Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: skipskip on March 03, 2017, 01:47:57 PM
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Some of us have been here for a while and we kinda get to know who collects what.
And sometimes its a type of tool, and some folks are brand-centric
And some times the user name is a clue (plyerman, Bonneyman, Snapmom)
But since we have a slew of newer members, maybe we can just type a few sentences about ourselves,so they can get an idea of the width and breadth of our interests
I lean toward tools and equipment used in the auto repair trades, tho lately I have been seduced by some machine shop tools and equipment.
And frankly, I have never met a tool I didnt like.. well almost never.
Skip
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I relate to H D Smith tools, Bergman and Bluebird tools, and used to buy a lot of Coes wrenches.
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Other than not having enough room for them, i pretty much like any tool that hits my hand..lol. I have to admit i hate seeing tools that have been beat up, but probably did my share of that when i was a kid. Picked up a couple of old slip-joint pliers, a couple of split tip (screw-holding) screwdrivers, a Craftsman "yankee" screwdriver, and a brass plumbbob recently and i think the tool i brought home before that was a 24" level with twin bubbles in each position (I'm very partial to those :embarrassed:)
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I collect mostly automotive , small engine , and machine shop equipment. Snap On , then others. I have more than my fair share of drill presses and they are starting to get in the way. I have a Wellsaw # 5 , a brake lathe , band saw , 3 Foley sharpeners , and 15 + roller and chest tool boxes. And much more.
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My main interests are Hilary Klein miniature wrenches and unusual adjustable wrenches including quick adjust examples.
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I feel like such a lightweight with the 300+ hand planes that I have here!!!!!!!!!
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I collect Eifel plierenches, multi tools (vintage and modern) and an eclectic mixture of other pliers and wrenches.
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I started off collecting Snap On and still do if it's not expensive. Now my main focus is on SK tools. I particularly look for the old diamond and SK Wayne logo tools. I also attract old tools of most all brands. I love the search for them. That's why I say I'm not really married to anything that follows me home. Oh, and Steve is the real name.
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Started out collecting mechanics tools then a little further down the road machinist tools following me home. Before I knew what happened I was also starting to pick up metal and woodworking tools and implement tools and, oh well, you know the drill. The more odd and or unusual the better these days.
bill
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Well, will try to keep this short. Just retired after 40+years as an auto mechanic so have my share of Mac, Craftsman and Snapon. Have a farm background, like some woodworking, and do blacksmithing. So have filled my shop with stuff from most trades. Approaching a set of Walden Worcester early automobile socket wrenches. J A Williams wrenches, Bonney, and nearly full set of New Britain wrenches, one a pre_WWII set, and the 1947-1953 series with double grooves, about 75 pieces. Have never turned down handsaws, hand crank drills, eggbeaters, braces, and more woodworking tools for wheelwright work. Quite a few gas station things are hiding in the barn too. 2- 20 gallon hand crank oil tanks with glass pumps. Grease guns, quart oil cans. A couple of old chainsaws, and a number of good axes, single and double bit, just found an ice axe. Pump oilers, and oil cans, from tiny to gallon size. Pocket knives seem to spring up at me. Oh, hand carry tool boxes, have had to stop at a dozen or fifteen, or thereabouts. Keeps one busy yaknow, and its nice to open a long buried box and say: When did I get these? Yes I like old tools.
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Not hard to figure out that my interest is mostly pliers, the older and stranger the better. But over the years my interests have expanded to wrenches and hammers and other tools too, especially if they have multiple functions.
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I don't have any one particular thing that I focus on, I collect all kinds of stuff that I find interesting or unusual. Lots of Stanley tools,400 plus planes, scrapers, gauges,screwdrivers, miter boxes etc. I have a fair amount of implement and mechanics wrenches, several unusual ratchets and quite a few 1/4' SK socket sets, several Walden socket sets and quite a few other Walden tools. All license plates from the US and Canada ( except for the Canadian territory of Nunavit). About 50 or 60 tobacco tins about 30 vintage buggy and automotive jacks. Lots of bit braces, drill bit sets and on and on it goes.Both my father and father in law had trap line in their younger days so I have quite a few old traps, my father in law worked at Coal Harbour on Vancouver Island which was the last active waling station in Canada so I have lots of pictures of him and other guys processing the whales. I also have some where a galvinized pail full of whales teeth.We moved about 18 months ago and I still don't have all of the boxes unpacked. The place we bought has a nice shop 30' x 45' with a 16' ceiling and a small mezzanine floor. It had no benches or shelves and no stairs up to the higher floor. that's done now and I'm in the process of building shelves to display stuff. I had a full knee replacement last November and it's been slow to heal so I'm not where I thought I'd be in terms of getting things done.
I'll dig out the camera one of these days and get some pictures to post.
Thanks to Papaw for a great forum. Jim
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I started out with Stanley planes (might be in the name...), then Stanley tools, then any tool that has age and strikes my fancy. I seem to pick up Plomb. Mossberg, Bergman, Vacugrip, old patented wrenches....... Tractor seats... even an occasional cast farm related toy. Lots of slippery slopes and I fall down most of them.
Jim
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I try to limit my collecting to things made of metal or wood although a little plastic sometimes creeps in.
Once you are contaminated it is hard to be cured. I quit collecting planes some years ago and yet I bought 4 planes saturday. I have come to accept these relapses as inevitable and they don't seem to get better with time.
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I buy every Plomb I can get my hands on. And older non-roundhead ratchets. And any interesting older hand saw. And the usual suspects, as well.
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I collect tools that were previously US Military or Bell System. I also try to reconstruct military tool kits with period correct tools. Such as an automotive general mechanics and electronic technician's tool kit.
