Gr8DaneDad
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Michelle,
Yep... we both got it bad
Fun to talk with you!!!
tom
Yep... we both got it bad
Fun to talk with you!!!
tom
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gsheen
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I always say you can never have to many vacuums. I mean what happens if one stopes working you need to have a back up
. Luckily I have a awesome wife who understands and accepts my passion, She even finds me more vacs.
Gr8DaneDad
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I live with only my four legged children and they don't mind my collection, as long as it's not occupying their beds or the couch, they don't really notice.
gsheen
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My cats will sleep on some of mine, The dog is name after one and the angora bunny's now they like to eat the cords or furniture guards
luxy1205
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Tom
I concur, our hobbies take over! It's nice talking to you too! I've met a lot of nice people on here! -Michelle
I concur, our hobbies take over! It's nice talking to you too! I've met a lot of nice people on here! -Michelle
luxy1205
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gsheen
Always have to have a backup of a backup of a backup! Ha ha! Vacuums are my newest and latest hobby. I own the least and know the least about them. That's why I love this site and the people who talk to me and educate me so I can pursue this hobby even more! My number 1 hobby is collecting chainsaws. Between my husband and I we have just passed the 130 mark, but 80+ of those are mine! You can never have enough chainsaws! What if your one saw doesn't work? Then you need like 40 more as backups! Ha Ha! I'm obsessed! Same goes for collecting Sunbeam Mixmasters and clock radios! I have 14 stand mixers, I believe 12 electric hand mixers, over 20 clock radios. I have 5 clock radios in our bedroom that I switch off on. They all get a turn to wake me up in the morning! Gotta love tube technology!!! Now I know I have over 20 chainsaws in my house. The only rooms that don't have a chainsaw are the bathroom and kitchen, but that can change! Same with all the other stuff I collect, they can coincide together quite nicely! Ha Ha! My husband is awesome! Not only has he taught me how to fix and rebuild everything I collect, but he's the one that has mostly bought me all of the stuff I collect! I've learned how to work on circuit boards, tube and solid state/transistor radios, rebuild carburetors on the chainsaws, paint, fix metal, rebuild the mixers' motors, and etc. I've learned a lot and will always learn new and great things thanks to having someone to share it all with! I know what you mean when it comes to having a great spouse! We are lucky! -Michelle
Always have to have a backup of a backup of a backup! Ha ha! Vacuums are my newest and latest hobby. I own the least and know the least about them. That's why I love this site and the people who talk to me and educate me so I can pursue this hobby even more! My number 1 hobby is collecting chainsaws. Between my husband and I we have just passed the 130 mark, but 80+ of those are mine! You can never have enough chainsaws! What if your one saw doesn't work? Then you need like 40 more as backups! Ha Ha! I'm obsessed! Same goes for collecting Sunbeam Mixmasters and clock radios! I have 14 stand mixers, I believe 12 electric hand mixers, over 20 clock radios. I have 5 clock radios in our bedroom that I switch off on. They all get a turn to wake me up in the morning! Gotta love tube technology!!! Now I know I have over 20 chainsaws in my house. The only rooms that don't have a chainsaw are the bathroom and kitchen, but that can change! Same with all the other stuff I collect, they can coincide together quite nicely! Ha Ha! My husband is awesome! Not only has he taught me how to fix and rebuild everything I collect, but he's the one that has mostly bought me all of the stuff I collect! I've learned how to work on circuit boards, tube and solid state/transistor radios, rebuild carburetors on the chainsaws, paint, fix metal, rebuild the mixers' motors, and etc. I've learned a lot and will always learn new and great things thanks to having someone to share it all with! I know what you mean when it comes to having a great spouse! We are lucky! -Michelle
thermokid
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Too many Vacuums !
