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Post by speedysteve on May 6, 2024 16:07:36 GMT
Don't think we have a tool thread so this one is perhaps the nearest. Here's a tin of imperial taps and dies I found among my dad's tools. The tin!  They don't make em like that anymore! Masses of taps and dies  Don't do much Imperial threading but if I ever do 🙂 |
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Post by MartinT on May 6, 2024 16:37:29 GMT
I have a nice set of metric taps and dies, they come in handy every so often. They were good for tapping the bottom columns of my Solid Tech system rack so that I could screw RDC Cones straight in.
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on May 6, 2024 17:03:44 GMT
I've a similar tin that belonged to my Granddad, full of taps, drills & reamers. Came in handy a lot working on old gear when I need a Whitworth tap.
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Post by petea on May 6, 2024 18:03:31 GMT
I too have a few old tobacco tins (including a St Bruno flake one) that once held tools. Most came from clearance auctions although a couple were from my father (but contains screws). There is always something useful in them, and you look to have some very nice tap wrenches and die holders in yours. The taps look to have seen better days, although some will clean up I'm sure, but the dies might have survived better. I trust you will clean and sort them all!  |
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Post by petea on May 6, 2024 18:05:51 GMT
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Post by Slinger on May 6, 2024 18:47:35 GMT
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Post by ChrisB on May 7, 2024 7:38:14 GMT
I used to own a tobacco tin, previously used for storing scalpel blades, which I 'liberated' from the biology lab at college. Hard to believe nowadays, but it was called 'Savory's Baby's Bottom Tobacco'. 'Nothing smoother'! thepipeshop.co.uk/guides/bb1938/ |
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Post by rfan8312 on May 7, 2024 12:28:49 GMT
Bit funny to me that this thread comes up now my parents are moving to south Carolina very soon. Their house just went up for sale. Everything must go.
For that reason just yesterday I acquired a chainsaw, handheld circular saw, reciprocating saw, sledgehammer, axe, endless large plastic clamps of all sizes and tbh my possible favorite besides chainsaw is this saw on a stick that is pulled with a string to cut. I used this a lot last year when a massive section of tree fell and partially crushed my landlady's shed and I cut this rather massive tree and it's large branches by hand with this thing because of how deep it cuts quickly though without using the string and just manually cutting.
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