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Posted: **Tue Nov 12, 2024 9:09 am**

C-WADE7 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 1:03 am Picked up an old tack hammer at a junk store and noticed the name after getting it home. It must have came off the handle and been reinstalled at some point, it’s got a wedge and 3 tacks in the handle end to secure the head.

Nice one!

Posted: **Wed Nov 13, 2024 2:14 am**

Cleaning up old tools.... and a few knives, spears, machetes .... etc... etc...

Posted: **Wed Nov 13, 2024 10:48 pm**

I was going to sell these Sargent & Bernard parallel pliers and side cutters. Then I thought, I might need them for something sometime down the road. Plus they’re so well engineered, just like looking and playing with them. Now they’re living in the tool chest with fifteen or so other pairs of pliers I might need sometime.

Posted: **Wed Nov 13, 2024 11:43 pm**

Lama wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 10:48 pm I was going to sell these Sargent & Bernard parallel pliers and side cutters. Then I thought, I might need them for something sometime down the road. Plus they’re so well engineered, just like looking and playing with them. Now they’re living in the tool chest with fifteen or so other pairs of pliers I might need sometime.

Nice parallels.

Those parallel jaws can be quite desirous at times. Pulling pins comes to mind.
Everyone should have a pair of parallels.

Posted: **Thu Nov 14, 2024 12:30 am**

Thanks. They sure beat slip joints.

Posted: **Tue Nov 19, 2024 3:20 pm**

Nice finds, Top Dog! Lama, I am going to have to get me a pair of those Bernard's!

I found this pair of Snap-On angled needle nose pliers at an estate ale recently. Model 497. Made in 1967, according to the date code on the handle.

Posted: **Tue Nov 19, 2024 11:21 pm**

After cleanup... well most of the cleanup that is ....

Posted: **Tue Nov 19, 2024 11:24 pm**

Posted: **Tue Nov 19, 2024 11:31 pm**

Unk wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 3:20 pm Nice finds, Top Dog! Lama, I am going to have to get me a pair of those Bernard's!

I found this pair of Snap-On angled needle nose pliers at an estate ale recently. Model 497. Made in 1967, according to the date code on the handle.

Snap-on is always a great estate sale find Unk!

Nice work

.... The only thing that might could be better would be finding a Blue Point, ratchet sitting in the middle of the street, just waiting for a poor boy to come along and find it

.....

Posted: **Tue Nov 19, 2024 11:34 pm**

Unk wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 3:20 pm Nice finds, Top Dog! Lama, I am going to have to get me a pair of those Bernard's!

I found this pair of Snap-On angled needle nose pliers at an estate ale recently.

One question: the estate ale .... was it an "India Pale Estate Ale" by any chance?

Posted: **Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:44 am**

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 11:34 pm
Unk wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 3:20 pm Nice finds, Top Dog! Lama, I am going to have to get me a pair of those Bernard's!

I found this pair of Snap-On angled needle nose pliers at an estate ale recently.
One question: the estate ale .... was it an "India Pale Estate Ale" by any chance?

No, just an old man's fat fingers.

Those old machete's cleaned up nice!

Posted: **Thu Nov 21, 2024 3:24 pm**

Mike great pickup on those needle nose pliers, they look like they'd be handy as pockets on a shirt.

Dog great job on the clean up.

Posted: **Thu Nov 21, 2024 6:51 pm**

bighomer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 3:24 pm Mike great pickup on those needle nose pliers, they look like they'd be handy as pockets on a shirt.

Dog great job on the clean up.

Thanks B.H.

Posted: **Thu Nov 21, 2024 6:54 pm**

Unk wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:44 am
GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 11:34 pm
Unk wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 3:20 pm

Those old machete's cleaned up nice!

Thanks Unk!

