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Well Made Hand Tools Last Forever....

Some of my tools are actually hard working antiques.... That are still plugging away.....

Back when manufacturer's were proud of their products, they attached a brass placard, just so you wouldn't forget........

Today.... you find out your tools are made in China....:cryin:

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The origin of the Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co. dates back to 1797. In that year Seth Peck, of Southington, Conn., commenced the manufacture of Tinsmiths' Machines, to take the place of hand tools exclusively used by tinsmiths before that date. By gradual growth the following firms have succeeded to that business: Seth Peck & Co., O. & X. Peck, Peck, Smith & Co. and the Peck-Smith Mfg. Co.

Up to this time the sole manufacture was tinsmiths' tools and machines. By 1870 the S. Stow Mfg. Co. of Plantsville, and the Roys & Wilcox Co. of East Berlin were competitors in that business. In December 1870, these three firms united and formed a joint stock company under the name of the Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co. In 1880 the firm was incorporated by special act of the General Assembly with an authorized capital of one and a half million dollars. Within a year that amount of capital was all paid in and Wilcox, Treadway & Co., of Cleveland, C, was absorbed by the firm.

The company now has factories in Southington, Plantsville and East Berlin, Conn., covering a floor space of about two hundred and sixty thousand square feet. and factories in Cleveland, O., covering about eighty-nine thousand feet more, making in all about seven and a half square acres.

Tinsmiths' tools and machines still constitute a prominent portion of the company's product, but a varied line has been gradually added. This now embraces as its principal items, carpenters, machinists and blacksmiths tools, housekeeping implements such as meat and food cutters, coffee mills and scale beams and a varied assortment of builders' hardware.

In 1950, the company was bought out by Billings & Spencer. The PEXTO logo is now used by RW Acquisition, L.L.C. which also owns Roper Whitney .

 

For his catamaran?

They still using tars for dock bumpers?

 

GP-2 Front Under tray...

Another GP-2 part showed up today at the shop.... And yes, Justa Jim.... It will get installed this weekend...

With the combination of the front under tray, the mid section under panels and the rear diffuser.... the drag is supposed to be reduced by 6%...

Interesting construction... Fiberglass mat co-mingled with the polypropylene resin.... Added stiffness and impact resistance...

Complete with all fasteners...

Bottom View... NASA ducts and central louvers for extra cooling...



Top view... with heat shield in the area of the bottom of the down pipe...

 

My neighbor had some of his toys out front...

My squinty eyes tell me the far right is a Mclaren..... Some kinda 4WD thing in the middle... And a Toyota thing on the left...



And this afternoon when I was out cutting my grass on my John Deere.... He drove by in his white wagon.... I waved... He didn't... That's cool... Bet he doesn't have a JD like mine...

 

Got home tonight and found this little guy hiding next my yard furniture...

 

^^^ Nope... It's hard to get that weathered patina look...