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Astute observation. I am a IT guy who has been a tool junkie all my life. When I retired I became a hobby machinist and have amassed 3 (full) Kennedy boxes and about a dozen more rolling carts and several lathes (there is no such thing as only ONE lathe!). In IT you fix problems all day, and in the mornings some bozo user has again screwed it up. In the endyou accomplished...nothing.... With a tool you can build. You can hold it in the original tool: your hand. THAT is the legacy I pass on.

Make sure before you die you leave your wife a list and actually what it’s worth or your son if they don’t want it or if you have a grandson and he is interested leave it to him I was lucky enough to get a fair share of my snap on tools from my great grandfather and I use them daily and take care of them I think better than he probably did

@@AdamA-pm3yn This comment should be highlighted. As a machinist fabricator who just buried my own father, I, my brother and sister, wished that our father had realized his mortality and had had the wherewithal to part with his collection before passing. He had an idea that the "stuff" would be his legacy. We just wished he had sold the "stuff" and used the money to do things for himself but mostly do things for our mom. We found so much "stuff" that had been collected or squirrelled away, parts, tooling and materials that had most assuredly been forgotten about for the inevitable "I may need that one day". Don't leave it for the wife and kids to deal with. It's an act of selfishness and vanity that really needs to be dealt with unless there is an explicit understanding to the contrary. I have a new awareness to the "if I haven't needed it in the past year or two" then maybe it should go. An example of something he could have sold was the mint condition adjustable Armstrong lathe dog set he had. We ended up adding those and all the tooling to the 20" lathe sale just to get it out of the shop. Believe me, I know the value of the tooling we threw in but we just needed it gone. Not everyone is in the same situation but I have spoken to so many lately that are/were in the same boat as we were and they echo this sentiment.

yeah the stories are almost visible though far from any wonderful tale without the guy that put the stuff away. 50-60 the tools accumulate and the parts and material. The wife will meet people, they'll get it damned cheap and show her a smile that will come with stories of thiers, or they'll have to listen while the lady shares her thoughts. Without you around your interests provide interaction and companionship for as long as the material stuff lasts. At the end of the day it's nice to meet folks when your partner has passed on. Or you might be the one dividing the lifetime of treasures? We just don't know, do we?

Wow, what a fine poem for an humble man and a great machinist. Ten thumbs up for that one.

THANK YOU ever so much for the beautiful poem, I was very much touched, I have it printed out & will show it in a future video. Keep watching!!!

Happy birthday Eli. I hope I make it as long as you And you are still sharp as a pin.

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@@pmcgee003 100 kms n/e of Perth to the left of Northam

Boy howdy!!! Great way to start the day!

Thank you very much

Wow, thank you!

If you only have imperial how do you hold metric bits? I also can sell you a set of Metric adjustable wrenches in case you in to turn metric nuts or bolts.... 😂

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Happy birthday!

Many thanks!

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Yes

That is awesome!

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I loved when he sang that song

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It's log, it's log. It's big, it's heavy, it's WOOD!

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