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fcs
03-18-2009, 09:34 PM
What is the oldest tool you have (not not that one:D)

And still use.

I have a Original Model T wrench,

Pipe wrench's over 50 year old

And a Soar CT 300 meter

Tie Strap
03-18-2009, 10:59 PM
a very old sheet metal hammer thats been passed down twice
craftsman socket set thats gotta be at least 50 years old
every diagnostic the company has provided when I took the van over :)

Poodle Head Mikey
03-19-2009, 04:48 PM
I used one of them to make some of the cedar trim for my second floor.

I have round (cylindrical) oak and brass drill index that is about 100 years old.

I have an axe head that, when I went to get a new handle, the guy told me was from the late 1800's.

I'm sure there's more old stuff around here - I have so much crap that I've forgotten most of it. <g>

Sharp Snips
03-29-2009, 09:00 AM
I have a horse shoe nipper that I use to crimp the black and silver rings for the terminations on UNICO tubing. They were handed down to me by my grandmother, who I am sure got them from her father. Hard to tell how old but I'm betting pretty dawgone old. They couldn't work any better for what I use them for then for what they were designed to do...

beachtech
03-29-2009, 10:53 PM
i have some tools that are so old, i cannot even tell you the age of them...

rango
03-29-2009, 10:56 PM
Brass monkey wrenches I got at a garage sale.

vstech
04-03-2009, 10:33 AM
I have several old flat jaw pipe wrench style adjustable wrenches I use for a multitool style job. has a good flat for a hammer, and works as a tank wrench etc... must be 80 years old...

vstech
04-03-2009, 10:35 AM
heh, about 20 years ago, I was working boilers to heat dip tanks for a chrome shop, and had all my aluminum pipe wrenches chromed... best thing ever done to the wrenches! the still work like new. the nuts spin effortlessly, and the jaws look pristine! my old aluminum ridgid wrenches still look brand new!