“For display only”

[Jim C.]

oh dang

That must hurt to know all those beauties are packed away. Hoping the boxes aren’t hiding in plain sight at the edge of the shop.

Some of my moulding planes don’t get used much, but get hauled out occasionally just to be enjoyed. The sound of a skewed rabbet, or seeing a complex shape created.

RTM,

It‘s not as bad as you might think. The planes have been boxed up for two years now, and I’m doing okay with them in boxes. Dusting them was not my favorite thing to do, and my wife did not particularly care for decorating the house with old tools. Beyond that, I was really the only one who saw the plane collection fully displayed. I’ll drag one or two out on occasion, for purposes of writing about it, demonstrating its use, or if I want to do some comparisons. When I’m done, back in the box it goes.

Jim C.

 

[d42jeep]

I picked up some of my dads old electrical test equipment after he passed back in August. Things i'll never likely use like an oscilloscope the size of a suitcase and an old AVOmeter. They're not worth anything to sell and no-one wants them anyway, but they're just too good to end up in the tip.
I'm sure theres lots of other hidden treasures (some of which i'm sure i won't know what they are) still waiting to be uncovered in his garage as he never threw anything out. Theres about 50 years worth of stuff in there.

I have a collector friend in Wales who is interested in WW2 vintage items if you run across any extra of those. PM me if you are trying to dispose of any and I can put you in touch with him.
-Don

 

[Maxcustody]

Right now I am dealing with inheriting all my FIL's tools and equipment. He passed away unexpectedly last week at the age of 82. He was a mechanic at several businesses in the 60's and 70's. He raced enduro motorcycles in his younger years and was also into race cars and engines. My wife and I have been married 23 years and he was my best friend, I truly miss him everyday. He loved coming to our property in WV and always talked how he wanted to move here....................He lived in Burlington NJ his entire life as well as my MIL. It is tough on my MIL they were married for 63 years. He was able to fix or fabricate anything and I learned a lot from him. I am proud to have known him and am honored to have his tools and equipment. I will use them and take care of them as I do my own tools, that is what he would have wanted.

 

[Shiftless]

Please accept my condolences on the loss of your FIL. My FIL died many years ago and like you, was the force that got me into all things mechanical. My FIL lived only a mile away and we saw him often. He took machine shop in High School, enlisted in the Navy who made him a machinist mate and then after WWII earned a good living working as a machinist in several different shops here in the Bay Area and worked until retirement at Chevron Research at the refinery at Point Richmond, CA. I display his old unrestored Kennedy box on its own shelf down in the basement in my “vise room” as a tribute.

 

[Maxcustody]

Please accept my condolences on the loss of your FIL. My FIL died many years ago and like you, was the force that got me into all things mechanical. My FIL lived only a mile away and we saw him often. He took machine shop in High School, enlisted in the Navy who made him a machinist mate and then after WWII earned a good living working as a machinist in several different shops here in the Bay Area and worked until retirement at Chevron Research at the refinery at Point Richmond, CA. I display his old unrestored Kennedy box on its own shelf down in the basement in my “vise room” as a tribute.

Thank you.

 

[Zebedeewesty]

I have a collector friend in Wales who is interested in WW2 vintage items if you run across any extra of those. PM me if you are trying to dispose of any and I can put you in touch with him.
-Don

I don't think theres anything that old in there, its mostly electrical test equipmemt from the 1960s onwards. He did have a load of control panels off the degaussing equipment off a WW2 ship. It was all stripped for its components years ago though. Still not sure how he ended up with it.
My grandparents had a WW2 era Vickers machine gun in their loft until a few years back as my grandad was in the army reserve and for some reason kept it after the war.

About the most exciting thing i've found so far is a top-loading betamax video recorder, which is funny as we never had one when i was a kid.

 

[softailgarage]

I picked up some of my dads old electrical test equipment after he passed back in August. Things i'll never likely use like an oscilloscope the size of a suitcase and an old AVOmeter. They're not worth anything to sell and no-one wants them anyway, but they're just too good to end up in the tip.
I'm sure theres lots of other hidden treasures (some of which i'm sure i won't know what they are) still waiting to be uncovered in his garage as he never threw anything out. Theres about 50 years worth of stuff in there.

You could take the Oscilloscope and hook it up to a stereo in the shop for some visual effects, it would be a useful display and a cool way of remembering your dad.

 

[Zebedeewesty]

You could take the Oscilloscope and hook it up to a stereo in the shop for some visual effects, it would be a useful display and a cool way of remembering your dad.

Its got to be about 3ft x 2ft in size. I remember playing with it when i was a kid back in the early 80s.