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[Outlawmws]

Are Cannon plugs used outside of the military or aircraft industry ?

BTW - A lot of guys use Cannon plug pliers to remove radiator hoses.

Used to be used in the mainframe computer industry a lot also, and anywhere you had a lot of wires to route from one place to another. A lot less in use now.

That pair I posted are Boker USA and I think that went away quite some time ago... Boker in Germany is still in businiess

 

[Alan Douglas]

Unless someone here services pipe organs, you probably don't have a set of brass tuning cones:

I have no idea what this ratchet wrench was for:

 

[R.Anderson]

Here are other tools I have.

Square nut and bolt sockets, hex sockets, couple of spark plug sockets, universal joint, and a couple of oddities that look like there stamped out and then turned on a lathe. There is a stamped marking but I'm not going to scrub or wire brush em to see what it is.

I'm pretty sure this is a fencing hammer with forged loop for a hook to clip to a belt or other. I found this in a field years ago when I was a kid for some stupid reason I removed the hook.

One functional and one too rusted wrenches.

more to post yet

 

[sasquatch12]

Those stamped steel sockets look much to me like the old sets that were sold for model "T"'s, and made by the "Mossburg" company. I had a set, gave to an old collector friend, and the sizes were stamped differently, but cannot remember just how. (they weren't fractions.)
I found mine with pics i think on the "Alloy Artifacts " site.

 

[R.Anderson]

Heres some more pics

Mechanical screw driver made by Yankee?? hard to make out the stamping.

One of my favorites screwdriver/t-handled screwdriver or a hammer made by Crescent Tools.

Bunch of old wrenches nothing too special here.

Old Proto wrench and old Proto wood handle philips screw driver.

Two old c-clamps that I find eye appealing.

Still more to post

 

[Outlawmws]

R.Anderson:

Those sockets could also be Hinsdale (like the wrenches) as Hinsdale was big in stamped and bottle type sockets, and I believe I have the universal in a partial Hinsdale set I have.

And the hammer I think is a rock hammer, the clip still makes sense as a rock hound in the field would want a way to carry it and still keep it handy.

 

[R.Anderson]

On to the adjustable wrenches

Another many favorites of mine here.

Biggest one I have is 18 or 19" shown compared to a 4" adjustable Crescent wrench, not sure on make.

Smallest is a 8" J.H. Williams W & B Rail Road Special

The three biggest ones at the end in the first picture I paid 15 buck at a auction earlier this year. After I won the bid a guy came up to me kinda mad looking and said I paid way too much for em, not sure why he said that but meh I think its a deal for my collection.

 

[Outlawmws]

Allen D,

I'm NOT a pipe organ tuner but thank you for finally identifying my two odd brass "pointy things with a weird cone on the other end"

Can you tell if these are for a particular pitch? Is it by length, diameter, or a combination?

These are marked with C. E. G. clearly on one and either the same or C. F. G. on the other...

 

[R.Anderson]

Here are some kinda common tools many of ya folks may have that I think still fit in this thread.

some auger and twist bits and hand braces

some Stanley planes

A Lever Wrench c-clamp that automatically adjusts to vary thicknesses of material being clamped also has an adjustment for how much clamping force unlike standard visegrip c-clamps. Far as I know these are not made anymore not sure why due to how handy they are. I look for them every once and a while but people want a lot for em. Best part about this one is I found it in a dumpster along with a bunch of new and barely used files and some electrical bluepoint tools it was a score for me

Forgot this one not sure on what its made for. J. Caspers Lancaster Wis.

 

[R.Anderson]

RAnderson, 1st looks like a luthers plane (guitar or stringed instrument maker) or could also be a edge shaver for leather, hard to tell with out a pic from the cutting edge side. 2 is a brake spring pliers, 3rd is for clamping on your Weed tire chains

Leather shaver makes more sense, it came in a box of auction stuff from a old farm/ranch.

The Herbrand 188 was for late 30's Chevy, so not so sure it's still "Common"

The flat ones are for lifting battery terminals.

Down to the make and year nice, If I only had a 1930's Chevy and Weed tire chains for it.

Thanks for the IDing guys.

