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Post by dapellegrini on Oct 18, 2022 15:46:42 GMT -8
Ya, good eye, thats an iBook - pre-macbook. I have a few other older macs that are looking for a place to collect dust...
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Post by inboost on Oct 18, 2022 17:59:17 GMT -8
My journey with home computers began with an Apple //+ (no lower case, 48k ram, 5.25" single sided 180kb floppy disks for storage). It got upgraded to an Apple //e though the end of High school. I went off to engineering college with a brand new Macintosh SE30. I was promptly laughed out of the dormitory for having an arts and crafts PC as an engineering student. Sure enough it wasn't long before I had to jump the isle and get into PCs and I never looked back. I wish I still had that SE30 so I could turn it into an aquarium
Now that brick pone is something else there dapellegrini - I used to sell those things as upgrades from pagers back in the early 1990s! So were is your Motorola Bravo / Ultra Express / Advisor line up huh?
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Post by dapellegrini on Oct 18, 2022 18:03:37 GMT -8
inboost - funny you should ask. I spent perhaps 6 months planning a Pagers collection - and at least at the time, they were pretty hard to source. Seems everyone thinks they are garbage and/or props. It is still on my list and now you are reminding me I needs a few of those.
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Post by small on Oct 22, 2022 18:00:56 GMT -8
Love all the photos - what cool collections! Carrying on with the cellphone theme - I guess I got a bit obsessive - right to left is each version of the iPhone from the original through perhaps the 11 or so - but not every color - I'm not THAT nuts... Plus the first few Apple Watches and iPads, and that's an Apple Newton on the bottom right. EDIT: left to right... iPad 2, iPhone 11, iPhone X, iPhone 7, iPhone 6, iPhone 5, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and iPhone 2G. Then the iPad Gen 1 book ending them. The ones laying face down are mainly alternate colors (usually white vs black) and mostly middle-gen "S" type releases. The iPhone X and 8 released at the same time, and there was no "9". And yes, nearly all of the Motorolas, Blackberries and iPhones were my personal phones. Probably about 75% of them all. Did you happen to see this? I guess an unopened first I-Phone went for nearly $40K www.wsj.com/articles/first-edition-apple-iphone-sells-for-more-than-39-000-at-auction-11666110568
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Post by dapellegrini on Oct 22, 2022 19:04:44 GMT -8
Yes. Gen 1 NIB will go for $20k or more. Mine is used but with orignal box. People are crazy!
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Post by small on Oct 22, 2022 19:12:45 GMT -8
What else do we collect. I mentioned I have ratchets. Keep them all and have used them all none as polished. I’m not that type of mechanic. No tool polishers around here. Wipe it off and put it away. Anyway, these are just from the home garage box. I had sometime between chores and figured I’d take a couple of snaps. I have more at work, in my “travel box” and at the second home by my daughter. My estimate of less than 50 is pretty spot on. Seems, not counting torque wrenches but adding breaker-bars and speed wrenches I’m looking at 38... The ¼ drive are some of my Go Too's for just about everything. Then the 3/8 and shits gotta be bad if I’m grabbing a ½". I would really like to add some foreign brands just to see what the hype is about. Nepros, and Koken have some pretty wicked engineering. Some pretty heavy pricing to go along...Then there are German manufacturers. Some I guess because they make tools for cars have a following of car guys...which might add to the hype. I do not have a 90 tooth or 120 that are out now. If memory serves, the little SK and the Craftsmen Fine tooth are both 72, the roto-head Snap is 60T. The 3/8” Easco is a 72 as well. I remember buying that Snap-on roto head while I was just starting out as a mechanic at a company called Sears. Anyone remember them? They guys in the shop called me a tool whore but man I couldn’t get over this guy. In the late 80’s I think it was almost $40, could have been $50 but I had to have it. Many years later I found a 3/8” at a flea market table. Bet I didn’t pay $30 for that. Forgot I had this little kit sitting in the drawer below... Those blue handled guys are Cornwell Brand. Another tool truck brand. I think I replaced the one after it grew legs and it was found years later in a coworker's box, when he realized he had two and had only ever bought one. Nothing nefarious it just happened. When he retired, I bought his flex head Cornwell as well as the ½" Fine-Tooth Long Handel Flex Head Craftsmen. While I had a ½" Flex-head already there is a cult following it seems for the Fine Tooth...or at least there was at a time. The 3/8 are kind of a point of pride too. While I can do more than half the work around the garage with the ¼ drive I love some of these 3/8” Each of these seem to fit a nice niche in my wrenching. There's that bent handle flex head Snap. This great for most disc brake jobs. Oh and spark-plugs. I broke the gears in my original one and they replaced it with this version. I need to use a screw driver most times to just get the socket off. You see the Snap-on Roto next to it which isn’t nearly as nice s that ¼" I use it because I have it but I can generally find something else to use in its place. There is a Matco, another tool truck company. I have had that as well from my original days at Sears. Next are a couple of old Industro. I think I just grabbed them because they felt nice? Def quality brand but not a go too. Then you can see four Craftsmen all different and the just a drop in the bucket to all the designs they came out with. The first one is kind of unique and patented that you can take it apart without the use of tools. Kind of a PITA as you have to push hard in one direction while trying to remove the head in the opposite. Cool but not super useful. I have the ¼" version as well and always hunting for a ½" to complete the set. Interesting back story on the tear-DROP craftsmen. I bought it at the Salvation Army Store. When I picked it up and saw it was $3 my daughter said “don’t you have one of those already?” I said not a broken one....”Are you going to fix it?” I’m going to try. “And if you fix it you’ll have two”...Exactly. That public school education paying off. A coworker has a set of this design that is new made by someone in China just with a Craftsmen name. First-time using the ¼" and it failed. Little use and the 3/8” failed...They just don’t make them like the once did... The last ratchet in the picture is a nice fine thread Easco with a bit longer handle than the Craftsmen version. I like that one a lot. Picture to it’s right is a SK-Wayne Roto head that is in fact the original roto that was patented by them...Seems the patent expired and Snap-on went on ahead and started making them just a few years later. Seems the patent was not on the actually tools useful design but it’s manufacturing process... Next are the ½" Craftsmen Fine Tooth. The red one was just to help ID it at one point. It is also from my dad’s kit. And could be 45-50 years old maybe older. While they all look the same, they are different. My dads doesn’t have lines...the obverse of two of them. Again similar but not the same. The one on the left sows the Canada Patent date. The other two are consider V series but one is Pat Pend. You can see that two are design to help push the sockets off the other two don’t. Most of the fine tooth (even the Easco) have two different part numbers whether they have the feature or not... These next two are Fling V or butterfly shifters, another Sears Craftsmen patent. These came from my M1stW family. Made in the 50’s and 60’s. Note the Rounded stamping on the ends and depth of the stamping.. Forgot these guys long handle 1/2" Drive and a Napa Tear drop. About the most uncomfortable ratchet I have ever used...
