Golden Jubilee
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Location: Canada's left Coast
Re: WHATS IN YOUR TOOL BOX?
dean466 wrote:That's a great find! My last employer had one, though smaller. It's one of those tools that's hard to do without, once you're used to using it.
Dean
My new to me finger brake is a 36 inch PEXTO. I did a litle Google time and I discovered a 24 inch model was made. This machine was in the shop of one of my first employers. That would be in about 1964 and the machine was new, if I remember. Bending wire in the brake and damaging the fingers was a fireable event. My last employeer had a 60 inch Brown Boggs box and pan brake in the body shop. I used the company brake to make 27 toolbox end cabinets on my coffee breaks and lunch breaks. The person wanting the end cabinet had to suppy the material and I did the build for $20 contribution to the coffee fund. While managment was OK with what I was doing, I did ask the foreman to change the rule and stop what I was doing. It was the cheap bastxxds who "could not bring themselves to pay" that killed my generosity. I I did build two end cabinets for my toolbox and a fitted tool tote and then I was done.
The larger end cabinet had Dutch style double doors and a roller drawer in the top section. I built a retractable cord system in the cabinet to power an espresso machine and a radio. A few of the entitled jerks were making coffee for themselves without asking or offering to pay for supplies. I took the espresso machine home and coffee time was over.
Artificial intelligence is no match for real stupidity....