Not all products came out of the USSR were like their submarines. There were a few over engineered cameras and fountain pens. I would think a few hand tools would surface here and there. How come I have not seen any? Did they buy strickly American Snap On's? They cound not have been buying anything made in China. 20 years ago, China was 20 years behind in manufacturing and technology.
What? No USSR Tools?
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american lockpicker
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Try looking in the Old World thread. 
patrickw10
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Ive been lookin myself and ive yet to find much at all.
american lockpicker
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Since most won't want to look through each page try looking at his posts.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/member.php?u=61886
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/member.php?u=61886
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I have a USSR military tool kit still in the original wrapping. i should get some pictures sometime.
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Packard V8
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I've got dial indicators, calipers, micrometers I picked up for $1 each after the CCCP fell apart.
jack vines
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spongerich
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USSR hand tools show up on eBay once in a while... I've been wanting to pickup a few nice ones just for the novelty of it.
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patrickw10
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I wouldnt mind getting a ratchet and some sockets. if they are built are built like there guns they will be ugly as sin but indestructable.
american lockpicker
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One Russian gun company(not Tula the other one) makes hammer drills now.
patrickw10
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Must be izhmash i know they make quite a bit of stuff.
american lockpicker
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Yes thats it.
Rural53
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I've have experienced three Russian products:
1. Zenit SLR camera (1987). This was a manual SLR with a built in light meter that took Pentax K mount lenses. Took great photos but wasn't very fast.
2. TOZ .22lr bolt action rifle. I owned this for about 7 years. It was cheap and very accurate. Everything was loose and appeared made to poor tolerances, until you closed the bolt, then it was tight. It would fire any ammunition you put in it, unlike the Brno 2E I replaced it with that dosn't like some brands of ammo. The top junior in our rifle club at the time had a TOZ with a heavy target barrel. With that gun she won the junior cup three years in a row.
3. Russian chocolate. When I was at university we met some Russian fisherman, off a factory trawler in a pub, that had run out of cash. They wanted to trade chocolate for beer. They definately got the better side of this deal, the chocolate was very fatty tasting. Word of advice - don't trade beer for Russian chocolate!
1. Zenit SLR camera (1987). This was a manual SLR with a built in light meter that took Pentax K mount lenses. Took great photos but wasn't very fast.
2. TOZ .22lr bolt action rifle. I owned this for about 7 years. It was cheap and very accurate. Everything was loose and appeared made to poor tolerances, until you closed the bolt, then it was tight. It would fire any ammunition you put in it, unlike the Brno 2E I replaced it with that dosn't like some brands of ammo. The top junior in our rifle club at the time had a TOZ with a heavy target barrel. With that gun she won the junior cup three years in a row.
3. Russian chocolate. When I was at university we met some Russian fisherman, off a factory trawler in a pub, that had run out of cash. They wanted to trade chocolate for beer. They definately got the better side of this deal, the chocolate was very fatty tasting. Word of advice - don't trade beer for Russian chocolate!
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american lockpicker
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I have 2 guesses the first is England was the first place to demand another country(Germany) put its COO mark on its products so it stuck using English for COO and 2nd guess is English is a universal language.
@ Rural53 I also have experience with Russian guns first I had 3 Mosin Nagants 91/30s from WW2 very crudely made but always went bang and later when I was in high school I bought this unmarked "sanitized" Mosin 91/59 from my science teacher who was a gun dealer who got it from a police auction it had been used in a homicide and even had a sticker on the stock with case info such as where it had been found, etc.. It was definately post war and in excellent condition with nice bluing and no machine marks like my wartime ones.
DetroitDIESEL444, per your request, here are some translations
picture military kit 005.jpg:
Tools glider's and DU
Item # drawings PUM 9191-0A
Set # 133
OTK
FYI: OTK means - department of quality control
the other picture military kit 008.jpg some think like:
kuca4ku means - cutters
picture military kit 005.jpg:
Tools glider's and DU
Item # drawings PUM 9191-0A
Set # 133
OTK
FYI: OTK means - department of quality control
the other picture military kit 008.jpg some think like:
kuca4ku means - cutters
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Really? Well that's bad luck for you sir, because I'd trade a keg of the finest wheat beer for a nibble of the Russian Chocolate bar I get in the gift basket my buddy from England sends me every Christmas!
