Engineering Tool Retail Display

[maycontainthunder]

I thought some would be interested to see this including @Nitro @Gerontius . Way back in the day if you went into a machine tool dealer you'd see various makers' products displayed something like this. This specific display Dad bought about twenty years ago when the tools inside were worth more than the display. Any display like this is rare now because nearly all were broken up and the tools inside sold off.

Sorry I couldn't get the whole thing in shot.

 

[Gerontius]

Not just machine tools-- Sheffield-made English tools. Delightful. Look at all those files. Harbor Freight has nothing on a display like that!

 

[Tom]

Tbh, this is the first thing that comes to mind when I go into a hardware store.

 

[MildredHubble]

I thought some would be interested to see this including @Nitro @Gerontius . Way back in the day if you went into a machine tool dealer you'd see various makers' products displayed something like this. This specific display Dad bought about twenty years ago when the tools inside were worth more than the display. Any display like this is rare now because nearly all were broken up and the tools inside sold off.

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Sorry I couldn't get the whole thing in shot.

Oh wow! That's awesome! Just imagine what you could do with all those things. You could probably carve your own car from a block of steel!

On that note, I used to have a joke book when I was a kid where there was this comic strip with a kid carrying a bunch of steel wool. It said "Hey, where are you going with all that steel wool?!" And the reply "I'm going home to get my mom to knit me a car!"

 

[Sunny1]

That is beautiful both for the beauty of the tools themselves, and the artistry of how they were displayed. Thank you for sharing!

 

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I had a German next door neighbour that was a mechanic, he used to drool every time the Snap-On tools van drove past. His mother was Brazillian and he inherited the frizzy hair, quite often you'll see on TV shows a woman with this hair type and she'll have a ball point pen stuck in it.

I dropped in to see this bloke at work one day, he slid out from underneath a car and he had a 10 mm spanner, a 12 mm spanner and a philips head screwdriver stuck in his hair. He said his hair was very useful.