Old tools

[Welderpaul]

What year do you reckon these came out?

Anyone old enough to remember them/still use them?

 

[brightspark]

yea ive used them .fibre plugs cut to the size u need and a rawltool for drilling using a hammer ive still got one . early 60 s ish

 

[Hitch]

When my nan moved into sheltered accommodation years ago, she gave me a box of tools and fixings, must have been a few hundred of them plugs in amongst it all.

 

[KemppiFrog]

Remember...Yes. Use them...NO.
Dreadful BsOS. Fischer are in a different league

 

[voipio]

I remember those as a kid. They're at least pre-decimalisation, so before 1971. The Rawlplug website mentions plastic replaced fibre in the 1960s. I remember them in my dad's toolbox around 1960, and the fact that they were almost completely useless when I tried using them. The patent for the fibre rawlplug was filed in 1911 and granted two years later. The "Popular Outfit" box was 2s 6d (2/6) in around 1950, making the example box somewhat older, allowing for the 66% price inflation and possibly mid-late 1940s.

See:
http://www.rawlplug.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=3
http://www.researchpod.co.uk/pdf/get_a_grip_history_of_rawlplug.pdf

 

[Tigman]

Ive got one of those tools somewhere and I did use it a while back before we had the battery tools !

 

[mike 109444]

Tried smoking then but a ****** to light

 

[gordon stephenson]

I believe 1n the original rawlplug manufacture the fibre was mixed with some sort of animal blood!!!

 

[Welderpaul]

Lovely old tools. I vaguely remember when i was a boy, a neighbour using one when his drill packed up. Probably a bit more skill in its use. I think you could change the cutting end by driving in a little drift?....

 

[zx9]

I remember my dad using them back in the early 70's, one of the the other things I remember he used was a Black and Decker circular saw attachment for his electric drill, that was even worse than fibre wall plugs.

I believe 1n the original rawlplug manufacture the fibre was mixed with some sort of animal blood!!!

Ummm Black Pudding.......

 

[Hitch]

I remember my dad using them back in the early 70's, one of the the other things I remember he used was a Black and Decker circular saw attachment for his electric drill, that was even worse than fibre wall plugs.
Ummm Black Pudding.......

Orbital sander, jigsaw.... worst bit was getting the bits out of the drill body, the jigsaw one i recall having to put a pair of vise grips on it and whack them.

 

[Welderpaul]

I remember my grandad using a B&D circular saw attachment on his drill fairly regularly. I think everyone in the UK had one in the 70's, along with his blue B&D workmate with squeaky legs

 

[Hitch]

I remember my grandad using a B&D circular saw attachment on his drill fairly regularly. I think everyone in the UK had one in the 70's, along with his blue B&D workmate with squeaky legs

And broken clips on the legs, so they flap about?

 

[Welderpaul]

Yeah, 2 of the black clips were knackered so you had to sort of flip the legs out when you put it on the floor before lifting the top bit up.

Must have been a standard fault then.

 

[KemppiFrog]

And what about that stuff for wall fixings that you mixed a bit of water, moulded with fingers, then stuffed in the hole. I think it was asbestos Also by Rawlplug?

 

[brightspark]

And what about that stuff for wall fixings that you mixed a bit of water, moulded with fingers, then stuffed in the hole. I think it was asbestos Also by Rawlplug?

same stuff as this only made by phillplug. u bought it in a big tin .wet it and forced it in to uneven holes it worked a treat http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=philplug&f=false

 

[jordan1]

I remember using them in the mid 50's. Rubbish as I recall.

 

[Glyn]

Now, we all know how things have moved on, tools get more complicated, sophisticated and harder to use. Some things are backward compatable though. To make good use of those beauties you need to buy this off me. Micro processor controlled, top of the range non tangle high resistance orange cable, an arm snapping 400 watts, so much power, if the drill jambs the wall will spin. Of course, all this technology does not come cheap.

 

[brightspark]

Now, we all know how things have moved on, tools get more complicated, sophisticated and harder to use. Some things are backward compatable though. To make good use of those beauties you need to buy this off me. Micro processor controlled, top of the range non tangle high resistance orange cable, an arm snapping 400 watts, so much power, if the drill jambs the wall will spin. Of course, all this technology does not come cheap.

do u have an rcd plug to go with it i wouldnt use that if u payed me to

 

[stormin]

That's a modern Black an d Decker in blue.

Someone at the museum was using an old aluminium bodied orange coloured B&D drill today. Wish I'd got a photo now.

My dad has still got a brown coloured B&D one which must date from the seventies.