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wasn't sure where to post this, a couple categories would have probably been appropriate. I was digging through the kitchen junk drawer earlier and thought of my grandfather. He was a scrounger, I think that was developed from the 1930s depression. He was a self employed fabricator. In his shop he had a shelf 4 feet wide by 7 feet tall. On this shelf he had boxes and boxes of nuts and bolts, many of them used. The 30s came and went and then the war came. To my granddad "the war" was world war 2. He had departed from the 30s and it was just as bad in the early 40s. He had to scrounge everything to fabricate. He made a roller from flat roller chain, gears and pipe. I asked him what the roller was for, he said he made it to make gas tanks. During the war a gas tank could not be acquired. I wish I had kept that roller. He went as far as building his own welder, not really from scratch but he bought a armature and coupled a model a engine to it. He later put a wisconcin engine on it. I think the 30s and the war shaped who he was. My junk drawer and all its goodies reminded me of his shelf of bolts. I have a bunch of his bolts on a shelf in my shop and I dig through it once in awhile. He never threw anything out.
here's a few things I found in some family photo boxes, not really to do with nuts and bolts though.
here's a few things I found in some family photo boxes, not really to do with nuts and bolts though.