Luxy and Gsheen... You say one can never have to many Vacuums... Well try living in a small two bedroom house and having 425 vacuums there.I think it is time to clean out all the doubles and triple vacuums. I can honestly say those little suckers are every where.LOL There are even 5 machines in the bathroom....Will it ever end?? I hope so.. Dan
Luxy and Gsheen... You say one can never have to many Vacuums... Well try living in a small two bedroom house and having 425 vacuums there.I think it is time to clean out all the doubles and triple vacuums. I can honestly say those little suckers are every where.LOL There are even 5 machines in the bathroom....Will it ever end?? I hope so.. Dan
gsheen
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Thermokid
i think we have all been their at some stage. I leased a apartment on the beachfront years ago. It was a high end apartment and because it was so close to the sea the garage was humidity controlled to decrease the chance that your car would rust. ( Most of the apartments belonged to people from upcountry who only used them for the Holidays and rented the apartments out for the rest of the time, so the cars would stand for months on end. My beautiful vacuum collection was upstairs with me, In the garage were the ones waiting for restoration in that nice climate controlled environment. My brand new jag stood outside and after a year had a small rust bubble on it. I had over 350 vacuums at that stage.
i think we have all been their at some stage. I leased a apartment on the beachfront years ago. It was a high end apartment and because it was so close to the sea the garage was humidity controlled to decrease the chance that your car would rust. ( Most of the apartments belonged to people from upcountry who only used them for the Holidays and rented the apartments out for the rest of the time, so the cars would stand for months on end. My beautiful vacuum collection was upstairs with me, In the garage were the ones waiting for restoration in that nice climate controlled environment. My brand new jag stood outside and after a year had a small rust bubble on it. I had over 350 vacuums at that stage.
sharkwo7
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Michelle
I have 40+ vacuum cleaners, but I collect other things as well, I have two electric chainsaws, 2 vintage electric lawn mowers, 25+ remote control semi trucks, 16 live fan live palm trees, that I keep in pots in which are living. I also collect vintage low brass instruments I have 4 tubas 3 baritones 2 sousaphones 1 helicon, 1 trumpet,1 frumpet, and 1 mellophone. Also I am starting to collect vintage bmx bicycles of the 1970's, also I have 2 control line airplanes. Yes I have a collector fever.
I have 40+ vacuum cleaners, but I collect other things as well, I have two electric chainsaws, 2 vintage electric lawn mowers, 25+ remote control semi trucks, 16 live fan live palm trees, that I keep in pots in which are living. I also collect vintage low brass instruments I have 4 tubas 3 baritones 2 sousaphones 1 helicon, 1 trumpet,1 frumpet, and 1 mellophone. Also I am starting to collect vintage bmx bicycles of the 1970's, also I have 2 control line airplanes. Yes I have a collector fever.
luxy1205
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sharwo7
Hi! Those are interesting hobbies you got there! I forgot to mention that I also collect vintage circular saws and vintage push mowers! I only have 2 push mowers now, got rid of like 3 or 4. I kept the one my husband and I restored that I named "Barnaby" and one we garbage picked that's a 1970's Snapper mulcher mower with original bag named "snappy". We have way too many hobbies and stuff going on right now! I'm currently restoring a Homelite 150 chainsaw named "Bertie", a 1937 Sunbeam Mixmaster model 3B stand mixer named "Bernadine", a 1972 Pioneer Holiday II model 1072 chainsaw named "Pie", and other stuff! Just a wee bit overwhelmed right now! Ha ha! What kind of electric chainsaws do you have? -Michelle
Hi! Those are interesting hobbies you got there! I forgot to mention that I also collect vintage circular saws and vintage push mowers! I only have 2 push mowers now, got rid of like 3 or 4. I kept the one my husband and I restored that I named "Barnaby" and one we garbage picked that's a 1970's Snapper mulcher mower with original bag named "snappy". We have way too many hobbies and stuff going on right now! I'm currently restoring a Homelite 150 chainsaw named "Bertie", a 1937 Sunbeam Mixmaster model 3B stand mixer named "Bernadine", a 1972 Pioneer Holiday II model 1072 chainsaw named "Pie", and other stuff! Just a wee bit overwhelmed right now! Ha ha! What kind of electric chainsaws do you have? -Michelle
super-sweeper
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Michelle,
Any updates on our lovely Miss.PHYLLIS?
