Auction purchases older tools

Kansas4010

Well-known Member
I thought someone might like to see some of
these. I went to an auction and bought a
nice metal toolbox with several tools. I
picked out some I thought were unique. The
punches are marked by the rail road.
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Kansas 4010: very nice--my grandfather had a screwdriver with the fold-out handle very similar to the one in your picture, and I've got a couple sets of the early-style ratchets and L-handled sockets. Always gives me a feeling of connection to the older generation of workmen when I use their tools, and there's times when they're just the ticket regardless of whether I have a newer gizmo to do the same thing, and often not as well.
 
Great pic for me!!
Your pic just answered a question I have had for years. I bought a ratchet handle at a flea market, the head does not have a male drive part, it has a 3/8 inch square hole through and included a 3/8 in square piece about an inch long. I had never seen extensions for sockets/ratchets that were male on both ends!! Well now I know there were such things. (My one inch long piece would actually be considered an extension, I assume. It does have the typical spring loaded detent buttons).

Dennis M. in W. Tenn.
 
I've seen the ratchet, sockets, and
straight extension but not that L shaped
extension. I assume it works like a
breaker bar but it also fits into the
roundish handle beside it. It turns into a
T handle. That was a new one to me. I
almost discarded the handle piece until I
noticed it was the same color and look of
the rest of the set.
 
I think the screwdriver may have been supplied with a tool kit for a 2 man chainsaw, possibly a Mall. or Disston Mercury. I have one and the handle is aluminum
 
Hi:
Just as information for anyone browsing and also for the Original Poster, Near the bottom of pic, beside three sockets, is a piece that looks like a screwdriver. I am quite sure it is a tool to remove/install/adjust tie-rod ends on vehicles from 1930s and 40s, also probably on some tractors.

Dennis M. in W. Tenn.
 
My Dad did too...I probably lost it in the grass while working on my bicycle.
Actually the lever arm made it very handy.
 
That inch long 3/8 piece with two "buttons" is the drive. Insert that into the ratchet from one side and position it flush with face of drive. Then add you socket. To reverse direction push the drive through the ratchet until other end is flush. Put socket back on an turn the opposite direction.
 
(quoted from post at 08:49:58 07/14/18) Hi:
... I am quite sure it is a tool to remove/install/adjust tie-rod ends on vehicles from 1930s and 40s, also probably on some tractors.

I think you are right. It's an early version of a "Drag Link Socket". Still useful on tie rod ends on Minneapolis Moline U models.
 
Have not seen the ratchet with the 3/8" square hole but 1/2" hex was popular and I have at least one or possibly more. And that L shaped was a combination of a extension or a breaker bar. Think I have some 3/8" hex sockets but no ratchet.
 

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