Restored 1959 Craftsman 100 Table Saw

[Frank S]

Yep he has been assimilated. One thing about the HMT.net collective is there is almost never any resistance once someone has seen, felt or heard how gratifying it becomes to make, re purpose or rebuild tools they have, need or just want.
I've been trying to talk a guy out of an old Buffalo flat belt drill press for years. it is just laying on the ground with weeds growing over it doing nothing but deteriorating with each passing season. The gentleman is in his late 80's and poor health I know for a stone cold fact that his sons are planning on scraping everything he has once he passes so they can bull doze his house barns and shop to build a multi family condo. His oldest son has been telling him that he should either give or sell me anything that I want while he is still alive, because he knows his 4 brothers are just vindictive enough to make sure that no one get's the stuff before it is busted up for scrap.
Sad really but that is the way some folks minds work when they are handed everything through out their lives and never had to labor for anything.

[Toolmaker51]

Yep he has been assimilated. One thing about the HMT.net collective is there is almost never any resistance once someone has seen, felt or heard how gratifying it becomes to make, re purpose or rebuild tools they have, need or just want...4 brothers are just vindictive enough to make sure that no one get's the stuff before it is busted up for scrap...
...Sad really but that is the way some folks minds work when they are handed everything through out their lives and never had to labor for anything.

Amen; make, mend, re-purpose and rebuild is one generation's function to fill true need or simple wants. Another, exactly as described, merely awakes to any sort of property. If the trait isn't absorbed, can't recognize either of those as a gift. The insult is on them, feeding mindless "it's MINE" greed, waste, landfills, crappy replacements [more correctly poor substitutes] completely ignorant of potential in the secondary market.
And the condo will likely be all spec grade materials to boot. Showy on the surface, everything pared to minimum underneath.

Far too many gifts aren't rewards or honorary, just habit.