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Another popular hand tool forum is located at Wood Central. If you want to search the actual contents of journals, reports and other sources of information, try the following link: Knowledge Management Portal. To look up a patented tool, use: DATAMP, the US Patent & Trademark Office, or Google Patents. In order to see the patent images at the USPTO, Windows users will need to download the free plugin, AlternaTIFF. My favorite hand-tools group is CRAFTS of NJ. My data & tool sources are Sandy Moss, Randy Roeder (see Randy's A Millers Falls Home Page, located at oldtoolheaven.com), Jeff Gorman, Patrick Leach, A.K.A. the Merchant of Ashby, and the late Charles Raymond Zitur. Chuck's fine toolchuck.com domain has become defunct because of Chuck's death on November 8, 2005, but the Wayback Machine has apparently archived it completely. Lots more information about patented braces comes from Sandy Moss, Ron Pearson and Jim Price. Gotta-see sites: Scott Grandstaff, Tony Seo, Stan Faullin, Ken Greenberg, The American Precision Museum, The Davistown Museum, and Tremont Nail. My favorite antique-tools auctioneer is Barry Hurchalla, who seems to have moved to Florida .... My favorite other source of antiques is Brimfield. My book sources are ABE Books, MJD Tools and The Astragal Press. Lori Goucher is the contact person for Parts at Stanley Tools. For a remote view on old hand tools, see: HTPAA. Nathan
Lindsey once had a dandy Sawset
Museum.
Nathan's more recent sawsets.com
domain has disappeared. However, the WayBack Machine
has archived many of the pages and images: The
raw index, Vintage
Saw Tool Museum, Aiken
Saw Set, Buckeye
Saw Set, Cook
Hammer Set, Disston
Side Filer, How
to File a Cross-Cut Saw (in
pdf format), Leach's
Patent Saw Set, Morrill
Saw Sets, Saw
Setting Machines, Stillman
Saw Sets, Taintor
Saw Sets, and, best of all, Unique
Saw Sets. Not every image will load, but you might
get lucky
by copying the image's URL into the WayBack Machine's
search
window. It works for many
other broken URL's as well, of course.
My favorite forums for old machines are: The Practical Machinist and Old Woodworking Machines. Other more specific groups that I like are the Grizzly/mini-benchmill (moderated by Barry Young), The Model Engineering List, and Atlas Shaper & Milling Machines. Dave Ficken's website is very helpful for old metalworking machines. TonyLathes is the most complete archive. Or, on the lighter side, see: Lin's Kittens On Canvas. To search free public databases, try: Search Systems. To search sources of scientific literature, try Linda Kosmin Langford's compendium of freely accessible bibliographic databases. Linda also has a list of eJournals available free on line. To search the legal literature and case law, try: Find Law. For a fresh view of local farmers' markets, start at Cullen Langford's webpage, which includes this comprehensive list of Delaware farmers' markets. For Pennsylvania, see this pdf file of farmers' markets within 60 miles of 19312. On Maryland's Eastern Shore, look here for their farmers' markets. New Jersey's Department of Agriculture has an interactive map giving all New Jersey farmers' markets on a county-by-county basis. To combat phishing (fraudulent attempts to steal personal financial information) study: MillerSmiles.co.uk. To find out where that nasty email came from, use: easyWHOIS. To find out which IP's are blacklisted and by whom, as well as to find out the best reporting address for abuse issues: OpenRBL.org Domain Dossier is now my best resource for finding addresses for reporting abuses. To find out how to interpret suspicious emails, see the FTC's Spam for Consumers. For those clearly illegal spams, report them to scams@fraudwatchinternational.com, reportphishing@antiphishing.org, and/or to spam@uce.gov. My favorite spam combating service used to be SpamCop.net, but they eliminated their formerly very handy popmail forwarding service and dumped me. When it looks as though the abuse desk of the IP hosting the ofending site isn't going to be responsive, consider reporting the email to the upstream adjacencies, which you can find by entering the Autonomous System Number that you have obtained into the Selected AS Report window at the bottom of the CIDR-Report. Then, go back to OpenRBL.org to get the reporting address. If you get a phish with an odd-looking URL containing lots of % signs or just one big number with no punctuation, it will have to be decoded from hex (the former coding) to alphanumeric or to base 256 (the latter obfuscation) so that you can find out the canonical name or IP address, respectively. Domain Dossier automatically decodes many obfuscated URLs and even finds the canonical names of numerical IP addresses quite often. |
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