Old Stanley tools

[Resu]

Yankee screwdriver

Only discovered these the other day. Was talking to a joiner and he popped out and grabbed one of his old ones out his van, was very impressed!

 

[PEG]

You will have to imagine just how many old tools a man who collects anvils for a hobby,has...some,like my inclinometer ,and analogue tachometer,are genuine antiques with a value,but i still use em' when needed. I have a host of Avo's and the like,and see no reason whatsoever why one of them can't share bag space with a 1720...There was a certain pride attached to tools which were intended for long service,which the owner had to learn how to dress,sharpen,even re-harden and temper...then,"throwaway" tools landed,and another set of skills evaporated with them...Anyway,some new pieces of kit are awesome,including my latest Ledlenser torch,me old carbide lamp sits lonely now,as bloody terrorists have made the purchase of carbide tricky...:stooge_curly:

 

[ipf]

I bet if people are honest most of the guys on here have done the same they were lethal, but at the same time a very useful tool

Flat edge driver slipping, that's the reason they were awkward at times. Strange, but never used to use pozis or phillips screws.....always flat...and swore by them.

 

[Pete999]

When we had som off cuts of cable we used to "insulate out pliers and drivers with the outer sheath, looked awful

 

[old_sparky_RE]

The oldest kit I have is at the back of the garage is my lead forming wedges and the formers (wooden mallets) for shaping lead sheathed cable when I was working on the Airfields.
One set of wedges are 1920's (I think) and the set of formers are 1940's.
Beautifully shapped wooden tools they are too.

 

[dingledong]

He was mate, I wanted his lathe but his idiot son got first dibs. Then sold it.

It was his son trev

 

[Guest111]

I,ve gone back to a cantilever box still got a pair of footprints and a rawltool,the old plumbers bag was called a tool bass and is actually still issued to BT engineers for overhead work,I still had mine up until a few years ago.

 

[Pete999]

I,ve gone back to a cantilever box still got a pair of footprints and a rawltool,the old plumbers bag was called a tool bass and is actually still issued to BT engineers for overhead work,I still had mine up until a few years ago.

That's the kidddy best tool bag ever, I expect someone will re market them as a Zetoxcvb12z and sell em for a couple of hundred quid, now there's an idea

 

[driverman]

Only joking Stan, do you know still got me 2 sets of footprints to this day.!!

Made a set of footprints whilst at college years ago, sadly not got them now

 

[trev]

It was his son trev

Yes, that's why I described him as his son. He sold the lathe for scrap in the end, he has a criminal record as long as your arm for petty theft and minor public order offences, that's why I described him as an idiot.