The tool you have had the longest

[rswift]

Following on from the tool that is the most useful, what is the bit of kit in your toolbox that you have had the longest.

Mine is a wire brush, that I bought from halfords about 25 years ago. All the other cheap sockets & spanners have long since been chucked...but the trusty wire brush is still in use.

[Martin350]

I have a a few tools in the garage that were my dad's (who is now 75) and my granddad's before him, so I guess they could be a hundred years old or more!

[Locknut]

I'm nominating my small 1/4" socket set. Back about 1970 Japanese stuff was regarded like Chinese stuff is now. However they were already working on the quality issues (Toyota arrived here a few years later). I bought the set because I had little money and it was cheap, Like everyone else I had little idea of the way the world was going. I can remember my late father borrowing the set to rebuild the engine of a Fiat 600. More than forty years later I still have the set and use it regularly.

[pilbeam_mp62]

Mine is a hammer that I have owned for nearly 40 years... it has only had 6 new heads and 4 new wooden handles in that time.....

[hidetheelephants]

I celebrated the arrival of my first student loan with a visit to the Snap-On man and swapped some of the ill-gotten beer tokens for some sockets and a 3/8" ratchet; all still in regular use 18 years later.

[DocArbathnot]

Mines a pry bar and vice. Inherited from My father and his father before him. Pre-war I would have thought.

[onomatopoeia]

I have a two sets of Elora A/F spanners (one set of open and one set of ring) that my dad gave to me when I bought my first car as an 18 year old. He inherited them from his father and as he already had plenty of mechanicing tools gave them to me as the basis of my first toolkit.

They are still about the most frequently used tools in the box, 26 years on and none of them has ever failed. I've also still got quite a bit of the 1/2" drive Halfords A/F socket set I got as a leaving present from the department I worked at full time through my "year off" before university (which provided the money to buy and run the cars). A few of those have broken though and the ratchet died a long time ago.

[CrutyRammers]

The one I've owned the longest would be a pair of pliers which Dad bought me when I was 5 or 6.
Oldest - dunno, I've various inherited things. The lathe is from the 40s, and I've a few things from my Grandfather which may be older.

[Old Merc]

I`ve still got some big Britool sockets and a Wanner Grease gun which are 50 years old,very handy with my old classic.I would have had a lot more if it was not for the scumbag who broke into my workshop and nicked my old stuff along with two modern snap on kits,I also lost a micrometer that I was presented with for passing my apprenticeship.
I also have various Peugeot special tools which must be over 50 years old? Luckily the thief did not know what they were and left them.

[one eyed mick]

I have some sockets that came as part of my orig 1/2 drive set bought for me for abirthday present 51 years ago , whit sizes hardly used

[Mr2Mike]

A Kamasa (aka Kamakazi) 3/8" socket set bought when I was about 12.

[gaz453]

The oldest one i can remember would be an adjustable spanner from yonks ago, still gets used every now and again

[leafspring]

My 13 year old Halfords Professional 110 piece 1/4" + 3/8" + 1/2" drive Socket and spanner set...used abused every weekend and nothings missing or broken.

[buzzer]

A 0 to 1inch moore and wright micrometer, given to me by my dad when I was 14. (43 years ago!) It's imperial but I still use it as I tend to still work in imperial on fine work...