mrzoom Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I have this problem. My dad who will be 99 this month lives in San Diego Del Cerro area and has two power tools , a Craftsman table saw and a Craftsman bench top drill press both good condition from the 50's that I want him to get rid of before he decides to saw or drill something and get hurt. He is willing to part with them but being old school thinks he should get some $$ for them. CL doesn't work because he is afraid of unknown people calling etc. My plan is to find some honest member from here who could use said items and I will send them money to give "Pops" so he thinks he got something for them. End result is member gets free tools for just picking them up and my Dad has a little WAM. Who's interested.??? Link to comment
Marty Hill Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Sure you will find a good guy close by who needs this. Link to comment
brennaman Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Wish I could help, great idea, and I know there are some great people out on the left coast that will come thru for you. Link to comment
greiffster Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Maybe he could donate them to a high school shop class and take a tax right-off instead? Maybe they are too old. Maybe they don't teach shop anymore. Link to comment
mrzoom Posted August 3, 2015 Author Share Posted August 3, 2015 Yes the tools are old and lack newer safety features but are of the solid quality you can't find today. That saw finished out an attic and a basement with knotty pine tongue and grove solid wood.. The drill press is cast iron!! I remember "Borrowing" it once and somehow I muscled it up from the basement. I couldn't do that today. Dad was a Physicist and over 40 years he did all kinds of neat stuff with the Navy in the degaussing dept, 2 patents, and then with Western Electric where he got 4 more patents on various things he developed. Our basement was THE fun place to be when we were kids. Link to comment
Bill_Walker Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 I'm in the San Diego area, but I can't use the tools. Let me know if there's some other way I can help. Link to comment
algover Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 My brother is interested. He lives not far from Stan, but is not on this board. Will PM you with contact info. Link to comment
mrzoom Posted August 5, 2015 Author Share Posted August 5, 2015 Thank you gentleman. I love it when a plan comes together. Link to comment
mrzoom Posted August 19, 2015 Author Share Posted August 19, 2015 Update.... Thanks to Algover's brother the tools were picked up today. Yes this is a wonderful board filled with great people that can make things happen. Everybody take a bow. Link to comment
Glenn Reed Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Rich and Al, Great job making this turn out well. Link to comment
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