Odds & Ends

[oldtools]

Amazing what you can find in old toolboxs people dump.
Just some of the tools I found over the years..


Old sockets
Duro-Chrome 1 3/4" -4156-
Duro-Chrome 1 5/16" -4142
BON-E-CON 1 1/16 DEEP
PROTO 13/16 5326
P&C- 7/8 deep 6128
various P&C & giller socket set
PROTO adj. 4" 704-S
Crescent adj 6" Drop Forged Steel
Crows foot 3/4" AN-8506-6
New Britain 1/2" DR SWIVEL
Snap-On  3/8"dr slid-breaker F-5-CG FERRET
Williams S-4, 1/2" breaker J.S PAT 2028561
Herbrand No-S-15, 1/2"dr breaker


Various Wrenchs
13 CORNWELL 6, DBL Box end 7/16" & 1/2"
A-PLOMB BB2L, CALIF-TOOL 3/8" & 7/16" BOX END.
BARCALO-BUFFALO (upsidedown "A") 5/8" combo.
LECTROLITE 3216, TUR-FIT 3/4" combo with .05 CHR & .05 VAN stamped
WESTERN GIANT 3/4" combo. chromium Vanadium USA
BILLINGS 7?8 combo.-Vitalloy- 1167
Select Steel 3/8" & 7/16" OE (A) stamp
unknown (circle C stamp) I think
OXWALL 3/4" & 5/8" OE, Stamped wrench Japan
CONTROLLED STEEL 1" & 15/16" OE, S.3.4 stamped on back Drop Forged USA
Blue Point X1618 1/2" & 9/16 box ends
P&C N-86, 1 1/8 & 1 1/16 box ends

Screw Drivers
Craftman All-in-One 41748
Unknown green handle 4-in-1
Vaco VO-4 dbl flate
PLVMB (double down arrow)#36 3/8" dbl flate.
Miller Falls No.-199 4-flat 1/4"
2-Stanley wooden handle 14.5"  long 1/4" & 3/8" tips.

[Branson]

Erm...  What about that wood and brass square at the top?  It's a tailors square.  I've been looking for one for my wife.

[oldtools]

Erm...  What about that wood and brass square at the top?  It's a tailors square.  I've been looking for one for my wife.

It is very old but usable, don't know about shipping it from Hawaii, > 24" X 14" not flat rate..

[john k]

That is an impressive pile of tools.   Any best place they pop up?   I think the best scores I've gotten was in cleaning up after renters, when they leave in the night owing 3 months rent.   Crescent wrenches, partial socket sets, even jacks, and once a partial motorcycle.  Also helped clean up farmsteads, often just ahead of the bulldozer that was turning it all back to cornfield.   I dug up my first Walden-Worcester socket speed handle, physically, in an old grainary I was tearing down.  Always dug thru old cars, and came away amazed at what the last owner left behind.   But I think pickings are better there than here.  John

[oldtools]

That is an impressive pile of tools.   Any best place they pop up?   I think the best scores I've gotten was in cleaning up after renters, when they leave in the night owing 3 months rent.   Crescent wrenches, partial socket sets, even jacks, and once a partial motorcycle.  Also helped clean up farmsteads, often just ahead of the bulldozer that was turning it all back to cornfield.   I dug up my first Walden-Worcester socket speed handle, physically, in an old grainary I was tearing down.  Always dug thru old cars, and came away amazed at what the last owner left behind.   But I think pickings are better there than here.  John

Been collecting for years, best scores were free stuff people throw out. Dumped for bulk pick-up... see my post