Thinking about tools inherited/bought/found. I have tools from my grandfather ( wood chisels still used), dad’s tools. Dad’s are a great mix of coachbuilding stuff he used to make cartwheels, body parts and more. I have a block plane my grandad made himself ( all wood and long to give straight edges with a wooden wedge to hold the blade secure), a compass plane from my dad for planing curves, many odds and sods. A ratchet screwdriver with a side lever, sockets, spanners......
I also have a “special tools” box. A range of spanners of all sorts. One-off tools made to do a job. We had large scrap deliveries to the steelworks and reject spanners sometimes from the forging process. One good end? Cut the bad end off and a useful spanner you could “adjust” to do a specific job. Hammers, big persuader to body shaping ones.
Tweezers ( long and short), drill bits galore, brace drill, hand drill, scrapers....
Digital caliper, Vetnier caliper, bevel gauges ( inc a digital one that measures angles).
Cheap multimeter kept in the car toolkit, better one for general use,
Bloody hell ! I need to get a grip! Oh! A range of clamps, pliers, forceps ( from fishing days),
DA polisher with pads, polishes etc.
That’s enough, coffee time.
Last edited by sospan; 06/02/24 10:26 AM.
