Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: amecks on August 28, 2021, 07:32:52 PM
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The Foreman where I work gave me these 4 containers of tools. Many of them were his father's and grandfather's and some his wife's family.
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There are dozens of files all American, many Nicholson, and many with good life left in them. Stanley square, tool roll in black leather has 42 pouches that I suspect were meant to hold drill bits. There's a Miller #2 and a Goodell Pratt hand drill. The sledge hammer with no handle is marked 4 1/2 Lbs and has FRP over an anchor.
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Started sorting and cleaning - this is a local company - Oswego Tool Co. 10' pipe wrench
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You know I like these auto wrenches...I pulled the pin out and unfroze this one, it has nice straight jaws and now works great. Will use it at work.
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Walden Worcester 2716 1/2 socket tool and an alligator/screwdriver/nut wrench Whitman & Barnes Bull Dog #0.
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I found later the Stanley knife has damage, the typical chunk missing above the blade. Duro-Chrome 657DK 1/2 breaker bar with an additional drive on the handle end - How was that used? The pliers are Utica 86-6 flat nose in real good condition.
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Tozzi Punch - W&MP CO N.Y. - makes a dimple and lower part cuts a hole. Weird. No visible mark on red caliper and the other is a Peck Stowe Wilcox marked EAST and 6.
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Working Shopmate Pistol drill (could stand to have a new cord).
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Model 77LH
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Stanley wood handle No. 3 Phillips - blade tip is perfect. Sargent No.66 wrench. Goodell Pratt spiral screwdriver in amazing condition - the handle has tangs and notches that engage and the collar snaps on to make it a fixed screwdriver. The plane is a Fulton 409 - this was a Sears economy brand was it not?
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Very nice boss you have there. I picked up a Bonney Breaker bar with a female end that allows you to use it as an extension. Maybe your male end extension works with a female ratchet?
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Maybe your male end extension works with a female ratchet?
That could well be. There's a version of this extension without the handle drive end but this piece is old enough to have been used when female drive ratchets were being used regularly.
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Nice---over the years I have also received some nice gifts of tools, and then you are faced with how to respond. With a foreman it would be hard, you don't want to be a suck-up.
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It could be difficult but in this circumstance I don't foresee a problem. And I did pull a dozen or so tools out to use there at work.
Not photographed yet are a BluePoint and a Bonney box wrenches.
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I think the dimple-and-hole-punch tool is for eyelets, such as you would see for shoelaces and the like. At least, I've used the one I have for that purpose, and it works perfectly.
Like these: https://www.weaverleathersupply.com/catalog/item-detail/02270-bp-10/2270-eyelets-brass-plated-/pr_46488/cp_/shop-now/hardware/fasteners/grommets-eyelets?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIva-Mk9TW8gIVh62WCh0KcQHbEAQYByABEgJru_D_BwE (https://www.weaverleathersupply.com/catalog/item-detail/02270-bp-10/2270-eyelets-brass-plated-/pr_46488/cp_/shop-now/hardware/fasteners/grommets-eyelets?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIva-Mk9TW8gIVh62WCh0KcQHbEAQYByABEgJru_D_BwE)
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And, even if there are tools you can use in the shop, some donuts in the break room for everyone and telling him you're thanking him that way might work.
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Hi Bill, the eyelet setter in the link you posted closely resembles the shape of the tool. Probably a bullseye on that! And another bullseye for donuts in the breakroom. I am so socially inept! Thanks!
Al