Auction Tool Tat Haul! Bucket 'O' Spanners!

[Albert Ross]

In which case it turns your 1/4 drive long extension into a Piston Ring compressor drive tool.

[ruffgeezer]

Thanks for all the pointers so far guys, the depth of knowledge on here never ceases to amaze me!

 

The last time I saw a magneto, I was cleaning under the work benches at work, there was couple of large boxes of them, and there still is, along with a load of NOS crossplies and other rammel I have been campaigning to move on.

[KruJoe]

+1 on the "cheese knife" being a fish knife blade.

 

Before you bin anything / weigh it in, consider sending tools to Africa for self reliance.

I think this is the charity's page:

http://www.tfsr.org/how_you_can_help/donate_some_tools/

There's a collector near me, have you heard of one around your way? Seems a shame to chuck good tools, just because they're obsolete and unwanted here.

 

That idea of nailing jar lids to the beams in your garage is tops! You've just to be careful when moving ladders and such like, or you'll be showered in self-tappers!

[brickwall]

That's what I do. It either goes in the weigh pile or sent to Africa. There are good charities all over the place that do it.

 

Interestingly enough, they don't want imperial stuff anymore. They did up until about 10 years ago.

[ruffgeezer]

I promise nothing that can be used will be wasted, I will probably have to go through my new collection of 40 hammers and prune a few off!

 

Onto the bucket 'o' spanners then, I had anticipated this as being the least interesting of the haul, fully expecting a range of imperial stuff that was of little use, so how'd I do?

 

Some odd pliers:

 

A...er....uhm... it looks like a wrench jaw, but again I'm happy for the hivemind to prove me wrong.

 

Another bunch of tiny spanners:

 

My best friend's dad was an engineer through the 70s and 80s, he always mentions this brand of spanners:

 

So here they all are laid out, all imperial and a variety of shapes and sizes:

 

There were a few manufacturer's tools in the collection though, weird to think this was probably normal back in the day:

 

History in tool form:

 

Now this kit is a neat little thing, and most surprisingly, it is complete, although not much use on anything that is done up tight I'll bet:

 

And that is all...

 

 

 

Nope! Under the layer of imperial stuff, there was a treasure trove of metric gear, a lot of which is Britool (you know, when they weren't sub-letting to china for stuff made out of old sweetie wrappers and Tesco's tin foil):

 

The set of offset spanners was probably worth the outlay on it's own, they have been put straight into my 'A' tools at work.

 

If anyone does see anything here they might want or need, feel free to pm me, I'd love to find uses for as much as possible!

[Richard]

Lada toolkits used to be legendary, I think they included pretty much you could ever need for DIY maintenance.

[ashmicro]

My Lada 1500 estate came with I think two sets of spanners and a gigantic stirrup pump. Oh, and it had a light under the bonnet.

[CreepingJesus]

My grandad has a load of King Dick stuff he's had since forever; some bloody big spanners which were ex-BR from the steam days.

Also, you can has PM.

[Albert Ross]

Interested if you have a few Whitworth and AF stuff, especially offset and combi stuff.... Owt you need for your fleet that I might have?

[Junkman]

 

 

 

 

If you can't fix it with one of them, you have an electrical problem.

[ruffgeezer]

Ok a few more oddities from the collection:

 

An un-sized Britool spanner with a concaved end, is this for bashing the ends on rivets perhaps?

 

I thought these might be for cutting keys, there are numbers on the dials:

 

 

I've now a good collection of A/F and Whitworth spanners now:

[ruffgeezer]

Sorry for another thread dredge folks, but most of this is up for sale/ swaps now, if you see anything you might need, leave a message here and we'll deal.

[Hertz]

Peter Sutcliffe Porn!

 

[Ronnie L]

The amusingly named King Dick tools were at one time reckoned to be about the best quality you could get. They were also very expensive. They used to get big contracts to supply workshop tools to the Army and quite a lot of King Dick stuff used to appear in army surplus sales. I've accumulated a surprising amount of their stuff this way over the last 40 years or so. They still seem to be making and selling tools and are specialists in Whitworth stuff. They are the only makers of Whitworth ratcheting ring spanners. Prime Tools sell a lot of their spanners etc on their website. primetools.co.uk

 

The tool that looks like pliers with numbers which can be rotated is a saw-set. Joiners / carpenters used them to set the tooth off-set angle on their saws in the days before hardpoint disposable saws became the trade standard. They were common right up to the 70's when saws were regularly sharpened and set and could last for decades if properly cared for. Specialists called 'saw-doctors' were available in most areas and would re-set your saw if you weren't very good at it yourself or you couldn't be arsed with the time it took! The numbers referred to the number of teeth per inch along the cutting edge. You rotated the wheel until you got to the number of TPI for your saw. The more TPI the finer the cut, and vice-versa. The tool was often used along with a triangular saw-file which was used for sharpening the teeth. Quite skillful actually as you had to get the cutting angle absolutely right, and also avoid removing any more metal than was absolutely necessary, or your saw wouldn't last very long!.

The other wee tool in the same picture is a glazier's tool used for cutting panes of glass to size. They usually incorporated a little diamond wheel which scribed the line and the glass was cut by tapping it along a straight edge. The little notches could be used for breaking-off glass along the edges.

I just love this forum as it lets you drone on about stuff that would send most ordinary folk into a boredom-induced coma. But I find fascinating. Hmm.......

[ruffgeezer]

Thanks for that, I have 2 set saws now, one in the original box!

 

I need to get a list of whit and a/f spammers done in size order as fractions aren't my strong point.

[ruffgeezer]

@Albert Ross I've got them all separated into Whit and Imperial, so if you've some sizes in mind let me know and I'll see how I can assist, I've got the imperials listed but I'm a bit crap with the fractions!