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Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: stanley62 on October 17, 2011, 01:08:24 PM

Title: Plump Plombs
Post by: stanley62 on October 17, 2011, 01:08:24 PM

I found two fat little Round "O" Plombs at the Swap Meet last weekend.  Tools are stamped:
Tool 1
(Front) PLOMB TOOL CO LA CALIF (CALIF is only partially readable)
(back) 7/16 S.A.E. 3/8 (3/8 is inverted)

Tool 2
(Front) PLOMB TOOL CO LA CALIF
(back) 7/16 S.A.E 3/8

  AA shows one wrench of this type, but not sure of the date.  I think that the round "O" and the ID with LA CALIF makes them pretty early, 20's or 30's.  Am I good on the date???

  I had never seen any this thick.  They are around 7/16" thick.

 Jim

Title: Re: Plump Plombs
Post by: jimwrench on October 17, 2011, 02:49:38 PM

 They are well fed. Never seen that configuration. nice find.

Title: Re: Plump Plombs
Post by: bonneyman on October 17, 2011, 04:08:47 PM

I like that bottom obstruction wrench. Nice short and beefy design!

Title: Re: Plump Plombs
Post by: rusty on October 17, 2011, 07:14:33 PM

Textile patterns, I didn't know plomb made those, very neat : )

Early date range is probably right, does the stamping look like it was done by hand?

Title: Re: Plump Plombs
Post by: stanley62 on October 18, 2011, 11:08:07 AM

The stamping on the front is nice and straight and uniform.  Not by hand.  On the back, where they stamped the size, it is quite possibly by hand.
 Jim

Title: Re: Plump Plombs
Post by: jimwrench on October 18, 2011, 12:24:26 PM

 Alloy shows similar wrench at start of open end wrenchs. Lists thickness at .44 which seems to be same as yours.