The Tiny Tools Thread

[rlitman]

Miniature Anderson Jewelers saw. Steel & brass. It takes your broken blades.

Damn! That’s a tree saw for cutting chives.

 

[jcochron]

Miniature Snap-on lady leg calipers!

 

[Shelbylex]

Some of my small wrenches. The top one is Williams (forgot to take picture from another side)

 

[sqyards]

For the big jobs.
Power saw!

 

[rlitman]

For the big jobs.
Power saw!

Isn’t that steam powered?

 

[Outlawmws]

Nice wrenches Shelby!

That T-saw needs a fence and miter!

 

[1cargarage]

For the big jobs.
Power saw!

That thing is sweet.

 

[sqyards]

Yes steam powered

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Picked this up at the flea market this morning. Smallest "S" wrench I have ever seen.

 

[Outlawmws]

Any markings Lugz?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Nope. It is forged, though, of serious steel, and in a way that is consistent with its more typical big brothers. So I don't think it's a toy or charm.

 

[rlitman]

Spoke wrench perhaps?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Maybe. There was no context. It was in a basket with other little odds and ends, none of which had anything to do with each other, and only some of which were tools. (Honestly, and not to be morbid, but it looked like someone cleaned out a deceased person's house and it was someone's "smalls" box, if you know what I mean. I have one. A little tin box with all kinds of knick-knacks in it.) There was a little package that was sealed. Stiff manila paper wrapped around something rectangular and taped shut. I asked the guy if I could slit it open, he said sure, and it was a glass slide with a green and purple splotch on it. For a microscope. I made a plague joke and walked away fast!

 

[steel 35]

it looked like someone cleaned out a deceased person's house and it was someone's "smalls" ROOM, if you know what I mean.

I have one of these to sort.
Just chilling yesterday and blew threw this thread.
Have the watch desk, press, lathe, that I have seen going through these posts.
Have more jewels / crystal's then one can imagine.
Just wish they were the bling kind, because I can't see using them
And a custom pocket watch made just for me.

 

[Shelbylex]

4 Snap On tiny ignition wrenches. Interestingly, 6 point ( a lot of manufacturers use 12 point). I got bunch of different ignition wrenches during my last tool purchase - will try to post as I clean them (there were Snap On, Blue Point, New Britain, P&C, etc...). Given COVID I keep all tools in the garage for a week (this phase done) and then wash every single tool with soap (and dry it)

 

[steel 35]

When you use little tools you need to clean little part's

 

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The No.80 is easy to misplace and gets smaller the older I get.

 

[Stuart in MN]

^ I have one of those little Huot drill indexes as well - I've never had a need for them, but a person needs to be prepared.

Here's my contribution to the discussion: I had to replace the battery in my MacBook today, and the replacement battery came with these dinky little drivers. One is used to open the back cover, the other is used to disconnect the battery inside. One is six point, the other is five point.

The screws themselves were less than 1/8" long. Amazingly, I didn't drop or lose a single one.

 

[Shelbylex]

Massive 4" adjustable wrenches from Williams, Wizard, Craftsman and one from the tank and heavy machinery factory of independent island nation of Lilliputs brought from overseas by Gulliver himself during his travel to the South Indian Ocean.

 

[Shelbylex]

For everybody who loves tiny tools: here is the memorial for the master of tiny tools!!!

This is a memorial for Levsha in Chelyabinsk (in Urals)

Levsha is a character in story by Nikolai Leskoff "The steel flee". In the story the tsar of Russia gets a steel flee as the example of British metalworkers technology masterpiece. They eventually find a master who can give a reply to the British. Levsha shod the English flea with horse-shoes!

Yes, as majority of Russian literature the story is sad, but has a meaning...
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Steel_Flea

 

[macgee]

A couple of my tiny tools.

 

[pepi]

1in Mic

 

[Jland]

My small wrenches... couple of things i find interesting are the war finish marking, the absolute crappy finish of the Penens wrench and the "Sears" wrench, while seems to be stamped, the open end head seems to be welded on. Seems an expensive way to make a stamped wrench

 

[four.cycle]

a recent acquisition:



.... which reminded me that I owned this little unit:



We were buying all of our Motorcraft spark plugs, Motorcraft carburetors, and Holley carburetors from a distributor up in Seattle, and they were giving us tons of promotional material. We must have given out hundreds of these tiny screwdrivers. It's been in my toolbox so long I had forgotten that it had the interchangeable tips.

