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Seems like I bought some at Western auto when they were around.

I was once kidnapped by a bunch of mimes...they did unspeakable things.

Rosco was indeed the largest manufacturer of screwdrivers for a time: the company produced tools under the monikers Millers Falls, Ace, Cotter, Sears, Rosco and others. I'm the granddaughter of one of the founders, Leon. He and his brothers--Abe, Sam, and Bernie--initially founded the company as an auto parts concern in Manhattan. It later moved to 100 Landing Avenue in Smithtown and, after a time, was rebranded as Rosco Tools. Owners Mike, Joe, Ross, and Bud (my dad) represented the next generation.

Six decades working on big trucks and mining equipment. Never stripped out an SK ratchet. I still have a 1/2 inch drive ratchet that I bent the handle on with a pipe after breaking a long handle snap on breaker bar.

Two jobs ago, I made one out of a K-Mart six foot extension cord, cleat socket and cord switch...total cost? 99 cents for the extension cord.. everything else was stuff found around the shop. . It didn't get a lot of use, so it was fine...I used a 100 watt bulb with it..

If you use a wire-peircing probe, cover the hole with nail polish or plastidip when done to prevent water ingress and corrosion.

When the freezer section of your refrigerator starts peeing water onto the kitchen floor, you'll be glad to have one of these. There's a drain hole in the back/bottom of the freezer that's supposed to allow defrost water to drain into the pan underneath, where it can evaporate unnoticed, but it freezes up and won't drain anymore, and it makes for a sheet of ice on the freezer floor and then water flows out onto the floor when no one is looking. A little steam onto that drain will make short work of defrosting the blockage and getting everything back to normal.

Great stuff - that kit was top of the line in its time. The 0.5mm lead labeled "for film" probably referred to drawing on Mylar/vellum instead of paper which was more durable but also more expensive. A couple of places I've worked had huge file vault rooms full of D & E size vellums and Mylars dating back many years. I took the last drafting class my HS offered, and by the time I got to college CAD was the thing. I never really liked CAD - during my engineering career I have always been blessed with a good "CAD guy" I can hand off my sketches to. The drafting table and dad's old Gramercy drafting kit still get plenty of use on my personal projects.

4:11 Strap-on! HA!

0:53 I don't think that we would see a bad bend from factory. As well as the blade not fitting w/o being trimmed like The Baller pointed out. I say HS project.

Add the Stanley, or Stan-Ree as someone once called them, reputation for shysterism continues. IF one needs ANY proof of the old adage of "someone making whatever they touch, turn to shit, ANY product owned by Stanley WILL serve as proof, MAC tools being one that Stanley succeeded in running into the ground.

The ink for those ruling pens would have to be fairly thicc to stay in between those prongs Also I think those Pentel leads might have been for a mech pencil, they don't look thicc enough for the drafting pencil

Drafting supplies are pretty much obsolete today so I've picked up some hauls of the junk. I have enough of it to open a fairly good sized office I figure. I even have a drafting machine. One of those parallelogram with bands deals. It used to belong to the Navy I think? It's a real nice one. Sometimes I still do some drafting for projects. I suck at CAD.

I was disappointed in them. Really excited and bought them b4 really examining them and when I first used them to fix an outlet and pulled one of the handle grips off. Already warrantied them for that. Disappointed they didn't make an automotive version and a home wiring version.

Your artistic ability makes Leonardo look like a hack

I only took one semester of drawing at the community college. It focused on electrical drawings as part of 2 year electrical degree. The CAD machines were delivered within 2 weeks of the semester end with plans to add CAD to the following semester program. We were allowed to play with CAD for a couple of days. I was a maintenance technician, and I took to rearing children instead of completing the degree. I retired earlier and wealthier than most of my degreed co-workers. The wife never worked and homeschooled our brood of 9. I was shocked that my technician income outperformed my 2 income professional co-workers. I always wanted a full drawing kit with proper drafting table, machine, lighting, stool, etc. I never had the space at home to purchase those relics as our engineering departments phased out manual drawing. I sirt if still want a drafting table and kit, but several decades have passed with little practical need for me to do any real drafting chores. I added a second 4600 SF shop building to my existing shop soace after I retired. I could justify a drafting table space now!

