The "Longshanks" Survey: Get out yer Offset DBE's!

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Re: The "Longshanks" Survey: Get out yer Offset DBE's!

Post by sincitygpw » Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:35 pm

Hi All
Here is my wrench set that I would like to share with you all.
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Post by Wingnutt » Thu Nov 09, 2017 3:59 pm

Very nice, Dave!
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Re: The "Longshanks" Survey: Get out yer Offset DBE's!

Post by mudbox » Fri Nov 10, 2017 3:57 am

+1!
Very nice. Rare to see the 2014A with the (X). I've mostly seen it with the G in the model number.
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Re: The "Longshanks" Survey: Get out yer Offset DBE's!

Post by mudbox » Fri Nov 10, 2017 4:40 pm

Here's my set of BluePoint DBEs
E and G dated. The 11/16" & 3/4" wrench is marked BoxockeT. I thought that branding had gone away by then, but it's clearly date coded 'G'.

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Re: The "Longshanks" Survey: Get out yer Offset DBE's!

Post by mrbill » Mon Oct 29, 2018 3:32 pm

Picked up a Williams 8029B the other day. Recording for posterity.
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Re: The "Longshanks" Survey: Get out yer Offset DBE's!

Post by mudbox » Mon Oct 29, 2018 5:50 pm

Nice find Bill! That’s the only one I’ve ever seen. Very nice!
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Post by Wingnutt » Mon Oct 29, 2018 6:53 pm

Great find, Bill. What's the finish?
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Re: The "Longshanks" Survey: Get out yer Offset DBE's!

Post by mrbill » Mon Oct 29, 2018 7:08 pm

Wingnutt wrote:
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Great find, Bill. What's the finish?
Looks like cadmium and the ends are polished. EDIT: It could be chrome but the finish looks too porous to me. More cadmium-y.
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Re: The "Longshanks" Survey: Get out yer Offset DBE's!

Post by gpw_42 » Tue Oct 30, 2018 2:24 am

Bill, congratulations on that 8029B! That's fantastic....

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Re: The "Longshanks" Survey: Get out yer Offset DBE's!

Post by Wingnutt » Tue Oct 30, 2018 3:57 am

Bill,

It's always hard to tell via photograph, but I'll take your word for it. An interesting unicorn for sure.
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Re: The "Longshanks" Survey: Get out yer Offset DBE's!

Post by mrbill » Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:51 pm

I picked this wrench up locally... trying to complete a late war GMTK set around the 8029B upthread. The Chrome - Alloy makes it early 40s but the interesting part is the "U.S." martial stamping. Now I just need to find the 8033C!
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Re: The "Longshanks" Survey: Get out yer Offset DBE's!

Post by mrbill » Fri Jan 04, 2019 5:19 am

Wingnutt,

I have a dumb question. When you created the chart on the opening of this thread you listed Williams 8733C as the 15/16 x 1 choice. I only have the 1943 Williams wartime catalog and it lists the 8033C as the 45 degree offset 15/16 x 1 (on page 39-A). Was the model number different in the 1937 catalog that you cited?

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Re: The "Longshanks" Survey: Get out yer Offset DBE's!

Post by Wingnutt » Fri Jan 04, 2019 5:58 am

Yes. If you go back to page 1 and the chart, scroll down from there and you'll see scans from the 1937 Williams and the 1947 Williams catalogs. It changed from 8733C to 8033C. At the time I started this thread those were the only Williams catalogs I had access to. Such a strange feeling to even think there were days like that now that we have at least five or six catalogs in between!
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Re: The "Longshanks" Survey: Get out yer Offset DBE's!

Post by mrbill » Fri Jan 04, 2019 6:14 am

Thanks, Wing. For some reason the images are not showing up for me.
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Re: The "Longshanks" Survey: Get out yer Offset DBE's!

Post by Wingnutt » Fri Jan 04, 2019 8:08 am

Hmm. I can still see them. If nobody else can see them I guess I'll have to fix them.
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