Posted: **Sun Nov 24, 2024 9:42 pm**

I previously showed a few pictures of this old Snap-on brass mallet I picked up a few weeks ago. I finally got around to cleaning it up. Both faces were badly mushroomed and not level. A little hammering on the anvil, sanding on the bench sander, along with a little file work, and it looks a little better. I decided not to put a high polish on it - it will be a user.

Posted: **Sun Nov 24, 2024 9:51 pm**

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 2:14 am Cleaning up old tools.... and a few knives, spears, machetes .... etc... etc...

I’m very surprised that old pipe wrench says PROTO on it. It is almost certainly a Stilson. PROTO probably had Stilson make it for them.

Very interesting.

Posted: **Mon Nov 25, 2024 1:58 am**

Unk wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2024 9:42 pm I previously showed a few pictures of this old Snap-on brass mallet I picked up a few weeks ago. I finally got around to cleaning it up. Both faces were badly mushroomed and not level. A little hammering on the anvil, sanding on the bench sander, along with a little file work, and it looks a little better. I decided not to put a high polish on it - it will be a user.

Oh, that Snap-on looks so much better, Mike. Good job on that cleanup.

Posted: **Mon Nov 25, 2024 6:15 pm**

FRJ wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 1:58 am
Unk wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2024 9:42 pm
Oh, that Snap-on looks so much better, Mike. Good job on that cleanup.

Thanks Joe. I haven't ever had any Snap-On tools before, but have picked up a couple recently. I think it is really cool that they put date codes on them, so you can quickly tell what year the tool was made. I never knew this until recently. My brass hammer dates to 1965 - I was only 4 years old!

Posted: **Mon Nov 25, 2024 11:30 pm**

Unk wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2024 9:42 pm I previously showed a few pictures of this old Snap-on brass mallet I picked up a few weeks ago. I finally got around to cleaning it up. Both faces were badly mushroomed and not level. A little hammering on the anvil, sanding on the bench sander, along with a little file work, and it looks a little better. I decided not to put a high polish on it - it will be a user.

Great job! Looks 100% better

Posted: **Mon Nov 25, 2024 11:35 pm**

eveled wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2024 9:51 pm
GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 2:14 am
I’m very surprised that old pipe wrench says PROTO on it. It is almost certainly a Stilson. PROTO probably had Stilson make it for them.

I thought the made in "Los Angeles" stamp was strange, as I thought that Proto was made in Texas*....

*Proto hand tools are engineered, manufactured, and tested in the Dallas, Texas. First founded as Plomb Tools, is now a division of Stanley Black & Decker.

Posted: **Tue Nov 26, 2024 12:12 am**

While searching through the tool box I found this

I didn't remember it and couldn't figure out what it is.

After studying on it a little, it's part of a hole saw.

Now to remember where the rest of it is, so I can put it all together.

Ken

Posted: **Tue Nov 26, 2024 1:58 am**

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 12:12 am While searching through the tool box I found this

I didn't remember it and couldn't figure out what it is. After studying on it a little, it's part of a hole saw. Now to remember where the rest of it is, so I can put it all together.

Ken

Ken,

So what you are saying is........You can't use the hole saw to saw a hole until find the whole hole saw?

Posted: **Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:19 am**

Unk wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 1:58 am
Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 12:12 am While searching through the tool box I found this

I didn't remember it and couldn't figure out what it is. After studying on it a little, it's part of a hole saw. Now to remember where the rest of it is, so I can put it all together.

Ken
Ken,

So what you are saying is........You can't use the hole saw to saw a hole until find the whole hole saw?

That pretty much sums it up.

Actually I have another set. I probably bought it because I couldn’t find the one I already had (the one you see in the picture). The good news is I don’t need to cut any holes right now.

Ken

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2024 2:33 am**

It was raining so I organized my Estwing collection.
These are the carpentry masonry and geology hammers.

But the cool old tool is at the top An old hay saw.

The Ball pein, tinners and welders hammers are in the metal shop.

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:39 pm**

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 11:24 pm ...

Amazing scores bro!!!!

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