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About Me
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I love tools - any tool
After retirement I planned to design and build an EDM machine and some solar energy systems (and I still plan to do so). But I got sidetracked when I bought a mill and lathe to support my endeavors. I needed tooling for my machines. At first I bought the wrong tooling, Then I paid to much for tooling. Then I figured out how to get good tooling cheap, so I bought lots of it to offset the cost of the stuff I paid to much for (seemed logical at the time). My first attempt to sell off some of my excess tooling on eBay ended up paying for all the other tooling I had bought. So I bought more and made enough (using my own primitive website) to pay for both machines. I was hooked (I could play with lots of different tools and make money doing it). 10+ years later I've bought and sold approximately 50,000 items, have 10,000 items currently posted for sale and another 10,000 items waiting to be posted. Just a "small" diversion from my original retirement plans.
Now I'm looking to get back to those projects I put on hold 10 years ago, plus a long list I've made in the interim. So I've basically stopped buying and will soon start dumping small slow moving stuff (inserts, drill bits, taps, end mills, etc.) on eBay at $0.99 start bid with no reserve. If someone would be interested in taking Tools-n-Gizmos off my hands (website, inventory, supporting systems, etc) for a bargain basement price, call me - lets chat.
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Who am I ?
 Born Bemidji MN (named Steven Hofford Jones at birth)
Adopted as Steve Richard Stovner
Grew up Poor Farm Boy in Southwest WA (Ridgefield, Brush Prairie)
Almost always in trouble as a kid.
Left home at 14 and worked on a dairy milking 120 head before and after school
High School dropout.
US Army 101st Airborne 506th Recon 1962-63
US Army Aviation Electronics Instructor 1963-66
Boeing Electronics Tech (Audio Systems)
Night School for 7 years
Board member - several nonprofit corporations aiding handicapped kids
Electronics technical service rep (747 PES/PSS)
Honeywell Marine Systems Environmental Test Engineer
Tau Beta Phi Engineering Honor Society
BSEE from U of W with focus on Applied Math and Computer Science
Boeing Flight Deck Systems Engineer (Crew systems)
Created & Published Marine Market Classified Ads
Boeing Aircraft Electronic Systems Engineer (EFIS & AIMS)
Authored several ARINC industry standards
Boeing Aircraft Software Systems and Processes (LSAP, EDS, BEDS, RAM4)
Boeing Associate Technical Fellow
Married twice, Father of 2, Grandfather of 4, Great-Grandfather of 1 (as of 4/12)
Lived on Sailboat for 20 years
Retired from Boeing at 55
Married to the love of my life for over 30 years - lost her to appendix cancer in 2011
Have lived in 6 states, visited 41 states and 8 countries
Logger, Welder, Machinist, Programmer, Carpenter, Mechanic,,,,
Inventor, Patent holder, Opinionated Visionary
Tools-n-Gizmos.com creator/owner/pion
Backgammon, Blackjack and Poker player
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