Popular Post Grandpadave52 Posted March 14, 2018 Popular Post Report Share Posted March 14, 2018 Ooops, make that #27...somehow I forgot the most recent acquisition I described in the premier edition of Drill-it-Down...yep I definitely have a problem, with no cure in sight. Anyways, the newest member (to date) of the stable is a 7110, 3/8", single speed in the original 7116 Drill kit case. The only accessory is the key chuck. The drill shows limited use; the grease has melted over time into the case, so it needs disassembled, cleaned, new gear grease, armature commutator trued and cleaned. One of these days I'll stumble across some round-tuits. Thanks for indulging me yet again. Still owe you the vintage 5/8" M-W D-handle and the embarrassing tale of ~$200 woe going back 50 years. Cal, p_toad, Artie and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandyDan Posted March 14, 2018 Report Share Posted March 14, 2018 What year is this one with the plastic case? Seems 70s to me. Grandpadave52 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Grandpadave52 Posted March 15, 2018 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 1 minute ago, HandyDan said: What year is this one with the plastic case? Seems 70s to me. Not positive Dan, but likely early to mid 70's especially since it's in a blo-mold case. Late 60's to very early 70's typically were still in the metal case. This one is earlier than late 70's because the aluminum is polished. Later versions used a silver-gray paint over the metal versus polished. I do know my 1/2" 7210 was from either late 1968 or very early 1969; pretty sure it came in a metal case. I haven't found a good reference site. Some of mine are Type 1's, some are Type 2's. Most often if the tag giving the Model/Type/Spec #'s is still on the tool the ink has disappeared. The tags were only glued on and any oil/grease/water residue softened the glue allowing the tag to move or fall off. Very good tools but poor ID integrity. Gene Howe, Al B, p_toad and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al B Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 Enter the era of plastic tools and plastic cars. HARO50, Dadio, Cal and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Howe Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 10 hours ago, It Was Al B said: Enter the era of plastic tools and plastic cars. Blame GM. The Corvettes started it. HARO50 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldwoodie Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 For some reason, I am thinking England started using plastic before GM did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallpatch Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 I have a 9" floor model tv that is a form of plastic my folks bought in 1947. It was one of the larger screens at the time. Its close to 1/2" thick, Admiral brand. Seems like the tv's first came out in the us??? Wrestling, roller derby, Hopalong Cassidy, and Roy Rodgers and lot of test patterns during the day. Before anyone had their own tv's , the furniture store would turn one on in the display window and folks would take their little stools and blankets and sit on the sidewalk and watch tv. But most of the time someone had to be able to turn the horizonal or verticle knob one way or the other to keep the picture from rolling side to side or or up and up and up... So usually only the first few minutes was clear watchable tv then nothing but a rolling screen till 10 when the tv's would sign off and show the test pattern for a while while guys would try to adjust their sets for the next days tv watching.. Funny for the test patterns were always clear and never rolled ..... . HARO50 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Howe Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 6 minutes ago, Smallpatch said: I have a 9" floor model tv that is a form of plastic my folks bought in 1947. It was one of the larger screens at the time. Its close to 1/2" thick, Admiral brand. Seems like the tv's first came out in the us??? Wrestling, roller derby, Hopalong Cassidy, and Roy Rodgers and lot of test patterns during the day. Before anyone had their own tv's , the furniture store would turn one on in the display window and folks would take their little stools and blankets and sit on the sidewalk and watch tv. But most of the time someone had to be able to turn the horizonal or verticle knob one way or the other to keep the picture from rolling side to side or or up and up and up... So usually only the first few minutes was clear watchable tv then nothing but a rolling screen till 10 when the tv's would sign off and show the test pattern for a while while guys would try to adjust their sets for the next days tv watching.. Funny for the test patterns were always clear and never rolled ..... . Jesse...or anyone else... did you ever see one of those old TVs that looked like an old Victrola cabinet? When the lid was lifted, a mirror flipped into place and you saw a TV screen that was mounted in the cabinet, facing up. IIRC the picture was somehow magnified. I saw one maybe 40 years ago. Don't know the maker or year it was made. But, the cabinet was veneered plywood. Can't remember if the image in the mirror was reversed or not. We didn't get a TV until 1959. Dad always said he wasn't gonna buy one until they had color. In our small town, the general store got its first color TV that year. HARO50 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadio Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 35 minutes ago, Smallpatch said: I have a 9" floor model tv that is a form of plastic my folks bought in 1947. It was one of the larger screens at the time. Its close to 1/2" thick, Admiral brand. Seems like the tv's first came out in the us??? Wrestling, roller derby, Hopalong Cassidy, and Roy Rodgers and lot of test patterns during the day. Before anyone had their own tv's , the furniture store would turn one on in the display window and folks would take their little stools and blankets and sit on the sidewalk and watch tv. But most of the time someone had to be able to turn the horizonal or verticle knob one way or the other to keep the picture from rolling side to side