Old Tools

[doug boardley]

we've got an old tool, haven't we TJ lol:lol:

 

[hillhead]

Yankee indeed.mine is a stanley i think.the job im on currently is interesting. The customers father built the house.roofed it and is doing all inside apart from the tiling.on friday he was using his brace and bit to bore holes in oak for a step.old tools mixed with new and one hell of a tasty worker.

 

[Rob Z]

we called them Yankee screwdrivers, funnily enough Rob:lol:

So do we Doug.

 

[lucius]

My Sons reckon ime an historic tool.
Lucius

 

[brian c]

here is a brace and bit set Rob [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/660125-hand-brace/dp/B001JJR54K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=diy&qid=1260805136&sr=8-1]hand brace: Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools[/ame]

 

[Rob Z]

Nice Bri. I have several of those that were my Grandfathers, along with planes and a bunch of other hand tools.

One thing I still use all the time is the work bench he built before he went into the Army. He told me he built it after my Dad was born (Dec 1941) and before he was drafted (sometime in 1943). So this bench is about 67 years old and still solid as a rock.

 

[mikethetile]

ive got some old tools in my kit that are no longer made

i sometimes use a butt scribe for marking the depth of the hinges when door hanging

my pump is still used to drive home the number 10s when hanging front doors, quicker than a cordless and you can feel the screws pull up tight

 

[ad tiling]

sorry rob no hand me downs in tool department and a 3 piece cane fly fishing rod is not clasified as a trade tool good post will keep an eye on it :8:

but you will need to be really skilled to use a cane fly rod.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

well rob that is great, I've racked my brains and my olds tools are ones my dear old mother bought for me when i started, they mean so much to me that i have replaced them with new ones , and retired them, i could not bear to lose them, how sad is that!! but she passed several years ago , and they have sentimental feelings and are over 35 years, I'm sure some lads on here must have older tools about, we are a much older country than yours !!! so lets see wot comes up mate ? great thread

 

[Stan001]

I lost my dad a few years back. He gave me a couple of tools, one that I use regularly at home is a pair of original mole grips made before everything got exported to eastern somewhere and cost cut designed. If something needs gripping and nothing else can these just seem to work. My mum has a full set of his old sheet metal working tools, cant ever see how I would ever use them, but one day I will have them on my garage wall just to look at and think of what he did with them.

On the subject of imperial vs. metric – I worked for Plessey Siemens a long time ago, thousands of us aerospace engineers around all using metric, we had a small team of 10 chippies who made cabinets etc for test gear, every single one of them was so thick or untrainable we had to convert the metric drawings to the nearest 16th of an inch so they could make stuff for us. :mad2:

Ref tape measures, my fave tape measure is a small Cutman that never leaves my pocket on a job. Cutman are made by Rubi and the only place you’ll find the Rubi badge on there is on the steel tape if you pull it out! … and why is it my fave measure ? well, Cutman Rubi measures are the only tapes that have the metric on the top and the imperial on the bottom! … not like all your freeking upside down yank standard measures made with love in Hong Kong for the American market and inflicted on the rest of us totally disregarding the fact that only you Americans want the inches on top! :smilewinkgrin: … thank goodness for Rubi.