PartsGuy
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I've got dial indicators, calipers, micrometers I picked up for $1 each after the CCCP fell apart.
jack vines
Ermagherd, I have enough trouble reading a mic in English, much less deciphering Cyrillic! Meh, let's face it, I'm more of a "folding ruler" kind of accuracy guy!
MayerMR
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I'm pretty proud of this (what I believe to be NOS) vise that was made the USSR that I recently acquired:
The thing is really well-made...
The thing is really well-made...
seber
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Russian tools are not just crudely made, they are generally poorly designed. That vise being a major exception.
The markings on that vise are very strange. They seem to be half in English and half in Russian. In Cyrilic it is CCCP. Their P is our R. Yours says USS for Union of Soviet Socialist, in English and then switches to the Cyrilic P. Are you sure it is Russian?I'm pretty proud of this (what I believe to be NOS) vise that was made the USSR that I recently acquired:
The thing is really well-made...
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I'd say that's R, casting or picture is a bit unclear.
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Your sweeping condemnation is very wrong.
I have a lot of machinists stuff like sinus angle blocks, straight edges icrometers , broaches , twist drills, taps , dies bought new on markets in Estonia. Straight out of old soviet military stock, a friend translated the lettering on the boxes.
Checked them against modern measurement setups. Very accurate.
And I also have a Profila 1K62 toolroom lathe which is the best traditional lathe I have ever úsed. Even beats the very high quality Rosenfors lathes made in Sweden.
I do not doubt they made a lot of inferior stuff as well. Like everywhere else!
Ola
Your sweeping condemnation is very wrong.
I have a lot of machinists stuff like sinus angle blocks, straight edges icrometers , broaches , twist drills, taps , dies bought new on markets in Estonia. Straight out of old soviet military stock, a friend translated the lettering on the boxes.
Checked them against modern measurement setups. Very accurate.
And I also have a Profila 1K62 toolroom lathe which is the best traditional lathe I have ever úsed. Even beats the very high quality Rosenfors lathes made in Sweden.
I do not doubt they made a lot of inferior stuff as well. Like everywhere else!
Ola
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There are still some soviet/USSR/CCCP tool deals to be had (nothing like the early 90's were items were sold slightly above scrap values):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/223204647059
https://www.ebay.com/itm/223204647059
MayerMR
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I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to, but if it's the lighting in the photo, it does read, "MADE IN USSR". For all I know, this vise was made for export? Either way, I consider it a Soviet-era made find...which I think is fair.
This is correct.
My bad. The R looked like a P on my phone at first glance
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toolchaser
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I have a CCCP radius gage I picked up @ an east Berlin flea market. My only Russian tool
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That’s awesome. Very much like a Bahco.
I remember the old Zenit SLR's. I just looked to see what was still around and according to Wikipedia, they are making digital cameras today in cooperation with Leica. ZENIT LIVES !!
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ftb
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I've got a USSR made chuck. It's in a pretty good shape. I've had to take it apart, clean and oil and it looks like it will work another century.
GrantCee
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Hahahaha...yeah, a lot of people in our space program were probably sitting in their offices on October 3rd, 1957, saying exactly the same thing.
The next day their world was turned upside down by the product of those "crude" and "poor" tools.
Stillgottimefor1
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During the cold war I remember a defector landing his SU25 in Japan. They were amazed at how crude it was, without flush rivets. Their planes were built to land on unimproved runways. Everything was built more like a tractor. It worked and they could crank out a lot of them. The AK47 is a classic example; cheap, indestructable and gets the job done.
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SuperCat
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That vise that MayerMR posted up is built like a tank and definitely has some cool factor (post #23). I'll bet that vise will still be around long after the world gets nuked.
All I have is a couple of Russian wrenches marked "Made in USSR." I found them at the flea market. Those were all the Russian marked tools I had ever seen until I saw this thread.
All I have is a couple of Russian wrenches marked "Made in USSR." I found them at the flea market. Those were all the Russian marked tools I had ever seen until I saw this thread.
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USSR was a military complex no different today they spend money on arms aka Russia nothing new.
They don't build manufacture anything other than that.
They don't build manufacture anything other than that.