What a cute little thingie that one is, congratulations
Like that Palmgren vice as well, some good quality tools they make (or made for all i know, as i´ve only encountered some older stuff from them).
You have some of the best flea market finds
What a cute little thingie that one is, congratulations
Like that Palmgren vice as well, some good quality tools they make (or made for all i know, as i´ve only encountered some older stuff from them).
Oddly enough, the Palmgren vice cost two bucks at a yard sale, and it is used almost every day!
Wow...what a find!
Ah, but which one? The pump? The vice?
You have some of the best flea market finds
I kind of think that it's because there is little interest in model engineering in Canada, so a lot of stuff ends up in flea markets and yard sales.
Until 2007, I lived in a small city some 50 miles north of Toronto, Ontario, and found all kinds of stuff at yard sales and flea markets. Since then, however, I have lived in a farming community of about 2500 in eastern Ontario, where there are about 1/50th as many as sales, but it's still amazing what I find out here in the boonies....
Seek and ye shall find, say I.
Every garage sale around here is about 3/4 baby baby clothes, nothing good
The flea market is the first area I hit at the steam/threshing shows, but I’m lucky if I find a Mamod tractor at those. They’re turning into a bunch of junk from Harbor Freight and Dollar General that people are trying to re-sell.
Yeah, the baby clothes and plastic toys are here, too, even in my little farming community.
Still, I have found things even here on occasion, like my calliope, a yellow Mamod Meccano donkey engine, a 3-ton arbour press, 119 good Clarkson Autolock end mills in a lot of almost 200 end mills for $10.00 (honest!), and a Cameron precision drill press.
Just gotta keep looking....