I used it as a backup light when diving. It kept working, even at a debt of 30 meters and more!

I used it as a backup light when diving. It kept working, even at a debt of 30 meters and more!

True…..don’t dunk in evaporust or vinegar. They will break…..lots of info online. It happened to me and I am the one who mentioned it to John. He gave me cudos on his video.

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Box should be grounded as well.

What a find. History, culmination of a thousand years or more of drafting. Sad somehow it was abandoned, someone made a living with those.

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These tools were used by people who fed their families and made their life using them. Computers put them out of work. Thanks for sharing. I did see a Vemco blue dot compass in the mix. Collectable and functional.

A place I worked at had a men's room on the second floor, it had a dozen stalls and 20 urinals. This always seemed weird to me, until an older guy told me the second floor was originally the drafting department (1950s thru the '70s). Those guys had to work nonstop at their tables until a bell went off and they had a 10 minute break.

I remember drafting class in high school. Despite being a total dipsh*t of a student, I did enjoy it, although my complete lack of focus probably made my grandpa, a career draftsman, spin in his grave. I probably would have gotten more out of it had I paid more attention. I do still use some of the basic techniques when I have to sketch something out.

Omg. I laughed till I cried. I don't know how I made it without your channel.

How do I find you on ebay?

I avoid politics and religion but your video was presented elegantly.

I work in the mapping department of our electric utility company and up until the late 90’s, the maps were made by hand by my earlier counterparts who mostly have long since retired. But there was an area of the room that had drafting tables and all the same tools in this kit along with a myriad of inks and paints that they used. By the time I got into the department it had been computerized for ten years and very few people left even knew how to use these tools and they were just a curiosity. I am nearly 60 now and I remember taking mechanical drawing in high school and used some of these things. So I have a basic understanding of their uses and can still do certain techniques by hand if I need to or want to. I remember in the 90’s that my father had a hand truck that needed new wheels and I sketched out the old wheels with inner and outer diameters and offsets for the hubs that his would need and he took the sketch to an industrial supply store like Grainger and he showed the guy at the counter what he needed and the guy was apparently impressed with the drawing and my father returned beaming with pride along with the new wheels that I had to then install. To this day I keep a steel erasing shield in each car. They are very useful for things beyond drawing and erasing with. Even as a way of getting into a house when I love my keys inside and need to Jimmy the lock.

I used a similar kit but made by Steadler in the mid 80’s…. Now we use CATIA !!!!

I think it was Scoutcrafter that had the round top spring break on him after soaking one of those it Evaporust.

Ruling pens must be mirror polished on he tips to be of any use, I've moved on to Rotring pens, they are scary to use due to all the accidents. A whetstone will do wonders on your I think if you want to try them. I have a lot of drafting instruments, since I love mechanical drawing. If you want to ge started, the old Popular Mechanics book is a good way to start!

It was dependent on the US China trade agreement of 1979. Harbor Freight was making s**t all till they were able to import cheap tools from China. Massive profits became possible due to the low wages paid in China. The same thing happened with clothes and useless plastic garbage sold at Walmart. They made billions riding on the back of oppressed Chinese people.

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Have you done any research on Cornwell tools

Happy new year 2025, young man !

Acetone vapors are acetylene

The mother was still alive when the father retired. There was a brother, don't know what happened to him?

Eric's role in this company is being massively exaggerated, he also tried to steal it from his father (as noted) , he's been drinking Elon musk's Kool-Aid. Father-in-law was a very early employee, I have vintage Harbor Freight products of his. Eric was not 17 when the company was founded, as incorrectly noted elsewhere.

Keep your awesome tool vids coming!

I finished out the year with a video where I learned something. Happy New Year!

Love Harbor Freight. Keeping it real and sticking it to Snap-on

Try a cake pan . Lay it horizontal.

I have a bright red handled version , use it often .

Neat experiment, no doubt! Personally, those wedgy drivers are precious enough now to justify a complete re-handle out of special hardwood or something.. I've had a few old plastic handles split on me and they were kinda fun to make handles for. Sidenote, magnetic tips are just fine in PC's. I think the danger came from days past when all floppies (and tapes) had to do was just stare at a magnet from 20ft across the room to fail, HARD.