My dad stored odd nuts and bolts in baby food jars.

He had a stack of cigar boxes with random odds and ends in them too. Cigar 
boxes are handy, I wish they were still around. I see people are selling empty 
ones on Amazon.


On Tue, May 2, 2023, at 13:04, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote:
> My Dad was a pipe smoker and he always got a special blend of tobacco 
> from Strauss & Co., the third oldest continuously operating tobacconist 
> in the U.S. located in Cincinnati that believe it or not, is still in 
> business: https://www.e-straus.com
>
> He would buy a big box/case, whatever, and the tobacco was packed in 
> these metal cans that were 5x4x8 in size roughly. Because there were so 
> many of these cans around the house, like many of us have probably seen 
> the old dude’s shop with the Mason jars for storage, he used them for 
> storing stuff in the workshop.
>
> He had a number of customers who had machine shops. One of them would 
> give him all of their cast off (dull) drill bits.
>
> I have a couple of tobacco cans still in my garage with those bits. 
> Gotta drill a hole? Dig around in the cans and find a bit, might need 
> sharpening, but after a few strokes of a file it’s good. If I break it, 
> big deal, go grab another. These drills and the cans they are in are 
> easily 50-60 years old...
>
> -D
>
> On May 2, 2023, at 10:34 AM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes 
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com<mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote:
>
> While at the old CrossFit gym this morning I noticed a burley wire 
> rack/shelf was coming down from the wall; the undersized drywall 
> anchors were coming out. Since I’m currently in a five day no workout 
> phase (to get a more accurate PSA number in my labs), I figured I’d fix 
> it.
> Whoever put the shelf up utilized the too wee anchors because they were 
> butted up against the metal studs for the wall. I reckoned I’d drill 
> through the stud and utilize Molly bolts so that biotch will not come 
> down again.
> I scurried home and grabbed the tools to make this happen. As I 
> rummaged through my hand-me-down drill bits, I finally found the seldom 
> used 1/2”. After drilling a 3/8” pilot hole, I went after it with the 
> 1/2” bit….and I broke it. Yes, I broke a 1/2” drill bit with seemingly 
> little effort.
> I returned to my shitshow of bits to see if there was another 1/2”, I 
> realized I’ve been using this mish mash of bits all my life. What an 
> epiphany. Harbor freight, here I come.
> $19 later, 1/8” thru 1/2” titanium bits in a tidy case.  These will do.
>
> AZBob
>
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