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   MisterT | Jul 11, 2002 10:44pm | #1

   I have many rocks! ( have fun with this everyone)

   I have a Stanley wooden level with patent dates of 1891 & 1896

   I have a Sargent? steel bodiedplane with a wooden sole patented 1891.

   My Hitachi SCMS is almost a month old!!!

   T

   Do not try this at home!

   I am a trained professional!

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   Luka | Jul 12, 2002 01:16am | #2

   I'll bet that Hitachi has the local museums just waiting in line for you to kick the bucket...

   : )

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   deabye | Jul 12, 2002 03:47am | #3

   The wheel is a tool and I just looked at my Chevy..I might be in the running!

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   rez | Jul 12, 2002 04:43am | #4

   I win. I have an old  concave stone/bowl and matching mashing stone utensil from local indian tribes that were in this area in northeast ohio centuries back. I don't think this grain mashing tool could be used in fine homebuilding tho'.

   'Course those indians were the original yankees and yankees are good at adapting tools to various needs. Saw one the other day tapping a loose nail with the butt of his cordless drill. Glad it wasn't my drill.Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.

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   junkhound | Jul 12, 2002 05:14am | #5

   If cordless implies electrical and tool implies an artifice to measure ar build with, then one of the first electrical tools must be A. Volta's fingers. There was an article in Sc. AM. or other mag a few years back cognizating over how he never got electrocuted measuring volts with his fingers (meters hadn't been invented yet).  A. Volta "discovered" the volt and it was named after him <G>

   The telegraph (ran on batteries, there were no cords for another 40 years)  maybe the first in the context of commercially viable. Steam hammer a close second.

   Maybe better to ask, what was the first saw, drill, etc. that ran on cords, then how long before it became "cordless" again.

   - gee, ain't this a picky bunch on how you phrase your posts!!!! 

   Edited 7/11/2002 10:19:51 PM ET by JUNKHOUND

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   Sancho | Jul 12, 2002 05:27am | #6

   I figured my hands and fingers.... Darkworksite4: When the job is to small for everyone else, Its just about right for me"

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   SgianDubh | Jul 12, 2002 05:35am | #7

   My wheelie egg beater drill is cordless, and the technology dates from the mid-1800's. Cordless too is my brace and bit, and the technology there dates from the early 1600's. There again the technology for  the Yankee screwdriver comes from the early 1900's, or late 1800's. On the other hand, ancient Egyptians knew how to use stuff called iron that they made into chisels to cut mortices, and that's only about 5,000 years old. Stone age man could work a hole with stone, and bash things with rocks. The oldest woodworking tool I've got that works is a wooden plane from the early 1800's. It works just fine, but I don't think the iron is original. slainte, RJ.

   RJFurniture

   
   

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   Edited 7/11/2002 10:37:16 PM ET by Sgian Dubh

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   jet | Jul 12, 2002 07:42am | #8

   I have my Great Grandfathers micrometer from 1893. A Starrette. He was the Chief Draftsman then engineer on the Peterborough lift locks on the Trent Severn waterway. The largest lift locks in the world. These are not the same as the locks that we normally see. They are posted on the internet at Parcs Canada. I will try to find the link and post again.

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   WebTrooper | Jul 12, 2002 07:47am | #9

   If  you can find it, I.d like to see that.

   ~ WebTrooper ~

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   jet | Jul 12, 2002 07:56am | #10

   http://collections.ic.gc.ca/waterway/rg_eng_i/peterbor.htm

   Try the link.  Also kirkfield lift locks.  We have a ledger of about 400 pages of carbon copies of letters that Walter J Francis ( my Great Grandfather) wrote during 1897-1906 about the locks and the trouble he was having with the contractors. The most important thing we've learned is that nothing has changed.

   Got to get back to work as I work the midnight shift and my lunch hour is over. I will be on again around 7 am.

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   MisterT | Jul 12, 2002 02:02pm | #11

   That is definitely the most awsome cordless tool!

   Hardly portable though!!!

   That is some thing that would be way cool to watch in action.

   TDo not try this at home!

   I am a trained professional!

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   JeffBuck | Jul 14, 2002 08:35am | #12

   I got my GradDad's ax! My Dad replaced the handle......then I replaced the head.

   Jeff   She's exotic ,but not foreign, like an old Cadillac......she's a knockout!

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   oldpro007 | Jul 30, 2002 05:09am | #13

   I have an all yellow, matching Black & Pecker Skill saw, Jig saw and drill. From somewhere in the fifties. All before mr. pecker (who died this year) started the do-it-yourself craze. Also recnetly picked up a two man saw. That thing really cuts. 'took the boys out to the backyard and showed them how it works. It is work...

   I've got a lot of old tools (clamps, vises, braces, saws and planes) i've collected through the years and would not ever part with them,(unless i can make 100%)Old Pro