Shop Truths, Phrases, Tales; and Outright Lies

[C-Bag]

It is a little scary what a good team we are. I get the feeling Frank's wife is integral to his TAS too. I have to be careful what I bring up because my best half will take it on as a priority. While some would see this as great(and it is) it makes it very hard to stay in my lane and not get carried away. Where we live the housing is just ridiculous so there have been several places come up that have incredible shops but the cost is just not within reason. Especially when I factor in how old we both are. It's sad to realize there less road out front than behind. So much to do and learn still.

These crazy estate sales seem to run in spurts. There was another old guy sale we went to this morning. It seemed he was a brake and suspension guy with a great shop behind his house. Several great heavy cabinets for $25ea! And one cab had a brake shoe grinder mounted on it, $25. When was the last time you saw a shoe grinder? Last one I saw was probably 20-40yrs ago. The cabs would have been great, especially for the price, but i just don't have the room which is by design. I know it doesn't make sense but I'm too that point of going in all these old guy shops and seeing the poor widow and family dealing with us old guys looking for deals trying to keep from turning into hoarders ourselves. The one that was killing me was a shoe riveting station with built in grinder. I knew it would be $25 too and I'd HAVE to have it as there might be room and I could mod it for something I'd use......so I didn't ask Dodged the bullet, backed away from the hoarder intervention.