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Classic Auto and Motorcycle Tools => Classic Auto and Motorcycle Tools => Topic started by: Fins/413 on February 17, 2013, 10:33:53 AM

Title: Duro 4500 ignition set
Post by: Fins/413 on February 17, 2013, 10:33:53 AM

Thought I'd double post this since some of you guys aren't on Garage Gazette.  Just got this its mostly here. Its a 19 piece Duro 4500 set. It was $12.90 in the 39M catalog. Its missing the E64, E66 and E68 ignition wrenches a 3" durolite screwdriver(4S3), 4" spinner handle(4573) a Spin Flex adapter(4570). Can anyone identify the splined socket looking thing, it has 1/4" female drive on one end and the other is a round hole that looks like 9/32" dia. Its possible this is a different set then the 4500 since only the even wrenches are missing, they are the same as the odd sizes but with ends reversed.

Title: Re: Duro 4500 ignition set
Post by: lbgradwell on February 17, 2013, 11:32:52 AM

Those screwdrivers probably broke when dropped!

Sweet set!

Title: Re: Duro 4500 ignition set
Post by: Fins/413 on February 17, 2013, 11:43:28 AM

Do they get brittle?

Title: Re: Duro 4500 ignition set
Post by: lbgradwell on February 17, 2013, 12:17:48 PM

I believe Durolite starts fairly brittle & gets worse over time...

Can anyone confirm this?

Title: Re: Duro 4500 ignition set
Post by: rusty on February 17, 2013, 01:26:29 PM

If it was solvent softened cellulose, which was comon, yes, it will turn into something resembling cracked glass ....

No idea what the spline tool fits, but I have an ignition wrench set that also has a stamped wrench with a spline cutout in it, so there is something out there, somewhere, with a spline screw on it....

(Probably to keep joe homeowner from letting the springs escape from his magneto...;P)

Title: Re: Duro 4500 ignition set
Post by: lauver on February 22, 2013, 09:59:20 AM

Fins,

I don't have any Duro catalogs, but I'm wondering if this is really an ignition set.  It looks to me like this is a typical 1/4 drive set that somebody has added some ignition wrenches to.

The only Duro catalog (1935) I have seen used 45nn model numbers for their 1/4 drive sets and 17nn model numbers for their Ignition sets.  Also the ignition sets were sold in tool rolls and did not include sockets or drive tools.

Not trying to start a range war, just asking...

Title: Re: Duro 4500 ignition set
Post by: Fins/413 on February 22, 2013, 03:50:54 PM

The info came out of the 39M catalog. It suprised me too as I figured like you it was a 1/4" set that someone added wrenches and pliers to. It may still be that but there is a 4500 ignition set in the 39M catalog

Title: Re: Duro 4500 ignition set
Post by: lauver on February 22, 2013, 10:03:54 PM

Fins,

Sounds reasonable, but I had to ask.