What's the oldest tool in your toolbox.
 

I know 'oldest tool' so keep it clean (mentioning no names, George)

Following a recent thread about ratchets I was thinking about my set of tools and all it's non matching brands and realised I still have and use a set (long since incomplete) of offset ring spanners (12mm+13, 14+15, 16+17) that I remember my Dad using over 40 years ago. Who knows how long he had them. All the AF ones are stored away somewhere.

Like this one...

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I've got tools that are older but had them so long.

What's in your box?

I still have some of dad's liberated "army" spanners. They are so numb that I often use them as a hammer!:D Some of my watch tools are over a hundred years old!;)

Me.......:getmecoat:

You beat me to it :duh: im 40 and still working..... Just :D

i have tools in my tool box I have had for 56 years when I started as a Mechanic Mainly Whitworth an AF

My Grandfathers tools which I treasure :cool:

My favourite being his saws which I reckon to be about 70 years old :cool:

I have loads of old tools but the only one I own that has a definite year of manufacture is my myford ml7 lathe. It was made in 1952 and restored by me in 2015. I absolutely love the thing, made when Britain was a truly great innovator and made to last. I consider myself a custodian rather than an owner and feel a responsibility to its former keeper, a truly amazing engineer, to keep it for future generations.
Anyway I digress.

Jon.

I found an old screwdriver within a wall I knocked down in my last house,,It had a stone
in the gable end marking the date as- 1912---the same year the Titanic went down,,,you can imagine the builders of the day sitting down and reading the newspaper article of the event.
I wonder if that screwdriver is 104 years old.!!

A few offset ring Whitworth spanners my dad bought in the mid 1950's and a really old 'bed key', from when beds were metal and needed to bolted together.

My grandfather worked all his life at Leyland motors and my dad did for a few years before he went to British Rail, they liberated some old spanners that I use today.

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