 

[Alan Douglas]

I presume the stamped letters are the owner's initials. Mine are stamped EW. They are for any pipe small enough to fit inside the cone. Nowadays most pipes have slides at the top to vary their length and pitch, but for older pipes, you flared the top with the pointed end to flatten the pitch, or shrank it with the hollow end to sharpen it. Pipes are lead-tin alloy and can stand a certain amount of tuning before they split and have to be repaired.

 

[2oolhound]

Starrett also made pressed steel socket sets at one time.

 

[TAMPAGT07]

Allen D,

I'm NOT a pipe organ tuner but

So you've never tuned up your pipe organ?

 

[Alan Douglas]

I have a 1936 Aeolian-Skinner I moved here about 45 years ago. Only the top octave of 2' flutes is cone-tuned, and they never go out of tune. They're in the center of this shot:

 

[R.Anderson]

I have a 1936 Aeolian-Skinner I moved here about 45 years ago. Only the top octave of 2' flutes is cone-tuned, and they never go out of tune. They're in the center of this shot:

Do you have any more pics of the 1936 Aeolian-Skinner and are the pipes on the left side of the picture for other organs or are they to the Aeolian-Skinner organ as well?

Is your workshop mainly for organs? It would be nice to see a thread started for it, pictures of that would be neat to see never seen one and I'm sure not many people on here have ether.

 

[Alan Douglas]

I do have more photos, though it's difficult to attach captions to photos since the forum software insists on showing thumbnails. There should be an overall view of the organ chamber from the right side looking left, and one of the main windchest with most of the pipes, and a view from the left side, of the bass pipes for the French horn (the treble pipes are in the foreground of the main chest photo). There are other ranks of pipes not visible. Then there's a photo of the "harp" (always called that in an organ, but a glockenspiel anywhere else) and an overall view of that end of the room and the console to the right. The organ is behind wooden louvers which pivot closed to control the sound level. Normally all this apparatus is hidden behind a decorative screen, if it were in a church. Mine was a home instrument, installed in 1936 in a 50-room house in the Poconos (Bethany, PA to be exact).

Also in the room photo is an 1864 parlor reed organ and some 1918-1925 radios.

The shop consists of two rooms in the cellar and two in the barn, a little of everything except automotive.

There are a few YouTube videos of the inner workings of pipe organs but I haven't bookmarked any, and most of them do assume some knowledge of terms, and familiarity with typical installations.

 

[BeaverPuncher]

A lot of interesting ones on this page.

 

[Outlawmws]

Allen, Posting pics:

After step 5 Put the cursor where you want the pic, use the Image button paste in the window, and close. then you can label above or below, as you want.

 

[Outlawmws]

ps: NICE organ! reminds me of when I was a kid there was a small chain of pizza parlours called "Pizza and Pipes" locally that had huge setups like that, every Fri and Sat evening (maybe Sunday) and someone would play. I must have asked them yo play, "In-a-gadda-vita" a dozen times, but no dice... It would have been awesome!

 

[R.Anderson]

Fascinating great pics, what does the harp do? just realized this is getting off track, may be a good idea to start a separate thread on this if you don't mind Alan.

 

[DpSyChO]

Unless someone here services pipe organs, you probably don't have a set of brass tuning cones:

I have no idea what this ratchet wrench was for:

What size is the square?
Could be useful for a blacksmith to twist sq bar stock for decorative iron work?

 

[Alan Douglas]

1" square.

Posting photos: "copy link location" Ah, I hadn't thought of that. I had been dragging and dropping, and changing the "URL" tags to "IMG". The software still wants to post thumbnails every time, though. So the post ends up with duplicate photos.

Most of the problem is that no two forums work the same.

I should start a new thread but as long as I'm here, the "harp" has tuned steel bars struck with felt hammers, and tubular resonators behind.

 

[parnass]

I bought some Efcor brand hand tools in the late 1970s. They were made in USA. Hadn't heard of that brand before nor since.

A web search shows the EFCOR TOOLS trademark was owned by I-T-E IMPERIAL CORPORATION in East Farmingdale, NY. The ITE Imperial Company was later bought by ABB.

 

[3baygarage]

Nice, parnass. Don't think I've come across that name. Looks like Efcor is an electrical parts maker. Conduit fittings and stuff like that. Perhaps the screwdrivers are rebranded Kleins. I wonder about the wrench and pliers.

 

[jeffmoss26]

Those are cool!!

