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Over the last few months I’ve had my eye out for Plomb War Finish Tools. I’ve manage to pick up a few, but they’re somewhat hard to find. Anyone else have any of them laying around?
We get a few over here that come up for sale now and again Pal.
I could imagine there would be a small army of the WF stamped Plombs laying around over there. The WF stamp stands for Wright Field (now Wright-Patterson AFB) which was a major contract distribution point during WWII. Every US Military base and vehicle had them on hand and it’s easy to imagine there are still a good deal of them there. The War Finish stamped ones were different. They were the civilian models and as hard as they are to find here, I’d say finding one on your side of the pond would be next to impossible.
Ah I see the difference now Pal I thought you meant the World War 2 tools that as you say were shipped over from the U.S.
Here is my collection. I’ve got 7 combo’s 5/16 – 11/16 with no skips. As simple as it seems, that’s actually kinda rare.
They look very cool 🙂
I’d like have a set up to at least 1″, but finding the bigger sizes is extremely hard to do. I’ve never seen one over 11/16 but I know they existed. Most War Finish combos you do find tend to be 9/16, 3/8, or 1/2″. I suppose I’ve got the rest of my life to look, lol