I know this subject has been beaten to death but believe me I've checked and can't find any former postings on it. I believe I've hit the "screw driver mother lode" at the Columbus Flea Market here in N.J. The driver is about 8" long total, has no manufacturer's markings, and has a square shaft that protrudes through the back of the wood handle. Waddeya Dink? Legit or what?
Does shank have a pin holding it to handle?
Hey Charlie, if there's more than one, pick me up one too.
Charlie,
South Jersey rummaging seems to be a bonanza for old automotive tools, guess most of the Piney's never threw anything out!
An interesting sidebar also and mentioning 'Piney's' affectionately as some of my own were one...is that a Frank Hankins of up Columbus/Shamong way was the original 'Ford' pack rat from pre-war era on for this lower end of NJ, plus a whole lot of other seemingly savable things in the 'your trash will be my cash someday' thoughts he had ...he junked nothing!
I don't know where his 'stuff' went when he passed now decades ago...the last guy who would have probably known passed about almost a year ago, but I knew Frank when I was a young teen, enjoyed scavenging his yard with big wide eyes when I'd go for a ride up with older by a generation T guys who needed a part. I ironically or perhaps fittingly wound up with Franks unmolested very low mileage '15 Runabout years later when one of his 'partners', another South Jersey motoring legend named Henry McBride passed back in the 90's and he left a note for his wife clipped to his will to sell the '15 only to me and sell the rest of Henry 'stuff' to a certain museum out of state and if I wanted to pass on the '15 to include it in the museum sale. Lucky me!. Even now, all these years later when I do take the '15 to Batsto Village Days in the fall, in the heart of the 'Piney's', it's still not MY car...lol...folks want their picture taken with kids and grand-kids and great-grand-kids in 'Frank and Henry's' car and they know it on immediate sight!
Who knows, maybe Columbus is where all of Franks 'stuff' eventually wound up or will wind up. Makes tons of logic as to geography to me. Maybe you did get lucky!
I have the factory drawing here somewhere if you want to see it and I'll dig it out if you want but others may post something first, I'll have to dig and scan.
Jack: if you mean a small round head rivet through the ferrule then yes it does.
Believe me if there was more than 1 there I'd have more than 1 home now. This (if it's correct) may be a case of "I don't really know what I'm selling" 'cause the guy said: wooden handled screw drivers, every body likes those. Of course Columbus Flea Market is also the place where I ran into a guy selling 2 coils. $50.00 each.. And he said he'd been offered that for them before. I told him he'd missed out on a great deal. Plenty of Ford wrenches there too but with T-bay prices. $8/10.00 each. Once it has Ford on it you can forget it price wise.
Charles;
I was in an Antique shop once and they had a coil they were trying to sell. He wanted a crazy amount,$40.00, I told him, I had 30 or 40 I would sell to him for $5.00 each. He took it out of a locked display case.
This is not a good screwdriver to check the spark at the spark plugs. You must be vary careful of the shank going through the handle. If you touch it while it is in contact with the spark plug lead. ZAP!
Norm
Years ago, when the trucks we worked on, had a 6Volt system. We had a mechanic, working for us, that checked which cylinder wasn't firing, by grabbing a hold of the spark plugs to find out.When they went to 12V, he grabbed a plug, he said wow, that kinda tickled. We couldn't believe this guy.
Charlie,
I couldn't find the original dark grainy print, like everything else it is 'over there some where' with everything else....but did find a redraw I did of it and forgot that I had done it.
Here it is...
Others have said there were plus/minus on actuals. I'm still waiting to find an 'actual'.
Nice Drawing! I saved it for future reference.
Tricky little bugger ain't it.
This long discussion of Model T tools has a picture from Mike Walker showing a correct screwdriver: http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/179374/249390.html.
Thanks George. That looks exactly like what I have. The blade has been ground down or worn out a bit but that's it.
You know I just realised the picture didn't come through. Here it is.
They must be rare. Put it on T-bay. The "ink wasn't dry" and it got snapped up.
Yes, they are. There are jillions of #1917 and #2335 wrenches, but not many screwdrivers with wooden handles have survived a hundred years.