Bruce Foley
08-15-2004, 6:32 PM
Hi Folks:
Can you read age of Powermatic machines by SN#? Have two that start with 79XXXXXXXX.
Is this a 1979 manufacturer's date??
I've been very remiss in keeping up with the Creek lately, but I thought that I would perform a drive-by, not-so-hidden gloat on my unbelievable luck on Sat. Normally, LOML and myself do the yard sale tour around our small town on Saturdays,only takes about an hour or so. Yesterday morning was different- I found a fella moving to Hawaii and was unloading his woodworking shop!! I asked if he was getting out of the craft and how much of a shame it would be to let this hobby go. It turns out that to ship all of his tools was going to cost around $2000, too much for him.
Since this was only a block away, I strolled over about 30 minutes early while LOML was getting ready. This other fella whom I also know as a woodworker opines that another neighbor was packing out a router. Well, we march in and ask if we also can look. Turns out that the good stuff is still in the garage out back. We waltz in there and start slobbering simultaneously. He picks up a fairly recent Bailey No.5, while my eye goes directly to a PM66 in pieces. I ask how much. He says $300. I ask how much for the PM 1150 drillpress: $200. I don't have my checkbook and I need fresh air. I ask him to hold the items while I run (yes, I do mean run, at least as this 46yr old body can.) LOML is now coming up the street to collect her husband. She says "What??" then
begrudingly "OK" as I hop up and down like our 11year old getting a new skateboard.
To end this unforgivingly long story- I leave with a PM66($300, about 20 years old),a PM drill press, 2 new Freud and 3 Craftsman 10" blades, 4 14" jorgy wood clamps,for $540. Later as I collect my treasures, a Leigh 1258R Dovetail jig($40),floor
matting($10), and a new respirator($7) find their way home with me. The guy also wanted to give me a bunch of early FWW, but I felt way to guilty- I told him that we could put them on eBay for him. It really was the least that I could do....:D :D
Bruce Foley
Livingston, MT
Can you read age of Powermatic machines by SN#? Have two that start with 79XXXXXXXX.
Is this a 1979 manufacturer's date??
I've been very remiss in keeping up with the Creek lately, but I thought that I would perform a drive-by, not-so-hidden gloat on my unbelievable luck on Sat. Normally, LOML and myself do the yard sale tour around our small town on Saturdays,only takes about an hour or so. Yesterday morning was different- I found a fella moving to Hawaii and was unloading his woodworking shop!! I asked if he was getting out of the craft and how much of a shame it would be to let this hobby go. It turns out that to ship all of his tools was going to cost around $2000, too much for him.
Since this was only a block away, I strolled over about 30 minutes early while LOML was getting ready. This other fella whom I also know as a woodworker opines that another neighbor was packing out a router. Well, we march in and ask if we also can look. Turns out that the good stuff is still in the garage out back. We waltz in there and start slobbering simultaneously. He picks up a fairly recent Bailey No.5, while my eye goes directly to a PM66 in pieces. I ask how much. He says $300. I ask how much for the PM 1150 drillpress: $200. I don't have my checkbook and I need fresh air. I ask him to hold the items while I run (yes, I do mean run, at least as this 46yr old body can.) LOML is now coming up the street to collect her husband. She says "What??" then
begrudingly "OK" as I hop up and down like our 11year old getting a new skateboard.
To end this unforgivingly long story- I leave with a PM66($300, about 20 years old),a PM drill press, 2 new Freud and 3 Craftsman 10" blades, 4 14" jorgy wood clamps,for $540. Later as I collect my treasures, a Leigh 1258R Dovetail jig($40),floor
matting($10), and a new respirator($7) find their way home with me. The guy also wanted to give me a bunch of early FWW, but I felt way to guilty- I told him that we could put them on eBay for him. It really was the least that I could do....:D :D
Bruce Foley
Livingston, MT