If any one is intrested heres a link to pics of my shop and tools
http://s1085.photobucket.com/albums/j424/mikeysdad1/
Jim
http://s1085.photobucket.com/albums/j424/mikeysdad1/
Jim
my mess
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JeremyManning
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You can be my friend if u want 
DMessin
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WoW! That looks like a few generations worth of collecting. Nice stuff!
toolfanatic
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Lots of great stuff there and some cool signs too!
woody 73
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Very nice I enjoyed looking at all the tools; my collection is very small if only my two boys would enjoy them I would buy more tools for them.
Lump
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Nice, Jim M!
Ill have to post up my 6 year olds tool chest. Hes all ways diging in the tools with me looking for stuff for his colection. He will even grabs up the good stuff if I dont see it first he even has some snap on.
Jim
Thanks lump that craftsman wall cabnet is what the tools I PM you about are for. your the one that got me started on trying to dig out the differnt brands and trying to make sets. So how is all your sorting coming?
Jim
billybudge
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Thats a very nice place,you got a lot of great gear, well done, in fact it reminds me of home, back in the day,
Its nice to see someone else is the same as me out there,
Lump
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Jim,
Well, both "good" and, "not-so-good", I guess.
I did get MOST of the tools sorted out by brand names, but, I'm finding it extremely difficult to fulfill peoples' want lists. It takes so long to search through bins filled with tools for very specific tools which people have asked for(IE:"1/2" drive 6-point Snap On 3/8" deep well impact socket with the early script, preferrably dated 1953-55"), and folks often have several tools they want within a brand, and then two or three other brand lists, and two or three styles of each brands.
This is not a complaint, mind you, but sometimes I will search for quite a few hours, just to find I don't have a single thing on someone's lists. So then I put all the tools away again, only to find that the next guy needs tools from the same bins. But trying to fill two or three orders at once definitely doesn't work, 'cause I continually lose track.
Sorry for being off topic... But I do have your old C-man ratchets sitting aside for you. Hopefully starting Monday I can get back to sorting, fulfilling, and shipping tools.
NJHandyGuy
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DAAAAYYYYYYUUUUMMMMMM you sir have quite a collection
yes I have allot of tools that came down trough family and some Friends that are no longer with us
thank you I have been picking up signs for years now when I find them
thank you I like to repurpose things as I cheap at heart and its just a working garage not a show room
thanks its taken years to get to this point
My 6 year olds allways been into my tools as well as going with me to hunt for them so no surprise what ever I didnt eant he did
These ore his boxes nothing fancy just 80s era home owners I spent maybe $25.00 on them all
Jim
These ore his boxes nothing fancy just 80s era home owners I spent maybe $25.00 on them all
Jim
here some more my 6 year olds stuff
He has a lot of junk but now Im trying to chang it out with name brands he even has som Cornwell Snap on and Matco now. He loves anything craftsman. Hes always wanted any thing I didnt
Jim
He has a lot of junk but now Im trying to chang it out with name brands he even has som Cornwell Snap on and Matco now. He loves anything craftsman. Hes always wanted any thing I didnt
Jim
W650Mike
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I think I saw about 6 square inches of unused space - room to expand your collection!
premierplayer
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Beautiful!
Hell, I'm not sick, this proves it. Mildly obsessed maybe...
Hell, I'm not sick, this proves it. Mildly obsessed maybe...
I'm only 22 so I can still clearly remember having my own tool box just like your son. I can't even count the times that my dad would have to get on me about not putting his tools back.
Funny thing now is that when I come home from college on breaks and stuff I'm the one asking my old man to put my tools back into the box. He always seems to "forget" how they got into his box.
Funny thing now is that when I come home from college on breaks and stuff I'm the one asking my old man to put my tools back into the box. He always seems to "forget" how they got into his box.
Mike my 6 year old seems to think if he can get it from my chest to his with out being caught that its his. I find things in there and he says its in my tool box when I was taking the tool box pics I found about 10 of my snap on drivers in his screw driver drawer he said he only has 2 and needed more. been trying to teach him the difference between a good tool and junk . At the flee market he grabbed a new looking pipe wrench and I had to point out the ridged to him and he still wanted the newer one had to explain to him that one looks new because its a junk tool from china and no one wanted to use it and the ridged is a good tool and has lasted and why we should try to but American to keep Americans working. Now he tells his mom china tools ****
Jim
Lump
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Jim, That's way cool.
You know, when you think about it, being a parent is the most important job you'll ever do...but none of us are ever given any training, except by example. You must have had some pretty good adults around in your life, when you were young.
Well done.
You know, when you think about it, being a parent is the most important job you'll ever do...but none of us are ever given any training, except by example. You must have had some pretty good adults around in your life, when you were young.
Well done.
Thank you for the kind words Lump. I do think what we do with our kids is what makes them who the are. My daughter is still working on growing up thats why we have the 3 grand kids.
My dad died before I was a year old and my mom wasn't physically able to take care of us 5 kids. when I was 4 I was bounced around between family members and foster homes. after 5 different foster homes I ended up in Hinkley ca (yes the Ertin Brocavich town) I lived in a home with 6 other foster kids and my foster parents were retired army. They took each of us in and treated us like we were there own. It was a great life we spent summers in Big Bear had all kinds of cool trips and they spent allot of time being a family. He was employed by Santa Rail road as a diesel mechanic ( he had some of the coolest tools ever and they were hough). and she was a retired nurse that stayed home for us we had live stock so we learned a good work ethic young having chores morning and night as well as weekends they tought us to have respect for our self as well as others and responsibility.
We all belonged to the boys and girl scoot the H and went to church every Sunday.They made us a family and brought all us kids together to this day we still call each other brother and sisters
It was great that I ended up there with people that really cared for each of us like we were there own kids and wanted nothing else but to show us what hard work and respect can get you.
Jim
uniballer
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I have the correct hack saw for that craftsman wall box. I have been looking for one of those for years.
That is one hell of life story in a couple of paragraphs...
You should teach a class for women at your local college entitled...
"How to be succinct, to stop your mans eyes from glazing over when you tell him something"
All I can is, well done you for everything, including one hell of a workshop.
I do have one question... Your workshop looks familiar, is there any chance you have done
a video tour of your shop and tools that has ended up on You Tube..?
Not that I spend time looking at peoples tools or workshops on you tube...
You should teach a class for women at your local college entitled...
"How to be succinct, to stop your mans eyes from glazing over when you tell him something"
All I can is, well done you for everything, including one hell of a workshop.
I do have one question... Your workshop looks familiar, is there any chance you have done
a video tour of your shop and tools that has ended up on You Tube..?
Not that I spend time looking at peoples tools or workshops on you tube...
basspro
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Pure awesome!