rivett608
Diamond
- Joined
- Oct 25, 2002
- Location
- Kansas City, Mo.
In the thread the other day about a not so special antique surface gauge a comment was made about just what can you really do with this old stuff. Well after doing a bunch of remodeling in the shop last month I had a spare wall that was a little too plain….. that is something that doesn't last long around here. Anyway I decided to hang up some calipers……. in this case about a 100 of them, from less than 2" to over 24" and from the late 1600's to the early 20th century. A few of these have been featured here on the PM in past years. These range from a huge early rack wing divider to many of the early patents by Fay, Stevens, Starrett and others……… it was a lot of fun to do because it gave me reason to play with each one of them. Some I had not held in years. I think I will enjoy these a lot more than I did when they were just stuffed in a tray type tool chest in the corner of a upstairs room.
So this is what you can do when you have a lot of something…….. BTW, I have a similar set-up of hack saws over the bench I do vise work on. Do any of you guys decorate with tools?
The way they had been stored…. it will still be pretty full….
So this is what you can do when you have a lot of something…….. BTW, I have a similar set-up of hack saws over the bench I do vise work on. Do any of you guys decorate with tools?
The way they had been stored…. it will still be pretty full….