Tool Talk
Picture Forum => Picture Forum => Topic started by: Lewill2 on May 05, 2011, 10:11:30 AM
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Pictures from my tool room. Screw Arm Plow Planes, Wrenches and other oddities.
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A Few more.
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The last group.
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Very Sweet!!!! The patents up there too make a great addition to everything
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Very nice! I have been, characteristically, far more precipitate in arranging my displays, far less resourceful in cabinet making, and less demanding in my collecting standards than you have.
A truly excellent collection of wrenches, from what I can see. Well done.
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Nothing but class there! Great cabinetry, also!
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I realized that if you click on the pictures they expand to full size so you can see the items more clearly.
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Very nice, love the cases as well. Good work.
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Jealous here! I never got around to the screw arm plows, and have had to make do with my wedge arm all these years. Gorgeous collection, beautifully displayed!
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Wow is right...
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Absolutly Beautiful, and Museum Looking Quality!
Wayne
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Are the cases fish tanks? That would be a great idea Everything look great
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Outstanding!
Are you scared of theft? The Mona Lisa should be protected that well! ;)
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I'm not scared of theft I am just to lazy to keep dusting them all the time. Old house with forced hot air heat and the dust builds up fast. The tall cases are old modified gun cabinets that I have picked up over the years. The clear cases are Polycarbonate that have been screwed together. The wall cases are made from scratch by myself. The fronts lift off. I have cleats at the top of the case to lock the front piece/window/door onto the cabinets. Only my favorites make it into the polycarbonate boxes or the wall cabinets. The rest are in the modified gun cabinets.
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very very nice Les.
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Very nice collection and display. I just love that cabinet housing the plow planes.
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I stand humbled in the presence of greatness. Beautiful collection. Beautiful displays. I will say again; WOW!!
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Beautiful tools and displays. Almost all of wrenches are top drawer. See a few we just sold at York. The Hawes patent "Wobble Wrench" (second photo, second from right, top row) sold for $550 too an absentee bidder in Australia (winning bidder would of went to $900)
http://www.datamp.org/patents/advance.php?pn=1050131&id=13813&set=7 (http://www.datamp.org/patents/advance.php?pn=1050131&id=13813&set=7)
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Thanks guys for the compliments. A few updated pictures of the small cabinets over the doors. I am in the process of building a 4th cabinet to hang along side of the big one. The patent drawings will come down and I'll have to find a place to relocate them.
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Nice looking wrenches, Les!!
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In Cab2B, are those small bottle jacks?
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Yes, I'm not sure if they were advertising/salesman samples or machinist jacks. They are all marked with Joyce Cridland & Co Dayton Ohio cast into the bottom of the Jack. Some have a patent date cast into it and the smaller ones that resemble a standard bottle jack have "comliments of Joyce Crindland & Co" cast into the bottom. 3 different styles. All are screw jacks. The taller ones are double screw.
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You got me totally sidetracked for a day you know....hehe
The patent date corresponds to patent 390605, by James O. Joyce...
Joyce was in fact a rather busy fellow, apparently fascinated with pumping water, and jacking things up...
00154989 Sep 15,1874 Improvement in lifting-jacks. (Joyce,J.O.)
00209344 Oct 29,1878 Improvement in lifting-jacks. (Joyce,J.O.)
00210946 Dec 17,1878 Improvement in lifting-jacks. (Joyce,J.O.)
00256002 Apr 4,1882 Lifting-jack. (Joyce,J.O.)
00271863 Feb 6,1883 Lifting-jack. (Joyce,J.O.)
00271864 Feb 6,1883 Lever-jack. (Joyce,J.O.)
00276827 May 1,1883 Lifting-jack. (Joyce,J.O.)
00305392 Sep 16,1884 Lifting-jack. (Joyce,J.O.)
00349280 Sep 14,1886 Vise. (Joyce,J.O.)
00389475 Sep 11,1888 Telescopic jack. (Joyce,J.O.)
00390605 Oct 2,1888 Screw-jack. (Joyce,J.O.)
The vise is interesting, it is a quick release type, wonder if it was inspired by a screw-jack mishap?
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I'm laying out the new cabinet with wrenches before I hang it on the wall. Still need to get a piece of glass cut for the door and it will be about finished.
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Fabulous. Beautiful.
Thanks so much for sharing!!!
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I have to say that those cases and their contents look mighty nice. Lots of thought evident in the display. But, with them under glass, how the heck do you take them down and fondle them? ***** Not that anyone here does such a thing!
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Covers/doors of the cases lift off. Just set them on the floor and fondle away. I didn't hinge them because of their size and weight. The glass is double thick window glass. A lug across the top of the case catches a dado in the top of the cover/door.
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Les,
Those are beautiful wrenches and certainly worthy of special presentation. If the boxes are placed on the wall, how will the wrenches be secured to the back of the box?
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Brass screw in angle hooks are used to hang the wrenches in all my cabinets.
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Click on the pictures to enlarge and you can see the hooks. The last picture posted has hooks on the top left wrench so far. That wrench is a English made quick adjust wrench. Made by C. F. E. Swinden & Co London, patented Instantaneous Grip Spanner.
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New cabinet mounted to the wall, wrenches mounted but I still have to get the glass cut and installed for the door/cover.
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Thread resurrection: This was before my time here, but I just had to bring it back and compliment Les on an amazing room. Very impressive!
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Thanks, Just another tool nut at heart.
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A+ for Presentation!