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251254 <ecoyle@t...> 2014‑10‑20 The end of a millwrights tools, or an example of the ignorance of the unwashed heathens...
it’s definitely fall up here in GWN, but here in Cowtown we’ve been blessed with
some marvellous Oct weather.

GS season is definitely winding down, but there are a few yet. A few with tools
advertized, by not enuf enticing to make me want to go
GSing, but Sat morn, one popped up a few blocks from me.

I went.

Turns out FIL was a millwright, and I got there at posted time, but no signs up,
and nobody around....Pukey ducks in the driveway, but I spy a cardboard box  and
metal box in the garage with a few planes visible.

Well the boxes were stored in the low corner of the garage, where all the salt
and water of a CDN winter went...and nobody cared....obviously for years.

The metal tool boxes had bottoms rusted/corroded out and the cardboard boxes
were worse. At least an inch of whatever tools what were corroded to
unrecoverable condition. Planes at or near end of life.

Shameful end of life to a millwrights tools, and I didn;’t dig too deep into the
really serious really gruesome serious rust at the bottom of boxes. Who knows
what was once there....

Nonetheless, the upper surfaces yielded usable rehabable tools, 

There wasn’t a machinists chest in sight (and I asked), and it looked like the
contents of one had been dumped into cardboard boxes indiscriminately

The samurai 24” Crescent brand  adjustable wrench was a plum, and the Starret
inclinometer plumbers level and the Stanley 24” machinists level put me at the
break even level a for value, The bits and pieces had value, but not so much as
the Starrett 50?f trammel point set, complete- and long on my lust list, and
with only light surface rust. The planes were rusty beyond belief, but rosewood
handles don’t rust. Really, all for a gloatable  pittance!

Shows to go ya, that yu never know what turns up when yu least expekt it..... 

Eric in Calgary

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