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Graham Ritchie
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Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted January 17, 2019 07:47 PM
Brilliant Paul
I am still going through all my old stuff, that for the most part I don't use anymore. They say every tool tells a story ..here is one, and its to do with my quarter drive socket set.
Way way back in the 60s during my apprenticeship days I needed to buy a quarter drive socket set. They were expensive at the time and hard to come by. However as luck had it, an American from the nearby submarine base needed some car parts, so we made a deal, he gets me a socket set and I would give the parts for his car.
So entered my Snap-On socket set, thanks to the American taxpayer When I worked for Ansett Airlines the ratchet packed up, so as Snap-On has a lifetime guarantee the next time the tool guy came to the hanger I spoke to him about it.
To my surprise he said its military and has a "V" on it, which means, it was issued during the Vietnam war. He got all that for this little tool ...anyway because it was a military issue, it was not covered for replacement, so I had to buy a new one. Its had a huge amount of use since I got it in the late 1960s.
Here is a photo of the base "floating dry dock" where that socket set came from....
Ah! memories.
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Dominique De Bast
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted February 02, 2019 09:27 AM
Belgian tradition (but also followed in other Catholic cultured countries) : on the 2nd February, people make pancakes. You're supposed to hold a coin (better a gold one if you have but less and less people have gold coins so any other should be ok) in your left hand while you throw the pancake to bake the other side with your right hand to give you luck with money all the year long. Pancakes here are different from the Ameican ones. They are lighter. In the US, you use one cup of milk for one cup of flour, while here we use two cups of milk. Unlike in the US, pancakes are not eaten for breakfast.
You can put marmelade, chocolate pasta, sugar (white or Brown, with or without lemon), butter or whatever you want.
Belgian gold coin. Until 1914, gold coins were in circulation in the everyday life. There was a system that was the ancestor of the euro : the Latin Union. Some countries(Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland…) issued coins that were accepted in all the other countries from the union. So you could pay in Italy with a French 20 francs coin for the value of 20 liras for example. The first war ended all this.
-------------------- Dominique
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