oldisbetter
Part of things
If it has a ECU it's complicated :)
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Apr 28, 2020 21:33:14 GMT
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Do any of you ever wonder whether your grandfathers are watching you from the other side? I do. Ive had several occasions when that sort of thing has been pretty much confirmed to me, but everytime I describe what happened, it almost sounds like nonsense to me. About 60% of the tools ive got were inherited from my dad, and theres a handful of woodworking tools that were my grandads, nothing really interesting for here though. The wax sticks have something like Tuxan or astral in a raised lettering on one side they are quite hard and great for polishing shoes on a mop or melting into gaps on leather or furniture.
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jpsmit
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Apr 28, 2020 21:54:47 GMT
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Do any of you ever wonder whether your grandfathers are watching you from the other side? I do. I keep the radio in the garage set to a jazz station - mostly because it is calm music so I don't try to move too fast. I mention this because my favourite time to work is Sunday evenings when they have the Big Band show. As I listen I always imagine that what I am doing is somehow connected to previous generations listening to the same music while puttering in their shops.
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Apr 28, 2020 22:01:54 GMT
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Haven't got a picture as they're still down at Mum's house but my dad passed away last year and in the garage are a plug spanner for Merlin and Griffon engines and a massive flat blade screw driver for removing the inspection cover on Griffon engines on Shackletons.
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Needs a bigger hammer mate.......
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Do any of you ever wonder whether your grandfathers are watching you from the other side? I do. Absolutely this, there have been numerous occasions when I’ve actually heard him, at the time he died (early hours of the morning) my sister, my aunt and myself were all awake in three separate houses miles away, if I start driving like a tw@t or doing something I shouldn’t in a car I get an ambulance on the same road, not once or twice, but EVERY time Also when my Nan died, in her last few hours she was having a perfectly lucid conversation with him, although he’d died years earlier. I’m convinced he’d come back to get her. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve had the ‘where the hell is the tool I literally just put down?’ Moments
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Apr 29, 2020 10:28:24 GMT
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Do any of you ever wonder whether your grandfathers are watching you from the other side? I do. Absolutely this, there have been numerous occasions when I’ve actually heard him, at the time he died (early hours of the morning) my sister, my aunt and myself were all awake in three separate houses miles away, if I start driving like a tw@t or doing something I shouldn’t in a car I get an ambulance on the same road, not once or twice, but EVERY time Also when my Nan died, in her last few hours she was having a perfectly lucid conversation with him, although he’d died years earlier. I’m convinced he’d come back to get her. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve had the ‘where the hell is the tool I literally just put down?’ Moments Ok then, seeing as were going down that route. I used to go ghosthunting, just out of curiosity, a handful of slightly odd things happened but nothing to make me positivly believe. My dad passed away 3 months before my neice was born, and in those 3 months all sorts of stuff happened that more than one person witnessed, and after my neice was born nothing else happened. Not the most 'amazing' event', but relevent to this thread, I was in the garage looking for a ratchet. I looked everywhere for it, everywhere it would be, everywhere it wouldnt be, and everywhere else. In the end I gave up and went indoors. The following day I walked into the garage and the first thing I saw was the ratchet sitting on the corner of a shelf. If it had been there the previous day I would have seen it, but I would have had no reason to put it on the shelf like that, no reason at all, and no one else had been in there. The other things that happened were even stranger, but thats the only one involving his tools. With the other things that happened as well I went from being curious to being someone who cant not beleive, but I'm not entirely sure what I beleive in, and mum (who witnessed these things aswell) went from thinking its all nonsense, to being absolutly sure theres something there we don't fully understand.
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Apr 29, 2020 11:15:04 GMT
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My paternal grandad died when my dad was sixteen, he had to grow up pretty quickly after that When he started dating my mum, they used to go dancing a couple of times a week, on one evening my dad had gone to the toilet, and whilst he was in there his father, who by this time had been dead about 5 years , told him to ‘leave right now’ He was the only person in the toilet at the time He went back to my mum and persuaded her that they had to go Five minutes later a massive fight broke out and three people were seriously stabbed He swears that it was his father protecting them Can’t explain it but there’s definitely more to this than we know
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Apr 29, 2020 16:17:37 GMT
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Prompted by one of the items on a recent The Repair Shop I got some of my Grandads old tools. My paternal grandad was in the Navy in WW1 and then again in WWII, lying about his age to get in and was at the battle of Jutland. In WWII he was called up from the reserve and sailed escort carriers back from the US amongst other things. I've got is WWI campaign medals and some memorabilia from 'cruises' he did around South and North America via the Panama Canal after the war, they were away for a long time. This is his seaman's knife (I was told not to call it a pen-knife) and a marlin spike (the marlin spike might have been sharpened); He also repaired shoes (I'm assuming just for the family), the thread seems to be waxed and interestingly given the age and that it's made in Britain says length 15 metres. Between the wars and I assume after WWII he worked for ASWE (Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment) in Portsmouth, I have his retirement clock (broken unfortunately). One of these days I'm going to take it all to an Antiques Roadshow, no value but hopefully an interesting story.
My maternal grandad was a sail maker at Portsmouth docks, during WWII which must have been exciting. Family gossip says he was also a player on the black market. I've got his needles, some fairly wicked looking ones.
Quite a lot of leather working tools going on there, my dad and grandad were cobblers and leather workers, Wenzel thread and those wax sticks bring back many memories.
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Apr 29, 2020 16:21:25 GMT
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Dad was a cobler and I've still got a few of his old tools. The wax sticks are called 'heelball' and he used it to coat the raw edges of the leather soles and heels after first applying a stain. It was then put onto a polishing mop to get a brilliant finish.
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Apr 29, 2020 20:57:38 GMT
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Do any of you ever wonder whether your grandfathers are watching you from the other side? I do. I hope so, my mother says he would have been proud what we have achieved.
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My wife's grandad donated this pillar drill to me this week. At 89 he said that he is unlikely to use it anymore (he was using it until a year ago), luckily we only live about 100m away, so I can do drilling for him as required. I know nothing about it at this stage and didn't see any obvious manufacturer. Looking forward to sprucing it up, but have just sprayed it in light oil for now.
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