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PDA Value Guides

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PDA Value Guides

David Miller from Iowa

>Am I the only anal one, or do others of you carry around text-based type studies, value guides and have/have not lists in your PDAs?

I have the following that I have personally logged in via text-based files:

Value guide for all Stanley Planes with above number 9 � brief description and one representative price from Walter�s 2nd Edition. Here�s an excerpt

#28 trans fore - 18" x 2 3/8" - $25

#29 trans fore - 20" x 2 3/8" -$30

#30 trans jointer 22"x2 3/8"-$35

#31 trans jointer 24"x2 3/8"- $35

#32 trans jointer 26" x 2 5/8" - $30

Value guide for all Stanley spokeshaves � listing and one representative price from Walter�s 2nd Edition

Stanley 45 type study (my own text-based hybrid between Smith�s and Heckel�s). Here�s an excerpt:

Knob on one-piece fence, stippled nickel body

Logo Stanley Rule & Level Co Pat Mch 11, 84 Jan 22,95 - Type 9 1908-1909

Logo Stanley Rule & Level Co. Pat Jan 22, 95 - Type 10 1909

Old fashion script logo - Type 11 1910-1914

Stanley 46 type study (my own text-based summary based upon Smith�s)

Bedrock type study (my own text-based summary based upon Kaune�s)

Obviously, one would need to have read the originals and be skilled with the vagaries � this is just a pneumonic aid. I would be happy to share these via independent email with interested parties, providing I am not violating any copyrights. I read this information, condensed it into concise text-only sound bytes, and I�m giving it away to my tool comrades � you could copy it into your PDA notes file and consult it anywhere. Can someone tell me if my free distribution of this information is legit?

If so, I would be interested in receiving the other type studies in Walter�s as well as a Sargent and Siegley #2 type study (I lost my Gristmill with this one in it).

I'm not sure what I'm getting myself into with this offer, so be patient.

David

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no idea but

Dennis

>what does one do with a PDA on a shaving horse.....maybe i really don't want to know.

Dennis,who really thinks eating turkey brings out the best in some.

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3x5 card in wallet

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>though it mostly lists mechanics tools I need - socket sizes. I know which planes I'd like, though I'm now at the stage that I'd like planes of which only ten were sold in California during their production lifetime. I've figured out that I don't need to buy any more chisels, after counting the need-handle chisels I own and realizing that six or eight (can't recall) 1/2" chisels, as well as fewer of all the other sizes up to 1", and a good selection of wider ones, is probably enough. Unless of course I find a Witherby, PEXTO, or Swan chisel.

"pneumonic aid?" I didn't realize that PDAs did physiology - my dictionary says that "pneumonic" means "Of, affecting, or relating to the lungs; pulmonary" or "Relating to, affected by, or similar to pneumonia." Did you perhaps mean "mnemonic?" - pronounced practically the same even though it's another one of those Greek-root words with silent consonants whose spelling makes absolutely no sense in English.

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bad memory

David Miller from Iowa

>Yes, Bill it is obviously mnemonic - thanks.

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Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>I have given up on rust hunting here in SoFla, but when I did I just carried the two Walters price guides with me in my truck. The little, price-only one fits in a pocket.

I never got into the PDA thing. I have bought a couple for the wife, but they end up sitting in a drawer.

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I do wish, sometimes,

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>that I lived in the parts of the country where carrying value guides was a worthwhile activity. This area doesn't qualify as old tool hell; though it's taken me well over 20 years of bottom feeding to accumulate a fairly decent set of tools, the prices have all in all been pretty decent (highest price was $55 for a No. 8 plane in an actual junque shoppe, but most of the planes were under $10).

For those who live where they're useful, your offer is quite generous - and typical of this forum.

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kees

>I,ve a palmzire a basic one, but fantastic; I don't miss all the little notes in my pockets.

A think a laptop is to big to take it with me, a pda with ethernet to do email, powerpoint, and visiting woodcentral would be fine.

kees

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Wade Mackey

>No value guide,but I do keep my tool wish list on the PDA and update it as I get each one.

Wade Mackey

Lancaster, PA

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PDAs and Notes

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>Yeah, I am one of those pockets full of notes and lists guys. A laptop PC is too big, and writing notes, etc., seems so tedious on the PDAs.

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kees

>me too ;-)

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