Old stuff you still use.

[cuda hunter]

Too cool! I like the sears stuff.
I have a similar timing light.
My old sears charger broke years ago. Should have kept it and fixed it.

 

[Whiskytango]

Too cool! I like the sears stuff.
I have a similar timing light.
My old sears charger broke years ago. Should have kept it and fixed it.

Yes Sears use to be the anchor mall store in bigger centers and small towns had order and pickup stores. Plus delivery in bigger centers well before Amazon!

This mug was a promotion when you bought a set of Cragars. Still use it to hold pens and markers.

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

Recent find at my Churches Rummage Store, I haven't found a USA made knife in years at flea markets, I find some Japanese knives but mostly China which are absolutely junk.

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[cuda hunter]

has some miles put on it.

 

[Vaanth]

Sandy-Jet sand blaster. I've been using this since 1979. It is small, but I've made it work for every job I've done with it, even if it took a while.

 

[Vaanth]

I purchased this Craftsman Oxy-acetylene set in 1981 at Sears. I've been using it since then for brazing, heating, cutting, and some light mild steel welding on occasion. I originally made a cart from an old hand truck, and used it for years, but later replaced it with the nicer cart here.

 

[cuda hunter]

I'm surprised that sand blaster has lasted that long! 46 years. Wow.

 

[Vaanth]

I'm surprised that sand blaster has lasted that long! 46 years. Wow.

The siphon gun inner path for the sand flow is worn, but still good. It has replaceable nozzles, and I have worn out many of them. It came with steel nozzles, but I later switched to ceramic nozzles which last longer.

I also have a high pressure blaster, also by Sandy Jet (ALC), that I got ~1990, but I don't like using it much. It is faster, but a lot messier. I built a blast cabinet that I connected to the siphon gun and hopper for a while, but now I just blast outside behind the shop. I have a small Clarke blast cabinet for little stuff.

 

[Vaanth]

I bought this Radio Shack Micronta digital clock in 1975. It's still in service.

 

[Zymurgy]

I have my Dad S&K ratchet sets 1/2 and 3/8 with original tool box and several S&K specialty tools with it.

I have several Jukeboxes now. Here is the first one I bought.

 

[Vaanth]

National Semiconductor WM90 LED digital watch with Speidel band.

I bought this watch in spring of 1976 at Wolf Camera in Cumberland Mall, Marietta GA. Shortly thereafter, I bought a Speidel Twist-o-Flex watchband in gold and black for it. The watch contains National Semiconductor "guts" made in mid 1975. The watch was assembled in Hong Kong for Geneva Electronics to distribute for National Semiconductor. The Speidel band was made in USA. The watch housing was gold tone, but the thin "tone" plating has worn off. The housing is brass, so I can polish it up and it looks like gold for a while. I wore it daily for over 20 years, and I didn't always take it off when I worked on cars, electronics, etc. and it shows. The lens and housing is scratched and scuffed, and the buttons are finicky. Nowadays, I just wear it occasionally to an event, or something. It needs a good cleaning and polish.

When Wolf boxed it up, they put the wrong user manual in in with it, for a Texas Instruments watch. I meant to go back and swap it, but I never did...

 

[Vaanth]

Bowmar "Brain" model 90601 Five Function LED Calculator, and others.

I bought this in the fall of 1975 with money I had saved from my summer job. I had it for my senior year in high school. I was the only kid in my class, perhaps the whole school, that had a calculator. It was a big thing then. I still like to use it for quick, basic arithmetic operations. The keys have a pleasant tactile feel, much like a genuine IBM PC keyboard. It was made in the USA.

A year later, in late 1976, I purchased a Texas Instruments TI-59 for college. This was, and still is, a powerhouse. I rarely use it now though. The battery pack is dead. It's a custom packaged set of Ni-Cad AA batteries. It can be replaced, but I use the optional AC power supply if I power it up.

There are several books that go with this for operations, programming including one for it's magnetic strip storage cards, etc.


Both of the LED calculators have been replaced in regular duty by two LCD Hewlett Packard calculators that I got in the mid 80s. These are an HP-22S and an HP-48SX. The HP-22S gets used a few times per week. The HP-48SX is only occasionally used nowadays.

 

[Big_John]

National Semiconductor WM90 LED digital watch with Speidel band.

I bought this watch in spring of 1976 at Wolf Camera in Cumberland Mall, Marietta GA. Shortly thereafter, I bought a Speidel Twist-o-Flex watchband in gold and black for it. The watch contains National Semiconductor "guts" made in mid 1975. The watch was assembled in Hong Kong for Geneva Electronics to distribute for National Semiconductor. The Speidel band was made in USA. The watch housing was gold tone, but the thin "tone" plating has worn off. The housing is brass, so I can polish it up and it looks like gold for a while. I wore it daily for over 20 years, and I didn't always take it off when I worked on cars, electronics, etc. and it shows. The lens and housing is scratched and scuffed, and the buttons are finicky. Nowadays, I just wear it occasionally to an event, or something. It needs a good cleaning and polish.

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When Wolf boxed it up, they put the wrong user manual in in with it, for a Texas Instruments watch. I meant to go back and swap it, but I never did...
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The Seiko watch I wear regularly is a about the same age. It was my Dad's watch that he wore all the time.

I have another watch that was my Dad's. He got this for 25 years of service at the place he worked (Lipe Rollway, they made truck clutches). It's engraved with his name and 1968 on the back. My Mom handed me these two watches when he passed in 1993. The Seiko worked, but the 25 year watch didn't. At the time, the last thing I needed to do was pay someone to repair an expensive watch, so it sat in my dresser drawer and I kind of forgot about it. Fast forward a few years and I found someone local to repair it and I wear it for special occasions.

 

[carguy300]

Sentiment and memories! I love that!