Nice haul! I sold plumbing & heating for 20+ years and Ridgid tools (including their calendars) were always the favorite of our customers. Then they went retail through Home Depot and IMO the quality went down hill. The older stuff is definitely high quality. That must have been quite the animal that bent the handle on the pipe wrench.

Quote from: oldtools on July 09, 2014, 02:08:05 PM
"On this lot I spent maybe $100 plus shipping."  Nice!! for ~450 pieces... that's about ~25 cent apiece with shipping?.

Shipping was more than cost, I'll look it up.  I get in lots of boxes each week. Tomorrow has 4 or 5.  One or two today.  I think the shipping is worth it, when you compare gas, your time, etc.  I can make a lot of money if I want to work. I can't work as much as I used to due to neuro-muscular disorder.

I am off work this week and I have to take two or three more weeks off before end of year, use it or lose it. So I have time to get pictures of tools up here more, organize my bench and start on garage, do landscaping, and maybe see a movie.  I cant normally see a movie unless I take a day off.

Chilly

Quote from: oldtools on July 09, 2014, 02:08:05 PM
"On this lot I spent maybe $100 plus shipping."  Nice!! for ~450 pieces... that's about ~25 cent apiece with shipping?.

I counted
320 tools
    8     decent tool boxes
94     domestic sockets

I don't count allen wrenches, I count them if a set.
The sockets on the lower right of the picture are non quality foreign.
I'm ok with foreign tools, if they have a good finish and decent quality. Usually Japan, German, England, etc are okay in my book.

Chilly

Quote from: Chillylulu on July 09, 2014, 09:08:19 AM

Quote from: lbgradwell on July 09, 2014, 07:59:54 AM
Wow! That's quite a pile!

If you have a chance, can I trouble you for close-ups of the following?

Quote from: Chillylulu on July 09, 2014, 12:05:31 AM
10" Ridgid pipe wrench (straight end)
8" Ridgid pipe wrench (straight end)
6" Ridgid pipe wrench (straight end)
8" Wizard Loc-Grip

I had not seen the WIZARD LOC-GRIP before;  looks like I need to work up a new DATAMP entry and do some research as to who produced it.  Could I use your photos?
Regards, Stan Schulz (DATAMP "wrench steward" etc. )

Here are a couple of simple zooms from my original (I take several high quality pics of each, then trim the size down for upload.)  I'll get you some proper details asap.





Chilly

Ad for Western Auto / Westcraft Loc-Grip's http://books.google.com/books?id=oiEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA265#v=onepage&q&f=false

How odd..

(Also a great pic of a 1950's workship)

Quote from: mvwcnews on July 09, 2014, 08:35:51 PM
I had not seen the WIZARD LOC-GRIP before;  looks like I need to work up a new DATAMP entry and do some research as to who produced it.

Quote from: rusty on July 09, 2014, 09:27:47 PM
Ad for Western Auto / Westcraft Loc-Grip's

How odd...

I'd never seen one before either, but I had seen the ad...

What's really odd is that you will discover that the patent - 2966818 - lists Otto P. Froeschl as the inventor. Otto P. Froeschl was one of the brothers who purchased Wilde Tool Company in 1922. Strange he would assign this patent to something called the P & M Supply Company who, presumably, were the makers of the Wizard & Westcraft tools...

1953:

Quote from: ouray19 on July 09, 2014, 02:35:14 PM
Nice haul! I sold plumbing & heating for 20+ years and Ridgid tools (including their calendars) were always the favorite of our customers. Then they went retail through Home Depot and IMO the quality went down hill. The older stuff is definitely high quality. That must have been quite the animal that bent the handle on the pipe wrench.

We always carried a Ridgid 10"  with a slip on cheater. The cheater was made from 3/4"conduit that extended the leverage to the same as an 18" wrench. Cast iron for road fitters and apprentices, aluminum for foremen. I had aluminum at 10 months, running work consistently after 18 months. That was rare back then.

I imagine this pair either had one heck of a big guy pulling on it or a big cheater on it.

Chilly