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I absolutely plan on researching, and lurking around here and asking some questions. Thank you all for the welcome.

For sure he did and does. When we talk he asks me if I found this or that and if I'm taking care of them lol.

No doubt about it. I'll still keep them right where they were in the boxes though. I doubt I'll use much of this stuff, except the pressure test kits and arsenal of ratchets and wrenches, but maybe, one day they will emerge and do what they were meant to. And it feels good to be close to em.

Nice, thank you. Make sense, my grandfather spent a lot of years working on transmissions at Ford, I'm sure it got a lot of use! Never had to use one before, good to know it's there though! There is a ton of cool items, Snap-On torque wrench, last calibrated in '75, I'm going to see if I can get that one checked, full battery of compression\vacuum\fuel pressure test kits, 70 year old air tools, die and tap kits, some cool tools. Bunch of similar run out gauges, bore gauges, and micrometers too.

Hello folks. I'm new to the forum, with a growing interest in vintage and antique vehicles. I spent my childhood wrenching on old cars with my grandfather, Anthony, who was a mechanic since he was a teenager in the 1940's, a Technician in an ordinance unit in Korea, service manager at Hempstead Ford in NY in the 1960's, and owned a Dodge dealership from 1974 until 1994. I grew up loving automotive and old vehicles, one of my favorite projects was a 1941 Plymouth coupe. The musty smell of the upholstery, the style of the body, the feel of sitting in the cab, the advanced air conditioning system (some may call it the tiny fan haha), and the feeling getting it back on the road with the old man and seeing how damn happy he was driving it. Turning 40 in November, my grandfather is 89, no longer able to get under a hood, and I proudly have been gifted his beloved and fairly extensive tool set. I came here by chance, I was looking up a part number for an interesting looking gauge I've never seen before, and happened upon a post from someone else attempting to identify an old tool from the same manufacturer. Saw the forum, and thought this seems like a cool place check out. I am starting to get an itch to own and maintain an old comfortable boat of some kind, undecided as of yet. I also hope to satisfy my curiosity as I can identify most tools, but this one is stumping me, and google searches for the part were unsuccessful. It's functional component is a pressure gauge of some kind, using a small rod at the top of the gauge for measurement. If anyone knows something about it I'd much appreciate knowing. Thanks and see you around the forum.