Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Northwoods on April 10, 2016, 04:44:24 PM
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Came back with some good stuff:
1 1/8" Plomb Pebble combo in nice shape. That bugger is 16" long! Working on my set.
Albertson Sioux #775 1/2" female ratchet with leather-clad handle.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Albertson-Co-3-8-Head-Ratchet-Wrench-/181818796358?hash=item2a553ea946:g:L~0AAOSwT6pVurhs
Controlled Steel open end in 15/16 by 1" in sweet shape. Biggest in my set yet.
Two B&C s-shaped adjustables in gooey black paint. $5.50 for the wrenches; $.50 for the paint remover.
Bonney combo #1166 in 3/4". An Outline style (AA) from the early '60's. Too pretty to pass up.
And two pressed steel sockets open on only one end. I got them at different places, and they do not seem to be brothers at all. But maybe cousins.
The first is marked VLCHEK. 3 1/4" long. Hex opening is 13/16" and the hex drive on the other end is 3/4". Like the one in this picture of a bogus early Chevy took kit. I could be easily convinced it is a spark plug wrench.
http://www.theforgottenchevy.com/accessories.html
The other is unmarked. 3" long. Hex opening is 1 1/8" and the square drive on the other end is 5/8". Early lug wrench?
Any ideas, folks?
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Oops!
The Albertson Sioux 1/2" ratchet is, on closer examination, a 7/16" ratchet!
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Probably a silly question here, but what would a 7/16 ratchet be used for?
The reason I ask is because I've got this old Houghton patent ratchet/hammer tool, which has a 7/16 square hole in the ratchet.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v307/jooliesews/Bobbys/Bobbys%20III/Houghton%20ratchet-hammer%20comb_zpsf1k18wns.jpg)
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There to be other drive sizes years ago. Now we have the survivors 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 3/4, 1 , 1-1/2. I have a number of Plomb and Snap-On 9/32 sockets and drive tools from the 1940s. I have a modern Proto socket in 5/8 drive. I am surprised someone hasn't come up with a drive size in metric. 8mm, 12mm, 14mm, 18mm ?
EvilDr235
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that's a cool hammer/ratchet you have there, never seen one before.
Herbert L. Houghton was from Worcester, Massachusetts, it's may be possible that it was sub-contracted to
either Walden Tool Co. or Prentess Co. both of Worcester
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But!
Does anyone have info about the two pressed steel sockets described in the top post?
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Snap-on made 1/8 drive although only a few socket sizes and spinner handle not a ratchet. They also made 5/8 and 7/8 drive and I have a Blackhawk ratchet that is 7/16 drive.
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One of my (probably lateral, distant, or otherwise far away in the family line) ancestors was a clever guy: If the bolt won't come loose with the wrench, the persuader's right there!