 

[beatcad]

ok. heres one. I know i'm not the only guy that owned this, but I might be the only dummy to still own this I bet I haven't used it in least a decade.

 

[venturesomerite]

Pnematic hog ring gun. Someone who does upholstery might have one. I use it on driving range netting. I've got two. It beats the hell outta a hand squeeze one when you have to put up 20,000 hog rings on a job.

It was pretty nice when I recovered some seats for a friend a year ago too.

 

[Red Leader]

I have this Craftsman-badged Parks 18" floor band saw. The bandsaw itself isn't very rare, although the Craftsman-badged version is more rare.

However, I have never seen another one of these with the cast upper frame holding the top wheel on. Every other one I've seen was welded steel. Even in all of Craftsman's literature, they describe the frame as 'welded steel'.

While there have also now been a couple others documented, this was the first documented 110.2456X 20" tilt-arbor Craftsman jig-saw found. They are extremely rare and only produced from 1956-1957 (or so says the Craftsman catalog). This is probably one of the first as well, with a date code of 1/56.

 

[gregthor]

Here's one if you were a paper boy back in the 60's you know this tool. The newspaper bundles back then came bundled with wire that was tighter than a guitar string. These wire cutters made unpackaging the bundle of papers a piece of cake. I think I got them from my grandfather, they were probably my uncles from when he had a paper route in the 50's.
They are marked Sargent & Co. New Haven Conn.

 

[kiatech]

13/16" nut driver

 

[Mickey O]

Only one known to exist (not to be confused with the later gold ratchets sold to the general public):

Not sure how many of these are out there but it's the only one I've ever seen, Allis-Chalmers handyboy pliers:

 

[3baygarage]

Nice ratchet Mickey. I've seen the gold adjustable wrench before. I think they came out in the 80's and came in a shrink wrapped package. Or was it the 70's? I see one wrench on Ebay now with the Crown Top logo.
Where did you come across the ratchet?

 

[Mickey O]

Nice ratchet Mickey. I've seen the gold adjustable wrench before. I think they came out in the 80's and came in a shrink wrapped package. Where did you come across the ratchet?

Thanks, got it at a sale of an old Sears tool division boss, it was an award.

 

[3baygarage]

Oh, that's pretty neat. I kind of figured something along those lines when I read Chicago. I love to think about what's all out there that has yet to be unearthed.

 

[MotoDave]

I've got this set of 1" hex drive sockets and ratchet made by Walden-Worchester

 

[Hornman]

Some odd ones today: top and bottom in this pic, (although not many will have 4WR 4LN or 4BN Peterson vise grips either...)

Top: Boker, barrel nut pliers I suspect for cannon plugs.

Those bottom tongs are odd, closed the jaws meet at the tip and get the best grip with something about 1/8" thick in them. That also gets the grips a little more comfortable, as closed they are hard to grip at all, but I suspect these had extension grips at one point? possibly with scissor type loops? (or, what else could those inside grip notches be for?



The only markings are: "A.G.5" and in front of that, a three leaf clover? Ring any bells anyone?

Tong faces are serrated finely for grip:

Outlaw, I believe the pliers in the bottom photo are used to stretch skins over a tanning/drying rack.

 

[Outlawmws]

Here's one if you were a paper boy back in the 60's you know this tool. The newspaper bundles back then came bundled with wire that was tighter than a guitar string. These wire cutters made unpackaging the bundle of papers a piece of cake. I think I got them from my grandfather, they were probably my uncles from when he had a paper route in the 50's.
They are marked Sargent & Co. New Haven Conn.

Greg, I had a route back then, we were given... well, sold, a disk with a cut in it to fit onto the wire and bend back and forth. I hated that and used a set of slip joints, and used the cutter in the gullet of the jaws. If you kept the nut snug it worked well.

 

[Outlawmws]

13/16" nut driver

I have that one's ancestor! 13/16 and a 3/4.. (I'm trying to get an entire set of wood handle spintites... )

 

[Outlawmws]

Outlaw, I believe the pliers in the bottom photo are used to stretch skins over a tanning/drying rack.

It could be, but don't those have the lug like upholstery tongs?

 

[zkling]

I may be taking a gamble on this one. My old craftsman bicycle tire spoons. Had to use them tonight, still work.