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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: lptools on September 07, 2019, 11:15:51 AM

Title: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
Post by: lptools on September 07, 2019, 11:15:51 AM
Hello I tied to buy just the Star Nail Cup, but the seller insisted on keeping everything together, which made sense. So I bought the whole thing, found a buyer, made a deal at break even on the cost, with me keeping the Nail Cup. All in a day's work!!!  Regards, Lou
Title: Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
Post by: Bill Houghton on September 07, 2019, 11:35:00 AM
Is this what you take with you when you walk over to the neighbor's place on a holiday, when the hardware store is closed, to ask if you can borrow a cup of nails?

That's pretty nifty.
Title: Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
Post by: lptools on September 07, 2019, 11:52:23 AM
Hello, Bill. Thanks!! The neighbors usually come here to borrow that cup of nails, or wrenches, or planes etc., etc. Regards, Lou
Title: Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
Post by: Bill Houghton on September 07, 2019, 12:16:04 PM
So now you'll have a way to measure out the nails!

We had a neighbor across the street whose son would regularly stop over to borrow this and that, not having known what projects she needed done on the house until he got there.  I was always happy to oblige: she was a good neighbor.
Title: Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
Post by: wvtools on September 07, 2019, 01:01:35 PM
As a seller, it makes no sense for me to try to keep anything together.  It is a buyers market.  It is hard to sell whole sets of just about anything; especially made up sets of stuff that just generally goes together but does not have to go together.
Title: Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
Post by: lptools on September 07, 2019, 02:16:50 PM
Hello, wvtools. Well, it was a Sewing Machine from a shoe repair shop . The lot included lasts , heels and cleats, leather tools, and the nail cup probably sat on the shoemaker's table. It worked for me, my cost, some heavy lifting from the basement, ( alone again, naturally) and I ended up with piece that I wanted!!! Regards, Lou
Title: Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
Post by: oldgoaly on September 07, 2019, 03:20:31 PM
Nail cups are cool!I cleaned up one made in St.Louis, keeping it cause I have a oil dispenser made by the same place. Kupferle mfg.Also have that sewing machine too! it's a keeper!
Title: Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
Post by: p_toad on September 07, 2019, 05:58:07 PM
Thank you Gilbert O'Sullivan.   Now i've got the lyrics to that stupid songe playing in my empty head.   :tongue:
Title: Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
Post by: lptools on September 07, 2019, 08:29:45 PM
Hello, Oldgoaly. That is a nice nail cup, I will have to look at the base on the other one that I have here.I like the oil dispenser, too.

Hello, p_toad, Those lyrics will be gone from your head "in a little while from now" Regards, Lou
Title: Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
Post by: wvtools on September 08, 2019, 02:46:50 PM
Lp,

My point, which I did not make very clearly, was that I would just have sold you whatever you wanted, and not tried to keep the lot together.

JMH
Title: Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
Post by: lptools on September 08, 2019, 03:10:38 PM
Hello, wvtools. I agree with you, when I have a sale ,everything is for sale, together or not!!!. The tools belonged to the family, so I imagine there were sentimental reasons for them not seeing them separated. Regards, Lou
Title: Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
Post by: Northwoods on September 08, 2019, 03:33:43 PM
Thank you Gilbert O'Sullivan.   Now i've got the lyrics to that stupid songe playing in my empty head.   :tongue:

More people would make the world a better place by jumping from a high place rather than taking an assault rifle to a theatre/concert/church/store/school.
Better yet, instead of taking a life, they should get a life.