New project
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Topic: New project
Posted By: DMiller
Subject: New project
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2018 at 2:35pm
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Old and retired does NOT fix bored and anxious to get outside!! So I worked in my shop awhile! Bored with questionable OLD skills and a vivid imagination equals trouble!   
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Posted By: Dave in PA
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2018 at 2:55pm
| Looks good!! But some of the items SHOULD or could be on the "top shelf"!! |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2018 at 3:33pm
| Already moved!! Was awaiting the Urethane to cure a bit more! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2018 at 3:42pm
| dang! you do good work. you and Omaha Greg should partner up! and I wish my shop was as clean as yers! |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2018 at 3:20pm
| One thing about doing work like that he wasn't drinking from them bottles to much |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2018 at 4:27pm
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WOW!! Nice work for just being bored.... When I get bored, I'd go for those bottles and .................. after a while, I wouldn't be bored any longer... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: weiner
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2018 at 4:31pm
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Any shop that you can see the floor is too clean and tidy! ------------- Real heros wear dogtags, not capes. |
Posted By: B26240
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2018 at 6:38pm
| Nice work, I love the old fold out carpenter ruler. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2018 at 9:57pm
| it sure don't look like it's been used much Markl! lol |
Posted By: Greg (Hillsboro, OH)
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2018 at 6:37am
My Dad always had one of those that he used all the time. Called it his "folding rule" What is it's purpose? Is it better for some uses than a measuring tape, or was it developed before the retractable measuring tapes were?
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B26240 wrote:Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2018 at 7:35am
Nice work!! ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2018 at 6:26pm
Definitely better for taking an inside measurement, than a tape. Most also have a extendable section, at one end, for just that purpose... Also has been around a lot longer than tapes, but don't know the exact history... Here's a bit, from the Smithsonian, on the older boxwood rules, mainly used for box and cabinet work.... http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_904792" rel="nofollow - http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_904792
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Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 4:49pm
| what i would like to know is where you got ,or what what brand that corner clamp is ? thats a nice looking piece that you have biult. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 5:00pm
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It looks like an old Rockwell unit ??? ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: allischalmerguy
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 9:06pm
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Wow! great job! ------------- It is great being a disciple of Jesus! 1950 WD, 1957 D17...retired in Iowa, |
Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 11:12pm
| The folding ruler is more accurate than a tape, that is ruler to ruler. Doesn't mean you can't measure accurately, but they just don't agree with one another, where as to ruler does. Guess it depends on what country it's built in. Hmmm? |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 11:23pm
| when I worked construction, one day I was down doing thesawing for the guys up on the walls. they'd yell down the measurements and I saw them and send them up. the boss was up there and called some measurements down, I sawed it and sent it up, he threw it back at me saying I mis-sawed it. yelled at me the measurements again, I again sawed it and again he threw it back at me yelling and cussing. it wasn't until the owner of the company grabbed both our tape measures and compared them, we found that they were the problem. both were Stanley's, mine was made in the USA many many years ago, and the other was the china breed. the inches weren't the same. next day the owner came with all new tape measures from another company...but at least they all read the same! |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2018 at 10:22pm
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Miller Blue. Miller Blue. I loves me that Miller Blue. What sizes are they? ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:06pm
| me thunks...we should ALL show up to Millers house and help him drink some of that fruit juice he has on them shelves! |