Tool kits, then & now.

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So got to thinking today as I cast my eye over my array of tools and equipment that I use on a daily basis to carry out the work that I do.
And what a difference 30+ years make!

This was my kit back in 1983 oh plus a string line,
What was your kit back when you first started???

I'll post a pic of my current kit tomorrow, let's do yesteryear first :)

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Yes, they're original Bal nippers, no, they're not for sale :D
 
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3_fall said:
So got to thinking today as I cast my eye over my array of tools and equipment that I use on a daily basis to carry out the work that I do.
And what a difference 30+ years make!

This was my kit back in 1983 oh plus a string line,
What was your kit back when you first started???

I'll post a pic of my current kit tomorrow, let's do yesteryear first :)

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Yes, they're original Bal nippers, no, they're not for sale :D
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Didn't have a squeegee like that was handed a length of rubber to make one, and where's your mixing stick, pointing stick, hacksaw, wooden float and small boat level
 
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My first ever job was a herringbone on the 45 with a two tile border... they were 20mm thick and 200x 100. I had a bucket with a stick. An 8mm notched trowel and a grinder (borrowed) His mate, a tiler of 10 years came round for a brew and saw the floor. He offered me a job on the spot. I did a pub for him in Cheshire out of the back of a borrowed fiesta with no clutch and never looked back.
My dad took me out and bought me a load of tools, then some scumbag Stanley knifed the window out of the car and robbed everything. On the plus side I started seeing the copper that gave me the incident number :)
 
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callatiler said:
Didn't have a squeegee like that was handed a length of rubber to make one, and where's your mixing stick, pointing stick, hacksaw, wooden float and small boat level
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Yep you're right about squeegee, that's the oldest one I could find. And I did look at my boat level and wondered whether to include it, and believe it or not I did consider putting in a mixing stick haha
But I don't believe I had more than what you see above. And a mixing stick would have been sourced on site. And yes the squeegee would have been a rubber blade, but hey, my memnory isn't what it used to be Dave. :)
 
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6 months trial to see if you were Suitable to serve your time, after 6 months trial sign your papers for apprenticeship of 3 years then you were given your tools then was £2.00 per week off pay for them.
1x 600 mm green canvas tool bag with zip.
1 hickory handle heavy hammer.
1 pin hammer.
1 tungsten tipped chisel.
1 cold chisel.
1 rubber mallet.
1 6mm tyzack steel serrated trowel
1 10 mm tyzack steel serrated trowel
1 tyzack steel trowel
1 spear and Jackson hacksaw and 3 blades
1 pair steel pincers
1 pair tungsten mosaic snips
1 bal tungsten scriber
1 wooden float
1 pair tin snips
1 600 mm Rabone Chesterman box level
1 Rabone Chesterman small wooden boat level
1 plumb bob
1 tyzack guager
1 length black rubber to make a blade squeegee
1 Rabone Chesterman metre wooden ruler
 
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