Thread: Unusual Tesa Micrometer

AB,

That's a great story you linked to. Sometimes we forget that losses by the Allies, were pretty heavy.

Next time I buy some ball bearings, I'll think of Schweinfurt.

Ken

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

I had an inkling. Taster is tester and schnell is fast.

Hi Bob,

I remember "taste" as being "key" (Edit: or button) from trying to use Deutsch Bahn ticketting machines last year.

My son has just left last night to start a new job in Austria, but first goes to Dortmund via Dusseldorf. So if you are chasing something in Austria or Germany, that might be an option.

We has a look at where a Krupps steel works used to be in Dortmund last year, they dismantled all the blast furnaces and sold them to the chinese. The whole area is now a public park with lakes and gardens...

In Munster, I asked they folks we where staying with, when, various medieval looking buildings were built, the answer was a surprising 1950's ( with a sidelong glance) for pretty much all of it. They were all meticulously rebuilt stone by stone after the war.. very impressive.

Regards
Ray

PS Google translate says Schnelltaster is "quick buttons" but taster can also be calipers, so my best bet is "quick calipers"

Here's the Tesa micrometer .I've had it since around 1971 ,a rep came to the place where I worked and we did a group purchase ,IIRC it cost me $40.00 0r $45.00 ,over 4 weeks wages ,my gross was around $18.00 a week as a first year apprentice.
It's in excellent condition as I always have kept it in it's box , never dropped or used as a welding clamp .


Kev.

That's a great looking "G-clamp", reckon the box alone would now cost $40.

That warm, well cared for look of timber, is what I want for my collet set.

Ken

Hey Kev,

Can you remember why you opted for the expensive Tessa when you could have purchased a good Moore and Wright or a Mitutoyo for a lot less? Was it purely the bulk purchase?

Bob.

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

Gregory,

Hammelburg, XIIIC's location, is only 30 kilometres by road from Schweinfurt. It would have sounded like hell on earth. 8000 tons of bombs were dropped on Schweinfurt.

Bob.

Not that Dad spoke of it much, but I gather there was a lot of tonnage of 88 shells going up to add to the cacophony. And Merlins and BMWs and sirens. I imagine it was pretty much exactly like hell on earth.

Bob ,
I think it was because it was on offer and I hadn't thought about buying such instruments at that time.
The company I served with gave us $20.00 worth of tools to start us off ,the tools were a Mititoyo 6" vernier caliper , a set of radius gauges(M&W) , a scriber (eclipse), six in rule , 12 in rule ,a small t tap wrench (eclipse), a set of thread gauges (M&W), a small 4" M&W engineers square and three Cyclone chisels and a hacksaw .We were allowed to keep the files we used in that first 12 months as well.
All of the above I still have , but my Verniers suffered at the hands of an idiot just a few years back ,it no longer has the internal measuring legs.The scriber and the radius gauges are still in thier boxes unused. There were 18 apprentices in my year and 18x $20 = $360 , so you can say they invested heavily in thier apprentices.
Tool allowance was 0.75cents per week IIRC , but despite the pittance I have managed to gather a lot of tools over the years ,and I'm still gathering more all the time ,my wife is going to have a job on her hands when I pass on .
I believe my Australian made Sidchrome spanner and socket sets are worth a bit ,they seem to bring good prices on the Bay.

Kev

Originally Posted by Woodlee

Bob ,
I believe my Australian made Sidchrome spanner and socket sets are worth a bit ,they seem to bring good prices on the Bay.

When you have a think about what you have in the way of tools and equipment, gathered over the years, its not hard to have a lot more value (in monetery terms) in the shed than in the house.
Its a bit hard to get that across to an insurance company though.

bollie7

Originally Posted by bollie7

When you have a think about what you have in the way of tools and equipment, gathered over the years, its not hard to have a lot more value (in monetery terms) in the shed than in the house.
Its a bit hard to get that across to an insurance company though.

bollie7

I reckon I wouldn't be able to afford the premium to insure all of my tools .

In 1989 I out-laid a cool $5,000 and bought a full set of Minimax spanners, socket sets in Metric and AF and new tool chests to put it all in , these were used for work when I was doing power station maintenance in remote communities here in the NT .I don't think any insurance company would believe the amount of money I've paid out over the last 40 years to buy tools to earn a living and feed my hobbies.
I have no idea what the replacement value would be ,at a guess maybe between 20 and 30 thou. Don't really know

Kev.