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Only a little bit, in my own case.I agree, but what's cooler is that these guys know how to use this stuff!!
Only a little bit, in my own case.I agree, but what's cooler is that these guys know how to use this stuff!!
I have all his tools, mostly Snap-On, that are now approaching 80 years of age. The Snap-On 3/8 ratchet has a worn pawl, and slips. Snap-On will trade me a new one, but I would rather keep my Dad's worn out 80 year old.
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I recall seeing some of those old Coke machine as a kid, and there were also the chest type, in small back town gas stations...and yes they were a dime. Shorty bottles...ice cold & tasted great.
I've got a very old Central 0"-4" mic w/gauge pins for changing over sizes. An old yankee gave them to me in the late 60's. Smart fella that taught me a lot. I think he bought them in the late teens or early 20's. No complaints.
I have a 70-year old wooden boat. Which means I do a lot of work on a 70-year old wooden boat! What amazes me is how many tools I have that young people don't understand (and I'm not really THAT old!). Like my brace with a large screwdriver bit. It was the original cordless driver! You could once go to any garage sale and find a brace with a bunch of bits. But apparently people don't have much respect for the history of boring tools (yawn). The screwdriver bits are harder to find and I suppose that people are now to the point where they throw them out because they don't know what they are for. Try setting a #24 X 5" bronze wood screw without one.
I recall seeing some of those old Coke machine as a kid, and there were also the chest type, in small back town gas stations...and yes they were a dime.
Like my brace with a large screwdriver bit. It was the original cordless driver!
I agree, but what's cooler is that these guys know how to use this stuff!!
! it is sad that our country has lost it's metal industrial prowess.
Can't even learn the skills anymore. Who teaches anyone how to use a milling machine?
Where can a machinist learn the trade? What schools actually teach how to read and
convert inches to metrics? What's a micrometer?
You can't beat a good quality hand plane for good work. Powered hand planes are great for taking some off of the top or bottom of a door, etc. Otherwise..it''s an old "cordless" Stanley or one of the modern (EXPENSIVE!) versions from folks like Lie-Nielson
Sure it wasn’t motorbikes, beer & beaver that distracted ya?It wasn't well taught in the 60s either. I graduated high school in 72 and worked in a few local machine shops. The actual running of the machines was not that hard to fathom, but the setup was. A lot of what I needed to know involved algebra, geometry or trigonometry. All of which I paid absolutely no attention to in school because the teachers presented it as an academic exercise rather than showing how such skills would be used in the real world. The emphasis was always on higher education for it's own sake rather than making a living.
We used to punch holes in the coke bottle tops still in the machines (with an awl, tool content for the thread), and sit there with our mouths open till our jaws got sore (it came out kinda slow).
Used to get a phone call for a nickel instead of a dime or two nickles, just pop the coin return at exactly the right time as you inserted a nickle, and you'd get the dial tone...
No more of that nonsense...