I wanted to remove the heater hose outlet from my 61 394. I was a little nervous about breaking the timing cover if it was really rusted in place. I tried pliers and wrenches but I could see I was going to tear up the outlet and possibly break something. I consulted @Paul and decided to go for it with heat. Before I drug out the torch I noticed a very small pipe wrench on the wall. It was my dads before he p***ed. I put it on the outlet and it turned like it was greased! Thanks Dad! -Don
100% right on the money. My dad told my daughter when he p***es, he will contact her through the number three. There have been so many times that three comes up in her life. Like when she wanted to play softball but was afraid to go in and sign up. I said to her, what would Grand pap do? She said "he would say the hell with them, I going to have fun" lol. When she got her uniform her number was 3!! She treasures that shirt.
I'm still using bolt cutters that were my grandfather's from around 1930. My dad was still alive when something from his old work tool box saved me with a scored up spindle, a roll of emery cloth.
I absolutley love using my dad's tools...and he was a tool maker for GM for 39 years so I have plenty!
I have a few of Dad's tools. I think he'd enjoy my shop even if it's crowded with cars, parts, bikes etc etc.
Dads tend to know something from experience. It’s called having the right tool for the job. It tends to make everything much easier.
I'm using my Grand Daddy's Snap On tools he bought Used as a Young Man himself. Snap On wanted me to produce a receipt for a cracked socket a couple yrs ago! They So Funny...
My dad had one smaller tool box he carried everywhere in his car. It was stuffed with old wrenches from the 1950s. Some name brands I never heard of. Anyway, he lost that in one of his many moves in Florida, the step mother was a certified lunatic and would hire druggies off the street to help around the house. My brother has all his wood working tools.
I feel ya, my dad p***ed in 2009 and has helped me out in similar ways since then. I always try to thank him!
Good memories, my dads health was failing a few years before he p***ed(07). He knew what I was like I guess, I was a “use it until it’s gone” guy-still am. My last (I thought) chopsaw wheel was worn to near a nub. I went looking for my air cutter to finish the job, in the drawer I looked in, found two packs of cutoff wheels, packs of grinding, stone, etc. Yes, I also have most of his tools as well. Good memory thread for me.
I'm 67 and still buying new tools. 6 years ago I almost went tango-uniform but today am in much better health than I was then. My dad's old box would have fit into one of my Snap On rollaway drawers.
I have my uncle's home made tool box and some home made tools from when he worked in a shop during WW2. Still use them.
I have some tools that I received from estates of relatives and friends; sadly. If they're not marked already, I'll put their initials on the tools, so that I can have a little remembrance when I go to use them.
This is a gasket s****er made in the '40's. Don't know what it was made from but I've been using it for 50 years.
My dad was a frugal tool buyer. He never bought a new tool if there was a used one available anywhere in the county. He was a Tool & Die guy (also a Mold Maker) so those high quality tools were enshrined in some really serious toolboxes and kept locked up and/or at his work. At home, he had a catch-all crate of tools for around-the-house projects and for me and my 3 brothers to use for our own backyard projects. Sometimes we took 9 tools and put 7 back. Sometimes we put 10 or 11 back because we found a couple of rusty ones that were left in the gr*** the year before. But Dad never complained. He just scrounged some more and added them to the crate.
I inherited my dad's toolbox on his p***ing.I now have doubles of a lot of the tools but will use his first.....gives me a good feeling and memories when doing so.
My Dad used to work for North American Aviation as a draftsman when they had a plant at FAT (Fresno Air Terminal) here in the dirty 'No. His medium sized Kennedy machinist chest had green felt lining the drawers and an NAA sticker on one end. Some s***bag stole it fully loaded from his garage in the early 90's. I have a Turlock swap meet Kennedy chest as does one of my brothers. Not the same, but close. From the web - www.thisdayinaviation.com In 1951, Louis Sanford Wait was appointed general administrator of a new North American Aviation plant at the Fresno Air Terminal, Fresno, California. The plant, which employed about 400 people, manufactured and repaired parts for the T-6/SNJ Texan flight trainers, and performed modifications to F-86 Sabre jet fighters.
I have my dad's 2 Kennedy boxes from his 32 years at Grumman. He worked there prior to WWII for a couple of years and 29 when he came home. He was a hammer guy, did a lot of hand-formed work, real artistry. Most of what is in the boxes looks like junk, but every little s**** piece had a purpose. He had a couple of chuck keys that had home brewed handles on them for better leverage.
I inherited a bunch of bits and bobs of fabricated metal pieces that Dad made during his body and fenderman days. Wish I knew what they were for.
He had some Martin dollies and hammers in the boxes too. But still a lot that looked like junk. I wish I had gone through the boxes with him when he was alive.
@bobss396 I kept all the body hammers. They make me feel like the Road Warrior. I cleaned all the dollys with acid. They cleaned up good. His jitterbug sander still works like it did in the 60s at Wagner and Johnson in Spearfish.
My Dad and yours seem to have been very similar. My Dad did his body man metal work on the side. He had the patience of Job and a good eye for how the metal would react. My bro backed his F-100 into the quarter panel of my car, pushing the quarter panel just behind the door inward 6 or 8 inches. It was caved in. Dad told me to take all the interior trim off in that area. He rigged up a bottle jack and some 4x4s and jacked it back out, getting it way over 90% repaired with that one move. He finished it up incredibly well, almost all moving the metal. Very fond memories.
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