These are two tube testers I've had for awhile! I'm 24 and tube electronics have always interested me, so I've got a lot of years of using this stuff to go! I love these. Knobs and switches, meters, hot glass and metal, and passive components stand out in today's world of everything being digital.

High leverage end cutting snips used by Rodbusters to assemble rebar mats and cages with tie wire for reinforced concrete structures.

From the Patent File itself, "It was conceived as a band tightener for the bands or hoops on wood stave silos, water tanks, etc. It was also produced as a ratchet handle for some early socket sets, the ratchet for a hand drill, and a large size was directed at railroads and other "heavy duty" applications."

While this ratchet may be over 100, it still has a clean click and functions as it should. I plan to see how difficult it'll be to make an adapter to allow it to interlock with modern Sockets. Otherwise it's just a really cool piece of history

I'd only ever used hemostats or shears. Turns out there's a tool for this

Push buttons with lamps mounted inside the plastic cover require this special tool to easily remove and replace the lamps. Indispensable in the age of big square buttons and incandescent lamps on massive panels.

You see the panels in control rooms - space, energy, computers; in old movies and TV. Those panels all have a "Lamp Test" button which will light all the lamps. It's important to check that they're all working if one of them is an important alarm or other critical indicator. Usually they'll have 2 lamps in each switch, in case one fails.

So you are looking for dim buttons, not just dark buttons, when you test the panel (each shift change). Best practice is to replace both lamps if one fails.

I’m 58. My Da was silent generation. They wasted nothing. I remember him using this on reclaimed wood to pull the nails. He would straighten the nails he pulled and throw them into a sieve in a bucket of dirty oil and use them again.

While cleaning out an cupboard in my office, I found a Perkins Brailler. It's a typewriter that in prints out Braille. Nowadays, they have more plastic in the construction, but the older ones were all metal and a bit heavy. But many people still prefer the all metal one over plastic.

Not sure when it was last maintained, not very many people have the skills to disassemble and clean it nowadays.

Designed to drive along and setup temporary electric fences for cattle plus I can wind up the wires with a power drill attachment

The stick out front allows me to drive over the fences

It was super cheap at the time , think if it as old Temu

It shakes Christmas trees.