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Offline lptools

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Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
« 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
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Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
« Reply #1 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.

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Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
« Reply #2 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
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Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
« Reply #3 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.

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Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
« Reply #4 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.

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Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
« Reply #5 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
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Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
« Reply #6 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!
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Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
« Reply #7 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:

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Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
« Reply #8 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
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Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
« Reply #9 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.

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Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
« Reply #10 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
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Re: Star Nail Cup & Singer Sewing Machine
« Reply #11 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:

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