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I been looking at getting rid of tools that I have accumulated since 1967 when I started in the motor trade. The problem is that I don't use them anymore but can't bring myself to part with. Its really weird to think about it like that. The green toolbox came out with me on the Australis back in 1973. The red one was my "go away" portable to fix things from the airline days. Its strange when I look at this stuff, everything has a story to it. My Snap On socket set, came from the American Nuclear submarine base in Scotland, that I did a swap for some car parts. The funny thing when I worked for Mt Cook Airlines, we were expected to make our own tool trolley, which we did. The company supplied the steel, the wood and a 4 inch vice. What you made from those materials was up to you, there were some amazing creations people came up with. 
Later when I went to Ansett Airlines and there all the folk on the hanger floor had the ones you buy, not like my aircraft carrier on wheels. The people I worked with, would often say can we borrow your vise, borrow your bench, as there bought stuff was not built like this thing. You could stand on it, wheel it around all over the place, it was a great work bench.
So what do with it after a lifetime of use? do you have similar problem?
I been looking at getting rid of tools that I have accumulated since 1967 when I started in the motor trade. The problem is that I don't use them anymore but can't bring myself to part with. Its really weird to think about it like that. The green toolbox came out with me on the Australis back in 1973. The red one was my "go away" portable to fix things from the airline days. Its strange when I look at this stuff, everything has a story to it. My Snap On socket set, came from the American Nuclear submarine base in Scotland, that I did a swap for some car parts. The funny thing when I worked for Mt Cook Airlines, we were expected to make our own tool trolley, which we did. The company supplied the steel, the wood and a 4 inch vice. What you made from those materials was up to you, there were some amazing creations people came up with. Later when I went to Ansett Airlines and there all the folk on the hanger floor had the ones you buy, not like my aircraft carrier on wheels. The people I worked with, would often say can we borrow your vise, borrow your bench, as there bought stuff was not built like this thing. You could stand on it, wheel it around all over the place, it was a great work bench.So what do with it after a lifetime of use? do you have similar problem?
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