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Post by inboost on Oct 23, 2022 6:41:25 GMT -8
small - that swivel head Snap-On 1/4" drive is my #1 go-to with a close second going to the little metric 1/4" drive Hazet kit. I've got the full set of those old Craftsman user serviceable teardrop ratchets too. Aren't they cool how you can release the gear mechanism for cleaning?
What do they call these 1/4" kits in Metric speaking countries? 6.35mm drive!?
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Post by tempelkim on Oct 23, 2022 7:59:00 GMT -8
We call them 1/4" kits - Viertelzoll.
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Post by small on Oct 23, 2022 13:12:36 GMT -8
small - that swivel head Snap-On 1/4" drive is my #1 go-to with a close second going to the little metric 1/4" drive Hazet kit. I've got the full set of those old Craftsman user serviceable teardrop ratchets too. Aren't they cool how you can release the gear mechanism for cleaning?
What do they call these 1/4" kits in Metric speaking countries? 6.35mm drive!?
That Hazet is an older kit I guess most I see offered for sale new are blue handled. I keep hunting on eBay for used and can't seem to win...I have read a bunch over at Garage Journal doing some research and saw talk about those Japanese tool makers. Any chance you have first hand knowledge? Those Nepros are on the pricey side even when they are on the secondary market? The guys reviewing these tools on youtube I wonder what they do as there isn't even a scratch on them, nothing? Heck I can't get a new tool to the job, before it's gotten dirty...let alone afterwards.
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Post by small on Oct 23, 2022 13:21:43 GMT -8
Most listing for the Nepros, Koken, KTC seem to say 6.3sq.
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Post by dapellegrini on Oct 23, 2022 16:28:30 GMT -8
small - I don't think any of my wrenches are as cool as yours - but I had the E46 version of your Bentley E39 BMW books many years ago. The E46 was my first "nice car" and something I did a lot of work on myself.
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Post by inboost on Oct 23, 2022 17:06:58 GMT -8
small - the Hazet 6.3mm (!) tool kit was a gift from a friend. It's very old, well used, and still is happy to go to work. These are German old school high quality tools for sure! Hazet ratchet toolkits can be found new here
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Post by small on Oct 23, 2022 17:28:57 GMT -8
small - I don't think any of my wrenches are as cool as yours - but I had the E46 version of your Bentley E39 BMW books many years ago. The E46 was my first "nice car" and something I did a lot of work on myself. Oh that is my second set of Bentley's. I still have my Bentley from my e34 as well, which was my first nice car. I'm torn as to which I like/d more. Fortunately I haven't needed this set too often, the e34 was a great intro to European cars. Although my brother has a handful of Porsche that he has me come over and do work for him from time to time...I will give credit to the Germans for some of their thoughtful engineering. Unlike my sons Dodge Dart that required removing the wheel to make it easier to replace a head lamp bulb...Actually it wasn't that bad of a job but still...the idea of going through the wheel well was different... On another note both the e39's and e46's especially the M's are bringing some very tall amounts lately. I'm floored but what I have seen for clean low mile examples...Heck I think I have seen them going for as much or more than they were new...Like Ford GT's and other exotics...except Beemers weren't all that exotic but have definitely found a cult following...
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Post by dapellegrini on Oct 31, 2022 18:30:01 GMT -8
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Post by small on Nov 10, 2022 13:27:44 GMT -8
Could have added to "what's coming in the mail", but just snagged this guy...Considered a Type-5 No Line Logo, make number 6 for the collection. going back and rereading info on these RHFT ratchets this one was made only in 1971 not a long run, heck it was the one of their shortest runs using that stamping on the handle. There are only about 30 more of these that I need to eventually pick up... The next issued version was the type 6 where the Patent number is removed and it just has CAN Patent-1971...that version ran from 1972-1981
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Post by nzwatchdoctor on Apr 11, 2023 17:32:42 GMT -8
I've got a bunch of classic cars;
3 x MGBs 2 x MGBGTs 1 x '67 ('66 to those in USA, sloping headlights etc) VW Beetle 1 x '63 Triumph Herald Coupe (no the saloon) 1/2 Triumph Herald convertible
*I should stop watch work, finish restoring them and sell most. My wife would be fine about me doing that.
I don't collect motorbikes (would like to) but have had a '82 Yamaha SR500 since '96 and have two (sold my mint one earlier this year) Suzuki GSX650Fs.
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