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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: skipskip on November 10, 2017, 05:24:18 PM

Title: I'm surprised when I find British tools here.
Post by: skipskip on November 10, 2017, 05:24:18 PM

This is a thread gauge made by Thewlis and Co From Warrington, Lancashire

Thewlis made wrenches and other tools.

Sometimes known as Thewlis and Griffith

New brand to me.. anyone else have some?

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4557/38264408506_f204f7fa05_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/21ii6x9)DSCF7306 (https://flic.kr/p/21ii6x9) by Skip Albright (https://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/), on Flickr

Title: Re: I'm surprised when I find British tools here.
Post by: lptools on November 10, 2017, 07:04:10 PM

Hello, Skip. I have at least one or two. Are they also referred to as Jeweler's Die Stocks? Nice find!!!!  Regards, Lou

Title: Re: I'm surprised when I find British tools here.
Post by: skipskip on November 10, 2017, 08:41:22 PM

screwplate is the word i have been trying to remember

Title: Re: I'm surprised when I find British tools here.
Post by: lptools on November 11, 2017, 06:04:55 AM

Hello, Skip. Yes, screwplate is it!! Regards, Lou

Title: Re: I'm surprised when I find British tools here.
Post by: Bill Houghton on November 11, 2017, 11:41:12 AM

Quote from: lptools on November 10, 2017, 07:04:10 PM

Hello, Skip. I have at least one or two. Are they also referred to as Jeweler's Die Socks? Nice find!!!!  Regards, Lou

Die socks?  Would that be socks to die for?
(http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0127/4312/products/1960M-Black_large.jpeg?v=1386116311)
 :smiley:

Title: Re: I'm surprised when I find British tools here.
Post by: lptools on November 11, 2017, 01:14:48 PM

Oops!!!  Sock it to me Bill!!!

Title: Re: I'm surprised when I find British tools here.
Post by: Papaw on November 11, 2017, 05:55:44 PM

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Sock it to me...

Shades of the late Sixties ! Even Nixon once said - "Sock it to me !!"

In the close-fought election of 1968, the buttoned-down Richard Nixon unexpectedly popped-up on the sketch show Laugh-In, which was considered risqué for the time.

Title: Re: I'm surprised when I find British tools here.
Post by: Bill Houghton on November 11, 2017, 06:28:23 PM

Quote from: Papaw on November 11, 2017, 05:55:44 PM

In the close-fought election of 1968, the buttoned-down Richard Nixon unexpectedly popped-up on the sketch show Laugh-In, which was considered risqué for the time.

And demonstrated that he was, nevertheless and in spite of appearing on the show, as out of it as young people thought he was.