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Hello, my name is Benny and I am a tool addict.
I just got home from trip to visit family and while there visited what Charley Davidson calls one of my “honey holes”. It was the brother of a guy I use to work with who buys and sells surplus tools and tooling. He had just purchased a 16 foot trailer load of stuff and was sorting it out. I saw what I thought was a metal art sculpture of a Christmas tree setting on a tool cabinet. Looking closer it was not. When I realized what it was I just had to take it home with me.
It was a set of micrometer standards from one inch through 11 inches on a nicely machined "tree" stand. I did not have standards for a couple of my micrometers so this made sense to me at the time. One problem was solved but now I will have to go out and get some more micrometers to fit the extra standards.
It is a never ending battle to overcome this illness!
Benny
The Orphanage Never Closes
I just got home from trip to visit family and while there visited what Charley Davidson calls one of my “honey holes”. It was the brother of a guy I use to work with who buys and sells surplus tools and tooling. He had just purchased a 16 foot trailer load of stuff and was sorting it out. I saw what I thought was a metal art sculpture of a Christmas tree setting on a tool cabinet. Looking closer it was not. When I realized what it was I just had to take it home with me.
It was a set of micrometer standards from one inch through 11 inches on a nicely machined "tree" stand. I did not have standards for a couple of my micrometers so this made sense to me at the time. One problem was solved but now I will have to go out and get some more micrometers to fit the extra standards.
It is a never ending battle to overcome this illness!
Benny
The Orphanage Never Closes