Auction Tool Tat Haul! Bucket 'O' Spanners!

[ruffgeezer]

Well today was collection day, and at lunchtime I escaped from work and bagged my lot, it just fitted in the back of the car, and tonight I started sifting through some of it. As I get home after 6, I knew I'd be fighting the light, so I lashed up one of the fluro tubes in the garage so I could have a little more time sorting.

 

A little light in the lockup:

 

The haul in all it's splendor, £35 plus fees for all this, did I do well, only a good rummage will tell!

 

A massive drill chuck, presumably from a drill press or lathe? No use to me further than identifying it for sales purposes.

 

Tray 1 unpacked, several tyre levers, some files, various spanners, 6 hammers and a few items for the wtf is that list:

 

Some ancient valve grinding paste (i think)

 

A bag of various sizes of new grease nipples:

 

 

 

Ok the WTF is that for list starts here:

 

Brand new imperial sockets:

 

Box of bolts, I think the box is of more interest, previously home to a telephone test set?

 

Tray 2, lots more hammers and spanners, as well as these weird looking things, perhaps tin snips of some sort?

 

That is all for now, but this seems to have been a great way to get a load of handy tools for not a lot of outlay, what do you reckon chaps?

[Tayne]

Ok the WTF is that for list starts here:

 

Tyre valve remover?

[ifc63]

 

Adjustable reamer.

Really handy piece of kit especially when fitting king pin kits.

[ashmicro]

That green box will have contained the non-battlefield version of Telephone set D, which, as you can see, is called the "F". Those were obsolete when I was in green, and that was 20 years ago! 4.5 volt battery, and a 70V AC magneto that you wound up to speak to Capt. Mainwaring. Don't worry about not getting the phone - they're worth fuck all, even if working. As a means of communication, they were only marginally better than shouting, and all soldiers shout anyway.

[ruffgeezer]

Thanks for that, I'll post a few more pictures tomorrow if people find it interesting enough?

[Micrashed]

I love old tools.

Cleared out a fantastic amount of stuff when dad died which sadly was fuck all use to me.

Found a few "specialist" WTF tools from his time as a hydraulics Engineer at Dick Kerrs (later BAe).

[vulgalour]

Is this some sort of impact driver? Looks like you fit a socket on one end and belt the other end with a hammer.

 

[RedSparrow]

Aye, something like this maybe?

http://www.hilti.com/holcom/page/module/product/prca_catnavigation.jsf?lang=en&nodeId=-17499

[Angrydicky]

Nice purchase!

 

 

The little round brass balls and cones with holes through them are for Austin A30/35 door hinges. The rest of the stuff in the box is a real assortment, various unions in there I see.

[Albert Ross]

Yellow handled tool might be for Bendix rear shoes on Renault.

[DSdriver]

An old drill chuck is a handy thing to have around as a stud extractor because it tightens onto the stud as you unwind. Not good if you want to reuse the stud though.

[ruffgeezer]

Well no time for sorting tonight unfortunately, but thanks to all for the pointers so far, I think I'll be making 3 piles once I've been through everything, stuff I'll keep, stuff I'll pass on and stuff that is bin fodder, although there wasn't much of that in the first two trays...

[Guest]

The foldable 'tin snips' look like a MOD/A N Other army issue barbed wire cutter. Might have the old MOD Arrow thing on them somewhere.Not worth a great deal but a nice 'thing'.

[ruffgeezer]

I've had a bit of lousy cold going on for the back end of the week, I worked through it but didn't really feel like doing anything else afterwards.

 

Today though, I had to get up and be out early to collect some more shi...er... valuable tat I won on ebay.

 

Today's collection consisted of a pair of bulkhead lights, some BFO shelf brackets and this lovely "racking from lwb transit connect", two things to note here, 1 I don't actually have a transit connect, 2 this did not fit in my car, so lucky I still had the roof bars on!:

 

 

Total cost? £2.69

 

As you can see the auction haul is populating it already, which is handy as I can see the floor again.

 

Onto today's toolage;

 

 

These are marked Arnold & Sons, and punch out a club shape in use, but I cannot find anything about the company or the product on the web, so does anyone of the 'shite know what the intended use of these was?

[Albert Ross]

Bus/Rail/Footie Stadium ticket clippers?

[ruffgeezer]

Someone on the blue forum suggested they might be use by a vet for tagging ears perhaps?

 

Anyway today's adventure is a bucket 'o' hammers, in total so far, I've encountered 30, so I reckon I'll have a hammer for every job now!

