Old stuff you still use.

[jct]

 

[Old Mike]

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

Same here, sometime around ‘77 or ‘78. Hadn’t used it for a long time. Dusted it off a couple of years ago when I bought my Newport.

 

[MarPar]

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Oh dear God. And here I thought the xp we're using at work was bad.

 

[rags]

And here I thought the xp we're using at work was bad.

not as bad as the windows 10 we tried to use.

 

[MarPar]

not as bad as the windows 10 we tried to use.

Win10 makes me think of a song...

 

[jct]

Oh dear God. And here I thought the xp we're using at work was bad.

It's not hooked up to the internet, it's the only computer cause the printer cannot be used on any newer OS... At work

 

[70NEWYORKER]

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I bought mine new in 82, still got it, still works,still use it!!!

 

[rags]

cyclone 1.5 ton. purchased at the swap meet at stafford springs spring '95. cost: $20.00. me and a buddy had to lug it all the way from the infield.

never ceases to amaze at the amount of equipment needed to have a functional shop but it can be done, buying right and accumulating.

 

[flamejockey13]

1946 lathe, Monkey Wards I think. Old locking plyers go back to the 40's that were my grandfather's.

 

[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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Makes a guy feel pretty old when "vintage" was when he was getting ready to turn 40.

 

[MoPar Maniac]

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.

The most important tool on that cool desk is the Magic 8 Ball!
A cousin, Albert Carter was the inventor.

 

[stubs300]

1946 lathe, Monkey Wards I think. Old locking plyers go back to the 40's that were my grandfather's.

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If you don't or didn't know, the bottom tool is called a Yankee screwdriver. I have 2 of them that were my Dad's.

 

[rapidtrans]

Still works.
Make tapes once in a while for buddies that still have a working 8-track.
Made Cary Underwood and Taylor Swift 8-track tapes complete with album art label for a friend.
His daughter thinks they’re the coolest things.

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

OK I think this is a good place for this recent find. It's a 'NOT MINE' just a cool picture that reminds me of some of the very old stuff I've come across in my lifetime.

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[Big_John]

OK I think this is a good place for this recent find. It's a 'NOT MINE' just a cool picture that reminds me of some of the very old stuff I've come across in my lifetime.

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There was one of these in the basement of a shop my buddy had. It might have been a little smaller. We were always trying to figure out some use for it but never did.

 

[Samplingman]

LOL, they made a toy train of that.

 

[Vaanth]

1965 International Harvester Cub Lo-Boy.

 

[Vaanth]

My Lab. Parts of it.
Most equipment is 70s and 80s vintage, but I have some back to the 40s, and some later stuff too. The desks serving as workbenches are 50s vintage.

 

[3175375]

I don’t remember if I posted this before, but worth a repost.

Lucifer, our International Harvester Model 666.

 

[marty mopar]

Need old medicine?

I have a shitload of it in my living room

All of it was pulled out of drugstores in the mid 1970's when there were still independent drug stores.

I paid the original price and almost nothing was over a dollar. Sometimes they just gave it to me for free because it was so old.

Everything is full and unopened and ranges from the 1930s to the 1960s mostly. Some in wood containers.

Cough medicine, condoms, razor blades, teething formulas, tooth powder, hair tint, baby powder, rat poison, fountain pens and ink and lots more.

2015-06-16 Martin's old drugstore remedies, etc.