Quote Originally Posted by Erich Weidner View Post
So.. mainly I note that as I sweat all over my planes they start to pit. I'm wondering how any vintage tool survived the eras of no air conditioning with the user dripping on it all the time.
Or maybee I'm just fat and normal people from the old days didn't sweat a lot all over their tools?
In the days before a/c, builders were a lot more competent at constructing habitable structures that encouraged natural airflow. And yes, people were also a lot skinnier. ;^)