So it's been a while since I've updated the shop thread and a ton has changed. I mean a ton. I've already repaired several vehicles in there, including my own. The Blue Wagon lives in there, and I used it to protect windshields when we had snow a few weeks back, so I got to drive around with a clean truck in the snow lol.
Anyhow, I've almost got it set up the way that I want it, and there have been several huge things that have happened since my last post. I kept wanting to buy a drill press, a bench grinder, legit drill bits, and a few other sundry things that basically amounted to a few thousand dollars worth of just shop tools. Just things you need in a shop for it to function in any way. So I found a used bench top drill press and was discussing that with my family over lunch for my dad's 75th birthday. So brother in law says, my dad had one in his shop (his dad had passed away about 10 years ago). So I go look at it and find this:
This is it sitting in my shop now. So when we look at it, I ask how much he wants for it. He says take it, use it, maybe help me out some time, but it's yours if you want it. Then later he says, we should look in his dads shop that no one has been in in the last 10 years. He tells me that I can get anything that I want from it. I'm dumbfounded because low and behold I find a super old and sturdy bench grinder, all the drill bits anyone could ever ask for, a drill press vice, tons of measuring tools, taps, dies, easy outs, basically everything that I had been wanting, plus a whole lot more, and the craziest part....... He gave it all to me. And it wasn't junk. There was a lot of Snap On there, and other really good name brands. All the drill bits were from a textile mill's machine shop. So they are all super high quality.
So much good stuff, and I've used it all and everything works great so far. Needed cleaning, adjusting, oiling, but only because it had sat for 10 years, but all of it worked great!
This was also there, along with a little over half of the original pieces, but all of the big stuff. It's now mounted on the wall. It's just killer to look at!