Grandpa and Great-Grandpa's Mystery Tools

[debbiedeneese]

Going through 8 toolboxes that (via trickle-down) contained tools belonging to my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.  Pops worked in the Brooklyn Navy yard; Dad was a NY Bell Tel guy, and great-grandpa did many things, plumbing being one of them.  I have a few tools here that Dad didn't explain (although I worked at his side in the garage since I was a pup).  I'd really appreciate any information y'all could enlighten me to regarding the tools in this Photobucket album:

http://s212.photobucket.com/user/birdcam/library/Mystery%20Tools

Many thanks in advance!  These items are so fascinating they serve as quite a distraction 

Deb

[bill300d]

from left to right

row 1
1 part of a tubing flare tool
2 don't know
3 feeler gauges
4 not sure but possibly for adjusting voltage regulators and such

Row 2
1 Degree or inclometer gauge
2 tubing cutter
3 offset screwdriver
4 not sure but looks like a quick disconnect for air hose

row 3
1 don't know
2 wedges of some sort
3&4 rivet sets

row 4
1 not sure

bill

[Billman49]

I cannot get the images to open - much better to post the image direct onto the page, as then when you close/edit/delete your photobucket account the images are still available to forum members....

[Plyerman]

That first picture in row two is part of a combination square set. There ought to be a steel ruler around that fits into it.

[thiggy]

Since Pops worked in the Navy yard, I suspect that the two wedge shaped tools may be caulking irons.  I agree with Bill on the other items he identified.

[Bill Houghton]

Using Bill 300D's numbering system:

Row 1:
#2 is probably to hold a plane iron for sharpening on a stone.  Similar in function to the one below, but less elaborate.

#3 is not just a feeler gauge, but one designed for ignition work.  The little jobbie on the right side is used to bend the electrode on the spark plug to set the correct gap; the small feeler gauges with it are probably sized for the plug gaps common at the time it was made.

Row 3, #1: it would be worth Googling the words on the label.

[Aunt Phil]

The wedges are quill wedges used for everything from knocking chucks or tools out of a drill or lathe quill to aligning plated for welding when used in combination with plate dogs.

Last 1 is a double ended Bell can wrench- 3/8 end opens terminal boxes and the 7/16 end fits the binding post nuts inside the can so wires can be attached.

[Analog]

Number 11a in the second row are rivet sets. The material is drawn tight through the hole, The rivet is then cut with side cutters or some other tool and finally the remaining portion is rounded with the cup side of the tool.

[Chuck Garrett]

Row 3 #2 appears to be gib keys and 3& 4 are rivet sets

[EVILDR235]

The tool in row 4 is a screwdriver / nut driver combo tool. I had one many years ago that i found laying on the sidewalk. It was taken with a box of tools when somebody broke in my office at my wrecking yard in the late 1970s.

EvilDr235

[wvtools]

Row 1 tool 4 looks like a Bell System tool number on it; just go to Ebay and put in the number and Bell System and it may come up
Row 2 tool 4 looks like a wheel stud remover

[debbiedeneese]

Thanks so much everybody!  Your input has been priceless...I really should have asked more questions when I was a kid, but it's great to know there are people out there that still value these products of human ingenuity (and necessity). And just to think; they don't even need bluetooth!

[Aunt Phil]

Oh crap I'll tell you just this one time, because I will NEVER again in my life endure the hell called Photobucket.

Tool 4 on the top row is one of a set of switchman's relay leaf wrenches.  Back in ancient times, the days of the X-Y switch, every contact leaf on the switch had to be checked for tension and adjusted periodicly by a man employing a spring scale and set of wrenches.

Two wrenches are used on the leaf, one to hold the leaf and the second to bend it into tolerance.  It was actually considered a good job because switches lived in air conditioned rooms.  Of course most switchmen went deaf listening to hundreds of switches rack into position day after day, but nobody really wanted to talk to switchmen anyhow.