d42jeep
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Found this one last Sunday. 
Cleaned it up.
-Don
Cleaned it up.
-Don
The Tiny Tools Thread
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Outlawmws
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One very much like that has come in handy a time or two for me Don.
MAD
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I recently had to get a new set of those mini stubby screwdrivers. I loaned a couple to my daughter for her sewing machine and she wouldn't give them back
I bought this stubby Phillips from SnapOn to remove the console side panels from the C4 Corvettes without having to remove the seat.
I guess bit ratchets weren’t that common back then.
Don’t remember buying the std. driver.
These are listed for STUPID $ on eBay.
I guess bit ratchets weren’t that common back then.
Don’t remember buying the std. driver.
These are listed for STUPID $ on eBay.
d42jeep
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A pair of unmarked pliers found at today’s estate sale.
-Don
-Don
Stubby1743
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Don, your pliers look identical to my K-D MFG.CO No.6 pliers. Maybe yours escaped the stamping process.
four.cycle
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Private Lugnutz
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Picked up these Indestro No. 3411 mini-pliers this morning. I just found and posted a pair last November, linked here, along with a Champ De and an unknown brand. I like to stick them inside ignition wrench kits whether they originally included them or not. And I have A LOT of ignition wrench kits.
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RTM
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Here is a recent find, that could have been even tinier apparently. I found 8 midget combination wrenches, but poking about on my Craftsman Tools DVD, it could have been a 10 piece set. My has 13/64-7/16, different sizes on each end, but the 1970s catalog says it started at 5/32 and went to 7/16. I looked back to 1969, and it seemed to always be this set.
Here are mine, apparently missing some combination of 5/32 x 3/16, and 3/16 x 13/64 (per eBay similars). These are all -v- marked
Refusing to believe I had missed two wrenches, I started digging a little further, the 1957-66 catalogs had the 8 piece set. (The 1955 looked a bit cheaper, according the graphic, not the full marking shown here). So I now have a known era for the tools, and a complete set
And a shout out to David Maher, [email protected] for making a great DVD where the individual catalog are real easy to navigate.
Here are mine, apparently missing some combination of 5/32 x 3/16, and 3/16 x 13/64 (per eBay similars). These are all -v- marked
Refusing to believe I had missed two wrenches, I started digging a little further, the 1957-66 catalogs had the 8 piece set. (The 1955 looked a bit cheaper, according the graphic, not the full marking shown here). So I now have a known era for the tools, and a complete set
And a shout out to David Maher, [email protected] for making a great DVD where the individual catalog are real easy to navigate.
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d42jeep
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Here is my 10 piece set. 
Some -v- marked little wrenches.
-Don
Some -v- marked little wrenches.
-Don
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d42jeep
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I‘ve been meaning to post this little advertising screwdriver a buddy saved for me. He knows I like items of local interest. The slogan is kind of ironic because like many businesses Covid finished off our local bowling alley. It’s a little sad because we had our daughter’s birthday party there when she was quite young. 
-Don
-Don
Outlawmws
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It's a shame so many good parts of Americana are disappearing. We lost many of our's long before COVID, but one died of COVID. Same with Drive in movies. only one left near our area. only two in the bay area.
Private Lugnutz
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Plucked this "Moody Kit" out of a toolbox at the flea this morning.
Some period eye candy from a 1953 Popular Mechanix.
If you search GJ on "Moody" or "Moody Tools" you will find a crapload of posts extolling the virtues of their miniature precision tools, exclusively modern, all up on the General board, including a Moody Master Kit that contained six of these inside vinyl cases. They are still in the biz.
Down here on the Vintage board, one reference, and only the blurb in 4.c's A-Z Mfgrs List...
I am suddenly a big fan. These are very well made tiny tools and I love everything about this "Moody Kit", from the italicized branding to the workmanship, from the design of the little translucent-capped index to their attention to detail in providing some production info on the bottom.
That reads "MOODY PROV. R.I. / PAT. NOS. D157154 - 2530024". Looks like 4.c captured the Utility Patent number but not the Design Patent, mayhaps because there was no record before of this particular kit, as far as I can tell, on GJ. And maybe none elsewhere heretofore his blurb entry.
Some period eye candy from a 1953 Popular Mechanix.
If you search GJ on "Moody" or "Moody Tools" you will find a crapload of posts extolling the virtues of their miniature precision tools, exclusively modern, all up on the General board, including a Moody Master Kit that contained six of these inside vinyl cases. They are still in the biz.
Down here on the Vintage board, one reference, and only the blurb in 4.c's A-Z Mfgrs List...
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I am suddenly a big fan. These are very well made tiny tools and I love everything about this "Moody Kit", from the italicized branding to the workmanship, from the design of the little translucent-capped index to their attention to detail in providing some production info on the bottom.
That reads "MOODY PROV. R.I. / PAT. NOS. D157154 - 2530024". Looks like 4.c captured the Utility Patent number but not the Design Patent, mayhaps because there was no record before of this particular kit, as far as I can tell, on GJ. And maybe none elsewhere heretofore his blurb entry.