Old stuff you still use.

[cantflip]

IDK if this will qualify for all of you.. but I just got a haircut. I spent many years as a loyal customer to a great lady down south, one time she asked if she could do something fun... so I let her. Once my Bart Simpson hair cut grew back, I told her that I just wasn't that much fun.

After moving to Orlando, management had been doing my haircuts... some good some bad, but she knew how I liked it. A couple years ago she went on strike and I searched for a decent haircut again. They kept saying crap that made no sense to me, like "scissor cut or clipper cut?" everyone always used both

so my point... old stuff you still use... my current haircut directions " cut it this short, make it look professional, Farrah Fawcett stlye, and if you make it too short in the middle, I turn into Alfalfa."

I'm willing to bet none of them have ever seen an episode of Charley's Angels nor Our Gang, Little Rascals... but finally a set of directions that doesn't make me want to go with the Yul Brynner look.

 

[jct]

the struggle is real

My old school barber had to fold up shop due to the building owner had condemned it and would be demolishing the building, he was the only tenant left in the building. and went to work for one downtown. For a 100 dollar haircut... I don't like going downtown, i can go to his house but i work till 6 and he doesn't work from home on the weekends... So I'll eventually goto one of those chain haircut places and ask a for a regular hair, if they don't know what that is, i just tell them to google it, and if they screw that up i say just cut it all with a #2 blade. They really hate that...

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

With the fuzz I have left I finally got fed up listening to "WHO DO YOU THINK WILL TAKE THE STANLEY CUP THIS YEAR AND WHATS WRONG WITH THE TIGERS?" and went and bought a Braun Electric Clippers fer $35 and buz my own fuzz 'bout every 4-5 weekz. No drive time, no fielding questions about thingz I could care less about. 5 minutes in front of the mirror and done for another month. NO RUG, NO IMPLANYZ, WIN WIN, Jer

 

[65sporty]

When I was in the Air Force I would use the Barbers on base, then my wife starting doing it after I bought a set of clippers. 30yrs and 3 or 4 sets of clippers later I now do it myself when I trim my beard.
Funny thing about going bald, over the years when my wife was doing my hair I noticed she was doing it faster and faster. When I first questioned it, she said I have less and less hair.

 

[thrashingcows]

..... Anyhow, extreme frugality was law, nothing was ever thrown out, it would be patched and or fixed until there was no hope, then the bones were saved as "might need this someday" parts. I grew up surrounded by "might need this someday" parts and learned at a very early age how to "fix" things, not necessarily to factory specs, but functional if you were careful. LOL

To this day I seldom throw anything away. If it can't be repaired, it gets completely disassembled and all interesting parts are shelved and all screws, bolts, etc go into one of my gallon pails to be sorted later into parts drawers. Its a disease for which there isn't a cure.

So to answer the "old stuff you still use" question, my answer is all of it!

This me almost to the letter.....I have bin, tins and boxes full of parts, clips, screws, nuts, bolts etc...I have scavenged and saved from countless vehicles, machines, home appliances etc. My wife and daughters are always surprised when they bring me some item that has failed, and I'm able to rummage around my stuff and come up with a fix or repair for their item.

 

[Fury440]

My wife and daughters are always surprised when they bring me some item that has failed, and I'm able to rummage around my stuff and come up with a fix or repair for their item.

Mine too, but what really blows them away is when they find some strange looking gizmo in one of the boxes and I can tell them what its from, what it does or is used for and that I've been saving it for over 30 years.

 

[rags]

How many of you have Cornwell tools?

corwell? try bonney, wright, herbrand, old proto, s-k wayne, excelite screw drivers, and some others i can't think of. love my bonney wrenches. still use 'em everyday unfortunately.

 

[mcmlvii]

try bonney, wright, ......

Did someone say Wright? 21-inch-long 3/4" drive ratchet from 1954.

 

[Ross Wooldridge]

Part of the lovely tools I have from my father include this vintage Xcelite PS 120 set

and a vintage Husky socket set similar to this one, but the box is stainless unpainted, and the layout is not quite the same and all my sockets are the originals with knurled edges like the handles.

