Father christmas came home early ! Vintage Tools Galore

My latest find

a stash of road vintage tools ( well 70s and 80s I would expect ) :idea:

lots of VAR stuff , the french maker

I can undo every bottom bracket, freewheel , or crank of the world now having all the standards
metric and inches standard spanners
bottom bracket tap wrench and facer
cutters you name it
and last but not least the nice Preciray VAR wheel truing stand
etc...

most of them I know the usage ( a few thanks to sheldon scanned var catalogue) such as a Hub die stock for screw on freewheels I discovered
and a few tools,I don't even know what to do with - some of them handmade :shock:

BUT one issue - I have got only the french standard for my dies ! not one BSC
the old man was surely a chauvinist in that regard :roll:

I am going to feel obliged to do the eroica now

Ahh the old friend, that wheel truing stand made my hair go gray in my apprenticeship.

but now i would like one myself.

Very nice pieces there

Nice find, not often these come up for sale and in such good condition

Synthesis":2mg8be92 said:

Ahh the old friend, that wheel truing stand made my hair go gray in my apprenticeship.

but now i would like one myself.

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very rare to find one second hand in France - I have been looking at wheel stands for a long time and it is the first one I see in years

dunno if it is because they are still being used or because they were surely bloody expensive at the time :?:
as the tools are now !

Wowee! Bet you're chuffed with all that!

Very nice; where did you find such a haul?

Montello":3ho4ya0v said:

Very nice; where did you find such a haul?

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an amateur gathered them 30 or 40 years ago - he is now in a "retirement" home and his son not interested sold them in a bunch