or or up and up and up... So usually only the first few minutes was clear watchable tv then nothing but a rolling screen till 10 when the tv's would sign off and show the test pattern for a while while guys would try to adjust their sets for the next days tv watching.. Funny for the test patterns were always clear and never rolled ..... . I think they called that plastic, Bakelite. We didn't get a TV til around 1955, My mother told my Dad he couldn't get one til he put a crapper in the house. Herb HARO50, p_toad, Grandpadave52 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallpatch Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 Gene I do remember something of that nature but so long ago, no details..except it was a projected screen and was not too clear...and did seem like a GE Brand. Lew, yes it was Bakelite and boy did it ever stink when being burned....Rotor caps and some rotors were bakelite on cars back then..I drove an MG for a few years and I kept a few extra rotors in the glove box..I could be going down the road and it was like someone turned off the ignition. I could coast to a stop have the hood up and the rotor replaced in a couple of minutes...It did take me a while the first time it happened..I could call my wife to come pull me in and don't forget an old tire and a few feet of nylon rope. This is what I tied between the pickup bumper and the MG bumper.. The old tire server as a shock absorber since one side was tied to the pickup and the other side was tied to the MG....Better than a toe truck!!! Too bad the bumpers have been removed from most vehicles now a days... We had moved back to Texas in 1951 and no town around us had tv , then in 1953 Lubbock got a tv station. Grandpadave52, HARO50 and Dadio 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al B Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 7 hours ago, Gene Howe said: Blame GM. The Corvettes started it. I believe the Vettes were made of fiberglass Gene. Couldn't flex like plastic does. Grandpadave52 and Gene Howe 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallpatch Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 When we moved to California in 1941 our shack in Texas didn't have anything. No electricity, running water or a sewer and the first little three room house in California had all three.. My mother thought she had died and gone to heaven. We had just gotten settled out there and the war started. Black curtains and air raid sirens going off often for we were 18 miles from the ocean and close to Lockeed and a few other plants and dad got a job welding ships together for they turned him down for the army.. Our school was a collection place for scrap metal so no sports for all the flat ground was piled with car bodies and metal...Don't you know how many old cars would be running around if there had been no war...and not long after the war started, rubber tubes were replaced with synthetic rubber and that was bad for the kids who had sling shots...and the day the war ended the chevy house had a set of gas pumps and the price of gas was 20 cents a gallon and the first guy that morning came up on a motor cycle and said fill er up...and did not need a ration stamp, just the money..Only one gas station in Yorba Linda in 1945. HARO50, Grandpadave52 and Dadio 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Howe Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 47 minutes ago, It Was Al B said: I believe the Vettes were made of fiberglass Gene. Couldn't flex like plastic does. You be right, Al. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Posted March 18, 2018 Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 WE did not have a color TV till I got out of college. For a wedding gift my dad gave us a b&w tv. Grandpadave52, HARO50 and Dadio 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpadave52 Posted March 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2018 Finally had a color TV my Jr. year of HS..."new" step-mother had one she brought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven newman Posted March 19, 2018 Report Share Posted March 19, 2018 Just a reminder of drills.. Power Kraft, sold by Montgomery Wards....drill only, does not have a "Reverse" to it. I might have to wrap the cord where it leaves the handle.. Has a unique smell when it use...used to call it "the Ozone Smell" Dadio, HARO50, p_toad and 1 other 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpadave52 Posted March 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2018 10 hours ago, steven newman said: Power Kraft, sold by Montgomery Wards Yep, have one of those MW (well 2 I think with the big boy)...one on the far right...Technically it's a Fairbanks-Wards. I'm guessing somewhere in the 40's???? Dadio and HARO50 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Beitz Posted September 22, 2019 Report Share Posted September 22, 2019 I spent my very first pay check on an Craftsman 1/4" electric drill. I used it for years... Then it quit... Years later I took it in to be fixed. I said call me when you find out what it needs and I'll tell you if i want it fixed. I got a phone call and they said your drill is fixed. I said how much? They said it needed an armature and the bill was $100.00... i said WHAT ??? I only paid $16.00 for the drill when it was new.... I said take the new parts out and give me my drill back. You was to call me before you fixed it. I went back and got my drill and threw it in my repair parts box. Many years later when I knew more about electric I thought I would take a look at it. Sears never took out the new parts and they never told me or charged me.... I still use that old drill every so often... The old Tv's would always shock you when you touched them.... At least my dads did.... p_toad and John Morris 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Howe Posted September 22, 2019 Report Share Posted September 22, 2019 16 minutes ago, Kevin Beitz said: The old Tv's would always shock you when you touched them.... At least my dads did.... Thank goodness for remotes, huh? Artie, John Morris and Gerald 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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