Then you're in the right place and you'll fit right in!
You'll find plenty of 1960's production, if my math is right, down here. While the sweet spot, for whatever reason, tends to be the 1940's and 50's, you will find tools from the Civil War through the Roaring 20's, the 30's, as well as the 70's, and even pushing into the modern era.
You're not really old (yet). 50 year old tools, that's nothing.I realized this morning that the vast majority of my tools are vintage tools. Most of them were brand new when I bought them, though. I'm old enough now that I have tons of tools bought 50 years ago or longer. That's a little frightening, I think.
It's hard to realize just how much time has passed since we were young guys. Seems like yesterday, but it was decades ago. From time to time, I realize that. It will be 60 years since I graduated from high school in June of this year. I still have tools I had then. Some of those came from my Father, and he got them in his teens, twenty years earlier. Oddly enough, the oldest hand tools I own still work just fine and are just as useful as they were the day they came off the factory line. I don't have too many of those really old ones, but I can spot them instantly in my tool box drawers, and still take them out for use.I had a similar experience when trying to find another tool cart a couple of months ago. I bought my Snap-on tool cart back in the 90's brand new and it is one of the most, if not THE most, used piece of equipment in the shop as it is always beside me loaded with tools for the task at hand. I tried to purchase another one to have a duplicate but was unsuccessful in doing so. It is no longer available through Snap-on and when I did find a couple on eBay they were listed as "vintage". That bothered me because I don't feel vintage but the tools I've been using throughout my career sure are.
I walk around thinking: "Why does everything hurt so much just from moving around"!
Were they strapped into boots that looked like these from one of my flea haul's from last year?
No, just your average 1980's long skinny fiberglass XC skis my dad got at a garage sale, I swapped the cheapo 3 pin binding for NNN bindings when my other skis broke, skiiedthem a few hundred miles long after they were out of style, then moved somewhere that XC skis didn't make sense to keep around.Were they strapped into boots that looked like these from one of my flea haul's from last year?
Thanks. These will probably be flipped to some steampunk hipster for $100!
One of these?I had a similar experience when trying to find another tool cart a couple of months ago. I bought my Snap-on tool cart back in the 90's brand new and it is one of the most, if not THE most, used piece of equipment in the shop as it is always beside me loaded with tools for the task at hand. I tried to purchase another one to have a duplicate but was unsuccessful in doing so. It is no longer available through Snap-on and when I did find a couple on eBay they were listed as "vintage". That bothered me because I don't feel vintage but the tools I've been using throughout my career sure are.
I would be interested in that wrench under the adjustable if you aren’t attached to it.Were they strapped into boots that looked like these from one of my flea haul's from last year?
I've got a couple of those. Not nearly as nice though!Without the drawers. Mine was just the standard "vintage" cart.
Vintage Snap-on cart with the Vintage Mac aerosol can holder in the background and the newly acquired Sunex cart with my shop made aerosol can holder in the foreground loaded with tools.
Only is we made them while walking to school 2 miles uphill both ways.
