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The story of ETF Tools of St. Catharines, Ontario.

Started by lbgradwell, December 21, 2011, 09:58:32 PM

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lbgradwell

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Sorry I've been neglecting this thread lately as I've been pretty busy...

So it seems some ETF tools made it to the States one way or another. That doesn't surprise me, but it surprised me a little that they are plentiful enough to have been found be members of this (rather small) forum!

This matchbook cover just appeared on fleabay:





I thought the "416" area code would be useful in dating this matchbook, but to my surprise it seems "416" was used for St. Catharine's as recently as 1993! ("416" is used for Toronto exclusively now and they had to introduce a "647" overlay code in 2001.)

Kijiji King

lbgradwell

#31
And a new member on the GG posted his example of a very nice gasoline blowtorch recently:






I was not aware ETF even offered these things...

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dieselmike




15/16 no rust
i have seen a couple of ETF double open ends around. this one made it west of the rockies

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Neals

Picked up this ETF 18" pipe wrench Friday. Looks like it should clean up decent.

lbgradwell

A nice example, Neals...

I'm sure it'll clean up well; it's in much better shape than the 18" I cleaned up & mine came out fine!

Kijiji King

lbgradwell

And now yet another matchbook just appeared on fleaPay!:





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lbgradwell

Folks...we've had a huge breakthrough on the ETF story & I think I can safely say that there will be more information coming soon!

How's that for a cliffhanger? LOL!

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gibsontool

You certainly have my attention. This is very interesting info on one of the few Canadian tool makers.

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