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[Synfulz]

They still make Black and Decker? The first new electric drill I bought was black and Decker for about $3.00. It sounded like a bunch of crackling chickens when I pulled the trigger and shot sparks from thr brushes. It taught me a lot of respect for electricity when using it outdoors in the rain ?.

It's one of the product lines here. They have Dewalt, Makita and some Chinese stuff. Hell if it works multiple time I am good. I paid like $28.

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[9zero1790]

When if ever, was the last time you used one of these?

Pulled it out today to adjust the toe in on my Thing. Much easier than reading a tape measure when you are on the floor under a car.

i never had one but my dad did and i would use it as sword and typical kid stuff. have not seen one in years!

 

[AzScorpion]

That one was my father in laws and he used it quite often. Interesting note, he was a tinner and worked on the world trade centers in NY when they were built. He never thought they would ever come down.


I was lucky enough to get Craftsman tools when I first started purchasing tools and they have held up well. Kind of hit and miss now.

When I got my first job out of high school I needed to build up credit. So I applied and got a Sear card and started buying all Craftsman tools back in 1982. I bought a set, I can't remember how many pieces but it was just about everything you needed to get started with. Then once I paid that off I bought the top box, paid that off then the bottom 3 draw rollaway. 41 years later and I still have this whole set today. The once they sell today feel like cheap junk, they're so much thinner and lighter .

 

[Fawnbuster]

i never had one but my dad did and i would use it as sword and typical kid stuff. have not seen one in years!

I have my GPa's folding tape measure in the top.of my toolbox 1?

 

[AzScorpion]

I have my GPa's folding tape measure in the top.of my toolbox 1?

Mike I had several of those from both my dad and my grandfather. But stupid me threw them all out when I moved.?‍ I was trying to downsize and get rid of stuff I just never used or never had any use for.

 

[Chris M]

Mike I had several of those from both my dad and my grandfather. But stupid me threw them all out when I moved.?‍ I was trying to downsize and get rid of stuff I just never used or never had any use for.

Yeah.
I've done some of the same, to my deep sorrow. Stupid me!

 

[Fawnbuster]

Mike I had several of those from both my dad and my grandfather. But stupid me threw them all out when I moved.?‍ I was trying to downsize and get rid of stuff I just never used or never had any use for.

Dave I don't have much of Grandpa's, but I have that, a round metal chalk line, a pocket knife and a couple of hammers and an odd racheting slotted screwdriver. I even saved a big coffee can he kept with misc nuts and bolts. The cans long gone but I still have and use some of that hardware from time to time.

 

[Fawnbuster]

Also have my Great Gpas 5 shot .32 break action revolver that he carried in the Spanish American war. Ancestry.com has his info dating back to 1875. I wouldn't dare try to shoot this thing, the timing is off and it could be messy.

 

[KJRR]

When I got my first job out of high school I needed to build up credit. So I applied and got a Sear card and started buying all Craftsman tools back in 1982. I bought a set, I can't remember how many pieces but it was just about everything you needed to get started with. Then once I paid that off I bought the top box, paid that off then the bottom 3 draw rollaway. 41 years later and I still have this whole set today. The once they sell today feel like cheap junk, they're so much thinner and lighter .

I believe that was my first credit card too. I'd use it for tools, tires, batteries, clothes.. pretty much shopped only at Sears back then. Just got rid of my first Craftsman floor jack a few months ago. It lasted about 40 yrs.

 

[AzScorpion]

Dave I don't have much of Grandpa's, but I have that, a round metal chalk line, a pocket knife and a couple of hammers and an odd racheting slotted screwdriver. I even saved a big coffee can he kept with misc nuts and bolts. The cans long gone but I still have and use some of that hardware from time to time.

I think they all kept their nuts/bolts in those old metal coffee cans! I had at least 8 of them filled is various screws, nuts, bolts washers you name it it was in there. When I built my house back in MA there was an old barn on the property so I had a lot more room there to store everything. We all use to work on our motorcycles and snowmobiles (I had a wood stove in there) and those misc. things came in handy for sure. When I moved out here I had no choice but to get rid of most of them but my nephew did take some if it so it's still in the family.

I believe that was my first credit card too. I'd use it for tools, tires, batteries, clothes.. pretty much shopped only at Sears back then. Just got rid of my first Craftsman floor jack a few months ago. It lasted about 40 yrs.

Sears was such a great store! It's sad to see them go downhill like they did because anytime we needed anything it was our go to store. I don't think I ever looked anywhere else for a battery, I always bought Die Hards. Whats sad is good luck getting 40 years out of almost anything built today. We live in a disposable economy now where just about everything is built as cheap as possible and only last a few years.

 

[Fordup]

These were some of my first tools. The one on the left was the first Craftsman tool I bought. Really helped making nice level tree houses with an angle cut off a sheet of plywood for a square. The middle one was used during construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. An engineer on the bridge lived down the road from us and gave me all his old engineering equipment when he retired because he knew I was going into engineering when I grew up. Wish I had kept the awesome quill pen drafting sets he gave me and blueprint copies of the bridge. The one on the right was my grandfather's from the 1920s. He died before I was born but built many houses on Long Island with it. I hit it with a sledge hammer by mistake driving a barter board stake in and bent it though. I have boxes of old tools that I just keep for the stories.

 

[ylwjacket]

When if ever, was the last time you used one of these?

Pulled it out today to adjust the toe in on my Thing. Much easier than reading a tape measure when you are on the floor under a car.

that's the only kind of ruler I use. I am in the process of designing a truck bed camper, and it's being measured with this tool.

 

[D Fresh]

When I got my first job out of high school I needed to build up credit. So I applied and got a Sear card and started buying all Craftsman tools back in 1982. I bought a set, I can't remember how many pieces but it was just about everything you needed to get started with. Then once I paid that off I bought the top box, paid that off then the bottom 3 draw rollaway. 41 years later and I still have this whole set today. The once they sell today feel like cheap junk, they're so much thinner and lighter .

Most of the tools I use were inherited from the old man. His 80's vintage rollaway and top box is full of Craftsmen stuff and lives in my garage now.

 

[Langwilliams]

Craftsmen tools slowly slipped in quality. I still have several I got when I dad passed an I bought quite a few in the 90's to early 2000's. I think Sears was less strict on approving new/young people for credit an gave their cards to people that couldn't get bank cards. Back then seems like credit was more tightly controlled. The brilliance of this was their store only accepted the Sears card for the longest time so even if you had bank cards you had to get a Sears store card to charge there. They made money off the sales of their stuff an the interest on the purchases.

I read they sold the name an tooling rights when they were closing down to fund their pension liabilities. I give them credit for that at lease.

 

[9zero1790]

im glad other have grandpas tools and dads tools still. I have several from grandpa, dad, brother, and some from uncles and cousins. have a lil family pride each time i use them. if i ever have a kid i will pass them on.

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