Tool Collecting

[RobertN]

Anyone else hit up the flea markets and yard/tag sales for tools?

Since Dad passed away a few years ago, I have been replacing some broke and/or missing pieces from his tool box. A couple cracked 1960's SK 3/8 drive sockets, missing Craftsman "V" wrench's etc.

Have started picking up other stuff. Got a 1927 BOG socket set. Found a Long-C BE Craftsman 3/8 and 1/2" socket set. Got a New Britain 1/4 ratchet of same era; New Britain made Craftsman sockets and ratchets in the 1930's to early 1940's. Found a 1/2 Flying-V early 1960s ratchet as an extra.

I've gotten good at tearing old ratchets down, cleaning them, lube and reassemble. Got an ultrasonic cleaner with heater; that works great cleaning old tools. For the most part I've gently cleaned but left patina.

Just got three nice old Plomb combo wrenches from the 1940's; Plomb became Proto...

 

[bcp]

More of a tool accumulator, not collector. It's hard to pass up a good, name brand, ratchet for a dollar or two. I end up with good tools in each car, and around the property in several places.

Bruce

 

[JeepHead]

Don't yard sale and hardly any flea markets around me but I do constantly watch the FB market place and groups for good used tools. I have a thing for old vises especially.

 

[MossRoad]

Don't yard sale and hardly any flea markets around me but I do constantly watch the FB market place and groups for good used tools. I have a thing for old vises especially.

Would that be a vice for vises?

 

[bcp]

Would that be a vice for vises?

At what does a collector of vises become a Viceroy? Or would that be Viseroy?

Bruce

 

[MossRoad]

 

[JeepHead]

Would that be a vice for vises?

Usage Notes. "In American English, a vice is an immoral habit or practice, and a vise is a tool with closable jaws for clamping things. But in British English, the tool is spelled like the sin: vice."

 

[RobertN]

When I got Dad's tool boxes(Roller with a mid and top box), I cleaned them up and added some of my tools. When he passed, my brother, son and nephews got some tools. I got the toolboxes and rest of tools.

The top box is almost exactly the was it was dating back to the 1960's. It's kind of a tribute to Dad. Although I have newer duplicates, I still get his tools out and use them. A couple of drawers in the roller and mid box stayed the same. Otherwise, they are a mix of our tools. I had two medium size rollers and top boxes; I gave one to my son.

The picture is Dad's box on the right. Both were a bit messy; I was cleaning and moving things. I was 9 when he got the roller and mid box for Christmas 1972. The top box dates to the 1950's from what he said. He worked on a lot of hardtops, mostly 1930's Fords, that ran the local dirt tracks in the late 1950's to mid 1960s.

I've found matching top boxes from the early 1970s for his roller, but that top box has too many memories to swap out, even though I would keep it. It stays the way it is...

 

[JeepHead]

Usage Notes. "In American English, a vice is an immoral habit or practice, and a vise is a tool with closable jaws for clamping things. But in British English, the tool is spelled like the sin: vice."

@MossRoad
I was multitasking and totally read your post wrong lol. So yes absolutely, a vice for a vise!

 

[bigtiller]

When I got Dad's tool boxes(Roller with a mid and top box), I cleaned them up and added some of my tools. When he passed, my brother, son and nephews got some tools. I got the toolboxes and rest of tools.

The top box is almost exactly the was it was dating back to the 1960's. It's kind of a tribute to Dad. Although I have newer duplicates, I still get his tools out and use them. A couple of drawers in the roller and mid box stayed the same. Otherwise, they are a mix of our tools. I had two medium size rollers and top boxes; I gave one to my son.

The picture is Dad's box on the right. Both were a bit messy; I was cleaning and moving things. I was 9 when he got the roller and mid box for Christmas 1972. The top box dates to the 1950's from what he said. He worked on a lot of hardtops, mostly 1930's Fords, that ran the local dirt tracks in the late 1950's to mid 1960s.

I've found matching top boxes from the early 1970s for his roller, but that top box has too many memories to swap out, even though I would keep it. It stays the way it is...

Your top box on the left is the same as mine. I need to give the rollers a shot of dry-spray-lube occasionally.