Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: wvtools on July 14, 2017, 09:05:37 PM
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Bill's tape thread and ensuring goading me to post pics has inspired me to follow up on my often threatened vow to post pics of my collection here. I will post a bunch of photos of my 800+ zig zag rules.
John
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag1.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag2.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag3.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag4.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag5.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag6.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag7.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag8.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag9.JPG)
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Next batch
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag10.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag11.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag12.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag13.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag14.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag15.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag16.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag17.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag18.JPG)
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3rd one
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag19.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag20.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag21.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag22.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag23.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag24.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag25.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag26.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag27.JPG)
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Last set of pics
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag28.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag29.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag30.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag31.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag32.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag33.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag34.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag35.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/tooltalk/zigzag36.JPG)
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That is certainly an impressive collection!
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It's no wonder I don't see zigzags any more. You've got them all. Very nice collection by the way.
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I know at least one guy who has more and better than me. I am having a hard time finding ones I don't have without paying an arm and a leg.
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Very nice collection. You may not have a rule collecting problem but you definitlely have some symptoms.
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Part way down in the photos there is one with 3 blue clad aluminum Globemaster Made in Italy rules. There must have been a translation problem because it says Grass Plated Joints instead of Brass Plated Joints.
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I never thought about collecting them I use them!!!
learned on an inside read rule.
Couple of years ago the wife was yard saling and calls me what are those stick rules you love?
Inside read rules that is what they are they have almost a box full of new old stock for 2$ each do you want a couple? No buy them all!
So I oiled them and use them have them spread around the farm so I can find one easier! I don't wear bib overalls anymore so I don't have one in my pocket at all times.
I you can guess what the blue anodized aluminum guide is for I would be happy!
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That is certainly an impressive collection!
+1
I love those metal rules!
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Crikey, I didn't know there were that many zigzag rulers in the whole world!
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do you have ZIG-ZAG on your license plate ????
tool me a while to take in all that you have shown, nice collection.
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do you have ZIG-ZAG on your license plate ????
tool me a while to take in all that you have shown, nice collection.
I am too cheap to get a vanity plate. Do you realize how many more zigzags I have been able to buy over the years, by just having a regular plate? Probably 150.
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do you have ZIG-ZAG on your license plate ????
But then he'd have to grow the beard and wear the weird French peasant hat.
(http://drwizard.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/zigzag-white.jpg)
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I have a photo around somewhere from the flea market of me with a full beard, goofing around with a beret on top of my ballcap. I call it my French redneck tool dealer look. I will have to find it and post it in the members photos thread.
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Thanks for all the pictures. Haven't been on here for a few days. I'm not sure whether to cry or drool (or both) :grin:
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Great to see the diligence....I like old steel and wooden rules but I certainly don't see many out there in the flea markets and thrift stores....well done.
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Part way down in the photos there is one with 3 blue clad aluminum Globemaster Made in Italy rules. There must have been a translation problem because it says Grass Plated Joints instead of Brass Plated Joints.
Nice find!
It's a treat to see your collection, I love super-collections. I definitely grew up with a couple of those rulers in the kitchen junk drawers and my first hand box.
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I just bought a collection of 240 zig zags. I kept 110 and swappped some others out to upgrade ones I had. I'm at the longest flea market in Tennessee right now and I've sold more than half of the ones that I did not keep. Unfortunately for you tool purists out there a lot of the ones that I sell that are one two or three dollars go to women to cut them up to make crafts. The guys who buy them to use get the better 5 and $10 ones.
So, with the new additions, I have over 900 zig zag rules.
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Congrats! Sounds like a great buy and to turn around and almost immediately start making your money back is fantastic!
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Don't know that I'm a purist but I like to buy some every now and then. Always think of the ones I broke as a kid that belonged to my dad. Should probably give some to my nephew, he gets away with breaking dad's stuff a little more.
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rustyfordgarage, you reminded me of when I was a kid and broke my dads also, I will never forget the penalty.
but I also broke one of mine in later years, you may have seen someone do this, I was cutting some 2" X 4" and
was using mine, cutting 8" blocks and had the rule open one fold, being myself, I would mark one piece, cut, mark the next,
but I would just slip the open rule in my back pocket, you must know what happened, I turned around to gab another 2 by
and the rule caught on the stack of lumber, hearing that snapping noise was not funny. in those days, money was tight.
another episode; later in life, I was working in a plant and the 1st time that I was involved in replacing a cable on a hoist, the guy
that I was working with handed me his folding rule and told me to go cut a new cable, I do not remember how long, but it was over 150 feet,
we would go to the cable shop, lay our rule on the floor and start pulling out the cable, keeping count of how many times we reached
the end of the rule, brought it back and we installed it.
testing it, the hook did not come down as far as it needed to ???? the guy asked me if I used his rule, yes I did, what was my count ?
I told him, he wrote it down, multiplied it and said it was wrong, I looked at his paper and saw that he had written 6 feet ??
the problem was that my rule at home was 8 feet, when I opened his, I never looked to see how long it was, "lesson learned"
yes, we had to cut another cable, but he went with me. no, I did not get fired, they called me a (AH, YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW."