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[MossRoad]

Dam good shooting there Moss!

Probably 6 for 10 the first 10 shots..... then I emptied the rest of the 50 round clip gangster style and missed it pretty much every time!!! :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

Geeze, the more I think about it.....

When we got married and bought our house, my parents bought themselves a Sears gas snow thrower. One of those rubber paddle styles with the little chute. They had me to shovel snow, so when I moved out, they bought the blower. Anyhow, it was some kind of crazy sale, so they bought one with electric start and we bought one with pull start only. My wife and I bought a house on a corner, so we had 75 x 145 of sidewalk and a driveway. And I'd do our elderly neighbor's 65' of sidewalk, 65' of alley to their garage, and their 20' driveway, too. Snow blower wouldn't die. When my folks passed away, I got theirs and it still worked, too. So I had two. As plastic pieces would fall off of one, I'd cannibalize the other. Just last year I used the last of the parts up and now its dead. That's 30 years. Wow, I'd forgotten about that one, too.

 

[dragoneggs]

Funny, Moss... yeah thinking about it.. between what I inherited from my dad and all the stuff I bought in my early days of tool collecting, a good bunch was Craftsman. Still have a craftsman 14in chainsaw, an old craftsman power washer, an old craftsman drill press, radial arm saw, and there is probably more I am forgetting. Sad to see that institution go by the wayside. Times are a changing. And for those that summarily dismiss anything made in China... you should take another look. Lots of high quality stuff (like the iPhone). The problem is that many US companies are spec'ing low to get cheap products because consumers desire low prices over quality. China is just manufacturing what we demand, unfortunately. Hand tools being one of them.

 

[MossRoad]

I think I have three working Craftsman circular saws. I bought one and inherited two. I keep different blades on each so I don't have to switch out. I forget which one, but one is a DOG! The other two have power. I have two or three 3/8" drills. All of them have squeals now. One 1/2" drill that isn't variable speed. It'll rip your arms off if you're not careful. Doesn't get much use.

The last drill I bought was last year. I bought a 1/2" Harbor Freight to drill 2.5" holes in floor joists for a kitchen sink drain re-route. I needed to drill 8-9 floor joists and I figured the cost of the drill into the disposables like PVC pipe glue and nails! :laughing:

 

[mapper]

Moss, I have a craftsmen lawn mower of about the same vintage in the shop, I think it will still start although I rarely use it, I kind of trashed one of the wheels last year setting the FEL down on it by accident. It's got to be about 35 years old.
I also inherited a craftsman floor style drill press from my father in law that is probably older than I. It's my go to of the two drillpresses in the shop, quiet and rock solid.

 

[ultrarunner]

Moss... my Craftsman was circa 1988 and I did keep the motor because it never failed and I used it one day each week all day for property management and it bounced around on my trailer from site to site... it also was thrifty when it came to fuel...

I was given a 6hp Craftsman and it sure had power and used twice the fuel and was not a smooth or quiet as the old one.

Around 1975 I bought a Sears 1/2 drill cheap... it was the drill to abuse and I would clamp it in the vise to use it for a grinding wheel and also when I was rebuilding Model A Distributors and Water Pumps the drill would spin the shafts to break them in... still have it.

There was a time when I always went for Sears Best... painted a lot of cars with my Sears Best 30 gallon air compressor.

 

[MossRoad]

I remember my wife's grandpa, anytime someone mentioned painting, he'd yell "GO TO SEARS! The paint's ALWAYS on sale!!!" And he was right, too! hahaha We painted many a room with Sears paint.

 

[dragoneggs]

Oh yeah... Forgot about my most recent purchase about 5 years ago... A shopvac.

 

[Threepoint]

This thread brings back memories of many decades ago, late 50s early 60s. I loved to go through the Sears tool dept. with my dad every few weeks and imagine buying one of everything. :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

Hmm.... I also have two Sears shop vacs. Again, one of those situations where my parents bought one on a good sale, told us about it, we bought one, and then I inherited theirs after they passed away. I keep one in the garage with a 25' swimming pool hose on it for doing the cars and one in the basement for indoor needs as they arise.