VIM Tools - Durston Manufacturing Co.

[MR.X]

Good eye on the brass nozzle, the other stuff, plus quite a bit more was all on a pallet I bought at a farm auction. If that other nozzle hadn't been the screw head WW2 type I would have left it there with well over 100 lbs of other tools that I separated from my keeper pile.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Nice haul.

 

[3baygarage]

I spy a KRW steering wheel puller. What is that folding tool at the bottom?

 

[Ricky Joe]

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[MR.X]

I spy a KRW steering wheel puller. What is that folding tool at the bottom?

Hi. Good eye. 5 of the tools in that pic are K.R. Wilson. The folding tool is a Jack handle.

 

[Mintgrun]

I found this one today.



This must be a Chevrolet pump wrench, based on this catalog page that Rileysan shared in post # 25. Tom

It

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Nice find, Tom. VIM is hen's teeth for sure.

 

[Mintgrun]

I found another hen's-tooth yesterday. It was installed in this Cornwell socket and it wasn't until I got it home that I saw the VIM-VB5310L markings. One end is 7/16" and the other 3/8".





Tom

 

[Leviton]

VIM bump.

They weren't too particular about their name stamping quality.
And kind of a pain for the user to have one size marked on one side (only) and the other size marked on the other side.

Although I forgot to take a side photo, the boxes were nicely tapered. Good looking wrench other than the stampings.

 

[Provincial]

This VIM punch turned up in an estate sale lot last month.

 

[Ed in Virginia]

Found this VIM valve lifter in a box 'o tools that I got at an estate sale.

 

[outofbounds]

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/very-old-vim-box-end-wren

 

[d42jeep]

I found these two wrench holders at a recent Tahoe moving sale. I have a few of these in my user toolboxes and they work great.
-Don

 

[Etchase]

In 2020-21 Vim was acquired by new ownership and moved all operations to Tampa Florida. It has minimal manufacturing, with at most 6 of their 30 employees in manufacturing. They are basically a distributor, and offer some unique cool products manufactured mostly in Taiwan and the US.

Our History - VIM Tools

1931 The VIM Tool Company was started in 1931 as one of “The original mobile tool distributor” based out of Minneapolis , MN. The original owner would travel the country selling specialty automotive tools out of his businessman coupe. 1932 Ray Durston founded the Flexible Carbon Scraper Co. in...

vimtools.com

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Here's a hole punch set

 

[ChevyEFI]

That knurling is great.

 

[d42jeep]

Here are a couple of Vim wheel knockers I’ve had lying around for a while. I was thinking of posting them in another wheel knocker thread to check if the redundancy police were watching but decided that they would be more appropriate here.
-Don

 

[Steven 33]

or how about this.

21 piece sets. Handles on the speeders and different drive piece style for ratchet, but other than that...

This one is also basically just a mirror image of those but 23 pc.

 

[MR.X]

This one is also basically just a mirror image of those but

Man that is a scarce set.