Tool Talk
Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: gibsontool on October 18, 2017, 07:25:13 PM
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We moved a year or so ago and it's taken me this long to put some stuff up on the walls. This pic is some of my Walden stuff along with a few others items to fill up the board.
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Having trouble getting the picture to show up,doing something wrong but I'm not sure what. I'll keep trying before I call for help.
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I like, very nicely done.
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Really like your display boards, shows some artistic talent. I have three file draws full of Walden fixed socket wrenches, guess I should do something with them. I am a Walden collector, but mainly interested in socket sets.
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I have some Walden sockets but I don't think any of them are complete. I have some up on a board so I'll try to get some pictures.
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Very nice! I always appreciate someone that has the ability to do artistic things like this. I do not have that skill set.
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Here is a board showing several ratchets and a Walden socket set which I don't think is complete.
First pic is the full board
Second pic is the Walden set and 2 ratchets, the ratchet on the left is a Quick-craft US pat 3682008 but made in Japan, the other is a Sherman klove 1/2 hex
Third pic is a closer view of the ratchets,from left to right they are,Chicago mfg,Mossberg No 350,W&M. Milwaukee,Gray, Beall speedee- ratch, AC pat No2594669,Snap on No 71N,and a Mossberg 624. the second row shows a Dresser No 5 pat No 1798194,Chicago mfg,Walden,an unknown with no markings,Indestro super3201 pat No 1902878, Craftsman,Auto-cle pat 751055, 2 - 9/32" plumb breaker bars and a Snap on bar also in 9/32"
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Sorry about the 1st pic,It showed up vertical on my screen but posted horizontal, I'll have to work on that.
A bit more info on a few of the ratchets, the Beall ( 6th one over on the top row ) when you pull on the coiled ball at the bottom of the handle it is connected to a chain which in turn rotates the head. The one on it's right is the AC brand. The knurled portion of the handles rotates both ways which then rotates the head. Seems to me there was a post of one of these a while back but I think it had a different name on it? The ratchet on the extreme bottom left of the board is the Quick-kraft, when you squeeze the handle closed it rotates the head.
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your Mossberg 624 is a 5/8" rachet connecting rod wrench for the Ford model-T
around 1923
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The AC ratchet can also be found with the name Reechet on it.
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I love the displays, thanks for posting them. Someday I'll get around to doing something similar. Someday.........
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Thanks for the info turnnut I didn't know that.
Bill300d thats the name I was trying to remember.
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Really great looking displays. Thanks for that!
Can i ask about the levels? (I have a thing for those; well, and almost anything else i find). :embarrassed:
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Those levels are ones I use and probably not that old, I bought the wooden new several years back, I'm guessing 15 to 20 years and the top one at a garage sale this summer for $5. Don't know who made it, never bothered to look. I do have some other interesting levels I'll see about getting some pics.
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For some reason levels are not high on the collecting list, as prices are generally low even on the old wood Stanley levels. I did recently pay $10.00 for a Rev-o-noc with brass fittings and three good adjustable vials. Rev-o-noc is my name spelled backwards.
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Given the name connection,you definitely needed to have that. Several years back I saw an old iron that was made in Australia by a company called Gibson tool so I had to buy it. Never did find out any info on the Company, I went as far as asking Batz our Australian forum member but he had never heard of them.
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Nice display of tools. A good way to show history of a tool company. Back in the early 1980's I worked for a company that sold Duro Chrome tools. We had about 6 Duro Chrome tools display boards in our showroom. Sometime in about the late 1980's they took all the tools down gave them to the mechanics in our shop. They took the tool boards and tossed them in the dumpster. If I had only had the foresight. I still have a few of the tools in my hoard. I may still have a few of the catalogs in my computer room somewhere.
EvilDr235
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Hey guys. p-toad was asking about some levels which appeared in a recent post of mine,they were in the pic because that's where I keep them. They are nothing unusual but I think this one is. I got it 2 weekends ago at our semi annual antique fair. It's marked as
THE AMERICAN COMBINED LEVEL AND GRADE FINDER
PATENTED AND MANUFACTUREDBY
EDWARD HELB RAILROAD PA.
US Pat 764809 July 12 1904
Canadian Pat 90643 Dec 20 1904
The first pic is a side view, second is a top view, third is a view of the bottom showing the viewing tunnel and the fourth is a close up of the gravity angle indicator, I'm thinking the way it works is; you first determine the grade or angle you want and prop up or shim the level until you reach the required degree. If you look at the top view you will see a site glass to the right of the compass, when you look down thru that site glass there is a mirror at a 45 % angle which projects your view out thru the tunnel.I had a look on DATAMP and gives some clearer info on the level. I don't know what all the other marking are for on the angle indicator. Need to do some more research.
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oops! #rd picture is not correct I try again.
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This is the picture I was talking about
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Damn. Still not the correct pic. I'll have to go take another picture, I must have screwed up somehow when I down Loaded them. I have taken off the bottom brass strip to access the mirror as you could no longer see thru it. A buddy of mine has a glass shop and probably has some mirrors kicking around, I'll go see him today and cut a new one.
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I am getting a picture of a Chinese vacuum cleaner on my screen ?
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That's not the right picture either.
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Nice looking device. Thanks for those pictures. I've never seen one like that before. :smiley:
http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=12693
and a nice write-up on LeeValley
http://www.leevalley.com/newsletters/Woodworking/1/3/patents.htm
Hope i'm allowed to post those here.
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That's quite the contraption Gibson. That's one I have not seen before.
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They come up now and then probably a $350 level, they always seem to bring good money for as many of them as I have seen. Nice find hope you got a deal on it.
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OK I'll try this again and i hope the picture shows up this time.
This pic shows the viewing tunnel in the bottom of the level, the little piece of mirror slides down an angular grove on the left end of the level. I did find the Lee Valley article yesterday and it answered several question that I had. The article doesn't give a complete explanation but says that you can determine the height of objects by using the complex scale on the cardboard disc behind the gravity angle indicator.
I noticed on my level that one portion of the disc is slightly warped and the weighted indicator rubs on it so it is probably giving it a false reading. It looks to me like there was originally 3 small pins or nails holding the disc flat against the wood body. these pins or nails are missing on mine so I'll talk to a watch repair guy or maybe a jewellery shop to see if they could make me 3 little brass pins.
To Lewill2 thanks for the info on value, sounds a little high to me but that is probably for one that is in the original box with the paperwork telling you how to read the scale. I paid $55 Canadian which is about $45 USD but regardless I'm happy with what I paid.
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No that is typical auction price from what I have seen. No box no instructions just what you have some in better shape and some in worse shape.
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WOW That is a good price, someday I'm going to have to start thinning down my collection but it's something I just can't bring myself to do.