Re: Musing about yard sales, thrift shops and a corner of the barn.
- From: "JD" <james.smith<remove>1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:51:34 -0600
"Arch" <almcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:13564-47D06F97-123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Leo, Your collection of 'mis-fixed' tools is great. I was a grown
man and off to the big city before I realized that hammers, knives,
turpentine tools and wagon tongues didn't all have haywire twisted
around the handles and nails to fill up the badly fitted holes to fix
the shafts. :)
WHAT?!? You mean baling wire and string aren't suppose to be on there? My grand dad has been able to fix anything broken with these and they work as good or better than original. He refuses to use duct tape because it won't last more than a couple of months. I've seen (and helped) him repair the old Ford 3000 diesel tractor with things he pulled out of the trash. Every barn and garage around here has a roll of baling wire (or even grass string) hanging on a nail on the wall to fix things that don't work anymore.
Hi Lobby, Wonderful references. Thanks. You just revived an old ideaArch, old coffee cans are ready made boxes and until you pull the plastic lid off you don't know what you've got in them. And if its like the ones stacked up in my garage, they are stuffed full of a dozen other things I had forgotten where I had put them. I've been guilty of buying old coffee can's at local auctions because I've found some real prizes when I got them home and poured the contents out on the workbench.
of mine (and likely a few hundred other aspirant artist-- turners). I
never did it, but I had planned to turn small boxes and seal in with
glass discs my signature series: "Some Small Necessities of a Civilized
Man". Namely: keys, toothbrush, soap, string, paper clips, kleenex,
duct tape, pencils, shoe laces, etc. etc., each in its own separate box
with a turned lid to heighten the mystery. Maybe if I captioned in
French, collectors would want to aquire the entire series? Naw! :)
Thanks for the memories and its good to reminisce,
JD
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