1967 GMC 9500 Fire Ladder Truck "The Flag Pole" In the Stovebolt Gallery 1946 2-Ton grain truck 1946 3/4-ton pickup, 1953 1-ton pickup 1957 1-ton flatbed dually, 1954 Pontiac Straight Eight Of all the things I've lost in my life, I miss my mind the most!
Oh, I see you pound off micro ball joints with it? Hmmm
~Charley 1954 Chevy 3100 with 235 “Bud” Follow along in the DITY 1963 Chevy half ton stepside short box 230 1954 GMC 3 ton 302 And several more Chevy camper and work trucks 1979 1987 1996
Bing ! Bing ! Bing ! That didn’t take long! 55 is the first ! I wonder if there is a manufactured tool for this.
~Charley 1954 Chevy 3100 with 235 “Bud” Follow along in the DITY 1963 Chevy half ton stepside short box 230 1954 GMC 3 ton 302 And several more Chevy camper and work trucks 1979 1987 1996
Snap-On made a couple of different ones. Mine also had a driver for that oddball 11/32" nut on the Delco-Remy coils. One tool on each end of a plastic screwdriver handle. Still buried out in one of my old tool boxes, I think. Here's one from MAC tools:
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
In all the stuff I got from Charlie when I became the caretaker of his truck were a number of his homemade tools. His generation didn't have Harbor Freight or a Snap-On truck that would come to the house, so he made all kinds of things. Some are a mystery, others are pretty easy to figure out. Don't we have a thread on shop-made tools?
Carl -- I prefer to think of my tool and misc item ..."collection"... as a way to posthumously torture whoever ends up with all my junk -- knowing that mingled in with the junk are various oddball valuables ... And they'll have to dig through it all ... piece ... by ... stinkin' ... piece.
He he he he.
But who else but us truly understands the joy that comes from dumping out an old "Chock Full O Nuts" can you paid $1 for at an estate auction or yard sale, picking through each of the 900 items now spread across your table, and finding that one vintage Mac, Snap-On or Craftsman socket or wrench? Or that homemade points tool? Gold prospectors, probably.
~ John
A kid raised on Hotwheels, Matchbox and Tonka cannot be reasonably expected to own only one vehicle as an adult.
1949 Chevrolet 3804 In the Legacy Gallery | In the Gallery Forum 1973 IH 1310 Dump 1963 Kaiser M38A1 2001 International/AmTran RE3000 "Skoolie" 2014 Ford E-350 4x4 (Quigley)
~ Craig 1958 Viking 4400 "The Book of Thor" Read the story in the DITY 1960 Chevrolet C10 "A Family Heirloom" Follow the story in the DITY Gallery '59 Apache 31, 327 V8 (0.030 over), Muncie M20 4 Speed, GM 10 Bolt Rear... long term project (30 years and counting)
If you don't like driving yourTruck, you won't drive yourTruck..| Living life in the SLOW lane
~Charley 1954 Chevy 3100 with 235 “Bud” Follow along in the DITY 1963 Chevy half ton stepside short box 230 1954 GMC 3 ton 302 And several more Chevy camper and work trucks 1979 1987 1996
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
~Charley 1954 Chevy 3100 with 235 “Bud” Follow along in the DITY 1963 Chevy half ton stepside short box 230 1954 GMC 3 ton 302 And several more Chevy camper and work trucks 1979 1987 1996
And they'll have to dig through it all ... piece ... by ... stinkin' ... piece.