Old School Tools

[J.A.F.E.]

Galileo thermometer. The floats rise or sink depending on the temperature. The lowest float at the top gives the temp. Accuracy is good but this one uses floats calibrated about 4 degrees apart so accuracy is limited. Also there only five floats so the range is pretty narrow. Still a fun piece.

The top float is 80 degrees and it has sunk so it's warmer than 80. In fact that day it was about 98 or so in the room.

[J.A.F.E.]

Here's something many people give zero thought to today, many people think of them as antiquated by chainsaws.
I may not have much use for a full sized felling axe, but many people still use them daily and I just had to save it.

I could not let this old SAGER chemicalaxe rust away or end up in a scrapyard.

You don't have any apple trees do you?

[J.A.F.E.]

BBC Metrawatt. Not sure about the company today - it still exists though. At the time the meter was made it was a German company and the meter was made in Germany.

At the time it was made while a portable meter it was closer in specs to a lab grade unit. It is small and lighter than a Fluke 77 but I like the Fluke a little better. Still use this one a lot.

[hickory n Steel]

Here's something many people give zero thought to today, many people think of them as antiquated by chainsaws.
I may not have much use for a full sized felling axe, but many people still use them daily and I just had to save it.

I could not let this old SAGER chemicalaxe rust away or end up in a scrapyard.

You don't have any apple trees do you?

No, but I wouldn't mind chopping down a cherry tree so I can be like George Washington 

[J.A.F.E.]

We'll have to get you a tricorn hat then.

[Uncle Buck]

We'll have to get you a tricorn hat then.

I want to see a picture of that lamp made from wrenches!

[J.A.F.E.]

I want to see a picture of that lamp made from wrenches!

This is the only pic I had handy. Mrs. J.A.F.E. gave me the lamp for a birthday one year.

[bonneyman]

Nice save on the axe! I just wouldn't want to have to cut a tree down with it.

And I've got a Galileo thermometer, too.

[bonneyman]

I want to see a picture of that lamp made from wrenches!

This is the only pic I had handy. Mrs. J.A.F.E. gave me the lamp for a birthday one year.

I've always had this desire to take an old soda/acid fire extinguisher, polish up the brass, and turn it into a floor lamp!

[J.A.F.E.]

That would be really cool. But I have to admit a fondness for brass.

[strik9]

My as yet untested Sanwa meter.   It spent its working years off the Texas coast on a barge servicing oil rigs.

[goodfellow]

I bought this little tracer on e-bay for a few bucks. The seller told me that it was in working order and in good shape. Well, just goes to show that e-bay is sometimes a "crap shoot".

This thing needed every capacitor replaced, along with some wiring. It also needed a thorough cleaning. The input stage was dead until I realized that the transformer was hooked up wrong. 50 years ago this was a "kit", and someone assembled it incorrectly. It must have been sitting in a worthless state like this since it was assembled.

It's used to inject a signal into a circuit which then can be traced along the main and various branch circuits until at some point it can't be measured or heard anymore (it has a speaker for audible signal response). At that point the problem component can be readily isolated.

Quite handy for fixing older equipment -- but it also produces some VERY high voltages and it can be dangerous.











It works, but almost every capacitor in this thing was the "sh#ts".

[hickory n Steel]

Nice save on the axe! I just wouldn't want to have to cut a tree down with it.

And I've got a Galileo thermometer, too.

I probably wouldn't either, and back in the day this probably would've taken a back seat to a crosscut saw on many sizeable trees.
It really was a nice save especially the old replacement haft it was crammed onto, they don't make axes like they used to and even more so they don't make handles like they used to.

[kwoswalt99]

Nice save on the axe! I just wouldn't want to have to cut a tree down with it.

And I've got a Galileo thermometer, too.

I probably wouldn't either, and back in the day this probably would've taken a back seat to a crosscut saw on many sizeable trees.
It really was a nice save especially the old replacement haft it was crammed onto, they don't make axes like they used to and even more so they don't make handles like they used to.

They still make axes like they used to, but they’re expensive af.

[bonneyman]

GF, electronics is one area where my repair skills really suck. Old radios, stereos, and the like that need fixing run when they see me! Guess I can't complain - everybody has their gift.