Ooops... I seem to have gone over my weekly limit of old rusty tools this time. It's going to take me a month to track down all these, but what really got me excited was this little Bethlehem Spark Plug Company socket set.
I like that socket set, it would have followed me home also. nice find.
You did real well. If I got 20lbs of tools, would just lose them in the shop, major reorganize needed. Get the radio too?
It's amazing that the socket set survived this many years without losing any sockets. Congrats!
They must have sold a ton of those little socket sets back in the day. I see them on and off of course I'm only 20 miles from Bethlehem PA. My brother picked up a set of them several years ago.
Quote from: Lewill2 on March 26, 2017, 08:19:18 AM
They must have sold a ton of those little socket sets back in the day. I see them on and off of course I'm only 20 miles from Bethlehem PA. My brother picked up a set of them several years ago.
I'm a little closer than that and I have only come across 2 and neither one were complete.
Quote from: turnnut on March 25, 2017, 09:06:42 PM
I like that socket set, it would have followed me home also. nice find.
Like that set!
Hello, Moparthug. Nice find!!!!!! Regards, Lou
There were buckets full of tools, a mix of modern, old, and junk, you just had to take the time to dig through it all. The socket set WAS missing 1 socket, but I spent 45 minutes searching and found it in a bucket of screwdrivers. The sockets are not marked, just a knurling around the edge that matches the others. I got very lucky there!
And yes, I picked up the old short wave radio as well, a bizarre looking hammer I'll get pics of later, a Damon Raike pipe wrench, and then all the various Bonney, Vlchek, Penens, Billings, Bon-E-Con, Super-Bob-Cat, some S wrenches, and a few odd balls.
Another curious thing to this tool collection were spares, there were 7 Wright MS56 11/16th sockets... but no other sizes. Same thing with the early Craftsman open end combo wrenches, lots of 7/8 x 25/32, but missing other common sizes.
And tucked inside a set of S-K sockets (not even that old) was this great bit of early advertising.