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LOSING TOOLS

John Peckham
Dear All


I have more tools than is healthy for all sorts of trades and I am a self confessed tool collector.


Just a moment but I will have to don my fawn anorak and tartan slippers for the next bit.......................................................................................


We all have favorite screwdrivers that we have had for years. I had also a favorite hammer which was a difficult choice between my Estwing claw hammer and a very handy 6 oz cross pein hammer. Ideal for cable clipping and knocking in small pins and nails etc.


Anyway the favorite hammer was lost. I looked in all my tool boxes (I have to many) down the back of the bench etc. I hunted high and low but could not find it. So in the week I scanned Ebay for a new/old one and found a very nice Stanley one and bid for it and won. It arrived on Friday. The head is a bit loose but I will tighten that up in no time. I think I must have left it somewhere doing jobs for family and friends or it is under the floor from addling some sockets a few months ago, farewell my friend you have served me well!


I was looking forward to my usual Sunday routine of laying on the sofa, reading the Sunday Times, drinking tea and listening to Radio 4. See men can multi-task! However the senior officer had other plans in that I could not read the paper until I had installed a new blind in the recently decorated back bedroom. 


OK soon have this done. Off to workshop. Collect SDS drill, 18V Makita, decent screws to replace the ones made of butter that came with the blind, red plugs and assorted screws. I left the replacement hammer on the bench for fixing later.


OK in to action. Careful measurement, marking of holes and drilling with Mr. SDS. All carefully supervised by the boss. Plugs do not quite go flush in holes and explain with a mild expletive I will have to go and get my new hammer. No problem says the boss you can borrow mine from my tool kit. She then retrieves a carrier bag from a secret location and low and behold it is my 6 Oz hammer. I look into the bag to see more long lost friends, screwdrivers, pliers, pinchers etc. I discussion takes place and the boss states "you have loads of tools and I thought I could have some for the odd small job. I finish of stating, "The man who lends his tools is on holiday".


The favorite hammer has been returned to it's tool box. Negotiations will take place on the return of the remainder of my tools and replacements.


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    Spray them pink, the lady of the house won't use them as a matter of  principle.


    Andy B.
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    Totally random.


    I am sat doing invoices and emailing them along with copies of the certification, it is blowing a gail outside and the wind is blowing large bubbles past the window.
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    Lucky Gail!
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    How sad is this?


    I have cleared all my tools back to the workshop following the big bedroom uplift works. Workshop is in a s**t state and needs a serious clear up that is going to be a spring job.


    Lots of tools put away. Then the new Stanley hammer came in for a restore. Cleaned up the metal work with some emery paper, tightened the head wedges and then rubbed down the wooden handle and varnished it. It could get promoted to 3rd favorite hammer?
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    Hello John.

    I understand!  I too have a favourite hammer, a 20oz. Stanley Steelmaster from 1966 that is absolutely indispensible and is used for everything, from fixing floorboards back down to precision adjustments of metering equipment, protection relays and thermostats etc.  This went AWOL from a construction site one Friday afternoon in 1970 and, with a foreigner lined up for the Saturday morning, I promptly had to buy a second 20oz. Stanley Steelmaster (nothing else would do) to keep my weekend work going and to ensure a prompt re-start first-fixing on site on the Monday morning. In the mid Monday morning, the Site Chippy came along and returned my first Steelmaster hammer, which he had packed away in his tool kit by mistake.  So, I actually have two favourite hammers!  The original one is still in my electrical toolkit, and the second one is in my plumbing toolkit.  The Senior Management here hasn't yet figured out I've got two identical hammers, so I haven't (yet) needed to spray them pink.

    Regards,


              Colin Jenkins.
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    I had a Rabone Chesterman steel 12 inch ruler which I used to measure the more precise items, it disappeared some while ago and I bought a (inferior) replacement on eBay, late last year my FIL passed away and whilst have a small clear out there was my ruler on top of the meter cupboard, probably there from when I fitted a remote immersion switch about three years ago
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    Oh no, it cannot be your favourite hammer until it has had two new heads and three new handles. ?
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    Quick quiz. Which singer songwriter worked at Rabone Chesterman and was allegedly sacked for playing guitar at work ?
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    Blencathra:

    Quick quiz. Which singer songwriter worked at Rabone Chesterman and was allegedly sacked for playing guitar at work ?




     

    Joan Armouredcable?

    Lost my estwing hammer recently, the one with straight tangs for ripping out. I miss it, but borrowed her indoors' hammer til I get a replacement. Shhh :)

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    Blencathra:

    Quick quiz. Which singer songwriter worked at Rabone Chesterman and was allegedly sacked for playing guitar at work ?




     

    When I worked for my dad over forty years ago we worked on a large country house, there was a old lady who lived in the summer house with her dogs. One day there was a fleet of prestige  cars parked up outside the summerhouse, the old lady was Miss Chesterman and the board of Rabone Chesterman would hold meetings in the summer house as it was easier than getting the lady into the offices. I knew her name, but had never made the connection.


    Andy B.

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