Really old tools - I'll show you mine if you show me yours!

c_dug · Super Spammer Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Karma :

I was digging through the workshop cupboards at work today and came across some really old bits and pieces, still in full working condition! Anyway, there are loads that I could photo, the workshop has been going since at least the 30's, but these are what I took:

https://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee81/paddy2007dug/DSC_0022_zpsluowfqov.jpg

https://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee81/paddy2007dug/DSC_0028_zpslqypbdb0.jpg

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https://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee81/paddy2007dug/DSC_0021_zpsljeqtpej.jpg

https://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee81/paddy2007dug/DSC_0019_zpsobhbfwiz.jpg

These are my favourite two:

https://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee81/paddy2007dug/DSC_0014_zpsqzg4hioe.jpg

The green one weighs a good 10KG! They're both just drills. I plugged both in and they spin up like new. The green one properly twists in your arms when you pull the trigger, no variable speeds either, it's all or nothing!

Yellow card is standard credit card size for reference:

https://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee81/paddy2007dug/DSC_0014_zpsqzg4hioe.jpg

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https://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee81/paddy2007dug/DSC_0016_zps72hovuym.jpg

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https://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee81/paddy2007dug/DSC_0018_zpsozmvblzo.jpg

I'll see what else I can dig out tomorrow, some really cool old bits and pieces buried in cupboards.

I love old tools, not sure why but something about them is really cool. I guess it's their rugged feel and industrial look. So, show me what you have! Not fussed if it belongs to you, your parents, your dog or your workplace.
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Tamsin · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 Mar 2014 Karma :

I dont see any PAT stickers on those drills Laughing

I have a few 1940s spanners and old woodworking planes that came from my grandad, but I really CBA to dig em out

Pete. · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :

That Wolf drill is the original knucklebuster. Definitely for men only.
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Snodvan · Spanner Monkey Joined: 22 Jul 2010 Karma :

Wee Megga, AVO 8 - still have those. Use the Avo quite often. I had a late 50s/ early 60s Wolf drill until about 5 years ago when it went in the bin.

No pics but I have a near 100 year old Adze for smoothing planks (damned dangerous to use) and a "thing" with a curved long ash (?) handle fitted to a chunk of metal with like a hoe on one side and a hammer on the other.

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kramdra · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Oct 2010 Karma :

Electrics that old, plastics were new technology, and I believe Bakelite was the common one used for insulators. Some old tools that I disassembled and re purposed, the brush holders and other Bakelite parts turned to dust. The metal parts, which is most of it, cast aluminium, well made and last forever Thumbs Up

So careful with them. They might be/become dangerous especially if abused.

mentalboy · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 May 2012 Karma :

Youngster

I've still got a wolf drill, purchased at a car boot sale for three quid about ten years ago and still going strong. (And my father still uses his Universal Avometer.)

As for my oldest tools still in use - probably my set of shipwright's gouge chisels, stamped with the original owners name and dates from the '40's and various marking tools, like dividers. Many of my more modern hand tools could be mistaken for items used by shipwright's in the 1800's, though, as the design's have not tended to alter over the years - Caulking Irons and mallet, Adzes, English pattern drawknife, etc
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kramdra · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Oct 2010 Karma :

That reminds me , my granddad was a carpenter and made quite a lot of his tools. I used (and ruined) a few of them when I made a guitar. He made several planes, two were part brass and polished, and are now sortof broken Crying or Very sad

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https://donsmaps.com/clickphotos/dvtools.jpg

Old tools? Well, this set has been in the family for generations, likely eons. Guess the ancestors were a bunch of early adopters Wink

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chris-red · Have you considered a TDM? Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Karma :

Reminds me of these.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/chris-red/IMG_0099.jpg

I saw them in a mates lock up and was intrigued, I said 'I wonder what these are' Then opened the box...

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/chris-red/IMG_0100.jpg

We spent a good 5 minutes pissing ourselves laughing.

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finniee · Spanner Monkey Joined: 03 Jul 2013 Karma :

I'm sure I have forged hammers up at the garage, Will go up and grab a few pictures.

stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Meggers are great fun.

Get someone gullible to hold onto the clips then wind the handle. Laughing

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I don't even know what it does to be honest?
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Howling TerrorOutOfOffice · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Karma :

I still have some of my Grandfathers odds n sods in this box.

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Odds n sods being the correct phrase.
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Flatbadger · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 Apr 2012 Karma :

This is not so old as unusual, picked up at a car boot 10 years ago. Probably used by the Electricity Board to shear through copper cables, although it was crap with my pushbike's brake cables.

Now they're big bad secateurs.

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Furrybiker · Trackday Trickster Joined: 07 Mar 2010 Karma :

I have a London pattern turnscrew
https://www.heritagefootpumps.co.uk/imgs/items/19930_6953536304ff2c679f0d58.jpg

Some "Perfect" type screwdrivers
https://www.heritagefootpumps.co.uk/imgs/items/19930_12605650564ff2c6fde4cca.jpg

And a "war finish" adjustable spanner type thingy, probably a plumbers tool.

Not my pictures as I am miles from the garage..

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3 of my oldest tools
A moore & wright depth gauge ex MOD circa 1960s I think
A clampy thing
( OK, Speetog-Elect plier clamp) circa 1950s I'd guess
and a pair of outside calipers dated 1861
https://oi57.tinypic.com/v49oy8.jpg
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Skyblue · Renault 5 Driver Joined: 09 Sep 2012 Karma :

I started an electrical apprenticeship in 1979 & one of the tools i was told to get was a rawl tool (a tool for making screw holes for rawl plugs with a hammer) good job i never had to use it for that!.sorry no picture.

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