Tool color

[Redbird]

Are the tools that came with the car painted black?

[barkleydave]

No most I believe where a cold blue process which looks black.

My brother-in-law restores lots of them.

[Charles Coe]

Depends on the year and the tool but most were painted black.

[Redbird]

1931 and I have soaked in evaporust then a hand held wire brushed.

[Tom Wesenberg]

The patch tool is not part of the kit. The grease gun is dull nickel plated. The screwdriver shafts are plain steel. The screwdriver wood handles and the other tools have black paint. A semi-gloss black would look good.

[Redbird]

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Thanks Tom. I will get some semi gloss black for the tools and just spray a clear coat on the grease pump. How does the patch tool work? It would appear the four prongs would hold down the tube? I have applied many bicycle patches as a kid, but I don't see what this tool does.

[Tudortomnz]

Some of my toolkit items have remains of a dull black paint & what looks like a grey undercoat.
The clamp pictured was part of the puncture repair outfit commonly known as ''vulcanising'', at least in this part of the world & the patch was ignited [heat cured] with the clamp holding until completed. They were a very effective way of fixing roadside punctures, which on gravel roads, was part of the motoring experience, unlike today.

The grease gun pictured is a late one, probably V8 to 1934 ; the Model A ones commonly had a cork plunger, but the thin metal ,rubber edged disc came in later.

[Tom Wesenberg]

About 5 or 6 years ago hot patches were outlawed. Burning the patch was by far the best way to fix a flat tube. The government said the fumes were not good, so they outlawed hot patches.

Give me a break. Maybe we have to go to Mexico for good patches.

[Mike V. Florida]

Technically the adjustable wrench has three different finishes on the one tool. The handle and movable jaw is black. The threaded part that moves the jaw is blued (like a gun), and the screw that holds in that part, is cadmium.

[RonC]

It appears that black painted tools were dipped in paint?

[Marco Tahtaras]

Originally Posted by Tudortomnz

Some of my toolkit items have remains of a dull black paint & what looks like a grey undercoat.
The clamp pictured was part of the puncture repair outfit commonly known as ''vulcanising'', at least in this part of the world & the patch was ignited [heat cured] with the clamp holding until completed. They were a very effective way of fixing roadside punctures, which on gravel roads, was part of the motoring experience, unlike today.

The grease gun pictured is a late one, probably V8 to 1934 ; the Model A ones commonly had a cork plunger, but the thin metal ,rubber edged disc came in later.

We don't find that here. All the wrenches for example were painted black pyroxylin (lacquer) over bare steel. The paint was thinly applied to the point of appearing transparent on some sharp edges and high points in the forging texture.