Show your Proto Sets

[J.A.F.E.]

That is quite a remarkable set.

[Cruiser808]

Thanks Steve, I'm surprised the cardboard box is still intact.

[J.A.F.E.]

That's pretty amazing for a box about 70 years old. I hope I look that good at 70.

Just not as yellow.

[Snaparxon]

Proto long combo wrenches. The 9/32" isn't part of the set but it is the same length as the 1/4" so I keep it with the set.

[Cruiser808]

That’s one sweet set, Snaparxon. I have an early Proto-Plomb version of long combos.

[Cruiser808]

1/2 and 1/4 Proto LA sets from the 1950’s.

[Snaparxon]

Cruiser808, you have some nice Proto and Plomb stuff. Did you find most of it on the island?

[Cruiser808]

Hi Snaparxon - about half and half. Pearl Harbor shipyard workers used a lot of Proto tools that have ended up in swap meets or garage sales. The rest I got from eBay or friends. And, it’s taken decades to acquire this stuff. I was introduced to Proto tools in 1984 and have been a fanboy ever since. They’re not as well chromed and as nice as Snap-on, but much more affordable and convenient to get. This is important when you live in a high cost of living, high taxed, liberal hippie State like Hawaii. But, bottom line, Proto tools are tough as nails.

[Snaparxon]

Hi Snaparxon - about half and half. Pearl Harbor shipyard workers used a lot of Proto tools that have ended up in swap meets or garage sales. The rest I got from eBay or friends. And, it’s taken decades to acquire this stuff. I was introduced to Proto tools in 1984 and have been a fanboy ever since. They’re not as well chromed and as nice as Snap-on, but much more affordable and convenient to get. This is important when you live in a high cost of living, high taxed, liberal hippie State like Hawaii. But, bottom line, Proto tools are tough as nails.

I learned a lot about you from that post I live in a state with similar issues

[J.A.F.E.]

That’s one sweet set, Snaparxon. I have an early Proto-Plomb version of long combos.

That must have been pretty hard to find.

[Cruiser808]

One at a time for many years.

[J.A.F.E.]

I'll bet. There can't be many sets around.

[Cruiser808]

I think there’s a guy on channel 3 that has one.

[J.A.F.E.]

Has to be a pretty exclusive club though.

[Snaparxon]

More of a collection than a set