If Tools Could Talk..

Interesting development today.
Saw 2 Athols on Craigslist yesterday. One was already sold (same as my other one) but managed to snag the other one. As it was 60 miles away a friend picked it up on his way over here this morning. It appears to have been “aluminized” the same way radial engine cylinders are sprayed when new.

From the picure in the ad it looked like either silver paint or bare metal:
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/tls/1993107504.html

Tried to get hold of the seller again to find out any history, his home isn’t too far from the former Aircraft Cylinder & Turbine shop in Sun Valley… Hmm….

A Mole hiding in the toolbox?

I knew someone had to get a tight grip on this thread, preferably an ex- RAF one circa 1962 found on the peri. track at RAF Akrotiri one dark December night. No names no packdrill we were taught by the old hands so it arrived back in Blighty in my chitty box in May 1963. Still got it somewhere in the Garage in one of the toolboxes. Its most important job was when at Wattisham 1967 a rear spring on my MK 1 Vauxhall Victor snapped going back to camp after a weekend at home in the Potteries. The MT mechanic you had scrounged a lift with me spotted the ever useful ‘Mole Grip Wrench’ and an old ‘G’ clamp and after jacking up they were fitted and lasted until Lutterworth. After refitting they stayed on until a spare spring could be found at the scrappers. Like me they are showing the effect of oldage but can still beat one of these newbies.

I think I was at the hangar the day they showed up…. about 1989 or ’90?

Spitfire wing bolt reamers and ‘Go’ ‘No Go’ gauges for Mk. XIV a/c, what a story they could tell.

I once knew a fellow who collected anvils. Of course you’ve got to be very careful in that field. There’s a lot of forging going on.

GGGGGRRRROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!

It’s an illusion… I have to move a mobile cooler & a service cart to get at 2 of my toolboxes.. & I have to move the truck out before I can do that..I’m always stepping over stuff… My garage is 1000sq ft… I can “barely” get one truck & my Kawasaki in there…

Went to a flea market this morning…. these followed me home:

Already sorted the Erie:

Columbian will be finished tomorrow..

Talking tools

I wish I could keep my workshop as tidy as you ZRX61, but my wife thinks it is a place to store anything that she can’t find room for in the house.:mad::mad::mad::

Well, I finished the Athol….

& then bought another Lockheed Skunkworks vise, a Morgan…

From the same neighbour… who also has 2 other Skunkworks vises for sale, the twin of my green Athol, & a swivel version.

& a former railroad Reed…a bit large…

That’s a cute ‘lil thing, Record, Paramo?

Sunderland vices? I don’t know much except they were the last thing fitted in the factory to stop them being nicked and used on the benches in the Short Bros works.

I suppose the place to look would be in workshops around Pembroke Dock and the other large flying boat bases – even Belfast where they were converted to civilian boats. There must have been a few escaped.

Anyway, here’s one

And here’s another seen from the other side.

We have any leads on a “Sunderland Vice” yet? Pics or a manufacturer/specs?

I once knew a fellow who collected anvils. Of course you’ve got to be very careful in that field. There’s a lot of forging going on.

If tools could talk…. they’d be in San Quentin for disseminating classified information.

[QUOTE=ZRX61;1644108]I don’t have an OA rig, but my neighbour has a few, I once counted 27 gas bottles in his garage.

27 Gas bottles!! I hope you don’t live too close to him………………The fire dept. is always moaning about my 8 chained to the wall………….

“Ith thith town called Athol?” God, we were funny…

To quote a friend of mine:
“I once saw Peter Faulk in Athol”

Put it in a plastic bag and leave it in a freezer for about a week – that should discourage them.

When I went to college in the Boston area, 50 years ago, it was considered highly amusing, if one found oneself in the nearby Massachusetts town of Athol, to lispingly ask a resident, “Ith thith town called Athol?” God, we were funny…

Kill the worms…