Assortment Hand Tools

EIGHT HAND TOOLS - RIDGID 18 INCH HEAVY DUTY PIPE WRENCH, GENUINE PLUMB CLAW HAMMER, SECOND CLAW HAMMER, TWO PAIR OF HEDGE SHEARS INCLUDING COMET NO. L6, NEWBORN MDL 35 CAULK GUN, 1-1/2 INCH SOCKET ON A SLIDING T-HANDLE, AND ONE PICK OR SCRAPER An eight-piece group of named-brand American hand tools with real weight to them, laid out on the garage floor and photographed individually with marks shown. The headline piece is a RIDGID heavy duty pipe wrench stamped 18 inch and ELYRIA OHIO U.S.A., the plumber's wrench that built half the country and still the most sought-after item in any tool lot. With it come a GENUINE PLUMB claw hammer on a shortened wood handle, a second claw hammer with a blue fiberglass handle stamped DROP FORGE TAIWAN, two pair of hedge shears - one with aluminum tube handles and red collars, one older pair with black-painted wood handles stamped COMET No. L6 - a green NEWBORN MDL 35 ratchet caulk gun, a large 1-1/2 inch six-point socket permanently fitted to a sliding T-handle, and a pink-gripped pick or scraper. Everything here is used, and the pipe wrench and the older shears carry heavy rust. This is the lot in the garage run that a working tradesman will bid on, and it sits naturally with the tool tote, socket sets, and yard tool lots elsewhere in this sale. NOTHING was tested, adjusted, sharpened, cycled, or put on a fastener, and no tool is represented as functional. Sold as a lot of eight tools. Description RIDGID pipe wrench - forged iron straight pipe wrench with a knurled adjusting nut, hook jaw, and heel jaw. The handle is stamped RIDGID, HEAVY DUTY, and 18" on one side, and on the reverse it reads ELYRIA OHIO U.S.A. with 18" again near the butt. The 18 inch figure is quoted from the stamping on the tool itself; in the tape-measure frames the tape lies alongside on the concrete and does not run the full length of the wrench, so the stamped size is NOT confirmed by measurement here and bidders should verify from the photographs. Heavily rusted overall with old red paint traces. Plumb claw hammer - curved-claw hammer head with a GENUINE PLUMB stamp in a rectangular box on the cheek, still readable though rust-edged, and additional raised numbers on the opposite cheek that read as something like 8-53 or 853 but are too worn to state with confidence and are NOT claimed. The wood handle has been cut down or broken off short, leaving roughly a five-inch stub. Overall length measures approximately 10 to 10.5 inches per the tape-measure photograph. This hammer is usable as a short-handle bench hammer but the handle is NOT full length and is NOT original in length. Second claw hammer - curved-claw head on a blue fiberglass or composite handle with a black perforated rubber grip. The head is stamped DROP FORGE and TAIWAN. Overall length measures approximately 12.5 to 13 inches per the tape-measure photograph. A patch of dried white paint or joint compound is stuck to the handle. Hedge shears, tube-handle pair - long steel blades, one edge serrated, center pivot bolt, aluminum tube handles with red painted collars and black rubber grips. Faint stamping on the blade appears to read FORGED with a number that reads as 51-30 or similar; the stamping is worn and neither the word nor the number is claimed. Overall length measures approximately 19 to 20 inches per the tape-measure photograph. One rubber grip is split and torn at the end. Hedge shears, Comet pair - older shears with long serrated steel blades, a red painted pivot plate, nickeled ferrules, and two turned wood handles painted black with the paint worn through to bare wood. One handle is stamped in white COMET and No. L6. Overall length measures approximately 17 inches per the tape-measure photograph. NEWBORN caulk gun - green painted steel frame ratchet-rod caulk gun with a half-barrel cradle, wire trigger frame, and a long L-bend plunger rod with a ring end. The frame is embossed MDL 35 and NEWBORN. The barrel and frame carry dried caulk residue and cobwebs. 1-1/2 inch socket on a T-handle - a large chrome six-point socket stamped 1-1/2 on its side, fitted onto a short chrome drive body with a sliding T-bar handle running through it. Overall length measures approximately 13 to 14 inches per the tape-measure photograph. The socket drive size was NOT read and is NOT claimed; by proportion it is a large drive, likely 3/4 inch, but that is not stated as fact. The T-bar slides and the socket appears to be a fixed assembly rather than a removable socket, but this was NOT worked or taken apart, so nothing is claimed about whether the socket comes off. Pick or scraper - a thin bent steel shaft with a flattened chisel or spade tip, the shaft painted white with the paint chipping, fitted with a bright pink ribbed plastic grip. Overall length measures approximately 10 to 10.5 inches per the tape-measure photograph. What this tool is intended for could NOT be determined from the photographs - it reads as a gasket scraper, packing p