Garage Gazette
TOOLS AND THE SHOP => ANTIQUE/COLLECTOR TOOLS/BOXES/HAND ONLY => Topic started by: bmwrd0 on August 09, 2019, 09:00:45 PM
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Digging around in an estate sale today, out in the country south of Eugene, I can across this in among the rusty junk:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48499545097_355cbcc1d1_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gTJR4p)
I think that it is a '25 to '27 Snap-on ratchet. If it is, it is the first one they made, not given a part number and marked Milwaukee, the first place they manufactured at. It is non-reversible but missing the drive plug. My plan is to give it JAFE juice to get it ratcheting again, and then de-rust.
This was a place I never thought to find something like this. I thought the chances outside of Wisconsin were pretty much zero.
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Interesting score..... never know where you might strike gold !
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It'd be interesting to know the drive size...........could it be the elusive 7/8" drive?
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Very nice looking forward to seeing it cleaned up
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So, I was able to get it working without much trouble, but it does seem really fragile. Here it is with some of the Snap-on stuff I have from the same period, in what I think is an old Blackhawk set box:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48637905783_bd392489d3_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2h6XYSt)
Haven't really gone to town with any Evaporust as I think it might be too fragile inside for that, but now I just need to find some more of the right sockets. Also, I have no idea what he original drive plug would be like, so I just grabbed one of the extras I have around.
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... Also, I have no idea what he original drive plug would be like, ...
They have a cap to retain the plug when you pull off the socket.
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Don't think I have one, so the hunt continues!
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Someone made some repops not too long ago. Can't recall who but there was a thread about them on one of the sites - maybe over at collecting Snap-on. Maybe there are some still available.
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Don't think I have one, so the hunt continues!
Is it 1/2" drive?
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Someone made some repops not too long ago. Can't recall who but there was a thread about them on one of the sites - maybe over at collecting Snap-on. Maybe there are some still available.
http://collectingsnapon.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=113&p=2489&hilit=plug#p2489
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Thanks Jake.
Holy smokes that thread was from 2012.
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Don't think I have one, so the hunt continues!
Is it 1/2" drive?
Yes. Do you have a spare like this Twersty?
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Don't think I have one, so the hunt continues!
Is it 1/2" drive?
Yes. Do you have a spare like this Twersty?
I have Duro and Bonney spares, and an unmarked copper one, but no, I can't find one like that........sorry.
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So, I was able to get it working without much trouble, but it does seem really fragile. Here it is with some of the Snap-on stuff I have from the same period, in what I think is an old Blackhawk set box:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48637905783_bd392489d3_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2h6XYSt)
Haven't really gone to town with any Evaporust as I think it might be too fragile inside for that, but now I just need to find some more of the right sockets. Also, I have no idea what he original drive plug would be like, so I just grabbed one of the extras I have around.
That does look like my Blackhawk box. My ratchet is slightly newer than yours with multiple year markings.
-Don