The other sides of these are blank. The Bridgeports are definitely on my radar though! I have seen a few sets for sale online but they are often pretty worn so I'm keeping an eye out for ones in better shape.
Hey OR, pulling this one back to the top for a second. I finally got around to reading the manual that was uploaded back in 2022 by @Ayrhead. It explained to me how to convert mine to tapping use. I thought I was always stuck with Yankee based drivers. Now I just need to find a better 1/2-20 mounted Jacobs chuck, or a 1/2-20 setscrew to mickey mouse this one.
Did some of the tools come from an estate sale in Castro Valley? The previous owner was a member of the Oakland MC. We were there on Wednesday.
From a couple different stops.
-Makita right angle drill.
-Oakland Motorcycle Club mug and sticker. My 50cc moped doesn’t qualify me for this club although it is plenty loud enough.
-unbranded USA offset open end 7/16” x 9/16” wrench. Decided to start collecting these after trying some vintage Blackhawk Wedg-Head wrenches and liking them.
-Scherr-Tumico slide calipers
-Snap On 1/2” deep socket with a retaining spring to hold a nut
-Proto 10mm long and 7/16” hex bit sockets
-Simplex soft face hammer
-Icon mini locking flex bit ratchet kit. Have one of these at work I really like, glad to have another one for home now.
-Two slotted screwdrivers: Craftsman Professional stubby with a full size handle, and an orange Williams USA with an extra long shaft.
The Snap On socket’s retaining clip:
Offset open ends on the unbranded DOE wrench:
Oh believe me, I thought about that. This guy was pulling them out of his garage... (at least I hope it was his garage).
If what you're calling a "soft cam" latch is the small latch on the can you just found, only the M3 and the M17 had them. But they did not have gaskets. No 50 cal chest before the M2 had a gasket. From one former host to another, under the watchful eyes of the current host and God, I recommend that if we take this any further, we do so on the 'Metal cabinets' or perhaps general 'Toolboxes' thread.
Let me tan you a fresh groundhog skin for your head.Estate sale ($46): Standard Tool no. 8 drill index; Kafer thickness gauge (Germany); Faries Lamp; Brush; Guitar Styles of Brownie Mcghee book; Air cushion lift; Tucker bending form?; 5" Ashcroft bi-metal thermometer; Dabbing brush; 2 - Curved wood clamps; Stanley no. 45 fence; Open back banjo; Ideal veterinary syringe; DeWalt 5/8" Arbor shaper with cupboard door knives; Craftsman no. 4067 tap wrench ($22.50); Wire-O Cleaners wire cleaners; Nippers; Forming bar?; L.S.S Starrett No. 154-D Adjustable parallel; Reamer; 12- Stanley no. 45/55 irons/knives($75).
Gonna try and bring the banjar back. Just ordered a skin head; friction tuners; 5th string tuner; bridge; and Nylgut strings. I figure, I can make the nut, tailpiece and the 7 missing tension hooks. Paid $6 for the banjo and already sunk $94 into it, but there ain't nuthin more fun than hammering on a banjo -- my opinion, not my wife's
If you do, make a thread, I would follow that! I saw a guy redoing a timpani and found it really interesting. I'd love to see a paw to banjo claw reskinning.
You ****At the garage checkout station, I noticed this gray case on the shelf.
I pulled it out and found this:
Needless to say, it went into the pile!
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005T5G38E?tag=atomicindus08-20
My total for the day was $50.00.
Groundhog skin is much thicker until you stretch it. Suppose to last longer.Haha! Those oldtimey guys could do so much with two fingers, peculiar tuning, and a holler octave. Thanks for posting that. There's a story in the NEA archives about him buying his first real banjo from the Sears, Roebuck & Co catalog for $10 and walking 4 miles to town to pick it up at the post office.
Groundhog talk always reminds me of my teenhood. I grew up in Carbon county, PA. Everyone in town were coal crackers, but we were surrounded by farms, and groundhogs were open season. We'd ride around in the country and shoot them from the car.
Yea. That head is cow hide or similar. If it where the Fall season I could find a lot of cow or pig brains to brain tan. But I can get some cow brains from the Amish butcher shop. Groundhogs are rare around here due to coyote in Ky, but I will find one. It has to be large. You can change it later if you want to try it. I will get it done if you okay it. I hope. lol
Yah. A groundhog banjo head would be awesome. I can venmo or paypal or make whatever arrangements. Why do groundhogs make good shoelaces?
Thinking it would be interesting, I told my wife about trying to get a grounhog skin for the banjo, which did get her attention in a "manner rather rude." Soooo, I cannot be directly responsible for the killing of a groundhog for the purpose of hammering on my banjo, which I agree.
You **** just as much as you did last year!
Estate sale ($25). Vitamix 3600 w/ cider press; Sun Twin 1500 Elite space heater.
I'm feeling healthier already, thank you Vita-Mix 3600.
I understand.
Yes I believe the calipers and the open end wrench. Was an interesting place!
I have grown up in Pa milking cows and bailing hay till I was out on my own. And I have been involved in groundhog holes breaking axle parts all the time. And I use to have a wild game feeds at my place every year for years. But I believe in eating all most everything that I kill. No sense in killing something just for a banjo. Unless it has caused damage or road kill. I have tanned dear with hair on and off. And racoon and skunk with hair on. If I were involved in a groundhog road kill I will jump on it and I can find someone that will use it if he is not.
As long as you mentioned it, and it makes it GJ-relevant (the repairs!), this was the main reason they were considered shoot-on-sight varmints where I come from. I guess I haven't thought too much about your username before. I am guessing you're a butcher? I've told this story before, but my grandmother was the butcher in our family. She strung up small game (rabbits, grouse, pheasant) over the pipes in the basements, deer from the rafters in the garage. I have never seen anyone get the look she got in her eyes when we brought her something to clean. Like something ancient taking hold of her. The kindest, gentlest woman you'd ever want to meet, but pull a dead ringneck out of a bag and she was transformed. My brothers and I still talk about it.
I have done quit a few on the farm. But I would not take notice of pigs. You have to know the anatomy with pork. I didn't want to know. I have met older women like your granny and It fed a lot of people during the depression.
Thanks, fellas! It may take me a bit to get to the diagnostic phase, as I have a number of other projects in front of it. And besides, this is a great time of year to find/buy a snow throwa, but November is the best time to sell one!@BlueBomber *****
I see a few Snappy combos, MACs, pus a lot of others
About the same way I would, other than building a stretcher from 2x4s and having someone gumming it to soften the hide. Lol
Reminds of this film. I'd imagine almost every Canadian school kid watched it when I was growing up.