 

Welder's hammer:

 

Hammer for getting road tax from the post office round here:

 

I hope people aren't finding my voyage through buckets of tat tools too dull?

[Angrydicky]

Certainly not! Carry on!

[brickwall]

Seconded! It's quite fascinating.

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

Please...carry on.

[Bobthebeard]

My grandfather used to nail jam jar lids and ex military screwtop ammunition containers to the rafters in the garage, fill the jars/containers with stuff* like this and then screw the jars/containers up onto the lids! A sort of suspended storage system for the tiny garages that most 1960's houses round there have. He had to push the car in and out as there was no room to open the car door once in there!

 

 

* I don't think he knew what most of it was either, but as a storage solution for shite it certainly was innovative....I think.

[ruffgeezer]

My grandfather used to nail jam jar lids and ex military screwtop ammunition containers to the rafters in the garage, fill the jars/containers with stuff* like this and then screw the jars/containers up onto the lids! A sort of suspended storage system for the tiny garages that most 1960's houses round there have. He had to push the car in and out as there was no room to open the car door once in there!

 

 

* I don't think he knew what most of it was either, but as a storage solution for shite it certainly was innovative....I think.

 

 

That is a bloody brilliant idea!

 

I must admit I bought a metric shitload of plastic boxes off of ebay a while back like this:

 

They range from 50p - £4.50 each, so I wasn't too disappointed to get 500 for £1, I was slightly irked that the seller refused to let them without adding £4 "seller's fee" on, but at the end of the day, its more boxes than I'll ever need for next to F-all, so I'm still happy, I'm going to knock up some angled shelves with a strip on the end so I can have some of them handy for odds n sods.

[ruffgeezer]

Onto today's toolage;

 

 

These are marked Arnold & Sons, and punch out a club shape in use, but I cannot find anything about the company or the product on the web, so does anyone of the 'shite know what the intended use of these was?

 

Well after the trickle of information suggesting that these were a veterinary implement, I took them to work and left them behind the till, the garage is situated as such that we get a lot of farmers through the door, including Lincolnshire's Farmer Wink:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjp9idhxJyc

 

Who kindly identified them as a tool for clipping animal's ears so as to mark ownership...

 

Lovely.

[ruffgeezer]

More tools? Ok then!

 

Quite small this one by current standards, here is all is laid out, does anyone want to suggest what the 3 pins are on the left next to the packet of sockets?

 

Not a clue what this is, my initial thoughts were a tyre valve tool, but it has a slot one side for the full length of the blade?

 

Specialist Bedford/Vauxhall tool, no idea what for mind:

 

Next box's contents:

 

Some sort of injector seat cutter perhaps?

 

There are 3 sets of these tiny spanners, not sure what their intended use was though...

 

Err... no clue...

 

The other end on this takes a 1/4 drive adapter, this end is slightly bigger than 1/4 drive, again, I'm not sure of the intended use:

 

Nearly new copper/hide hammer, bringing the hammer total to just shy of 40 by my estimations:

 

I have no idea what the hell this is, it is a block of something in a wooden box with matching lid...

 

Cheese knife?

 

As always, there is more to come, including the result of putting the ear marking pliers on ebay!

[sporty-shite]

 

Chisel sharpening block. Coat with a light film of oil, then rub. Fnarrr fnarrr.

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

 

Chisel sharpening block. Coat with a light film of oil, then rub. Fnarrr fnarrr.

 

Yes an Oil Stone. Dead handy for sharpening just about anything with a blade (even a cheese knife I guess).

 

Here is how to use it:

 

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

has that "cheese Knife" got hallmarks? If so and one of 'em is a lion then it's solid silver!

[Angrydicky]

The funny little spanners look like tappet adjusting spanners to me, they seem to have feeler gauges built in. Useful looking tool, I've never seen one before.

[skattrd]

has that "cheese Knife" got hallmarks? If so and one of 'em is a lion then it's solid silver!

 

I was thinking the same, except it looks like a fish knife to me

[ruffgeezer]

has that "cheese Knife" got hallmarks? If so and one of 'em is a lion then it's solid silver!

 

It looks more like brass, so perhaps a letter opener? There are 4 marks on the blade, the first 2 are the letter A, should I get some brasso to it?

[Albert Ross]

The 1/4 drive angle thingy turns your 1/4 drive long extension into a 1/4 drive breaker bar. Useful eh?