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I inherited my grandfathers tools and noticed that most of them were Peck Stow & Wilcox (PS&W, Pexto) tools. He worked for the Southington Hardware Co. and had a few Sohaco tools also. I expanded the PS&W tools and eventually started to add HD Smith (Perfect handle) tools to the collection.
Then I found Tool Talk (and GG). That lead me to start collecting more mechanic tools beyond my daily user Craftsman sets.
I now haunt the flea markets for any of the better quality US produced tools, SK, Plumb, Proto, Williams, etc.
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Some of us have been here for a while and we kinda get to know who collects what.
And sometimes its a type of tool, and some folks are brand-centric
And some times the user name is a clue (plyerman, Bonneyman, Snapmom)
But since we have a slew of newer members, maybe we can just type a few sentences about ourselves,so they can get an idea of the width and breadth of our interests
I lean toward tools and equipment used in the auto repair trades, tho lately I have been seduced by some machine shop tools and equipment.
And frankly, I have never met a tool I didnt like.. well almost never.
Skip
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good idea mr. skippy skip :) I think that's what I'll call you from now on, it's got a ring to it
cheers
jenny bird
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I like a varied selection of things....if I see something with an old wood handle in good shape I like to use some wax and bring it back to life...This was a cool little find 1895 pat date.
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Plomb pebbles, and any Pratt and Whitney engine tool.
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Able_walker
Quite impressed with your photo skills
Skip
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Able_walker
Quite impressed with your photo skills
Skip
Thanks...I owe it all to trial and error :cheesy: Been looking at upgrading the camera as many of these old vintage things have a great character to them if you can capture that good pic.
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Old and odd DOE wrenches and Ford/other car kit tools. I try to stay car related and before WWII but some other crap snuck in under the tent.
NdeM train stuff is very local as well as two disused steam service facilities. I have been hunting those relics too. Hard to know what was or never was train related but I'm questioning price says grab it or not. Lots of shop made tools and recycled equipment were in play to make it tougher.
A glass display cabinet has been built and filled, pics on GG.
Finally, rust under glass where for decades it had been buried in a hidden corner.
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Old and odd DOE wrenches and Ford/other car kit tools.
pics?
I have an idea what Ford tools look like, but what do odd DOE's appear as?
and do have any links to car tool kit contents?
Thanks
Skip
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My T tool kit papers are posted here already, I found some Dodge Bros info and three wrenches to frustrate me. Ford A and tractor tool kits are well documented and easy to find. The tools are easy finds too.
I have some Pierce Arrow tools too but have not researched them a bit.
Odd DOE is European stuff and shop made tools for the NdeM railroad that was serviced here in town. And a heap of unmarked and unknown old wrenches I cannot credit to a maker nor a user.
This forum hates my pictures. I wish my luck was better. I post at GG for that.
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HD Smith & Co tools and memorabilia, and Stanley planes, although the collection of other vintage handtools and planes managed to grow :tongue: A big downfall (mistake) for me was buying the HD Smith and Stanley catalogs which showed all the tools they made.
It started so simply. I bought a Stanley bench plane to refurbish and resell. I was hooked (and no, I never sold the stanley yet). For those with OCD, as I will admit myself, if a company makes 12 sizes, how do you stop yourself from only getting a couple of them ???
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, I found some Dodge Bros info and three wrenches to frustrate me.
I put all the wrenches I find with a "Q" number in a box labelled Dodge.
someday I'll learn if this is correct
what info have you found? I am going by ebay sales and they are not always reliable sources
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A member here tipped me forged D B wrenches are up'' to 1928 and stamped wrenches after that.
I have three in SAE sizes so they must be later forged units. Other than that the Dodge car sites just have few mentions of tools.
I suspect user 1930 is the authority.
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Whatever comes my way that I like. I truly don't have one focus of tool collecting.
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Before 1928 Dodge Bros. owned Dodge Motors. In 1928 Walter P. Chrysler bought them out, and the name became Dodge. So am not surprised they switched manufacture of the wrenches.
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I collect measuring tools and instruments. If it has a scale on it, then I am interested. I particularly like zig-zag rules; long, large rules such as wallpaper, extension, surveying, and glazier's; oddball stuff; and tape measures. I also collect wallpaper tools because my grandfather hung wallpaper during the depression and my Dad gave me his tools. I have very minor collections of tools/items with the name Harper (my last name) and tools patented on my birthday (Jan. 24).
I have a very extensive collection of old tool and related catalogs and books that I use for the tool selling business.
As far as that goes, I will buy and sell any kind of tool and do not specialize. I am trying to get away from the awkward, long, big, heavy, and clunky stuff because it is hard to deal with and hard to sell anymore. Also, I am starting a regular job soon, so I will have to scale down on the tool selling.
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Worked in my younger days in auto mechanical & body repair, built up a large kit of tools & never stoped adding...... I was collecting for years before I realised I was!
I like anything unusual or beautiful (anything well made usually is!) so carpentry tools have crept in, always had a soft spot for body hammers, but any hammer is appealing as are hatchets, etc.
Anything forged from wrought iron be it a hammer, axe or adze is something I like to try & find now & am probably getting more interested in very old tools.
Blacksmith equipment I buy when I can as that is another hobby of mine, mainly bladesmithing, always looking for interesting old knives like Swedish barrel knives, a pattern I have made copies of.
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Mainly I collect ratchets and automotive related hand tools. Wrenches, pliers, sockets, when reasonably priced.
No real rhyme or reason to it other than mainly USA stuff. Vintage tools, catalogs. I've been known pick up an antique wrench or other tool here and there.
Started out collecting nothing but Craftsman and vintage Craftsman. Graduated to Snap On, Williams, and just about everything else.
Always on the hunt for interesting tools and anything that I haven't seen before.