Two Stops on Sat. Were Worth the Gas$$

[dimwittedmoose51]

Saturday was looking grim too after about 6 yeard sales and finding nothing but over priced Taiwan power tools, but then I hit a house in Waterloo that had quite an assortment of old stuff and for the most part very reasonably priced.  He must've had 10 Brace and bits for like $2 ea. and some were in better shape than others.  He had one radish box that was full of old wrenches that he let go for $2, Ditto for the the monkey wrench and one of the 9"autos.  The big Herbrand as a buck,

Can anyone tell me what the use is for the drill bit rack tools?  They look like simple center punches, but why in SO many different diameters??  Counterclockwise from this mystery rack, we have a pr. of Freemont Cutlery tin snips, an IH H911, a PH handle and not much else, a DOE  with an unrecognizable diamond logo and a number 84 stamped on it,  3 Moore-Ford Wrenches, a # 276 Mossberg, a couple more no name DOE's, a Vlchek, another no name, an S wrench that has what appears to be a 501 in the handle, a Bonney 1028-S, 2 Vlchek 9" Autos(with on having a 43 stamped on the other side and the other a 45....year they were made???), Crescent 264 5.5" wire cutter(PaPaw, you need this for the Crescent rack??), 7 screwdrivers,A no name Adj. wrench that has 10" and W. Germany stamped on it), and a big mamma jamma Herbrand SOE with the lettering 1" USS.

The afternoon run was just about as fruitless, until I stopped at one of the pawn shops.  They've been bought out by an even bigger chain of pawn shops and are phasing out their tool stock.  This seems to be a trend for both chains and private pawnies, so it might be wise to see what's left locally before there's nothing left locally.  IN about an hour of coming through 5 tubs of sockets etc, I found like 3 wrenches and over 60 US made sockets.  I didn't keep all the NAPA ones, and after a while you start glazing over looking at this stuff.

Came up with 8 Blackhawks, 3 Indestros, 5 Powr-Krafts, 21 SK/SK Waynes, and 2 Hex drives.  Thew bottom row of singles left to right:BAHCO(never heard of this brand), Bonney, Challenger, Husky, Matco, Napa, New Britain, P&C, Thorsen, Truecraft, TRW(didn't say USA on it, just guessing), Walden, Wards Master, Williams, and a Wright.  Ended up spending $7 there.  Most of the sockets were either 10 or 15 cents each and the wrenches a quarter each.  Let me know if you are in need of finishing out particular sets.


DM&FS

[ray]

The punch set are  "transfer punches", they are used for making exact hole spacing from one part to another. Use the proper sized punch in the " master part " and transfer the hole placement to the other part.

Ray

[dimwittedmoose51]

Thanks.  Being half right is some comfort...

DM&FS

[Papaw]

BAHCO is a modern brand with roots going back to the industrial revolution of Sweden in the late eighteen hundreds.
   

In 1862 Göran Fredrik Göransson founded Högbo Stål & Jernwerks AB, Sweden, producing high quality steel using the Bessemer Process. From this beginning he then developed into producing saw blades, starting in 1886.  Saws that were of the same high quality as the steel they were made from and performed to the expectation of their users. As today the saws and all other tools were marked with the "Fish & Hook" brand as a symbol for the highest quality.

 The very same year, 1886, Johan Petter Johansson established his company Enköpings Mekaniska Verkstad in Enköping Sweden. J P Johansson was both a clever and creative craftsman, and in 1888 he got his first patent for  "The Iron hand" today  known as the pipe wrench. J P Johansson idea was to replace fixed spanners with a single tool able, as the human hand, to fit different sizes of bolts and nuts.

   

These were the beginnings of product innovation and design that still prevail within the company today. In 1891 his next patent was the very first adjustable spanner. This was the basis for the adjustable wrench, as we know it. A Swedish invention found all over the world that we have produced in more than 100 million examples - so far!
Before he died in 1943 J. P. Johansson held no less than 118 patents for innovative products.

Info from- http://www.bahco.com/asp/pubs/index.asp?lngLevel=0&lngStructureID=1219&lngMenuID=1255
I have several BAHCO wrenches.
Aloy Artifacts on BAHCO- http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/other-makers.html#bahco

[Papaw]

Crescent 264 5.5" wire cutter(PaPaw, you need this for the Crescent rack??

It is not the number on the rack, but it would fit.

[keykeeper]

Wow, you pull some good stuff in your travels. Anything Vlchek is nice, IMO.

You might also go back and look at those NAPA sockets, all the ones I have are marked U.S.A. !!!!! I don't know who made them, but the quality is good.

Helluva score on those sockets....see my signature line for what I am looking for in the way of sockets!!

[dimwittedmoose51]

Will do, and Papaw, I'll get the 264 in the mail sooner or later.  PB Blaster loosened it up a bunch.  I know exactly where I stashed those NAPA sockets, so retrieval won't be tough.  When I looked at how many I had already, I was afraid I was looking at a $30 purchase or worse.  Had to cull a few out of the hopper,  but for .10 cents each, well, whoda thought from a pawn shop???  I also didn't go through many of the 1/4" drives...maybe on the next rainy day....

[clovis]

The NAPA tools have a lifetime guarantee, just like Craftsman, right?

[dimwittedmoose51]

I don't know about that for sure, but next tie I'm in our NAPA store, I could ask.....

DM&FS