ambenz
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Chatting with my neighbor a while back, salt of the Earth good people, they are just be proactive on keeping clutter down and want the freedom from objects that tend to tie us all down.
My neighbor knows I am a tinkerer, he says to me....
"So I got some old tools you can have, just want to go thru them first...I have to clean out all my old stuff I am not using in the garage."
Today I get the call to come over and see if I want anything as he knows I am handy and usually have a tool they can borrow.
The tools are out of a big carry tool box and are sprawled out over a table, neatly arranged.
Most look to be from the post war era to the 70's.
I can have what ever I want on the table!!!
Are you kidding me???? ...for FREE?? YES!
Come to find out these are his father's tools and his father was a NASA engineer!
He worked at the Lewis Research Center (now the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field) for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and was later incorporated into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in a laboratory out of Brook Park, Ohio, for aircraft research, from the early 50's till the 80's...for 30 years!
He work on projects for the Gemini Space Program!
These are his tools!
So these tools have prominence! WOW!
So I tell my neighbor these tools are worth money!
"Am I right to do so?"
Are these tools worth anything to you?
Maybe a collector?
We would like to know and would be willing to sell anything in this thread, so take a look!
The historic Snap On ratchet....
The long "C" Craftman wrenches.....
The specialized reference media....
Several specialized tools "things" I have no clue what they are...do you know?
I have no clue what they are...do you know?
There's a antique hole punch, a plane, chisels, dolly, blades, ratchet, a monkey wrench, a clamp...
Taps with handles, dyes, reamers, flaring tools, coolant gauge...
Swiss Pattern files...
Wrenches, boxed, ratcheted, and open end, duck bill pliers and pipe cutters....
Novelty premiums gift tools, Starrett micrometer gauge, flare mold tool....
Pocket tools...missing a handle...
The Kennedy toolbox....
The owners wife want to use it as a flower planter this spring if it isn't worth anything! It was not offered to me.
So we are wondering if any of this is worth money, if not...I will add the things they gave me to my tool box and be proud to own them from a man who helped in America's Space program.
Love living in a place at the right time...this usually never happens to me!
My neighbor knows I am a tinkerer, he says to me....
"So I got some old tools you can have, just want to go thru them first...I have to clean out all my old stuff I am not using in the garage."
Today I get the call to come over and see if I want anything as he knows I am handy and usually have a tool they can borrow.
The tools are out of a big carry tool box and are sprawled out over a table, neatly arranged.
Most look to be from the post war era to the 70's.
I can have what ever I want on the table!!!
Are you kidding me???? ...for FREE?? YES!
Come to find out these are his father's tools and his father was a NASA engineer!
He worked at the Lewis Research Center (now the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field) for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and was later incorporated into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in a laboratory out of Brook Park, Ohio, for aircraft research, from the early 50's till the 80's...for 30 years!
He work on projects for the Gemini Space Program!
These are his tools!
So these tools have prominence! WOW!
So I tell my neighbor these tools are worth money!
"Am I right to do so?"
Are these tools worth anything to you?
Maybe a collector?
We would like to know and would be willing to sell anything in this thread, so take a look!
The historic Snap On ratchet....
The long "C" Craftman wrenches.....
The specialized reference media....
Several specialized tools "things" I have no clue what they are...do you know?
I have no clue what they are...do you know?
There's a antique hole punch, a plane, chisels, dolly, blades, ratchet, a monkey wrench, a clamp...
Taps with handles, dyes, reamers, flaring tools, coolant gauge...
Swiss Pattern files...
Wrenches, boxed, ratcheted, and open end, duck bill pliers and pipe cutters....
Novelty premiums gift tools, Starrett micrometer gauge, flare mold tool....
Pocket tools...missing a handle...
The Kennedy toolbox....
The owners wife want to use it as a flower planter this spring if it isn't worth anything! It was not offered to me.
So we are wondering if any of this is worth money, if not...I will add the things they gave me to my tool box and be proud to own them from a man who helped in America's Space program.
Love living in a place at the right time...this usually never happens to me!
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A bunch of nice, old, well made tools that I myself would have grabbed. Almost a major "YOU ****" 
While nothing is as rare as hen's teeth and chicken lips (Snap On 71N was in production from 1936 to 1946 iirc) there are some neat old tools there. Clean them up and use them or start your own vintage tool collection of whatever type or types that strike your fancy. Neat story on them though. The brown case with the hooked blade like thingies looks like it is part of a Utica Drop Forge & Tool Company multi-tool kit from the 1930's. It used a handle that looks like a pocket knife with the blades closed. Kind of a pre-Leatherman type of set up. Knife collectors would probably like that if they are missing pieces out of their set.
The multi-tool kit says 'MADE IN JAPAN', so it is not a Utica, but still the same principle. Would not be worth as much, but still may hold interest for someone