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Number of chucks?

odie said:
Looking forward to seeing your antiques, Bill. Maybe we should have a thread about antique tools. I'll bet we can get a few of the old geezers to drag out a few old tools to show us.....! :D

I have a few old tools on my shop wall......if for no other purpose than to entertain myself!!!!! :rolleyes:
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Yep I am a sucker for an old plane. Have somewhere in the neighborhood of 28 and I still look for more just has to be cheap.
 
hockenbery said:
This is true to a point. When working full time my pay went up 20x in 30 years.
I like to think it had more to do with what I learned during that time than just getting older.
As a serious woodturner a whole lot more people invite me to go places and turn than when I started.
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Al I got that raise every year when in the chain pharmacy business. The problem is that the new pharmacists right out of school making almost as much as a 48 year pharmacist so NO the pay only shows that the system is keeping you up with the kids pay wise. If the paid us based on our knowledge the check would have been much higher.
 
Bill Boehme said:
I've used them a few times. They used to be plentiful in hardware store when an electric drill was not affordable by a lot of people. I also have a brace and bit with several bit sizes. They were more practical for drilling holes in wood. I have a really old electric drill and it actually works. Maybe I can get a picture of it tomorrow.
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Speaking of brace and bit hole drilling, when I was 15, electric power was brought into our Ozark farming area courtesy of the REA program. My dad was working away from home at the time so I ended up wiring our old oak-framed farm house using a brace and bits to bore all of the holes through joists and studs. I still have calluses on my hands.
 
odie said:
Hey......you probably have a few drills hanging around the shop, too!
They all have a "chuck"!

I'm so old school, that I even have one of those hand powered drills that work like an egg beater! :D
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My son don't call me a "dinosaur" fer nuttin'! :eek:

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I've got these:
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Not nearly as cool as those old drill presses, but I've got a couple of yankee screwdrivers:
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This is the drill I spoke of earlier. I'd guess maybe 1950ish.....
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I have an older one on the wall:
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I found this Paul Bunyun ax when I worked on a logging crew back in the early 80's. Also found that horseshoe out in the woods. It's a relic from the horse-logging days of yesteryear. It's huge.....probably Morgan or Clydesdale.
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Does that open end wrench say ford on it?
 
charlie knighton said:
Does that open end wrench say ford on it?
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Charlie.......I wasn't sure, so had to go out to the shop and look. It says USS and MILLER, OR FULLER......not sure.

If it had said Ford, what would that have meant to you?

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On tv program with guys in van going thru sheds and barns finding American treasure I believe open end wrench with ford on it probably either from model t or model a
 
4 super Nova 2s, two Nova titans, a Vicmarc 100, 120 and a 150.
I also have virtually every jaw set available for all of these chucks.
Favourite chuck is the VM 120.
If I was every to start over to acquire chucks it would be the VM 120 only.

John
 
Bill Boehme said:
The "Flying Lumberyard" A.K.A. the "Spruce Goose" despite the fact that the plywood is actually birch and not spruce.
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That there’s here in rural Oregon: Evergreen Aviation Museum, McMinnville. Massive plane and dwarfs all the other planes displayed around it. At night you can see it lit up behind the glass façade as you drive by.
https://www.evergreenmuseum.org/
 
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