Fan Mail Unboxing

[@jprojects91]

What if "David" is actually just a cover for Cody to buy a bunch of cool antique tools without Mrs W finding out?

[@jaynaforsgren4755]

😂

[@suzz1776]

Lol. That's what I would do if I was him or if I had a husband who didn't let me buy my antique tools I collect, but im single so that isnt a factor for me right now. Lol.

[@ARepublicIfYouCanKeepIt]

You can't make that stuff up! How fun that the 1985 Corgi Loctite van was the last thing to open!

[@lordliftedme]

David is very generous and he obviously likes watching these videos as much as I do. Thanks for the entertainment!

[@RH-xr8ms]

Those needles are like the ones that were used in a feed and seed store in my hometown, when I was a young fella. Used to sew up burlap feed sacks.

[@80shorrorronniepierce67]

You ask if we like these videos I personally love hearing you get excited over the same things that I would like

[@bobbypin8581]

I'm a 76 year old woman seen you going through these tools twice now it's amazing but I'll say it again set your son up with his own tool box with some of these rare tools God bless you all

[@TheTomBevis]

That screwdriver is a screw-starter. The tip clamps inside the slot on the screw to start them in hard to reach areas. Drive the screw with a regular driver to ensure longevity.

[@equitaredurus]

I've got a set of those Craftsman adjustable wrenches. A large and a small. Makes life a heck of a lot easier in a lot of circumstances.

[@ryanmartinage]

Old Hickory knives. They still sell them like that now. They are carbon steel and with some sharpening are amazingly sharp. I have a full set as my kitchen knives.

[@koretechx1]

I do absolutely enjoy unboxing videos from my favorite content creators. Especially people like Cody who has such a love for tools as I do. These antique, handmade in the USA tools from ages ago are wonderful! It's kind of like shaking hands with your ancestors who used them to make life easier for everyone.

[@jamesbockenstette4332]

Your excitement is pure Wranglerstar. Thanks for sharing this experience in your video.

[@tymowens718]

These are some of my favorite videos.

[@grahams2857]

I like the unboxing videos you do. I normally don’t, but your excitement is over the top and genuine.

[@williamrakes4637]

Love the unboxing videos, I had a shop class back in the early 70s and all of our mallets were the rawhide ones, brings back alot of memories.

[@chadsuggs1996]

The pencil things with the layers are what we always called grease pencils. You can write on anything with them. The work in the rain or snow. You can write on glass or steel or anything. Hard to wipe off unless you use a magic eraser. I still see them used at thrift stores and trade meets for price marking. Just noticed how late to the part I am lol

[@Lejackal]

I love old tools, the craftsmanship is just so elegant yet functional. Just like traditional woodworking I am just getting into it and just the satisfaction and silky smooth surface you get. Love it!

[@BubbaunJohn]

Yes! I absolutely like these unboxing videos... I echo the praises for David... so glad he has the means and the desire to share his largess with all of us!

[@HilltownCT]

It’s nice to see those things go to a good home where they’ll be treasuered.

[@ratdog3055]

The long handled screwdriver is called a screw starter. The end hold a screw until you start to turn it. love the van!

[@vegasbattleborn1594]

I believe the first one is used to hold a screw by sliding the slide, it swedges the tip into the screw head. Then you can set the screw without loosing it. I have a smaller one.

[@winfieldjohnson125]

I also have one I got from my Dad.

[@harveyconway6036]

Yup! I've two of them, myself.

[@HandToolRescue]

Mmmmm...yes!

[@mikebromell3072]

Love watching these and hearing your surprise and glee. Your lucky to have a friend like that

[@aegg9915]

13:24 wow the imperial system is so much simpler to measure things with

[@slayerlayer4053]

I absolutely love these unboxing videos and i can not wait for the other 2 very much looking forward to it.

[@mramanya]

I love that van. I expect to see it driving by on some of your future videos.

[@synthvalley8927]

Wranglerstar, my wife and I are huge fans. We have adopted your method to get out of debt (you posted a video about it over a year ago) and it’s working really well for us! Thankyou!

[@johnbrantly1574]

Needles are for sails on sailboats. I’ve seen them around rigging shops. That wicked curved point can be driven through many layers of heavy canvas with a “palm”, a leather hand guard that carries a metal cup, similar to a thimble driving a needle. The hammer is a chipping hammer, used for the first, coarse removal of wasted paint off plate steel, or the removal of slag off of a fresh weld, prior to cleaning the weld with a wire brush.

[@toddlfrank]

The first tool reminded me of a screw starter. The center part wedges the screw slot until you get it started.

