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21st September 2016, 18:29 | #1 |
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What's the oldest tool in your toolbox.
I know 'oldest tool' so keep it clean (mentioning no names, George)
Following a recent thread about ratchets I was thinking about my set of tools and all it's non matching brands and realised I still have and use a set (long since incomplete) of offset ring spanners (12mm+13, 14+15, 16+17) that I remember my Dad using over 40 years ago. Who knows how long he had them. All the AF ones are stored away somewhere. Like this one... I've got tools that are older but had them so long. What's in your box?
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21st September 2016, 18:58 | #2 |
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I still have some of dad's liberated "army" spanners. They are so numb that I often use them as a hammer! Some of my watch tools are over a hundred years old!
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21st September 2016, 19:00 | #3 |
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21st September 2016, 19:08 | #4 |
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21st September 2016, 19:11 | #5 |
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i have tools in my tool box I have had for 56 years when I started as a Mechanic Mainly Whitworth an AF
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21st September 2016, 19:26 | #6 |
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My Grandfathers tools which I treasure
My favourite being his saws which I reckon to be about 70 years old
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21st September 2016, 19:44 | #7 |
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I have loads of old tools but the only one I own that has a definite year of manufacture is my myford ml7 lathe. It was made in 1952 and restored by me in 2015. I absolutely love the thing, made when Britain was a truly great innovator and made to last. I consider myself a custodian rather than an owner and feel a responsibility to its former keeper, a truly amazing engineer, to keep it for future generations.
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21st September 2016, 19:45 | #8 |
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I found an old screwdriver within a wall I knocked down in my last house,,It had a stone
in the gable end marking the date as- 1912---the same year the Titanic went down,,,you can imagine the builders of the day sitting down and reading the newspaper article of the event. I wonder if that screwdriver is 104 years old.!! |
21st September 2016, 19:46 | #9 |
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A few offset ring Whitworth spanners my dad bought in the mid 1950's and a really old 'bed key', from when beds were metal and needed to bolted together.
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21st September 2016, 20:20 | #10 |
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My grandfather worked all his life at Leyland motors and my dad did for a few years before he went to British Rail, they liberated some old spanners that I use today.
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