Walden Worcester Spintite bits / handle

[OilyRascal]

This set of Walden Worcester Spintite bits found today.  I would like to reunite them with their handle/driver.  I would be happy to buy/trade the handle, or to sell/trade the bits.  I just want them reunited to a working set.

[john k]

These look like they may fit into a Yankee spiral screwdriver, they came in two sizes,  sure look to be close.

[HeelSpur]

If you didn't find a handle are you still interested in trading these?

[Plyerman]

What does the handle look like? (in case I should stumble upon one, but not know it)

[HeelSpur]

not sure if this is the correct handle or not but it came with this set.

[rusty]

yes

http://books.google.com/books?id=MuEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA159&dq=spintite+walden&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yDEnU77KB4jmrQHB44GADw&ved=0CFcQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q&f=false

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[mrchuck]

Wow, just spent the last 2 hours "scrolling" thru it!!!!

[oldtools]

Thank you Rusty, great reading (Jan 1946) Popular Mechanics..

[bonneyman]

These look like they may fit into a Yankee spiral screwdriver, they came in two sizes,  sure look to be close.

That's what I was thinking. If they'd fit a Yankee, they might be worth grabbing. If you could mic up the shafts, one of the Yankee driver experts could tell you if it'd fit.
I already have the strong magnet adaptor for my Yankee's so I can use hex bits and sockets.

http://www.leevalley.com/US/Wood/page.aspx?p=57809&cat=1,43411,43417&ap=2

[scottg]

Wow, just spent the last 2 hours "scrolling" thru it!!!!

Thank you Rusty, great reading (Jan 1946) Popular Mechanics..

I spent about 4-5 years seriously reading Popular Mechanics........ and thensome. All through the 70s mostly.
Also Mechanix Illustrated.
Nobody wanted them for any price.  Maybe still don't.    But I did. 
I would go to the swap meet and buy a little red wagon or some other cart first thing, and then buy whole boxes of magazines, in mint condition, for a dollar, or two at the very most.
I ended up with most PM all the way back to the early 1900's when they started. About 1910 to 1960.  After 1955 it mostly became way too "suburban" for me. Total consumer mentality was setting in and they printed lots of articles on how to buy consumer goods.

The 1930's to early 40's was the best it ever got. There was a shop editor named Clyde Lammey who totally changed my life. Changed my way of thinking and changed my prospects in this life.  He didn't make me any money. In fact he set me up to make no money, like ever,
     but he made me.......... capable. 

  I lived in a little cabin 18 miles from town with no electricity. I read PM by kerosene light, wholesale... Articles, ads, I love it all.

PM was great, but Mechanix Illustrated was mostly a one man show. Tom McCahill. He wrote nearly the whole magazine, under really lame pen names. There was some corny stuff and some awful stuff, but when he was in a good mood that guy could write!  He helped me some too.

It was probably reading and knowing these magazines that made me think I could publish my own magazine in the 90's. As always, there was little to no money to be made, but I built it up to a national circulation and did what I was taught.
Tried to help people feel the way I had been allowed to feel.
      yours Scott

[Branson]

You must have looked cute with that little red wagon...

[Papaw]

my own magazine in the 90's

Any way we can find that magazine, Scott?

[scottg]

The title is still in print.
  Its an antique bottle collectors magazine. Bottles and Extras
Kitty and I started it on our kitchen table. We published for 5 years and then we gave it to the National Bottle Collecting club. 
  We got burned out. If you think 2 people can publish a full magazine a month, with no wear and tear, you haven't thought about it much at all.

  Articles, ads, subscriptions, dealing with printers, making up "state bags" for shipping to every state in the union. County bags for the big cities. Thousands of address labels, keeping the books, ordering supplies for next time. 
Then, its gone for 2 seconds and the next issue is due.
Christmas deadline means you work straight though.   

  Every statement in the above paragraph is grossly................... under-exaggerated.
  Its a non stop roller coaster minute to minute and every dip is the big one.


  We had planned to merge with the Federation anyway.  The Federation was really short on members along about then and all our old friends were still board members, so it was a good time.
   
   http://www.fohbc.org/bottles-extras/about/

I stayed on as Western Region reporter for many years and also we both helped every person who ever had anything to do with the magazine, especially when they first took the job.
I always write several long letters to every new editor to help them get their feet wet. Its a steep learning curve coming in blind, and no editor in Bottles and Extras history ever had a full magazine editing job before. 

I still have a few boxes of the original books in my attic. Not many. A few hundred books. We were going to move one time and only as much as could be moved, were saved.   

   Oh btw, this was all before computer printing.  We had to turn in a --master--,  on paper, of the whole magazine. Every word and every picture hyper meticulously hand cut and pasted up, (because everything and mean everything shows),
  in a weird order and upside down 1/2 the time.

  I still have a huge table in my spare bedroom with a mechanical machine on it to keep everything straight, and lights and a light table with glass and lights underneath.
And a small box of special tools. Mostly knives and such I made or customized.

The printer used tin plates and ran huge sheets of paper through the press.
These were then folded up into signatures, on a psychotically complicated folding machine looking like a science fiction devise from a nightmare,
and finally trimmed and bound into books.
  yours Scott