Cool Old Tools

[treefarmer]

If I remember correctly , the 21/32 socket was the size of the Model A rod bolt. Had to buy one when I was a "mere" child working on an old Model A.
Treefarmer

[Miller Bro's]

Ray, nice stuff! Thanks for showing them

[Miller Bro's]

All I can say is WOW!

This guy had one of just about every kind of wrench ever made!

http://s222.photobucket.com/user/buswre ... t=4&page=1

[FRJ]

Cant quite peg this one for use.
Anyone got any ideas?

Could not resist this beautifully designed and well made tool. 1/16" shy of 9 inches.
Got it on the bay for under $10.

Mfgs. logo is "STAHL" within a fish image. I believe it's German.
I googled them, they have lots of like modern tools but not this.

[orvet]

The design of the blades remind me of modern poultry shears.
Perhaps those were for small birds like quail?

Cool shears though!

[knife7knut]

Another possibility is they are pruning shears for use with bonsai trees and similar small shrubs.The axe-like piece on the end of the handle might be used to slice into a trunk for grafting.Again just speculation on my part.

On another note:
Here are some pictures of a very unusual too set I acquired last summer at a flea market. I thought I had posted pictures of it before but here goes.

Made by the Rex Wrench Co of Boston Massachusetts,it is one of the earliest socket sets I have encountered. The company was in business only from 1907 to 1916. The wrench handle is missing and was likely broken as one of the sockets in the set is cracked.I found a picture of the handle next to a ruler on the Alloy Artifacts site while researching this set and it appears to be a fairly easy piece to make;assuming you have access to a lathe which I do.
The handle is about the size of a medium length 1/2 inch drive extension with a cross-drilled hole in the top and instead of a square end has a U shaped bracket with a cross pin through the legs of the U. At the bottom of the U is a small spring loaded detent ball.
The operation consists of affixing the hook on the back of the socket through the pin and rotating it into position.The hook has 4 indentations in it that rest on the detent ball and provide for operation either straight or at 30-60-and 90 degrees to the wrench.
An unusual feature is the sockets do not have fractional sizes on them but numbers that correspond to a chart in the lid of the tool box to indicate which socket to use with what size bolt.
Anyway the whole thing only cost $15 and when the handle is completed it will be a very unique tool set.

[tjmurphy]

Cant quite peg this one for use.
Anyone got any ideas?

Could not resist this beautifully designed and well made tool. 1/16" shy of 9 inches.
Got it on the bay for under $10.

Mfgs. logo is "STAHL" within a fish image. I believe it's German.
I googled them, they have lots of like modern tools but not this.

Looks to me like a gasket cutting tool. One end to cut the gasket out and the other to scrape and clean the surface.

[ken98k]

Cant quite peg this one for use.
Anyone got any ideas?

Could not resist this beautifully designed and well made tool. 1/16" shy of 9 inches.
Got it on the bay for under $10.

Mfgs. logo is "STAHL" within a fish image. I believe it's German.
I googled them, they have lots of like modern tools but not this.

I would guess something to do with livestock.

[FRJ]

Thanks so much, guys.

[1967redrider]

Here's a good link with lots of good information and pictures;

http://www.multi-tool.org/vintage-combination-tools

[treefarmer]

1967redrider,
Now that was plumb interestin'!
When you think multi-tool, most time we only goes back to the early Leatherman.
Thanks for postin' those old pages!
Treefarmer

[philco]

Good stuff Redrider

[junebug]

too bad it is pickup only....
score for a JESSUP, MARYLAND local


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Heavy-metal-fla ... 46336c7e94

[Unk]

Here's an old Barrel Pump....has been in the family for decades. I finally got out and took some pics of it today (and I had an assistant to help me).

My cousin who gave it to me said they used it to refuel the tractors back in the 1920s and 1930s when he was a kid. He also gave me the attached pic of my family threshing wheat in 1936 in Osage Co., Oklahoma. I am assuming the pump was used to refuel the tractors in the pic. My grandfather is on tractor on the far right, in the white shirt.

[gino]

Great looking dog Unk, looks like a twin to my middle sons dog

[1967redrider]

Old school farming, now you're talking! This isn't my video but I go to the Somerset, Va Steam and Gas Pasture Party pretty much every year. I've got a buddy who lives in Orange so it's our yearly catch-up time.



I need to find me a woman who owns a steam tractor, now that's sexy.

[1967redrider]

YouTube hates me.


The other Case.

[Unk]

Great looking dog Unk, looks like a twin to my middle sons dog

Thanks Gino!

[jerryd6818]

John, ya gots to delete the 's' off of the 'https' in the URL. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzFhN5ITvw) Sometimes there is an '&' towards the end of the URL with some stuff following it. If you see that, you need to delete the '&' and everything that follows it.

Unk -- Way cool picture. Love it. I remember my dad's family telling tales about wheat thrashings. One of the sayings I grew up with was, "There was (is) enough food for a wheat threshing".


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzFhN5ITvw[/youtube]

[knife7knut]

Here is one I picked up today when I went back to buy that Case 5265(it was gone). A Plomb 3/8ths drive ratchet with a wooden crank knob attached.Not sure of the age but they stopped using ratchets with a female end and started using the male end ones sometime in the 1930's I believe. Have to research it a bit more.Price was right: $8

[Unk]

Here's a cool NEW tool. Back early in this thread, I showed some pics of how I used electrolysis to remove some rust from my great-grandfather's tools.

This would have made quick work of that job! This looks like something from a Sci-fi movie. I wonder if you can attach this to a shark's head?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfczxBWJuNg[/youtube]

[knife7knut]

Looks almost like a hand-held EDM(electric discharge machine) that they used to manufacture automobile body panel dies awhile back. Wonder how much heat it generates.I notice they mentioned the light was really bright(I don't have sound on my computer for some reason so I couldn't hear the voice track)so I'm wondering if it some type of laser.

[Unk]

On Youtube, it says it is Laser Ablation. It sounds like a transformer overloading when it is going.

[knife7knut]

Here are come vintage tools from my accumulation:
A small multi-tool kit by Hibbard that uses the housing as a handle for the tools.
A combination pliers/adjustable wrench by Diamalloy.
A combination hammer/hatchet/pliers/screwdriver marked Gusstahl.
A tiny adjustable wrench/screwdriver marked G&J.
A German multi-tool.The hammer head unscrews and the tools(held inside the handle)are inserted in the end and secured with the lock screw.
A sliding adjustable wrench by the Gillman Wrench Co.
A Keen Kutter ball pein hammer that belonged to my grandfather.
A miniature tool kit made in Germany.
An alligator wrench that sports 3 thread dies in the center.

[FRJ]

I got this great old Lufkin folding steel rule the other day for $5. It had a very light covering if residue from sitting, unused for many years. I don't think it has ever been used. All edges are very sharp and it looked like original oil on the joints which were difficult to turn in some of them. I brushed it briskly with a wire brush and oiled it and wiped it down. Just like new. Almost.
I looked for these on e-bay and found them with a serif font on the numbers. Mine may be a newer model.
Any body got one ..............