The Tiny Tools Thread

[Moldyjim]

Here's the big one...

 

[ttpete]

I was getting a tooth implant to replace a lost tooth the other day. The dentist tightened the implant socket into my mouth using probably the tiniest torque wrench I've ever seen. It's about 3" long. As a contrast, I saw the next torque wrench at a garage sale the following Saturday. That one is at least 3 FEET long. (I thought the picture was better than it turned out...)

I just got a lower denture implant with 3 sockets to hold a metal bar that the new denture snaps into. The cost was $10K. Not cheap, but I can eat again.

 

[Moldyjim]

The first quote I got from another surgeon was around $10,000 just for the one tooth!
I waited a few months until I got dental insurance and it's still going to be about $3,000.

We are in the wrong business.

 

[rharman]

The first quote I got from another surgeon was around $10,000 just for the one tooth!
I waited a few months until I got dental insurance and it's still going to be about $3,000.

We are in the wrong business.

I recently read "If you want to help people, become a doctor. If you want to make real money, become a dentist."

 

[ttpete]

I recently read "If you want to help people, become a doctor. If you want to make real money, become a dentist."

Don't leave out ophthalmologists, either. The one who fixed my cataracts has his own jet aircraft. Some have small buses and pick up 5 or 6 people from elder care facilities at a time for cataract surgery, then deliver them home.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I found this 4" Diamond Calk today in exquisite condition. I didn't really set out to collect 4-inch crescent-type adjustable wrenches as a goal, but they are cute, and they don't take up much room, and then the enumerative 'gee, I wonder how many of this one thing I'll end up finding?' gene kicks in, and before you know it, you have [...counts them...] a baker's dozen.

 

[MisterEd]

Armstrong H-10

 

[Mr.Ric]

Juguetes Pillen

Tiny fasteners in tiny places works great.
Too small to torque much.

 

[genog]

Isn't this just a kick in the pants?
Although it functions....that is, the jaws open and close, I think it's more of an ornament for one's keychain.

 

[mritchie77]

A set of -V- Craftsman ignition wrenches I picked up recently.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I picked up not one but two tinies today.

First up, this utility knife.

Without context - not so special.



With some context - who knew?!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

And this hand vise. I have some hand vises, and some are fairly small, but none this small.

 

[calandrod]

I picked up these Saturday! I have been building a tiny collection to give to my friend’s son.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

A little roll of magneto tools

 

[four.cycle]

^ OTG - that is a very nice set.
I tried to negotiate with them without success.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Love the flame tempering.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Lugz the finish is interesting, kinda like the hytone.

Fourcycle nice ads!

Pretty nice feeler gauges, proudly stamped "hardened and tempered blades" and complete with a little ruler. All in a nice little wallet! I couldn't resist...

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Lugz the finish is interesting, kinda like the hytone.

Tempering was a fairly common and popular rust-inhibiting technique. I have a bunch of vintage tools that have a flame tempered finish, typically on dark steel, including some very old sockets (including the Bog Dandy set), a Craftsman gasket cutter, the steel bits in a few of my hollow handle multi-bits tools, and Chapman regularly did it to their bits and the ratchet. Since that is tiny, I will post that as a good example.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

It's too bad the tip is slightly chipped on this antique screwdriver, picked up at the flea yesterday. (Andrew J. Lloyd made anything related to optical lenses, including opera glasses!)

 

[Oldtuleguy]

That's a cool one. Could probably redress the tip

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Yes, there is enough blade left.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

@four.cycle inadvertently sent me the patent when he sent me a bunch of patents related to an antique buttonhook-like milk bottle opener I found with the screwdriver. Same dude, from Newark, NJ, and he was very prolific.

 

[four.cycle]

no kiddin?
I knew there was a reason I kept digging on that one... the guy had a mess of patents to his credit and I probably only got a few of them.

 

[tombell572]

I never realized how many items I had that would fit this category until now. A few: a drill index holding numbered drills 61-80 and a Brown & Sharpe drill gage covering those sizes, a set of Cincinnati forged C-clamps and a set of B&S tiny rules from 1/4" - 1" with holder.

Tom B.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Here's a Chapman set

 

[Etchase]

Here's a Chapman set

Nice case! They should offer that again!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Mostly bought it for the interesting case. Pretty curious about the time frame if anyone has a clue

 

[tombell572]

A somewhat unusual micrometer: a Brown & Sharpe 1/2".

Tom B.

 

[Drill Sergeant Arc]

Okay, dug around and found some of the smallest tools I have. First up my Mini-metal lathe.

No, not the big Delta, that little guy on top of it.



It even has a power feed for the carriage.
It even has a little box of goodies.


And here is the other stuff-small bits, watchmakers tap and die set.

 

[Drill Sergeant Arc]

I also have three little wrenches that I have kept track of since I was a kid, a Bonney and two others that appear to be for a specific purpose of some kind as if they were supplied with an instrument or machine tool for adjustments.

There is no markings on the one below, the short little stubby end has a slight bend where it narrows. But it's quite thick also, more so than most of the wrenches you see supplied for assembling a kids bike for example.

 

[four.cycle]

^ does that upper one say "Anco" on it? As in "The Anderson Company" ? The windshield wiper manufacturers?
the lower one looks like a wrench for a stove - camping or backpacking stove.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I think you nailed it on the anco

 

[Drill Sergeant Arc]

^ does that upper one say "Anco" on it? As in "The Anderson Company" ? The windshield wiper manufacturers?
the lower one looks like a wrench for a stove - camping or backpacking stove.

I couldn’t quite read it, but it does look like it has that A with the little tail off it’s right leg that goes under the other letters. ANCO did have that logo at some point in the past. I’ll use my lighted magnifying lens to take a closer look tomorrow.

A camp stove wrench could be it for that other one. I’ve got one of those old white gas backpacking stoves somewhere, that would be great if it went with that. So much stuff gets separated over the years and no one will never know about it. Thanks for the help.

 

[d42jeep]

I found this cute 6” Walworth Stillson wrench at a local estate sale this morning. Patent date Aug 8, 1882
-Don

 

[genog]

Here's my teenie weenie utility knife.
Anyone know of a source for blades for this little guy?

 

[3baygarage]

Not sure what the blade looks like , but that looks like an Evans mini-knife if that helps.

 

[genog]

Thanks for the info.
Your intel lead me to, what I think (hope) is a source

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Here's a Chapman set

I wonder how old that is. You've seen my first generation set, from 1942, in the eyeglass case, on the Chapman thread. Eventually they went to plastic. I'd bet your leatherette roll is in between.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

According to Chapman website, the eyeglass cases are ww2 era. Business began in 1936 and continues to this day

 

[Private Lugnutz]

According to Chapman website, the eyeglass cases are ww2 era.

Um, yeah. You may not recall that we have a thread where I have discussed this at length, OTG. The WWII set in the display case in Chapman's office was the first example I found and sent to them, which I have dated to 1942, as I just mentioned in my first reply. A couple years later I got lucky and found another one! But I have never seen a set in a leatherette pouch before. You may not recall that you and I discussed an even more interesting Chapman-supplied Snap-on set that I still kick myself for not going deep pockets on - also in an eyeglass case, on the Snap-on thread, linked here. In the ensuing discussion we determined through catalogs that Chapman was supplying them to Snap-on in the 60's in vinyl pouches, plastic cases and metal cases. No mention of leatherette. All of which is to elaborate on my curiosity about the date of production of the sets in leatherette pouches! It's a really cool and interesting find. In fact, I am going to cross-link it to the Chapman thread so I don't forget about it over here in Tiny Tools.