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Picked up some tools today.
I purchased a collection of tools today. It was from a person that I have known since the mid 70's. I had to go get him from a nursing home and take him to his workshop. He sat in the truck while I unlocked his shop. I glanced over at his house it looked sad and he looked sad looking at it.
Once inside the shop is was dark and musty. I remember going there and it was bright and busy with old cars being restored. I opened the overhead door so he wouldn't have to struggle with his cane and some balance issues. He went over to his tool box and started collecting the items he wanted me to buy. I moved some stuff out of the way of the big item I was getting and then got a ladder and went up in the attic to get the old tools stored up there. I got everything loaded in about a hour. It took him a lifetime to collect them. Kind of sobering, this could be me in 20-30 years. Heller files. The upper two must be early bondo files. 006.JPG Watervliet with 5 frames and lower anvils 010.jpg 012.JPG Hammers and dollys. Only 1 hammer has a name the door skin hammer Wilde. The large spoon has Fairmont on it and the comma dolly is Plumb 013.jpg Porter Ferguson Auotbody Cart. Has the door fixture attachments and the bumper straigthening attachments. 019.JPG 020.JPG 021.jpg 022.jpg 023.JPG 026.jpg 027.jpg 028.jpg 029.jpg Inside the cabinet 033.jpg 035.jpg On the top shelf of the cabinet under the porta power pieces was the manual in pieces. 014.jpg 015.jpg 016.JPG 017.JPG 018.jpg Kind of a bittersweet day.
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Keith Daleen Sedalia,Mo. Last edited by keith; 06-27-2015 at 10:43 PM. |
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I'm sure it was Keith but I'm betting he's glad it's going to someone who will appreciate it for what it is and use it rather than being sold for pennies at the estate auction.
You got some great stuff!
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My thoughts exactly!
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something about using another mans tools that is no longer able to work or passed on that leaves you with a responsibility to put them to work on the projects that bring out the best you can be.
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I think it is great too that they will live on and be used. I'm sure too much of this ends up as scrap!
Never seen one of those machines before either. Were they common over there?
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Quote:
Amen. Fritz
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Keith, I think that there are two very happy people involved in this transfer. This is not the kind of thing that happens every day. Thanks for sharing your experience.
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Joe Hartson There is more than one way to go to town and they are all correct. |
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SCORE…… an awfully nice collection of early auto body metal working tools to purchase all at one time. I would imagine that just the very complete Watervliet set (all 5 frames) would bring over 2K if sold on eBay now-a-days. VERY NICE for sure . ~ John Buchtenkirch
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Passing on.
This is very good to see, and is an old custom.
For me, receiving the older craftsman's tools is receiving a legacy - something that cannot be bought at the common market. You are receiving the talent and style of the individual that assembled them, adjusted them to suit, and then used them to provide an individualized skilled service to others. On another level it is sad to see a senior man leave, but the best we can do is just carry on, and plan for our own eventual departures. We enter with zero and we leave with only what we can carry in our hearts. Thank you for sharing,
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Kent http://www.tinmantech.com "All it takes is a little practical experience to blow the he!! out of a perfectly good theory." --- Lloyd Rosenquist, charter member AWS, 1919. |
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Kent, you are right on.
My hope is that when it's my time to let these tools go, I can share them with someone who is not going to profit monetarily. I do not have very much in them. He has a good idea what they are worth, but knew I would use them the way he did when he got them. His faith in me as a car nut is worth more to me than ebay.
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Keith Daleen Sedalia,Mo. |
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