Traditional knives and ratchets

[JustinR]

My dad's father passed when I was 13. Didn't know it at the time but my dad set aside some of his old tools and wrenches for me. This old industrial snap on ratchet was in that ammo can of tools. In the picture is grandpa's old 34ot as well.

 

[Hickory n steel]

One of these just arrived today brand new, and the other is about 100 years old.

 

[Modoc ED]

Here's a Lambfoot Hartshead Barlow in my socket, breaker bar, and ratchet drawer in one of my rollaways. There's a mixture of Craftsman and Snap-on sockets and ratchets in the drawer.

 

[meako]

Always someone gotta go bigger and better Modoc ED .

 

[Hickory n steel]

Here's a Lambfoot Hartshead Barlow in my socket, breaker bar, and ratchet drawer in one of my rollaways. There's a mixture of Craftsman and Snap-on sockets and ratchets in the drawer.

Is that an Easco spinner handle I spy, Is it possibly master mechanic branded ?
Nice stag on that Barlow btw.

 

[Modoc ED]

Always someone gotta go bigger and better Modoc ED .

Hey!! If ya got it flaunt it. I just thought the guys and gals would like to see a drawer full of the stuff.

Hickory n steel - No, it's a 1111 Walden. I went out to the shop to make sure.

 

[Hivoltage]

Like a GEC a good US made ratchet is worth the premium. My Snap-On 3/8 drive will last me

 

[Hickory n steel]

Hickory n steel - No, it's a 1111 Walden. I went out to the shop to make sure.

Both of them are ?
Interesting, I've never seen a blue handled Walden 1/4 spinner handle like this.
They look just like the Easco spinner handles.

 

[seas165]

My new lightweight trapper and a not so lightweight torque wrench

 

[Blake the Blade]

When you say ratchets..?
Untitled by Mark Saunders, on Flickr

 

[hornetguy]

And now for some Americana from two proud family owned manufacturers.

dang... you beat me to it. I have a couple of old Chapman sets I was going to do pics with... great little ratchet sets...

 

[Hickory n steel]

dang... you beat me to it. I have a couple of old Chapman sets I was going to do pics with... great little ratchet sets...

This actually started off as an older CM13 set 9 got Nos for cheap on Ebay, but I started adding to it beyond the little vinyl pouch I came in so I bought ordered the box last week.
I don't really know how old as the tools are still identical today, but the I think vintage looking box is cool.

 

[hornetguy]

This actually started off as an older CM13 set 9 got Nos for cheap on Ebay, but I started adding to it beyond the little vinyl pouch I came in so I bought ordered the box last week.
I don't really know how old as the tools are still identical today, but the I think vintage looking box is cool.

to me, the yellow plastic boxes are the "new" stuff.... this is a set that I've had for at least 30 years... probably closer to 35.. I haven't needed to use it much in the past few years, and I noticed that some of the bits have a little rust on them.....gotta get those cleaned up.

 

[tiguy7]

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[Hickory n steel]

to me, the yellow plastic boxes are the "new" stuff.... this is a set that I've had for at least 30 years... probably closer to 35.. I haven't needed to use it much in the past few years, and I noticed that some of the bits have a little rust on them.....gotta get those cleaned up.

Nice.
I dont normally like blow mould plastic boxes as they're too bulky compared to a classic steel box, but this box I don't mind for the Chapman set because it holds a decent number of bits and organizes them well.
My only complaint with Chapman is that the Robertson bits use a part number with no size listed.
Need a #2 Robertson and ended up with a #1 last time.

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

A little suggestion, if your gonna try to HOLD a knife and ratchet for a photo op,make sure your not over a catch pan I reckon the oil sucker rod wood spent years submerged in oil a bit more wont hurt, but dang gear oil stinks

Oh and I don't know whose idea it was that wheel bearings can use the axle as the inner race,but it's a $#!++¥ one

 

[Hickory n steel]

Heres another from my 1/4 drive general purpose kit

This one a customized Craftsman bit ratchet.
Being an import I'm not sure I have as much faith in it as my Lang made Craftsman bit ratchet, but it is a nice little tool.
And of course the Buck 309, it just works and theres not a lot to hate about it.

 

[gben]

A close-up of the S-K quarter-inch drive socket set. It can be dated to about 1939/1941. It would have been one of the first sets with a "modern" looking ratchet handle. The patent on the handle was issued in 1934 and is the first one S-K used for a fine ratcheting mechanism. In 1941 S-K used a new design and patent number. The sockets with the "chrome" marking were dropped by WWII. Three of the sockets are to fit square nuts and the rest are for hex.

And an electrician's knife my father gave me 47 years ago. Having things laying around for this long that you can remember receiving make you feel damned old. I can remember him scratching the name and date into it too, "Benjie 73'". Not in bad shape for it's age. Camillus was a good old knife company which soldiered on until about seven or ten years ago. No-nonsense cutlery.

 

[Hickory n steel]

A close-up of the S-K quarter-inch drive socket set. It can be dated to about 1939/1941. It would have been one of the first sets with a "modern" looking ratchet handle. The patent on the handle was issued in 1934 and is the first one S-K used for a fine ratcheting mechanism. In 1941 S-K used a new design and patent number. The sockets with the "chrome" marking were dropped by WWII. Three of the sockets are to fit square nuts and the rest are for hex.

And an electrician's knife my father gave me 47 years ago. Having things laying around for this long that you can remember receiving make you feel damned old. I can remember him scratching the name and date into it too, "Benjie 73'". Not in bad shape for it's age. Camillus was a good old knife company which soldiered on until about seven or ten years ago. No-nonsense cutlery.

Nice old set there, I think I have a couple of those Chrome marked knurled S-K sockets around somewhere.
It was very common to have 3 whitworth sockets in sets up through the 60's.
By the 70's manufacturers stopped doing this for the most part.

 

[gben]

Nice old set there, I think I have a couple of those Chrome marked knurled S-K sockets around somewhere.
It was very common to have 3 whitworth sockets in sets up through the 60's.
By the 70's manufacturers stopped doing this for the most part.

My father was a dealer/racer of British motorcycles in the 1950s and 1960s so I have been around Whitworth tools for almost 60 years and I never saw any socket set come with a mixed bag of both USA and British sizes. Before the late 1960s a British automobile or motorcycle would have ALL Whitworth fasteners so USA tools were not necessary to work on them. I have had Craftsman, Snap-on, King-Dick and many other sets of Whitworth and USA tools and socket sets, and still do, and none of them came mixed. I would not believe they did unless I saw a period factory catalog listing for it.

What was common around WWII give or take was for socket sets to have SQUARE sockets because a lot of square bolts, nuts and plugs were used on older vehicles, so maybe that is what you are talking about, but Whitworth sockets and wrenches looked just like USA items, but the sizes were from the diameter of the thread the fastener had and not the measurement across the flats of the the nut or bolt.