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Visiting my parents & helping them get the house ready for sale. My dad has dementia and my mom has a few issues & both in their 80's.
When Benny & myself went down to their place to pick up a truck the neighbor lady gave me I found 2 tool boxes both machinist boxes. One was the first ever Kennedy tool box I ever bought new and used at my job at Mansfield Aircraft as a mill operator, the second was a tool box my dad has had since I can remember from at least 5 years old. My dad told me to take one home with me and I chose the one he had for years for sentimental reasons and to not let it fall into the wrong hands. I told my dad I wanted the other one too and to not let anything happen to it. On this trip I find the tool box missing from where it was stored and asked my dad about it, he said he never done anything with it. I found it inside his shop & to my horror he had painted it with some flat black & flat red paint, the box was in really great shape before.
The second heart breaker is a neighbor of his gave him an old Gerstner (I believe) that is in really bad shape & had a few machinist tools in it, nothing great but stuff I would love to have & would use. I ask if I can have it (He thinks it's worth $500.00) so of course I can't have it. He keeps telling me I can have anything I want but of course that doesn't include the tool boxes. I would like to have the box and restore it but the tools would be more of a need to me than the box. These are the kind of things that would be nice to pass down to my grandsons and easy items for them to hang on to for years to come.
When Benny & myself went down to their place to pick up a truck the neighbor lady gave me I found 2 tool boxes both machinist boxes. One was the first ever Kennedy tool box I ever bought new and used at my job at Mansfield Aircraft as a mill operator, the second was a tool box my dad has had since I can remember from at least 5 years old. My dad told me to take one home with me and I chose the one he had for years for sentimental reasons and to not let it fall into the wrong hands. I told my dad I wanted the other one too and to not let anything happen to it. On this trip I find the tool box missing from where it was stored and asked my dad about it, he said he never done anything with it. I found it inside his shop & to my horror he had painted it with some flat black & flat red paint, the box was in really great shape before.
The second heart breaker is a neighbor of his gave him an old Gerstner (I believe) that is in really bad shape & had a few machinist tools in it, nothing great but stuff I would love to have & would use. I ask if I can have it (He thinks it's worth $500.00) so of course I can't have it. He keeps telling me I can have anything I want but of course that doesn't include the tool boxes. I would like to have the box and restore it but the tools would be more of a need to me than the box. These are the kind of things that would be nice to pass down to my grandsons and easy items for them to hang on to for years to come.