Gee Whiz -- Saturday score

[Branson]

First, here's me in my Tool Talk T.  Then:
-10 foot stair rail, with hardware
-Take down sawhorse that is as steady as I have ever seen ($2)
-Defiance square
-On the Gee Whiz box,  probably 80 or more copies of Wood Smith, and some other magazines  with   full dimension project drawings.
-Park tool box, with contents

Second pic:
-The tool box open -- a hodge podge of the usual stuff

Third pic: a closeup of the Park logo

Fourth pic, useful contents and a big surprise for me:
-Useful crowbar and prybar
-no-name brace with a drill
-Cman drift
-Blackhawk speeder
-No. 4 and 5 augur bits
-couple of masonry bits
-pipe threader
-Simmons half round file, good shape
-leather stitching layout rowel
-owner bent Cman DOE
-Buffalo combo wrench (marked Korea)
-No name combo
-curved cabinet scraper
And found under the tray, in the back of the chest, a Stanley 100 1/2 squirrel tail plane!
-Ford marked wrench, B in oval mark, Billings?

Last picture is  of the sawhorse, standing by itself.

[Branson]

Had to take out the last picture to keep in the contents boundaries.

[scottg]

Good stuff
 I am always happy to find small sized crowbars. Lately they make most all bars from 3/4 stock regardless of how long they are. Too heavy. I am still trying to replace a favored 16" bar I used for years and years. First I ever had.
Whose pipe die? And what size?
 
100 1/2,............. you suck!! heehehehehe
  yours Scott

[Branson]

Good stuff
 I am always happy to find small sized crowbars. Lately they make most all bars from 3/4 stock regardless of how long they are. Too heavy. I am still trying to replace a favored 16" bar I used for years and years. First I ever had.
Whose pipe die? And what size?
 
100 1/2,............. you suck!! heehehehehe
  yours Scott

My only defense is that I didn't find the 100 1/2 until after I bought the tool box, which I got without haggling for $10, contents included.  The stair rail was free, and the Defiance square and a copy of  De Cristoforos' House Building Illustrated I found later, I asked the yard man how much, and he said, "Take them; you've spent enough already."

So, OK, I guess I suck. <grin>

The pipe die is by V-Mac Industries, Guilford Connecticut.  The size is 3/4, but the cutters are removable, and might be replaceable with different size cutters.  It will accommodate a 1 inch OD pipe.   

[scottg]

V-mac is new to me. I was sure it was going to be Toledo or Ridgid. Same basic design.
  The die will only cut one size pipe, but the cutters are removeable!!  So you can replace them if they chip but more important, you can sharpen the things!!!  Only take a few minutes too.
 
  When I was young and dumb I used to try and horse dull dies. What did I know? Heavy work and miserable, I though that is how they all worked.
 
 Now I baby my sharp dies!! What a difference! What a miracle a sharp die makes.
  yours Scott 

[keykeeper]

Like that Park toolbox!! I have a few of that brand, including my top box/chest. Can't buy quality like that in a store today!

[Branson]

Like that Park toolbox!! I have a few of that brand, including my top box/chest. Can't buy quality like that in a store today!

I checked the construction against a good Cman chest I got earlier in the summer, and the joints at the end are identical, and except that the Park has a metal handle, all the hardware is the same.  It looks like Park was making the Cman tool chests.

[rusty]

There is an interview somewhere in google books with the fellow that was running Pasrk. He said they were making boxes for "Several large national retailors'., so I wouldn't be surprised at all. Might be some wards or such versions out there too....

[keykeeper]

Of the several I have had, and have now.....I find they are really quite good boxes. I sold a 20" round-top to a friends son a few weeks back for $4 just so he would have a good toolbox. He looked at me strange when I told him it would outlast him!!

I have one sitting inside right now, a cantilever style with trays. It's full of my Coleman repair parts and tools.

It is the same color as yours, it appears!

I never pass on a nice old Park when I see it, even if I don't need it!

Ok, ok.......I took a couple pics. Sorry to steal your thread.

[Branson]

Of the several I have had, and have now.....I find they are really quite good boxes. I sold a 20" round-top to a friends son a few weeks back for $4 just so he would have a good toolbox. He looked at me strange when I told him it would outlast him!!

I have one sitting inside right now, a cantilever style with trays. It's full of my Coleman repair parts and tools.

It is the same color as yours, it appears!

I never pass on a nice old Park when I see it, even if I don't need it!

Ok, ok.......I took a couple pics. Sorry to steal your thread.

Not stealing at all!  <smile>  Until I found that box, I'd never seen a Park before that I remember.   Yes, looks like the same paint.  I guess they had different paints, probably at different times.  I've seen a couple online that were a darker, greener green.  I can't find anything on the company on the web -- I guess they're out of business now.