Wood handled Proto drivers

[NoahG]

Check these out, anyone know when they were made?

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Ingersoll bought them out around 64, so newer than that.

 

[Smokeshow69]

They are professional era so 70's/80's.... I dont have catalogs that new so I cant say for sure! The design themselves dates back to the Plomb wood handle drivers of the 20's but the wording on them points to modern manufacturing. Still a really cool item to find. I would have bought them if I came across them at a decent deal!

 

[NoahG]

They are professional era so 70's/80's.... I dont have catalogs that new so I cant say for sure! The design themselves dates back to the Plomb wood handle drivers of the 20's but the wording on them points to modern manufacturing. Still a really cool item to find. I would have bought them if I came across them at a decent deal!

Considering they didn’t know what to even price them at so they sold them to me for $11.20 I’m pretty pleased.

 

[RTM]

they sold them to me for $11.20 I’m pretty pleased.

I'd have paid that.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Good deal

 

[d42jeep]

I still have a couple from around then.
-Don

 

[ecotec]

I'd have paid that.

Me too…

 

[four.cycle]

I only paid 50 cents for one of those at a garage sale last year, but it cost $13 to ship it to another member here.

 

[Ricky Joe]

I only paid 50 cents for one of those at a garage sale last year, but it cost $13 to ship it to another member here.

I had something, don’t even remember what, now, that I sold to a member here for $10 shipped. I was shocked that with shipping it cost $13! I’m not trying to make money, but certainly not lose it, either! I absorbed it and learned to check shipping before I quoted a shipped price.

 

[bmwrd0]

I have a couple sets like that:




The story I got, and the reason I have never seen another Proto/Plomb driver marked "not for electrical use" was that these were salesman's samples. The man I bought them from was the son of a Proto salesman, and had been holding on to them for 25+ years.