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Oroville museum has mammoth collection of 13,000 tools that built modern civilization
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Bud Bolt opened Bolt's Antique Tool Museum in Oroville, back in 2006. Today, there are over 13,000 tools in the collection.
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Owner Bud Bolt shows ABC10's John Bartell just a few of the thousands of wrenches in the museum collection.
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A display of alligator wrenches, so named because they look like the heads of alligators. Now obsolete, the last ones were manufactured in 1952.
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Owner Bud Bolt shows ABC10's John Bartell talk tools at Bolt's Antique Tool Museum, in Oroville.
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ABC10's John Bartell and museum owner Bud Bolt look at an almond maul. Before machinery, harvesters would shake almond trees by hitting them with the maul and collect the nuts that fell to the ground.
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A few of the many monkey wrenches on display at Bolt's Antique Tool Museum, in Oroville. According to museum owner Bud Bolt, they were the very first tool to be mass-produced.
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Just a few of the 13,000 tools at Bolt's Antique Tool Museum, in Oroville.
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The first six tools that owner Bud Bolt gathered for his collection at Bolt's Antique Tool Museum, in Oroville.
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The head of an antique almond maul. Before machinery, harvesters would shake almond trees by hitting them with the maul and collect the nuts that fell to the ground.
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An early socket wrench set.
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A collection of half-inch wrenches. Before the standardization of nut and bolt sizes and shapes, it was necessary to have several of the same size wrench to do a job.
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A collection of wrenches at Bolt's Antique Tool Museum, in Oroville.
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ABC10's John Bartell visits the gift shop at Bolt's Antique Tool Museum, in Oroville.
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Pedro Garcia
Bud Bolt opened Bolt's Antique Tool Museum in Oroville, back in 2006. Today, there are over 13,000 tools in the collection.
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