Vintage S-K Tools

[nz44tool]

I'm pleased when I come across S-K stuff

The problem that I have is.... I just can't seem to remember which sockets are the ones that I need to fill gaps and holes....
This size or that size....
...this size lettering or that size...
...do I need 12 pt or 6 pt?

...and it seems I guess wrong just about every time
I've finally decided to make a list

I came across these yesterday

I feel your pain - so many iterations ! I keep a list (with pics) on my phone of the current project gap-fillers I need.
Quite handy.
BTW, got any extra SK Wayne stuff? I need a 45116 1/2" shallow 6-point 3/8" drive socket and a 4426 spark plug socket.

 

[Outlawmws]

...and it seems I guess wrong just about every time
I've finally decided to make a list

2X3 card with a grid for your wallet.

I carried one for years when I first started putting together a "complete" set of sockets (Whatever that means, and long before Excel...)

 

[genog]

I feel your pain - so many iterations ! I keep a list (with pics) on my phone of the current project gap-fillers I need.

BTW, got any extra SK Wayne stuff? I need a 45116 1/2" shallow 6-point 3/8" drive socket and a 4426 spark plug socket.

I've avoided the Wayne stuff because it would be More to look for
But.....now that I am making a list, I'll be on the lookout for you

 

[nz44tool]

I've avoided the Wayne stuff because it would be More to look for
But.....now that I am making a list, I'll be on the lookout for you

Thank you! I have some SK to trade - not a lot, but maybe a piece you need. Ya never know...

 

[four.cycle]

...and it seems I guess wrong just about every time

Trying to fill holes in socket sets is along the same line as trying to fill an inside straight at a poker table with five other players.
The odds simply are not in your favor.
Lists are requisite. Detailed lists. Lists which include font style, number of bands, crosshatched or knurled, U.S.A. or not U.S.A., "tools" or "tool", Super or Select, Wayne or Lectrolite, raised panel or round shank, polished heads or Japanned finish....
When you're in some dark garage digging through boxes of loose sockets and wrenches it all becomes a blur.
That list will come in real handy.

 

[genog]

BTW, got any extra SK Wayne stuff? I need a 45116 1/2" shallow 6-point 3/8" drive socket and a 4426 spark plug socket.

@nz44tool
Could you have left out a zero in the model # of your spark plug socket?
40426?
Not SK Wayne, regular ole SK.....
If so, I have it for you



I found a shallow 3/8" Wayne......but 9/16

 

[LesserSon]

SK Wayne I need… a 4426 spark plug socket.

Not a 4826?

 

[nz44tool]

Thanks, genog & Lesser Son! I much appreciate you digging through your S-K stuff to look for these!
I'm getting the part numbers I cited from SK-Wayne catalog 90118 (1968). (Internet Archive)
I'm trying to build up "Starter Set No. 4512", a very basic 3/8" drive set.
I have the box, all the shallow sockets (except the 45116 1/2"), and both extensions, but I lack the 13/16" spark plug socket and the ratchet. (I have the right part number ratchet, but it's not a -Wayne.)
The spark plug socket part number in that catalog is given as 4426 (also in other Wayne catalogs).

 

[Shelbylex]

As some of you remember, I bought a green Thorsen box that was filled with SK tools and was wondering if the box was truly SK (which it was not)

I would like to thank the LesserSon for helping me get the box. I cut some mat for the bottom and transferred the SK tools into the SK box (temporarily as the long term plan is to put a vintage set with knurled sockets which will go into Red Tool Wagon (I will get all the tools first and then get to the restoration of RTW)
The Thorsen box was filled with Craftsman 4mm-14mm sockets, 1/4 Duralast socket, 5.75"" Craftsman and 2" chrome vanadium extension as well as my old Duralast ratchet which I bought before I even knew about GJ. (need to take it apart and lube it probably - it definitely saved me some money in the past... The driver is Duratest if I remember correctly (with the ability to attach ratchet to the top - found in a well used (with pliers on top) condition)

THANK YOU LESSERSON!!!

 

[2001ZR2]

Picked these up in a Facebook marketplace toolbox buy for $25. In the process of cleaning up the sockets in ultrasonic cleaner. The 7/16" to 1 1/4" sockets are missing 1/2", 7/8", 15/16" was replaced with a Wizard 1/2, Instestro 7/8 & Plomn 15/16.

The ratchet is solid but sounds a little dry. Probably open it and lube it.

 

[d42jeep]

I found this #1 Phillips driver at a recent yard sale.
This hard to find 1-3/16” 1/2” drive socket came from Roy Olsen.
-Don

 

[2001ZR2]

Post clean in ultrasonic and quick run across the wire wheel...cleaned up with hardened crud, paint and surface rust knocked off.

Edit: Forgot ask think these are chromed or not. They are a dark gray and wondering they might be wartime or just needs a polish?