My first rebuild was a Briggs and Stratton 5 hp engine that I had an "old timer" looking over my shoulder the whole time. I was 13. About that same time I started hanging out at a local shop as much as I could helping out doing whatever I could. A couple of those early years I sold personalized Christmas Cards door to door and spent all of the earnings at Sears on Craftsman tools. Like riethoven I still have some of those tools that I purchased 36 years ago
. On more than one occasion I would spend every bit of my paycheck on Craftsman tools.