 

[ZRX61]

Found these at TSC

 

[Outlawmws]

Excellent timing so I didn't have to go searching for the thread!:

from Sat:


Less than 8 oz, solid brass/bronze:

 

[Mintgrun]

This is my tiniest nut driver.

 

[Modern Garage]

I found these while I was going through a box-to-go from an auction pre-Covid. I don't know if the guy just liked small everything to go along with his small engine repair business or if the small tools just seemed like they would make his job easier. Anyway here they are.
I was impressed the pliers were both brand names when I cleaned them up, and the feeler gauges were surprisingly small, and again, brand names, not toys. The Fairmount 1/4-5/16 DOE was already posted in the Fairmount tools thread and I just thought the Vaughn siding bar was too cute to ignore.
Joe

 

[Lucas Limski]

<<<<<<<< check my little picture.
Britool 8ba x 10ba. I have had this for 35 years and still never found a nut it fits

 

[didit]

Nothing unusually small. My granddad used to make these stainless steel miniature anvils at the machine shop and give them to his customers along with a calendar. I still use the Snap-on needle nose and the stubbie screwdrivers occasionally. I must have 50 of those small disposable type wrenches that I always saved for no good reason. I like the top pocket screwdrivers and have saved a lot of those.

 

[Ton ton]

I found these while I was going through a box-to-go from an auction pre-Covid. I don't know if the guy just liked small everything to go along with his small engine repair business or if the small tools just seemed like they would make his job easier. Anyway here they are.
I was impressed the pliers were both brand names when I cleaned them up, and the feeler gauges were surprisingly small, and again, brand names, not toys. The Fairmount 1/4-5/16 DOE was already posted in the Fairmount tools thread and I just thought the Vaughn siding bar was too cute to ignore.
Joe

Those pliers resemble Channel lock 424's.

 

[Ton ton]

Found these at TSC

I like the adjustable wrench. It's a top 10 favorite of mine.

 

[XxToolAholicxX]

So I'm getting ready to sign off for the night and my wife tells me that I have to tell everyone here where the "tiny tools" come from.

My wife's great grandfather was a watch repair man in a jewelry store. When he passed away his cabinet went to his daughter (my wife's grandmother) where it stayed in her garage until a couple of years ago. My wife has fond memories of being six or eight and looking in the drawers at all of the little tools (yes there are more... special pliers and the smallest tipped screwdrivers you will ever see (or I guess feel would be more appropriate)).

We also ended up with the lathe (and it works):



And the positioning table(?)


The drill bits go down to 4/1,000". The little chuck will hold them as well and was found in the bottom drawer still sealed in the factory box and wrapped up in the paper. There is a whole drawer of collets for the different drill bits as well. Some day when I get a little bit of time I will take the lathe apart and clean it. I have no idea what I will make with it but some of those little flashlights sounds like a neat idea.

Great tools good history behind it as well with fond memories ..Thank you for sharing..

 

[Fuelboat]

These were made by my grandfather many years ago, he gave them to my father who gave them to me. I will be giving them to my nephew for his wedding. He is also getting a bandsaw box (working on it now) and a quilt that my wife made.

 

[Outlawmws]

That's awesome!

 

[JradM]

Here's a couple.

First up, the 1 & 1/2" Veritas speed square.



Here's a little adjustable. Unmarked, but surprisingly well made (steel too).

 

[JradM]

Few more.

Channellock 424 to the left of Channellock 460.


Some reasonably tiny locking pliers.


Those same locking pliers compared to the Channellock 424 and Knipex 100 Mini Cobras.

 

[Ton ton]

Here's a couple.

First up, the 1 & 1/2" Veritas speed square.



Here's a little adjustable. Unmarked, but surprisingly well made (steel too).

Impressive collection.

 

[JradM]

Thanks! Maybe I should put them all together in a mini toolkit so I could feel like Paul Bunyan.

 

[Ton ton]

This is my tiniest nut driver.

Nice work.