OK Everyone, sorry for the delay- I have been searching for the right things for the last few days, and I think I found some. I was also delayed in my search by a new grand-daughter born Wednesday. That’s two in the last 6 weeks and a son’s wedding! (Plus surgery last night, the kind I get every 12 weeks to put a block in my spine.) And I booked about a fifth of my years sales last week. I had a great week, but I am still catching up.
I opened Papaws package just now and here it is with the missing wrench:
It was perfect – I had most, but not the complete set. I didn’t have the stepped bolt, and a couple of the wrenches had been over-used and had ripped open. I have an affinity for S-K tools and they are my personal users.
I will be posting at 8PM Mountain time zone tonight and I think it will go quick. One of my previous give-away exchanges took a while, but another only took a minute and a half. So that’s 4 AM tomorrow (I think) for billman, 10PM for you out East, 9 PM for Central Timers, and 7PM on the west coast. Oldtools will be at 4PM in Honolulu.
I plan on offering a choice, with something for classic car tools, antique tools, woodworking tools, metalworking tools, classic power tools, and 6 inch and under tools – something from each forum except farm tools (but I may come up with something else for that, too!) I’ll probably save the other items not chose for future sharing. There will be more in the box than what is shown, too. I know that one item will be tens of millions of years old and dead (it doesn’t smell.)
Personal thoughts / rant:
I feel that this thread should be something more special than unloading the extra stuff you got in a lot of auction tools. Papaw set the example with the Sherman Klove auto-kit. I say – offer the best you can, if you can. Don’t look at this as making a great score or trade – that’s not the point. If anything it’s a great opportunity to share a great deal that we didn’t necessarily need – but couldn’t pass up.
I’m not saying that you should spend money that you don’t have or that you shouldn’t jump in if you don’t have something nice or interesting to offer. We’ve read comments from people who liked something but thought they couldn’t participate if they couldn’t reciprocate. If you see something you can use or that you like, go for it. Maybe after you think about it you could put together a little something, or maybe a grouping. Something hand made by other members is always nice to include. If you try to but can’t think of anything to put up, let the forum know and someone will step up. If you don’t want to put it out there in front of the whole group, PM Papaw or me or someone and they’ll take care of it or find someone else who will. If you PM me, copy Papaw because I’m not always here as much as I would like to be.
There have been some really cool items (IMHO) that have sat for a while – and very rarely there have been some items offered that were a little less well thought out. Everyone take this in the spirit of fun and sharing it is meant for. This forum, somewhat anonymous as it is, is great for sharing thoughts, knowledge, insight, caring and friendship.
Chilly
(hopping down off his high horse [at the grocer store])