[@Digger927]

Yes I enjoy these types of vids tremendously! Thanks Cody and David!

[@donniegaskill1836]

This video was most exciting!!! It's like Christmas in March...I am old enough (67) to recognize a lot of the items but not all. Thanks David for letting us all enjoy what you sent.

[@stevehenkel354]

That was fun! I'm not sure what I like better, the discovery of each new tool or listening to your enthusiasm and appreciation. :-)

[@deanerichardson8930]

Raw hide mallets are also used by leather workers for stamping the decorations on leather. The needles are sail needles. The china markers are indeed spiral wrapped and you pull the string to tear the outer layer then just unwind the cover.

[@skyraider2021]

You Need To Call Brian Over, And Do A Video Giving Him The Things You Pass On To Him.

[@oldterm6978]

Another Christmas morning on the Wranglerstar channel. Love the unboxing.

[@Californiamartinez]

Thanks for the great video Cody and more importantly, thanks David for sharing all the cool stuff you find.

[@royreynolds108]

@14:00 tapestry or mattress needles. @18:00 horse shoe nails @25:05 waxed thread, for sewing tents and tarps All of these things came from a military surplus cache except the "Loctite" van. Those needles can also be used for tents, tarps, and canvass. Use wax on the needles and thread to help pass them through the material.

[@scottjenkins4613]

Wax pencils good for marking glass, plastic, porcelain, leather, anything that won't normally take a regular pencil or pen.

[@victorolsen1]

I really like videos like this! It's like a little adventure into history and different crafts.

[@terryhewitt9155]

I believe the bits with your hand drill are called 'points', used to drill wood. Mine only has 3. The heavy needles are 'sailmakers needles' uses to sew heavy canvas and manilla rope. You're fortunate to have acquired the punch, grommets, anvil and grommet setter. Cheers.

[@MrDannyr2000]

im pretty sure those needles were used to sow bags of chalf and grain, I remember using them as a kid on the farm

[@DS11416]

Sack needles for hessian grain bags, Cody.

[@aljacobson9525]

I like the tool unboxing. Fun to see the old tools. I have too many tools...but I can’t get enough. This way I can share the excitement and then go about my business without figuring out what to do with all the stuff or how to store it.

[@livsnjutaren]

Always fun to see what you get Cody, give us more!

[@windycurrent]

Geez! What a box full of treasures you received. I felt like it was Christmas watching this video. Those grommet tools and chisel handles are incredible! I can not wait to watch the next video and see what else he sent you.

[@g-palloyd3600]

That drill is amazing and love that heavy duty grommet set! Wow!

[@turbage0077]

@Wranglerstar the bag you open at 05:54. The first two things you pulled out are part of a PLD (personal lowering device) they are used in the United States Air Force with parachutes. The small one is a clasp that you wrap around the risers of your parachute and hook into a ring. The bigger one hooks into the front clip on your parachute harness and has a piece of nylon that runs through it and you use friction to help lower you down to the ground. The nylon is 150 feet long and the system is designed to help the wearer of the parachute lower themselves down to the ground in case they get caught up in trees or something similar.

[@timsams9267]

I Love The Loctite at the end. I have seen the needles used to repair nets.

[@msheaver]

I LOVE these unboxing videos! I laughed to tears when you opened the Loctite van!

[@marlawhite3682]

Love these videos of the cool old stuff!!! Keep them comming!!!

[@guacamole9199]

Really enjoy these videos, some of my favorite types you do. Love the whole channel tho, it's my go to channel since I found it, good work!! Cheers Wranglerstar

[@nfp212]

I really enjoy these videos! Like a kid at Christmas but aren't we all for the things we love?

[@ericmcrae7758]

Cody Your first tool is to start a slotted screw, it is capture by the tangs very useful for screws that are hard to reach. Eric

[@jaredboyd4578]

These are fun. Also cool to see some of the same items in my tool box that has been passed down to me from my grandparents.

[@gregoryfowler8681]

great to see this stuff come from my home state. palmetto state armory is about 5min from me

[@nigelwylie01]

26:17 “Do you guys enjoy these unboxing videos as much as I do?” YES!

[@michaelmarks8954]

David does a lot of Military surplus shopping. That first screwdriver is used to hold the screw so you can reach into tight spots. Put the screw on the tip then turn the handle to lock the screw on to the screwdriver tip.

[@ashtonfitzgerald]

Rawhide mallets are also used by percussion musicians with concert chimes--precision tuned instruments that need a serious force delivered but are delicate as well. Woodworking is music, so it makes sense to use the same mallet.

