RAAF Spanner

[gromit]

Picked up an RAAF spanner at the Trash & Treasure Market on Sunday. 2BA & 4BA so handy on an old Land Rover.
A Google search threw up a picture of the exact same spanner, I wonder who made them ?

Also scored some Whitworth sockets and a small Japanese smoothing plane.

You never know what will turn up at a Trash & Treasure Market.....you just need to be there early !


Colin

[p38arover]

I still have the BA spanner set I was given in my company supplied tool box in 1965. Still in the original pouch and looking unused.

11BA to 0BA

[gromit]

I still have the BA spanner set I was given in my company supplied tool box in 1965. Still in the original pouch and looking unused.

11BA to 0BA

I have a BA tap & die set I purchased from Tracy Tools in the UK back in the 70's or 80's, that went from 0BA to 11BA.
I think there was only a tap in 11BA but the other sizes there was both a tap & die.

0,2 & 4BA I've used, the rest remain untouched.

Colin

[p38arover]

My set - Britool brand, full complement 11BA - 0BA. I don’t think there was ever anything in the vacant slot.

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[gromit]

My set - Britool brand, full complement 11BA - 0BA. I don’t think there was ever anything in the vacant slot.

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My only other 2BA spanner is a Britool, collected sometime in the UK but I can't remember when.

I have a box of spanners from the UK in the shed somewhere, lots of names from the past but no BA sizes.
King Dick,Williams Superslim, Bedford Vanadium, Britool.....I'm sure there are a few names I've forgotten.

Colin

[p38arover]

I was a 17-yo trainee radio technician and and received a very comprehensive toolbox for free from the company - Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia) - OTC(A). I worked with them for 37 years and still have all the tools from that toolbox, most, if not all, are still in good condition - except my wooden Rabone folding carpenter's rule which broke near the hinge a few years after receiving it. I still have it.

Like this:

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[Jeffoir]

Beautiful photo of your Rabone ruler there with lavender on “Rhapsody in Blue” Ron. Love it.
I have some of my father’s and my grandfather's old tools. I enjoy getting them out and oiling them. Wrapping them back up in oiled canvas. They “speak to you”.
best, jeff

[gromit]

I was a 17-yo trainee radio technician and and received a very comprehensive toolbox for free from the company - Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia) - OTC(A). I worked with them for 37 years and still have all the tools from that toolbox, most, if not all, are still in good condition - except my wooden Rabone folding carpenter's rule which broke near the hinge a few years after receiving it. I still have it.

Like this:

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I have a number of those rulers but well worn. They turn up at Trash & Treasure markets all the time. I still use one on woodwork projects.
Scored one recently with an integral spirit level.

My daughters loved to play with them, they became known as 'snappy rulers'.

Colin

[p38arover]

Beautiful photo of your Rabone ruler there with lavender on “Rhapsody in Blue” Ron. Love it.
I have some of my father’s and my grandfather's old tools. I enjoy getting them out and oiling them. Wrapping them back up in oiled canvas. They “speak to you”.
best, jeff

Not my Rabone, that’s a pic of the ‘net. I did say mine was like that one.