Opps left the shoprag in there.

 

25 cent rattle fix

Drove it for 3 days before he found a spare AND a jack in the trunk.  Who'd a thunk?

Don't even wanna know, HOW LONG HAS THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON.

It appears that the Diamond Chalk and Horseshoe Company of Duluth MN was purchased by the Triangle Corporation in 1981; Triangle itself was eventually sold to Cooper Tools. In 1994, the last workers moved out and the building was demolished in 1996. Many of the workers went to work for their former Diamond president Jack Swanstrom, who started a new company called Swanstrom Tools USA in Duluth.

Edited March 31, 20215 yr by Frosty

Yup! Handed down tools are as meaningful as JustA bout anything! In my case my dad didn’t have anything to hand down as he really wasn’t a handy guy! It is what it is! Fact is you really wanted to keep him away from things! Once he tried to replace the master cylinder on our 57 chevy! He ended up driving through our garage! Really! Another time he built a stool to stand on,,,, yes it collapsed when he stood on it! 
But the good news is my grandfather, my moms dad, was that guy and while nobody ever showed me how to do anything when I was young, I do have some of his old tools!
The man who was the most influential in my life with respect being able to do things was my father-in-law! He taught me that I could do what ever I wanted to accomplish! He made me realize I had a gift and anything I wanted to do and didn’t know how to do I could learn quickly if I was willing to read about how to do it!

My grandfather’s 1920’s square

my grandfather’s 1900 foldable ruler

grandfather’s 1930’s level

my father-in-law’s 1940’s circular saw.

This saw I still use to this day! This saw weights more than most bench top table saws you can buy today! You can’t stall this saw! It will literally rip your arm of if you don’t have a hold of it! I have cut stone, brick and block with this saw using a carbide blade!

Edited March 31, 20215 yr by Last Indian

4 hours ago, Frosty said:

It appears that the Diamond Chalk and Horseshoe Company of Duluth MN was purchased by the Triangle Corporation in 1981; Triangle itself was eventually sold to Cooper Tools. In 1994, the last workers moved out and the building was demolished in 1996. Many of the workers went to work for their former Diamond president Jack Swanstrom, who started a new company called Swanstrom Tools USA in Duluth.

very cool info Frosty... check this out, and there is a picture of my spanner !!! 1920's 

https://swanstromtools.com/about/history/

last indian, that is soo cool mate, a Real Black n decker!!!

and wow! what a neat way to display the level and ruler 👍

Edited April 1, 20215 yr by 64 kiwi boni

11 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

last indian, that is soo cool mate, a Real Black n decker!!!

and wow! what a neat way to display the level and ruler 👍

In their day Black & Decker was on top of the heap! Now the whole thing of all the competing greats, like Stanley, Bostitch, DeWalt, Irwin, etc. are just all rolled into one huge conglomerate! With the only directive being, make it cheap and charge what ever you can! Long live the men of ingenuity, ingenuity is dead!

Last nights fish at the beach with the drone  from left to right 

that's 6 kahawai, 7 snapper, and a trevally. 

this drone fishing is working really well, you hook it up to a boat rod, with 6 hooks and 2x  3 once sand anchor's and we where flying this set up out anywhere between 350 and 550 meters off the beach, and started justA on dusk,   

Edited April 2, 20215 yr by 64 kiwi boni

That's amazing.  I'm sure they would find a way to make it illegal here.  Already so many rules here about flying in populated areas, over neighbors property,  using camera's, how high you can fly.  No flights over roads/ traffic  in case it crashes.  

12 minutes ago, JUSTA6 said:

That's amazing.  I'm sure they would find a way to make it illegal here.  Already so many rules here about flying in populated areas, over neighbors property,  using camera's, how high you can fly.  No flights over roads/ traffic  in case it crashes.  

yeah I bet it will come !!! the pc police will start banging on about us using the drone at night .... mostly because they arent catching the fish!!! hahaahaha

Edited April 2, 20215 yr by 64 kiwi boni

Last night we did 4 sets and 16 

fish 

 So it’s bread crumb- pan fried fresh fish and home made chips for dinner .... with a beer 

Edited April 4, 20215 yr by 64 kiwi boni

That sounds delicious Kiwi! Enjoy it mate!

Edited April 4, 20215 yr by Frosty

From 72 👍

 

AND we interrupt this very quiet weekend on fp to bring you an important beer advert !!!

 

Edited April 5, 20215 yr by 64 kiwi boni

and if your a cleaver mouse 

 

Edited April 5, 20215 yr by 64 kiwi boni

I was called too this mess today! clearly someone had a wayyyyy too hot curry !!

Edited April 6, 20215 yr by 64 kiwi boni

Getting back to Van Nuys Blvd. I was cruising the boulevard about 5 years before these pictures were taken. Did a lot of street racing a little west of there. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!

Woodward Avenue and Van Nuys Blvd were "THE" street racing and cruising scenes in America back in the 60s and 70s.

8 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

I was called too this mess today! clearly someone had a wayyyyy too hot curry !!

 

On 4/3/2021 at 9:08 PM, 64 kiwi boni said:

Last night we did 4 sets and 16 

fish 

 So it’s bread crumb- pan fried fresh fish and home made chips for dinner .... with a beer 

The king wanted to go fishing, and he asked the royal weather forecaster the forecast for the next few hours.

The palace meteorologist assured him that there was no chance of rain.
 
So the king and the queen went fishing. On the way he met a man with a fishing pole riding on a donkey, and he asked the man if the fish were biting.
 
The fisherman said, "Your Majesty, you should return to the palace!  In just a short time I expect a huge rain storm."
 
The king replied: "I hold the palace meteorologist in high regard. He is an educated and experienced professional. Besides, I pay him very high wages. He gave me a very different forecast. I trust him."
 
So the king continued on his way.
 
However, in a short time a torrential rain fell from the sky. The King and Queen were totally soaked.
 
Furious, the king returned to the palace and gave the order to fire the meteorologist.
 
Then he summoned the fisherman and offered him the prestigious position of royal forecaster.
 
The fisherman said, "Your Majesty, I do not know anything about forecasting. I obtain my information from my donkey. If I see my donkey's ears drooping, it means with certainty that it will rain."
 
So the king hired the donkey.
 
And so began the practice of hiring dumb asses to work in influential positions of government.

And thus the symbol of the democrat party was born.

The practice is unbroken to this day!!!!!!!

Never have I seen it put so eloquently.

We have been sharing tools left to us by our fathers. Here is my contribution. I have no idea where this originated, I do know that my father as a young man plowed behind horses. I had never seen it when he was alive, only found it in his garage after his death. Obviously at some point someone needed a wrench for something and in the absence of a Snap On tool truck whacked this one out of a piece of 1/2 inch flat stock.  You can see the torch marks on the side. Crude but probably worked.

 

this will make you smile