Old Tools Rule

[ARAMP1]

Ever since they started manufacturing craftsman tools in china and snap-on taking the USA off their ratchets (I heard but can't confirm that they're starting to stamp it on them again), I've started collecting and piecing together sets of older USA made tools. For example, here's a few Plomb pebble style wrenches. These were forged in the mid-1940s. I can't help but think that they may/could have been used to turn nuts and bolts on military aircraft and equipment that were used to win world war two.

 

[boz42]

Those are cool. I see Plomb on the smaller wrenches. What are the combination wrenches?

 

[ARAMP1]

What are the combination wrenches?

They're all Plomb. The combo wrenches have the name in one side and the part number on the other.

 

[British Slave]

Pawn Shops are a good place to find some good old tools. Sometimes you have to go thru hundreds to get a set, but when you do they are cheap and quality.

 

[boz42]

Those combo wrenches are cool

 

[ARAMP1]

Those combo wrenches are cool

I agree. Some of the older were forged with "Los Angeles" before being switched over to USA. Of course now they have rules of what can and can't be put on them.