My Dad Gave Me These Yesterday

"Agrajag" (Agrajag) 01/13/2014 at 22:03 • Filed to: tools

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They are from Chrysler's Master Technician program. My Dad was a mechanic for a brief time in the late 60's to early 70's. He always kept these in his tool box, and I remember sneaking looks at them when I was a kid. He used to shoo me away as I had a habit of ruining his things as a a child. Yesterday I was helping him with some things around his house, and as he was rooting around his tool box looking for an pipe wrench he just handed them to me and said "Here these are yours." I hadn't seen these for probably 20 years since when my parents separated. Come to think of it, I was probably the last person to touch these. It meant a great deal to me though and thought I'd share.

Now I just have to clean them.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Agrajag 01/13/2014 at 22:05

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I got my grandfather's old ratchet set, unfortunately, they're really cheap ones, so some parts already broke.

Mathias Rios > Agrajag 01/13/2014 at 22:07

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Wow those are beautiful. I have never seen gold sockets/ratcheting wrenches. I don't know if I would ever use those tools...

Spaceball-Two > Agrajag 01/13/2014 at 22:08

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Who's cutting onions in here?!?!??

Agrajag > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/13/2014 at 22:08

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It's nice to have things you know someone you loved used. Even if you can't.

I would never use these, but I noticed the ratchet is absurdly heavy compared to current ones.

Newsboy > Agrajag 01/13/2014 at 22:10

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Life and Times of Magoo: The People's Champ > Agrajag 01/13/2014 at 22:11

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So cool

TheJWT > Agrajag 01/14/2014 at 00:29

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Those are gorgeous!

RotaryLover > Agrajag 01/14/2014 at 06:41

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Treasure them!

Stef Schrader > Agrajag 01/14/2014 at 12:08

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Those are GORGEOUS.