
One of several "complete" Riverside sets that was listed on ebay:

 

[d42jeep]

Thanks, I didn’t remember. I’ll put it in my toolbox of miscellaneous Wards but not Powr-Kraft tools.
-Don

 

[four.cycle]

^ I'm pretty confident that I connected that handle style to the Wards "Riverside" label because of the instances where it was included with sockets stamped "Riverside". It was this set below that clinched it (for me, anyway):
(Sorry, these were in a "Wards" folder. The photos above are in an "Indestro" folder.)
(Thanks, btw - you reminded me I need to re-organize the "Wards" folder.)

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I think I have one of those in a riverside set. Was not sure it came with it but based on this info I am guessing it did

 

[Lesserstore]

I got this today in the mail from whatchamacallit tools on ebay. It's an NOS Indestro 360 which is from the late 60s or early 70s I would guess. The cadmium plating on the sockets was dark and dull so I polished them (by hand) with Flitz. I have before and after pictures, except on the before picture I had already polished the 7/16, before I realized that I should take a before picture.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Looks good. I like the the screwdriver tip on those.

 

[Lesserstore]

Me too. A hollow ground screwdriver was a relatively uncommon sight back then.