[@thetheflyinghawaiian]

You should hide the Loctite van in every video.

[@walt8089]

I worked for the Bell System and we had a tool similar to the first one only a little shorter with no handle that fit in our side tool pouch. - It is to hold slotted screws so they don't fall when starting them. We use to deal with small slotted machined screw in electronics.

[@pjwancafarms-landonwanca3907]

i always liked those latches on our tractor toolboxes they held the top tight where know days from the vibrating tractor u end the day walkin the field for tools

[@DennyGuymon]

I used to use the "China Pens" that you got on a textile spreading table. They are very useful glad that you get to use them in your upcoming projects!

[@ryanvear]

That is a mk1 Renault Trafic. I used to work on them when I started my apprenticeship at Renault Trucks

[@martblart285]

Waw. Your so privileged as you get to do these unboxing videos with vintage tools,you deserve it for all the hard work you put in to KZbin for all of your subs

[@jrfizix]

Another use for the wax pencils is on the fire engine. As an engineer I would use one to write dispatch info on the glass windows. Also, on the pump panel you can mark static pressures and where each discharge is going i.e., interior attack, RIC, or floor 1/ floor 2, etc..Then wipe away with a rag when done.

[@davyjones232]

1st little long shalfed item ...is a screwdriver with a center that binds in the slot of the screw to hold it on the screwdriver.

[@jeffburdess2237]

I’ve got a few of these items, It never dawned on me that they were part of the lesser known collection.

[@JoryValley]

the thread is prewound bobbins probably for a commercial sewing machine for leather or canvas.

[@mikeyg2230]

green chisel head at 9:20 looks like a signal maintainer chisel for the railroad to remove head bonds or web bonds! love these videos! thank you!

[@PilchPlays]

Used those china markers a lot in the Navy. Used them make on acrylic boards. We would have to write on the board backwards so the officers could read them on the front side. The boards where light from the side illuminating the marks on the board. The string is pulled down to then next indent in the pencil and then the paper is pealed of giving access to more of the marker as you wear it down.

[@edwardholmes91]

17:00 is for marking pottery I believe.

[@bdwilcox]

That cheese box was from the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. They eventually became A&P Supermarkets.

[@smithmichaels]

sail needle, great for leather as well

[@davidsamuel4490]

We used to use the wax pencil for marking maps or lexan boards for unit assignments at the fire station before whiteboards became popular.

[@Johnny241948]

I really enjoy watching your unboxing videos, they are fun and educational. It is always a delight to see an old tool that was made to last and possibly hand down to the next generation unlike some of the disposable tools of today. Gotta love the Loctite Van just gotta. lol

[@timothyheyne]

at 27:30 I just about lost it! haha!! Way to go David and amazing video, Cody!

[@btheman779]

always learn so much from these

[@paulhasser625]

China markers...brings back some very good memories...my dad used them in his black and white darkroom in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s to mark up his proof sheets - e.g., for 35mm film a sheet of 24 to 36 pictures created by laying the negatives directly on the photo paper. He would choose which shots he wanted out of a roll and then, after enlarging them, would mark them up with the china markers again to indicate how much to crop.

[@moriquendil]

those 2 needles at the 14:30 mark are used in carpet mills we called them backing needles to sew the backing roll into the machine to tuft the yarn into carpet

[@marktime87]

7:50 - We used to call them chipping hammers in the merchant navy. Very good for chipping off large portions of paint that have had rust appear underneath. No as good as a needle gun for more sturdy paint, but just as loud and annoying on metal sheets.

[@cameronmangham2256]

Love the longer, raw videos! Keep up the good work!

[@CDT61352]

Great a van for your Loctite! Always fun to watch the unboxing videos.

[@dhession64]

Neat stuff. Your friend David is very generous. Love the hand drill, man. The bent needles remind me of sailmaking needles that penetrate canvas, but they could be for leather as well. The wax crayons or pencils are great for marking things. I used to use them on tires. The nails look to be shoeing nails to shod horses. The roll of nylon strap material is used to make webbing or straps for packs, tie-downs, or whatever. Oh, my....those box latches are very cool. The thread that was in with the chisel handles is most likely for use sewing the nylon webbing together. At least that's what I think. And the Loctite van is the BEST!!

[@ChuckCanada1]

Cody those Berol China Markers can be used on all kinds of surfaces like glass and plastic. They use them here in Canada in Tim Hortons to write down the time on the side of coffee pots so they know when the coffee was made, that way they can dump it out if it sits for to long when they aren't busy at night. They also use them on the plastic lids of the cups.

