Vintage garage stuff

[autoxcuda]

I was a classicly trained draftsman in high school/early 20's days. I worked for architects, machinists, whatever
needed drawn up and did it old school - ink on mylar, usually faster than the guys using lead.
CAD wiped that skill obsolete pretty darn fast, but I miss it to this day and still have a lot of my old tools of the trade.

My dad started in the late 50's. He's got ink Koh-I-Noor stuff, but it's messy.

But this stuff displayed better and was all K&E. There's a K&E slide rule in there too.

Check out this old drafting magazine. Huge rooms, tons of draftsman, white shirts, ties, pocket protectors... no women.

 

[moparedtn]

My dad started in the late 50's. He's got ink Koh-I-Noor stuff, but it's messy.

But this stuff displayed better and was all K&E. There's a K&E slide rule in there too.

Check out this old drafting magazine. Huge rooms, tons of draftsman, white shirts, ties, pocket protectors... no women.

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Ink can be messy, but I never found it to be. A combination of taking to it "naturally" plus some
good instruction by an overseer and I never had issues with it - and I'm left-handed, no less.

Oh yeah, I certainly remember the rooms full of draftsmen and engineers at a lot of firms -
some of which tried to recruit me over the years.
I was fortunate to find work with smaller companies and usually had my own office.

Of course, with the advent of CAD, the civil engineering company I was working for at the time
decided I was to "convert" first to computer stuff, so they stuck me in a dark room with giant monitors
(the old, huge RGB types) to operate that stuff.
My nickname eventually at the company became "the mole"....
I'd stick my head out of the dark room once in a while and would be squinting at the light.

 

[Cranky]

I was a classicly trained draftsman in high school/early 20's days. I worked for architects, machinists, whatever
needed drawn up and did it old school - ink on mylar, usually faster than the guys using lead.
CAD wiped that skill obsolete pretty darn fast, but I miss it to this day and still have a lot of my old tools of the trade.

Learned some basic drafting in high school wood shop and got more training while in my machinist apprenticeship several years later. We had to make detailed drawings of the parts we needed when doing a pump overhaul but several years later someone made copies of all the shafts, seal glands and the like (most of the larger and more intricate parts) and put the appropriate drawings in each pump package in the file room. So whenever we needed a particular part made all we had to do was 'fill in the blanks' with the sizes and material it was to be made from. Each pump package had a 'hard copy' in plastic and could make new copies of the blank drawings when needed. Saved a lot of time not having to make a drawing from scratch....but since I ended up on machines, I didn't have to mess with doing pump overhauls for the most part.

 

[Outlaw525]

Acquired a new "have a beer and contemplate what's next" chair for the shop.

 

[Mike Szadaj]

I found an alternator output checking device. An old can of lube from Sinclair. While the Frigee Freeze May not be automobile related in the strictest sense, if you look closely the label says that it is an Earl Scheib product. A Raynal Brothers Dodge dealership keychain

 

[Mike Szadaj]

Picked up this nice AC spark plug gapper

 

[Virg464]

I found an alternator output checking device. An old can of lube from Sinclair. While the Frigee Freeze May not be automobile related in the strictest sense, if you look closely the label says that it is an Earl Scheib product. A Raynal Brothers Dodge dealership keychain

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Use to drive past raynals all the time growing up in detroit (60's and 70's), we lived at chalmers and 6 mile rd (Seymour). My dad bought a 70 Fury III from raynals, everyone called it the purple plymouth. I think the color was "deep amethyst pearl"? It's the car I started turning wrenches on.

 

[Mike Szadaj]

Use to drive past raynals all the time growing up in detroit (60's and 70's), we lived at chalmers and 6 mile rd (Seymour). My dad bought a 70 Fury III from raynals, everyone called it the purple plymouth. I think the color was "deep amethyst pearl"? It's the car I started turning wrenches on.

I lived in a flat in the
mid 1970’s near Houston-Whittier and Chalmers. I have a pair of older Raynal keychains (with the old style telephone number using two letters), and also a license plate frame, which is on my car.

 

[69ChargerR/TSE]

I like that, BeepBeep.
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I still use my Sears Engine Analyzer, along with my adjustable timing light, I got new in the early 80's for Christmas.

 

[Virg464]

I lived in a flat in the
mid 1970’s near Houston-Whittier and Chalmers. I have a pair of older Raynal keychains (with the old style telephone number using two letters), and also a license plate frame, which is on my car.

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Very cool! If you ever saw two teenagers on mini-bikes driving around like they were indestructible (no helmets of course) that was probably me and my friend Jimmy! Pretty sure him and I were the only ones with mini-bikes in that area at that time. We had a friend that lived near Celestine and Mayfield, and we used to go to the bowling alley just off Chalmers, think it was called Ritter's. Good times!

 

[Outlaw525]

My wife was recently helping her best friend's family with their Dad's estate. They were cleaning out his storage unit and this stuff was in the throw away pile. My wife grabbed them and brought them home to me because she said it looked like stuff that I would like.

Then this weekend she convinced me not pass on getting this at a garage sale.

 

[Mike Szadaj]

Helluva woman!

 

[Mike Szadaj]

I found this nice notebook from the Jefferson assembly plant.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I found this nice notebook from the Jefferson assembly plant.

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Too bad George didn’t autograph it.

 

[Spare Parts]

Fender Apron from Vintage speed shop

 

[Mike Szadaj]

I came across this spark gap tester at an estate sale. The instructions aren’t real clear about setting the gap, but I guess after you properly set it if you get a spark from each plug wire then you are in good shape.

 

[Coronet_Arch]

Bought a vintage transmission jack to replace my Harbor Freight one.

 

[Mike Szadaj]

I came across a couple more goodies

 

[Mike Szadaj]

I found a Dodge coin bank.
An STP pen
A Mopar yardstick
A vintage employee jacket from a dealership that is still around

 

[Mike Szadaj]

I found this at a flea market. It is a little unusual because it is a combination dwell meter, tach, and timing light. This is the first time I have ever seen such a combination.