Showing posts with label tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tools. Show all posts
Monday, July 5, 2010
cool rat rods at El Cajon's season opener car cruise, the Garrett and Sons, and a former British Taxi
Labels:
chopped,
innovation,
innovative,
Rat Rods,
slammed,
suede and chrome,
tools
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Free PRoTO tool set by getting subscriptions to Hot Rod magazine, 1967



Wednesday, December 2, 2009
A bit of this and that from here and there, can't recall where I found all of them

Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Dear Santa, I know where you can find my xmas presents
Saturday, November 28, 2009
PROfessional quality TOols, which were PLVMB tools until about 1947


For some history on Plumb/Plvmb/Plomb tools that is now owned by Stanley: http://www.stanleyproto.com/xhtml/interactive_100anniversary/index.html
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
"The Case of the Mystery Socket Set" solved! what is a WSW-100, WSW-101 etc mean on a set of Snap on sockets? I found out

WSW-105 USA 4 Snap on 9/16 W
WSW-104 USA 3 Snap on 1/2 W
WSW-103 USA 2 Snap on 7/16W
WSW-102 USA 9 Snap on 7/16BS
WSW-102 USA 7 Snap on 3/8W
WSW-101 USA 0 Snap on 3/8BS
WSW-101 USA 2 Snap on 5/16W
WSW-100 USA 3 Snap on 1/4W
WSW-100 USA 6 Snap on 1/4W
So, what do these have to do with what? Well, I listed them all because there isn't much info on the internet when I searched up each one of these.
They are used on old Jags, these tools with the strange and incomprehensible markings were once common enough that even Sears Roebuck and Snap-On carried them.
Before the mid-nineteenth century, nuts and bolts were individually hand-made, specifically matched and were generally not interchangeable. Serious efforts to standardize screw threads began in 1841, when Sir Joseph Whitworth proposed a standard screw thread form based on a constant thread angle of 55 degrees. This became known as the Whitworth thread, and gained acceptance in British industry. Outside diameters of bolts began at 1/8" and increased by fractional inch increments, with a whole number of threads per inch specified for each diameter.
In 1965 the British Standards Institution approved a policy statement urging British industry to regard BSW, BSF, and BA as obsolescent, to be gradually replaced by International Standards Organization (ISO) metric thread
I learned a lot from http://www.jag-lovers.org/xk-lovers/library/whitworth_system.html
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Tool boxes among the trailers in the paddock at Speedfest
When shopping for or making your next tool box, here are a variety that the pros use. Seeing that touring race car teams use them, I bet they are set up for the most efficient way to get things done.
Wow. Impressive

Labels:
Speedfest 2009,
tool,
tool kit,
toolbox,
tools
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