[@psanto13]

Yes it is a Renault Trafic :) Long time since I've seen one of those.

[@Bluuplanet]

China markers. Wax pencil for marking on ceramic tile to make cuts. The water coolant in the diamond saw won't wash off the marks.

[@bolwinklemoose1999]

It looks to me like David got a hold of some old Dept of Defense surplus. The welded rings and grommet sets at one time were issued to units in a wooden locker kit for textile repair from WW2, all the way into the early 90's. They also issued units carpentry kits and barber kits. In the Army, each company or detachment were issued these kits. I'll wager the nails and unused hand crank drill came from a DoD carpentry kit. The rawhide mallet and hickory handle may have come from either kit textile/tent repair or carpentry. The Welded rings and D-rings are for textile repair or tent repair. The same pouch has some parachute and aerial delivery items. The locking gate hook is a very old "Static Line Snap Hook" still with a portion of the "Static Line" (yellow Type VIII nylon webbing), sewn in long tri-fold. A paratrooper would attach the static line of their parachute to an overhead anchorline cable inside the aircraft by means of snap hook, the hook gate locked in place to ensure it was secure. The snap hook slides on the cable as the paratrooper walks from the front of the aircraft to the paratroop door to exit at the rear of the aircraft. Once the paratrooper jumped from the aircraft door, about 16' of Static Line would play out from their parachute. Upon reaching the end of that line, the Static Line would pull the main parachute open. The paratrooper was responsible for deploying their own reserve parachute in the event their main parachute had a malfunction. The dual "L-Bar Connector Link" is still used today on modern military parachutes, as is your "Quick-Fit V-Ring" belt buckle. The Quick-Fit V-Ring is used on the parachute harness leg-straps. All three of those items are used on personnel parachute harnesses. The buckle with the floating fat bar is used on canvas components for aerial delivery containers used to parachute supplies and equipment during combat operations. I am guessing most of these items I mentioned, even the files and china markers (wax) came from an Airborne or Aerial Delivery/Parachute Rigger unit. Riggers use the china markers to mark parachute materials while measuring and marking textile repairs on parachutes and other aerial delivery items. The markers were originally developed for marking on porcelain and tile, things that pencils and pens could not mark well, before we had Sharpies and modern markers. The china markers work great on textiles.The screw driver looking irem is a "screw starter". Holds a screw on the tip. For wood screws, slide the handle like a slide hammer to start the screw. The curved flat needles are "Sail Maker's" needles, used in textile repair for canvas and leather items for both tents and aerial delivery equipment and containers. Upholsterers also use those needles. The chisel handkes also look the same as the ones we had in the DoD carpentry kits.

[@jlamarche1088]

I am so jealous of your original 750s. And the box corner is just a box joint.

[@gregorythomas333]

For the Loctite model: Place it somewhere in the background during videos & let people try to guess the the placement and/or the time-stamp.

[@2GProductions1988]

The rawhide mallet is also very popular with leather work as well.

[@2GProductions1988]

And David wins the internet for today with the Locktite van, lol

[@troys8366]

Hay just got my package in the mail Thanks.

[@bcrusher1979]

Hey Cody, about them lumber pencils, all you do is pull the string about 1/4'' toward you so that it cuts the paper and then peel off the paper around and around down to the tip. They are cool I always like using them on wood or steel.

[@BrokenRanch918]

I used the China markers when I was in the navy and the nylon strap roll is also from military supply. Great video yet again!

[@KaylynnStrain]

awesome tools!! I have been wanting one of those hand drills for quite a while

[@thorvoldk]

When I was in the Navy, we used those double peen hammers to chip paint off of the ship. That thread looks like it will fit one of those hand leather stitchers.

[@TheRocketbob22]

March 15th. The new Christmas !! Cody acts like a kid under a spruce tree. David is the new Santa. David you are a special person. Yes Cody, I too love opening pkgs, though I have to get mine from Amazon. Cheers to Cody and all his fans. No, we aren't jealous.

[@georgeglassburn6109]

Cut nails are use in applications where the carpenter is concerned about the nail splitting the wood. Like installing hardwood floors they are easily bought at any good hardware store.

[@1911boomer]

Love that the van was last . I dont know who laughed harder ,you or me . Keep up the good work . Always enjoy your videos .

[@sonicweaver]

Love these vids Cody! I write on my mixing board with China/grease pencils to indicate what's being recorded on each channel...easy to read and remove. That drill is an amazingly beautiful machine!

[@LoneMechanic]

Great video. The diecast van is a Renault Traffic so the box is original.

[@ringerson4x4]

Loctite! Thank you David, and thank you Cody.