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16th August 2015, 08:45 PM #1
What ever happened to all the cool old stuff??
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That "engine crane" is just awesome!! Beats the Cr@p out of the cheap chinese ones on the market now.
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I need one of the stands for my power hacksaw.
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How cool is that Vise Stand and it has the weight to make it functional.
So much of this old stuff just hasn't survived. If only I could find it all and give it a nice warm home to live in.
I do have one of these guys sitting on my shelf. Today i found these photos so now I am more sure it is a bandsaw filer and I need to make up the wheel to make it function.
Patented 1901, Serial Number 1336. I will have to look for a serial no on mine now. Interesting is that it is branded both Foley & Computing Scale co.
Another is on ebay USA. Note it doesn't have the computing Scale Co embossed text on what appears to be the same hand wheel.
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16th August 2015, 10:05 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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16th August 2015, 10:09 PM #3
Turn it into a working museum, where people can go and learn an old skill, on old timey gear. Maybe then could get funding for a big shed. Although I don't know if you'd be able to get insurance.
Also your assuming there is enough of it left in Oz to fill more than a 3x3m shed.…..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands
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16th August 2015, 10:33 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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Nice idea, probably might be able to go along similar lines to the Men's Sheds. Don't know if they would allow it to become part of the organisation, but it would solve the insurance problem, if it was allowed.
Just thinking positive, might be surprised as to what could be found on old farms and stations.
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17th August 2015, 12:13 AM #5SENIOR MEMBER
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Affordability.
Certainly much better made and no doubt lasted longer than todays equipment, but could you afford them? That's the beauty of tools and machinery these days - anyone can afford them!
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17th August 2015, 12:31 AM #6GOLD MEMBER
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That's fine to afford them, but replacing them when they crap themselves, gets expensive. Usually parts are no longer available after 5 years. Maybe that's why this forum works so well, members are only to happy to help each another. Dale, if I see any good stuff, I'll let you know.
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17th August 2015, 12:40 AM #7
Yeah anyone can afford replace their chipboard furniture every few years also. I still think the days of craftsman furniture made to last generations and be passed on as heirlooms was a better investment. But that is just me.
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17th August 2015, 10:05 AM #9Pink 10EE owner
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I think if you used that equipment back then and got bought to today's world, you would not want to go back...
I bet the average man in the street would not be able to afford that stuff back then... Today buying an engine crane is a nothing...Light red, the colour of choice for the discerning man.
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17th August 2015, 10:08 AM #10Senior Member
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Gone to the same place
All that beaut old machinery has gone to the same place as the Nail. Houses built with nails, the ring of the hammer echoing in new suburbs growing up in Brisbane has been replaced with the Pneumatic Nail Gun, instead of big bugger nails being driven into cross beams on roofs to hold them in place, you have flimsy tin foil plates secured by thin nails. Just my rant
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17th August 2015, 10:31 AM #11SENIOR MEMBER
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Remember when?
Remember when you could buy a new element for your toaster instead of throwing it away, remember when you could buy a new heating element for your kettle instead of throwing it away. Then again you couldn't buy a toaster or kettle for the equivalent of today's toasters and kettles. No wonder landfills are so huge now!
Milk in glass bottles, all bread came unsliced and fruit had brown spots all over, them was the days.
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17th August 2015, 11:54 AM #14
I think there are a lot of things about the past that made life better to live in that time, I also think there are a lot of things better about living in this time. So maybe if I live in this time and surround myself with things of the past I can get the best of both worlds. Well not really as not all those things are physical.
I still think I would love to have and preserve a lot of old workshop gear rather than have new cost based low end manufactured gear. That is not to say there isn't good quality stuff made today, but it is still out of reach of the average man. Some of this old stuff if you can find it is the cheapest if you can find it and willing to bring it back from its rusty clothes.…..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands
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17th August 2015, 07:17 PM #15Senior Member
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I was roof tiling in Sydney when the massive hail storm hit the southern suburbs (1997?).
Most of the houses were probably built around the 1920's, Although the roofs were hardwood, the craftsmanship was disappointingly rubbish, absolutely terrible in some cases. A modern house is substantially better built.
A nail driven by a Paslode gas gun holds vastly better than a hand driven nail. Also a gas gun nail will hold much better than a nail driven by a pneumatic gun. I have used all three methods over extended periods.
Structurally we can knock together things faster, better and cheaper than ever.
For me the biggest disappointment of this era is almost the complete lack of style. Older buildings look so much better.
Older cars had so much more style. Older machinery, lathes ect. although entirely functional look like pieces of art.
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