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Many years ago I would walk along SR7 in Hollywood Florida as I only lived about a mile from where I worked. I found a 3/8" Craftsman combination wrench with initials on it on the side of the road. A couple of days later a little farther up the road I found a 7/16" wrench with the same initials.

I have a Craftsman 1/4" drive V series ratchet. I used it last week to take apart and reassemble a 1960's Slingerland snare drum. It crossed my mind that it could have been put together originally with a similar wrench. If it's a small job I'm more likely to grab my tools from my old S-K box...

Thanks for the welcome guys. I stayed up late reading on the board, now I'm headed down to the music room.

My ex-wife was always grabbing a screwdriver, pliers, tape measure, etc, out of my tool box and I'd find it somewhere in the house later. (No, that's not why she became my ex...) It did drive me nuts. I eventually bought a small 3 drawer Craftsman box and put it in the basement stocked with...

My father was "handy". He always had a home repair project going on, he worked on his own cars and those of our family and friends. I was the youngest of a family of three boys and a girl. My oldest brother had no interest at all, my middle brother had the aptitude, but not as much desire to get...

I have a well stocked garage that lets me tackle just about any project that I want to. And although I don't "need" anything I just love old tools. If I'm at an estate sale and stumble upon an old Ridgid pipe wrench or cool set of 1950's era Craftsman sockets, I have to buy them. I can't help...

Re: what did you do in your garage today? I tore apart, cleaned and reassembled the carb on my 13 year old Echo line trimer. I can't complain, it's ever needed more than a spark plug and filters after 13 seasons. I also mixed up a can of gas with Stabil for my snow blower and ran it for a bit...

I've been a gear-head my whole life. I'm retired from my day job and now only work as a musician. I (finally) have time to tinker in my garage. Recently I ran across some old Bonney and Thorsen tools at an estate sale. They are similar to the ones that I used when I was first pulling wrenches...