Hey Wendy
 Old tools? Toy Cars? Atta Girl!!
 Welcome home
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/scott/chappy.jpg  (1966 Cox Chaparral 
slot car, restored)
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/auction/slott2.jpg  (a few I had to 
sell last fall, sniff)
 yours, Scott
-- 
*** Scott Grandstaff, Box 409, Happy Camp, CA 96039 **** 
Tools:http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/

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As a newbie on the list I was asked to send a bio.
Let's see..I'm a 44 year old computer geek from Northern VA.  I got interested 
in wood when I wanted to build a diorama for displaying my model cars.   I 
got interested in old tools when a lack of space combined with my interest in 
social history.   I've always been very interested in how people lived in 
times gone by.  I've started collecting some tools (two old saws, a stanley 
#4, a new set of chisels and a new backsaw) and need a few more before I can 
start my initial project...a box.

I have really been enjoying the list!
Wendy
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Welcome Wendy!

It sounds like you are off to a good start. All you really need to make
a box is a square and mebbe a hammer...

Tim It is balmy 50 in NJ today!

Wendy Sarrett wrote:

>As a newbie on the list I was asked to send a bio. Let's see..I'm a 44
>year old computer geek from Northern VA. I got interested in wood when
>I wanted to build a diorama for displaying my model cars. I got
>interested in old tools when a lack of space combined with my interest
>in social history. I've always been very interested in how people
>lived in times gone by. I've started collecting some tools (two old
>saws, a stanley
>#4, a new set of chisels and a new backsaw) and need a few more
>#before I can
>start my initial project...a box.
>
>I have really been enjoying the list! Wendy
>
>
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A fine lesson in how to make someone feel really old :-)  My model
interest
was Stromberg Wooden Model Airplanes in the early '50's. And that
probably
is a remembrance of things modern for some others on the list.

OT content - absolutely none.

Tom Ellis
Dayton OH

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: oldtools-bounces@r... 
> [mailto:oldtools-bounces@r...] On Behalf Of Peter B
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:30 PM
> To: scott grandstaff
> Cc: porch
> Subject: Re: [OldTools] Newbie Bio...
> 
> Hi All,
> Ahhhh, yes the Cox Chaparral. A fine slot car in it's day and way too 
> expensive
> for the  meagre pocket money of a 14 yr old, as I was then.
> 
> Wow, that takes me back!
> Rewinding motors too well........they ran so fast they self 
> destructed!!
> 24 hour races, trophy for the fastest 'dragster', the smell 
> of tyre dope 
> (methyl salicylate aka
> 'oil of wintergreen' ), replacing axle bushes with tiny ball 
> bearings.........ah the good old days!

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Hi All,
Ahhhh, yes the Cox Chaparral. A fine slot car in it's day and way too 
expensive
for the  meagre pocket money of a 14 yr old, as I was then.

Wow, that takes me back!
Rewinding motors too well........they ran so fast they self destructed!!
24 hour races, trophy for the fastest 'dragster', the smell of tyre dope 
(methyl salicylate aka
'oil of wintergreen' ), replacing axle bushes with tiny ball 
bearings.........ah the good old days!

Remember Russkit cars? Aluminium pan chassis etc, etc.

OT content:
Eggbeater drill for drilling holes in chassis to lighten weight.

Peter B, in Australia

scott grandstaff wrote:

> Hey Wendy
> Old tools? Toy Cars? Atta Girl!!
> Welcome home
> http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/scott/chappy.jpg  (1966 Cox Chaparral 
> slot car, restored)  

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Thanks Scott!!
Wendy
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 09:42 pm, scott grandstaff wrote:
> Hey Wendy
>  Old tools? Toy Cars? Atta Girl!!
>  Welcome home
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Thanks Tim!
I guess I'm being a bit ambitious.  I have plans from a book that uses a 
combination plane to cut the joinery.   I do have a square that I recently 
bought (after my display case didn't come out as square as I wanted it to.)  
I have a plane and two handsaws I bought off of ebay that I'm in the process 
of cleaning up.  The plane is actually pretty clean but the saw needs some 
work.

Wendy
On Thursday 23 March 2006 01:30 pm, Tim Pendleton wrote:
> 
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