Got to yard sale advertising tools late, and thought I missed out. Picked up this ugly box and opened to find the JCPenney label on the inside. As I use Penncraft 3/8 ratchets, I was pleasantly surprised, even more so when I checked the sockets and found they were all Kraeuter 1/2 deep well sockets!  Thanks Dick !  Quite reasonable price also. There is a fair amount of box wear on the exteriors, but the sockets dont look worn at all.

My neighbor bought a roller cabinet with some odds and ends,and let me browse. No charge for a Stanely Hurwood screwdriver, a Marples chisel, Miller Falls multi tool (!), no bits but it came home with me anyway, and a horse hair brush.


The box got a quick and dirty flat black spray, cleaned up the sockets and used some shower pan material under them to keep them happy from here on.


My neighbor dropped $150 , and was very happy with his purchases.  I dropped $5, and felt pretty good myself!!  Pretty good way to start the day.

Certainly a well spent five dollars.

you guys really have the luck. If I bought that box the hinge would be broken and full of rust holes and under the worthless junk I would find mouse droppings   bob w.

that brush is quite nice!!

Quote from: skipskip on July 21, 2013, 12:58:45 PM
that brush is quite nice!!

That brush is a small draftsman's brush. Most professionals would use a brush about 4" longer.

They were used to sweep eraser shavings and "douche powder" off of the drawings. "douche power" was powderized eraser in a bag, (douche bag) you would bang the bag against the drawings and the powder would help keep the straightedge from smearing the lines as you moved it up and down the drawings.

The brushes would tend to thin out at the tip and "wear". The bristle ends would end up tapering towards the front. You could tell if someone was in the business long, or made a lot of mistakes, by the amount of taper in the bristles.

The things you can learn here  :)


Skip

I worked as a draftsman after college and had one of those brushes.
It was towards the end of the Douche Bag era as we were drawing on mylar using film lead in mechanical pencils.
We used a blue clay like compound instead of Douche, which we called Monkey Turd.
We were also using electric erasers which were shaped kind of like a dremel with a rod of eraser in it.

Quote from: bunger on July 22, 2013, 08:47:29 PM
I worked as a draftsman after college and had one of those brushes.
It was towards the end of the Douche Bag era as we were drawing on mylar using film lead in mechanical pencils.
We used a blue clay like compound instead of Douche, which we called Monkey Turd.
We were also using electric erasers which were shaped kind of like a dremel with a rod of eraser in it.

While I started on linen we did get to Mylar for the last 10-15 years before computers. We still used douche bags though, never had/seen/heard of monkey turd. I preferred wood pencils over mechanical ones. I two have an electric eraser. I went thru 1 or 2 prior.


As a side note I qualified "Distinguished Expert" in rubber band shooting. A skill somewhat lost today...