 

[flamejockey13]

I too have a 1987 vintage JVC disc player, just the slightly fancier XL-V450 vs. XL-V250. Still works perfect, and I couldn't tell you how many thousands of hours of use it's had so far. The quality of the audio equipment that was built in Japan is amazing. Once they moved production to Malaysia and China, the lifespan of the equipment dropped dramatically.

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I got a kick out of 1987 being vintage. Monkey Wards (Logan?) lathe from late 40's maybe early 50's. Not pictured but hanging on the wall above lathe are my 1960's Nova speakers from Radio Shack.

 

[crazyboutwagons]

Post # 44 of the Stanley Plane I had one like that from my dad he dated everything he bought the box was marked 4-07-1948 .I gave it to my niece. ill have to ask her to send me a pic and see if the same.

My niece sent me this link to check the year of manufacture of Stanley Hand Plane How to Identify Stanley Hand Plane Age and Type (Type Study Tool) | Wood and Shop
hope this will help identify the year of your plane. The picture she sent me of the one my dad had shows the same label but the size is missing.

 

[78Brougham]

Tuning up the MG I pulled this out of the corner....

 

[65sporty]

Tuning up the MG I pulled this out of the corner....
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That my friend is a lost art, I don't know of anyone that uses a ignition scope anymore. We are now so dependent on what we can read from the scan tool, but on anything ODBII the computer is usually spot on as which cylinder is misfiring.

 

[rags]

a cool tool when new but still relevant for the most modern vehicles.

nothing beats an old fashion analog scope for ignition tho'.

 

[Big_John]

I don't have a recent picture and it's kind of buried at the moment, so I'll post a pic from about 15 years ago.

This is a desk that I figure is at least 110 years old. I got it when my Dad passed. It was his uncle's, a man married to my Grandfather's sister. His name was Harry Morey. My Dad really admired Harry. He was an electrical engineer at Pass & Seymour and held over 31 patents, some in his name and some as an assignor to Pass & Seymour. One patented item all of us have probably used... The electric lamp socket with a pull chain.

Harry died fairly young, at 49, in 1929. No children.

My oldest brother was named after him.

Originally, it had a roll top on it and that was removed and taken apart. I seem to remember my Mom having something to do with that, but I was pretty young at the time. It was one of those things that my Dad used a lot and I am happy to have it now.

 

[70NEWYORKER]

I don't have a recent picture and it's kind of buried at the moment, so I'll post a pic from about 15 years ago.

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This is a desk that I figure is at least 110 years old. I got it when my Dad passed. It was his uncle's, a man married to my Grandfather's sister. His name was Harry Morey. My Dad really admired Harry. He was an electrical engineer at Pass & Seymour and held over 31 patents, some in his name and some as an assignor to Pass & Seymour. One patented item all of us have probably used... The electric lamp socket with a pull chain.

Harry died fairly young, at 49, in 1929. No children.

My oldest brother was named after him.

Originally, it had a roll top on it and that was removed and taken apart. I seem to remember my Mom having something to do with that, but I was pretty young at the time. It was one of those things that my Dad used a lot and I am happy to have it now.

110 years old and still on the job..that really cool!!!

 

[Old Mike]

 

[BigblueC]

Old tools I still use? Well I use you guys now and then
Here's an old Saginaw jack (maybe Delco) that's pretty useful for light lifting. My buddy calls it Methuselah.

 

[Big_John]

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I have that same timing light! I bought it in the late 70's.

 

[3C's & a D?]

Glad to see this thread is still going. I've never seen one of those starter triggers, that's neat! I just recently found this on Kijiji, it's not too old, 91-92, alot older than my other bass. Yes, I'm a "lowly" bass player. It's an Alvarez with switchable Dana p/j pickups. I absolutely love the style and feel of the offset body. Soft sugar maple body, hard maple neck and rosewood fretboard.