Recent content by GW Butch

A conversation with Southern IL in this thread a while back.

Yes, bought them new. My dealer then used to come by my house - I never worked as a mechanic but I’ve been buying tools since I was 14. He was only a dealer for a couple years; he also owned a local gas station and the oil company forced him to drop the tool route. The guy that picked it up...

This is the KRL I got when I traded in the KR set you now own

https://www.tamiyausa.com/shop/tools/electric-handy-drill/ Not high speed by any means but works fine on styrene and soft wood. And it’s actually a plastic model kit!

Can’t win if I don’t play

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S-K bottle opener from a few years ago

Just found my receipt. I paid $1,544.08 for the KR537/KR557/KR274A on July 7, 1982.

Nice! My old KR looks really good.

I had a Lauda Air sticker on the box, which did come from an aircraft mechanic I knew

That’s where I traded mine in on a KRL1023. Not an aircraft mechanic, just a guy who bought too many tools over the last 55 years. I’m glad it found a good home, they had it on display for a couple years in their shop. (The roll cab served as a microwave cart in our first apartment in Phoenix...

Given your handle that might be my old box. But I had a 647 (?) 3 drawer middle section.

Added a few since this pic but same layout

Why not

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