Post up your Bonney tools!

[Midnitemack]

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[bonneyman]

Nice!

That 2804DL DBE is a rare bird. The 3/8x7/16 and 1/2x9/16 DBE's are quite common, but that 7/16x1/2 is hard to find.

And your metric combos are worth their weight in gold. I'd have them under lock and key....and Smith and Wesson!

[coolmercury]

I think I posted these on the old site, all are nos in the original boxes which all say "Utica".  The pouches all say Utica/Bonney and are from the Triangle Corp.  All the wrenches are Bonney.  Was this about the time that Bonney was no more??

[bonneyman]

Bonney "went out" of business in 1994 or so. Cooper Tools bought the tool division from Triangle mainly for the pliers production of Utica. Bonney was profitable at that time but needed some capital investment to update worn tooling. Cooper decided to just drop the line.
Those red vinyl pouches are the same as my 1981 wrenches came in.

[Midnitemack]

Bonney "went out" of business in 1994 or so. Cooper Tools bought the tool division from Triangle mainly for the pliers production of Utica. Bonney was profitable at that time but needed some capital investment to update worn tooling. Cooper decided to just drop the line.
Those red vinyl pouches are the same as my 1981 wrenches came in.

So that explains the boxes for the NOS pliers I posted above ? They are in fact Utica pliers and nothing really to do with Bonney apart from the combined company ownership of that era ?


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[bonneyman]

I think I read that the Cooper acquisition was like 1990 or something, so they probably just kept selling existing inventory in existing boxes. (I never even heard of Cooper Tools "owning" Bonney until probably a decade after they shut them down). And all the Bonney tools I've ever bought that were still in boxes were the same red and white with the Triangle logo one them.

[bonneyman]

A "new" Bonney tool.
I've had this 3/8" extension for awhile. It was pitted and rusty, 16" long, never used it. Finally decided to clean it up and see if any shine was left (nada). So I sanded it smooth and painted it high temp silver. Then I noticed a detent ball in the female drive end, and realized it would take a crossbar. Found a suitable piece of steel rod in my scrap box, fit it in and put some rubber caps on the ends to keep it form sliding all the way out. I think it'll make a decent long reach T-driver. (If the paint isn't durable enough I might try a DIY nickel plating idea I saw on Utube).

Perfect of those hard to reach areas where low torque is desirable. With a magnetic socket on the end it might make a nice bolt starter.

[DeadNutz]

Great mod there George.

[slip knot]

I acquired a 3/8 T handle from somewhere and have begun to see the utility of a nice T handle. Very nice job on that one Bman.

[coolmercury]

Great idea!

[john k]

More Bonneys are hiding out in my Cold shop

[jeffmoss26]

will try and get some pics over the weekend.

[bonneyman]

More Bonneys are hiding out in my Cold shop

I've got some of those smaller shorty old style double flare wrenches. Nice for in-furnace work.

[skfarmer]

seems like i need to add a few pics to this. 

[bonneyman]

Here's a Bonney socket tray that needed a little love.