I had an old Husky breaker bar circa 1970 with a knurled handle . It was great , my foot never slipped off the handle . Alas , I no longer have it as it ran away with someone else .
Being in the rust belt, I prefer knurled handles myself. My hands always end up with a thin layer of wd40, grease, oil, etc. Crappy thing is, the knurling is either on the cheapo stuff or expensive stuff. Masterforce and Evercraft seem to be decent brands that still knurl tools, but are still in the DIYers budget.
👍 So why is there a whole drilled into the handle of the Williams breaker bar. What was its purpose? Why would Williams do that? Whats the trick? To make it a longer "T" handle?
On older tools it's for hanging on Peg boards and such or putting a wrist strap on or hanging strap and on some tools of the whole large then say on a breaker bar you could use a crossbar and use it as like a funky kind of T handle
A man and a cat walk into the Breaker Bar and order a screwdriver. "Hey, you can't bring animals in here," says the barman. "I'm blind," says the man. "It's my seeing-eye animal." "Yeah, right," says the barman. "There's no such thing as a seeing-eye cat." The man looks puzzled and says, "It's a cat?"
3:50... adding carbon will harden the steel by a factor of 4... (0.5-2.0)...but not only that but the tempering processes have changed and adding things like vanadium can also ratchet up the hardness ....so you can actually get 1/2 inch round bar these days to be harder than a5/8"- 3/4" inch bar from 40 years ago ...not only alloy mixtures but the processes down stream... i.e..tempering and quenching We understand you love your vintage tools....but, facts is facts...BIG CAT...🐈
I had an old Husky breaker bar circa 1970 with a knurled handle . It was great , my foot never slipped off the handle . Alas , I no longer have it as it ran away with someone else .
SK makes breaker bars with knurled handles....they're pretty nice!
I believe that flex head breaker bar is from the 50’s or 60’s if I’m not mistaken.
Update to my update that breaker bar is actually from the late 30’s I believe.
Being in the rust belt, I prefer knurled handles myself. My hands always end up with a thin layer of wd40, grease, oil, etc. Crappy thing is, the knurling is either on the cheapo stuff or expensive stuff. Masterforce and Evercraft seem to be decent brands that still knurl tools, but are still in the DIYers budget.
ye so many brands today skip the knurling, either for cost or for looks
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So why is there a whole drilled into the handle of the Williams breaker bar.
What was its purpose?
Why would Williams do that?
Whats the trick?
To make it a longer "T" handle?
On older tools it's for hanging on Peg boards and such or putting a wrist strap on or hanging strap and on some tools of the whole large then say on a breaker bar you could use a crossbar and use it as like a funky kind of T handle
@@CatusMaximus 👍
A man and a cat walk into the Breaker Bar and order a screwdriver.
"Hey, you can't bring animals in here," says the barman.
"I'm blind," says the man. "It's my seeing-eye animal."
"Yeah, right," says the barman. "There's no such thing as a seeing-eye cat."
The man looks puzzled and says, "It's a cat?"
Hahaha.
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Thank you for my good belly laugh of the day!!!
That was worth the click.
Wow! WAYYYY cool! Great vid, Ty.
Very nice. You can date SO tools by the character stampings. Google SO date codes and it will have a chart.
Except for Snap-on isn't totally consistent this breaker bar did not have any date stamps only the T handle did
I don't own any Armstrong, but I'll keep an eye out
3:50... adding carbon will harden the steel by a factor of 4... (0.5-2.0)...but not only that but the tempering processes have changed and adding things like vanadium can also ratchet up the hardness ....so you can actually get 1/2 inch round bar these days to be harder than a5/8"- 3/4" inch bar from 40 years ago ...not only alloy mixtures but the processes down stream... i.e..tempering and quenching
We understand you love your vintage tools....but, facts is facts...BIG CAT...🐈