Live near Columbus OH?

 

Visiting them is on my bucket list. Not sure it will be during this event though, it's my understanding that parking there is a headache, even on a slow day.

Not familiar with them, will have to check them out the next time I visit Columbus...

I don't think I have ever seen an advertising pamphlet with no address. We hopped in our car and drove 100 miles then wife asked me what city and more so, what state are we going to?? Well, at least we found a Dairy Queen before heading back home...

12 minutes ago, Smallpatch said:

I don't think I have ever seen an advertising pamphlet with no address. We hopped in our car and drove 100 miles then wife asked me what city and more so, what state are we going to?? Well, at least we found a Dairy Queen before heading back home...

Sorry, I should have added the rest of the article. Here's there location-

 

Lew, thanks for adding all the necessary particulars to the event but I must say I was just pulling legs like most of my comments usually are.... Living in the middle of Texas somewhere I'm afraid the show would already be closed by the time we could get there..

  But back in my younger years I use to go anywhere to check out auctions..I got this Government Auction in the mail regularly and one time one item that interested me was a listing for at least 100 used mechanics vises up for bid...Can be inspected at the Depot in Indiana?

...Don't remember the town or anything else but the main thing I didn't think I read in the information, it said all vises are salvage..... It took me a long round trip to learn the meaning of the word salvage....This lot number was being sold mostly for weight in lbs of cast iron and a few more lbs of tempered steel. I was in that building for about five minutes and all the way to the truck I was trying to kick my tail.... Salvage the the Government means everything in that lot has been squashed with a large press so nothing will be usable.

 The last thing I bought from those auctions was a step van close to Galvaston,Tx at the NASA headquarters..I did call to make sure it would start and run. It was sitting out in a field completely away from any buildings or houses and that made me worry about it.. Why way out here like it died here and they could not get it started and decided to sell it instead of fix it.. I drove an MG to pick it up and in the seat next to me I took a cutting torch and a tow bar and nuts and bolts.. I cut holes in the bumper of the step van, hooked up the MG and away I went , right through Houston....I did take a gallon of gas with me in case it would not make it to a station before running out!!!. It sat in my drive way in Odessa for over two years in the way before I sold it...

It might have been an odd way of getting extra cash, but hey..

  I did buy another step van from a guy who quit selling Mac Tools in Albuquerque, NM but this one was almost new and in great shape... I did drive the MG to get it  and hooked up the toe bar the same but about 20 miles down 1-40 the tow bar was getting loose for the bumper started turning inside out . To solve that I went walking down the interstate looking for 2x4" to slide in there to take up the slack or gap the reshaping of the MG bumper was doing to me. About a mile or less and I had an arm full of good wood to use. With no big cities to go through to get to Odessa I stopped along the road and bought some pine nuts grown from the pinyon tree and enjoyed the rest of the trip.  If one is going west down 1-40 about 30 or 40 miles before you get to Albuquerque the little short pine trees are pinyons. The closer to the city or higher elevation the trees will get maybe 20 foot tall. They are all scraggly looking but when harvest season arrives there will be people with long long poles beating the crap out of those trees...I think the smart ones use pvc pipes.

   So if anyone is hard up for woodworking wood try walking the interstates....At least the walking will be good for you. I surmised those 2x4's were falling off semi"s they use for things to be stacked on...