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Offline bonneyman

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What is it with pebble Plombs?
« on: September 18, 2011, 10:39:23 PM »
There seems to be alot of interest in these pebble Plomb style of wrenches. Is the pebbling on purpose, or was it just a side effect of the manufacturing that Plomb just left on?
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Re: What is it with pebble Plombs?
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2011, 11:11:11 PM »
It was a design element done on purpose and it sure does look nice.

I speculate it was partly aesthetic and partly to make a better grip with greasy paws than a flat wrench.
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Re: What is it with pebble Plombs?
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2011, 08:49:43 AM »
Maybe just coming out of LA they had to be cool. IMO they are the sexiest with Bonney's right up there too.
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Re: What is it with pebble Plombs?
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2011, 02:38:59 PM »
See, I was thinking about Bonney too. They have some wrenches full polish. But others had a "satin" finish, basically that was not smoothed down and polished shiney. I figured they did it for lower cost by saving some steps, and then said it was for better grip when greasy.
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Re: What is it with pebble Plombs?
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2011, 04:09:12 PM »
Plomb probably picked up pebbling after Walden Worcester of Worcester, Mass. showed 'em how it looked. See proof below.

To all my fellow Delaware Valley USA compadres: Worcester is a two syllable word, pronounced Wooster or, in New England, Woostah.
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Re: What is it with pebble Plombs?
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2011, 04:52:07 PM »
Wow, I've not seent that before sure is pretty.
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Re: What is it with pebble Plombs?
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2011, 06:45:32 PM »
>Worcester is a two syllable word, pronounced Wooster or,

All of these years I have been putting wus-tar-share sauce on my french fries...

(In new england there is definitly a U after the w, none of those squirrly half committed oo's)
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Re: What is it with pebble Plombs?
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2011, 06:51:31 PM »
Sounds reasonable, Rusty.  Thanks for the update!

Wood, on the other hand, has the same pronunciation as the first syllable in Worcester.
« Last Edit: July 03, 2012, 01:43:05 PM by Wrenchmensch »
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Re: What is it with pebble Plombs?
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2011, 08:11:10 AM »
>Worcester is a two syllable word, pronounced Wooster or,

Yeah, like my old Win'ster 22 rifle...

Chester or -cester is a suffix meaning a camp.  Comes from the time of the Roman occupation of England. 
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Re: What is it with pebble Plombs?
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2011, 11:41:36 AM »
i live in worcestershire :)
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Re: What is it with pebble Plombs?
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2011, 06:08:21 PM »
How do you pronounce it over there, Benjy?

As a youngster, I called Worchestershire Sauce "Cha-Cha Sauce".
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Re: What is it with pebble Plombs?
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2011, 09:15:13 PM »
Golly, the cha-cha wasn't invented until I was in college.
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Re: What is it with pebble Plombs?
« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2011, 01:05:57 PM »
wooster is as near as i can get spelling it :)
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Re: What is it with pebble Plombs?
« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2011, 06:26:13 PM »

Kinda makes you wonder why they bother teaching phoenitic spelling in school doesn't it ? LOL
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Re: What is it with pebble Plombs?
« Reply #14 on: September 27, 2011, 08:45:15 AM »
Quote from: rusty on September 26, 2011, 06:26:13 PM

Kinda makes you wonder why they bother teaching phoenitic spelling in school doesn't it ? LOL

Yeah, well, strictly phonetic spelling also gives you dokter, as in dokter fill.  Wooster is just another example of "silent" letters, like the "t" in often.  Nobody blinks at "none" though it started life as "not one" or "ne one," and willy nilly started out as "will he, ne will he."
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