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Offline moparthug

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Yard sale wrench haul, well over 20 pounds.
« on: March 25, 2017, 09:00:13 PM »
Ooops... I seem to have gone over my weekly limit of old rusty tools this time. It's going to take me a month to track down all these, but what really got me excited was this little Bethlehem Spark Plug Company socket set.
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Offline turnnut

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Re: Yard sale wrench haul, well over 20 pounds.
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2017, 09:06:42 PM »
 I like that socket set,  it would have followed me home also.  nice find.

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Re: Yard sale wrench haul, well over 20 pounds.
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2017, 11:31:24 PM »
You did real well.   If I got 20lbs of tools, would just lose them in the shop, major reorganize needed.  Get the radio too?
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Re: Yard sale wrench haul, well over 20 pounds.
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2017, 08:08:49 AM »
It's amazing that the socket set survived this many years without losing any sockets. Congrats!
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Re: Yard sale wrench haul, well over 20 pounds.
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2017, 08:19:18 AM »
They must have sold a ton of those little socket sets back in the day. I see them on and off of course I'm only 20 miles from Bethlehem PA. My brother picked up a set of them several years ago.

Offline bill300d

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Re: Yard sale wrench haul, well over 20 pounds.
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2017, 09:01:33 AM »
They must have sold a ton of those little socket sets back in the day. I see them on and off of course I'm only 20 miles from Bethlehem PA. My brother picked up a set of them several years ago.
I'm a little closer than that and I have only come across 2 and neither one were complete.
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Re: Yard sale wrench haul, well over 20 pounds.
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2017, 09:14:04 AM »
I like that socket set,  it would have followed me home also.  nice find.
Like that set! 
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Re: Yard sale wrench haul, well over 20 pounds.
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2017, 09:51:34 AM »
Hello, Moparthug. Nice find!!!!!!  Regards, Lou
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Re: Yard sale wrench haul, well over 20 pounds.
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2017, 12:08:48 PM »
There were buckets full of tools, a mix of modern, old, and junk, you just had to take the time to dig through it all. The socket set WAS missing 1 socket, but I spent 45 minutes searching and found it in a bucket of screwdrivers. The sockets are not marked, just a knurling around the edge that matches the others. I got very lucky there!

And yes, I picked up the old short wave radio as well, a bizarre looking hammer I'll get pics of later,  a Damon Raike pipe wrench, and then all the various Bonney, Vlchek, Penens, Billings, Bon-E-Con, Super-Bob-Cat, some S wrenches, and a few odd balls.

Another curious thing to this tool collection were spares, there were 7 Wright MS56 11/16th sockets... but no other sizes. Same thing with the early Craftsman open end combo wrenches, lots of 7/8 x 25/32, but missing other common sizes.

And tucked inside a set of S-K sockets (not even that old) was this great bit of early advertising.
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