Those are GREAT finds! That wouldn't happen to be the DS50 that was raffled off at the 2014 Convention (thus explaining it's show-room shine?)
Any updates on our lovely Miss.PHYLLIS?
Those are GREAT finds! That wouldn't happen to be the DS50 that was raffled off at the 2014 Convention (thus explaining it's show-room shine?)
Got a question for you chain and other power saw collectors-Any of you run into a Wright gas powered saw?This machine had a reciprocating blade instead of a rotating chain.Watched a demo of one of these at a Colorado Springs hardware store years back.Was quite a machine--You could make more accurate cuts on it than a chainsaw.And the finish left on the cut peices was very smooth-not rough like from a chainsaw.And the Wright could saw just as fast.In looking these up--found the blade drive was connected directly to the piston rod in the motor.The flywheel and fan simply helpted run the motor and cooled it.An electric Wellsaw is a similar machine-has an electric motor.Now these are marketed to the meat cutting industry(Jarvus Wellsaw).the Wellsaw used to be heavily marketed to carpenters.Its a good woodworkers tool.Thinking of getting one at some point.The bar seen on the machine supports the reciprocating blade like on a Wright.A recip saw as we know today has an UNSUPPORTED blade.The blades are thick and stiff.-The cut accuracy and quality isn't as good.The Wright was marketed as a safer alternative to a chainsaw.As we all know a chainsaw can be a VERY dangerous piece of machinery!The high speed supported blade recip machines are safer.Since ReTool closed out here-has put a damper on my vintage tool collecting.So I enjoy what I have.
Got a question for you chain and other power saw collectors-Any of you run into a Wright gas powered saw.This machine had a reciprocating blade instead of a rotating chain.Watched a demo of one of these at a Colorado Springs hardware store years back.Was quite a machine--You could make more accurate cuts on it than a chainsaw.And the finish left on the cut peices was very smooth-not rough like from a chainsaw.And the Wright could saw just as fast.In looking these up--found the blade drive was connected directly to the piston rod in the motor.The flywheel and fan simply helpted run the motor and cooled it.An electric Wellsaw is a similar machine-has an electric motor.Now these are marketed to the meat cutting industry(Jarvus Wellsaw).the Wellsaw used to be heavily marketed to carpenters.Its a good woodworkers tool.Thinking of getting one at some point.The bar seen on the machine suppots the reciprocating blasde like on a Wright.A recip saw as we know today has an UNSUPPORTED blade.The blades are thick and stiff.-The cut accuracy and quality isn't as good.The Wright was marketed as a safer alternative to a chainsaw.As we all know a chainsaw can be a VERY dangerous piece of machinery!The high speed supported blade recip machines are safer.Since ReTool closed out here-has put a damper on my vintage tool collecting.So I enjoy what I have.
luxy1205
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super-sweeper
Hi! Phyllis is doing great! I haven't had a chance yet to even clean her up yet! We've been so stupid busy lately! Let's see, if you read above, the stuff I'm restoring doesn't even begin to top the list of stuff we're trying to get done! Besides that stuff I'm restoring, we were in need of a shed for storage bad! Our landlord/friend is friends with someone who just bought a house in our subdivision literally a block away. Anyway, there's 2 metal sheds on his property he doesn't want anymore, he said if we took them down we could have them for free! These are big and sturdy sheds! These things new at a store would probably be $1000 a piece! So, we took the one down so far, but they are rusting and need to be hammered and dollied because a tree branch fell on the one. Not a big deal since my husband can do metal work in his sleep! Ha Ha! I'm getting one of the sheds and will put a couple of windows in it and a small air conditioner for the summer and heater in the winter and I will be building and re-building all of my hobbies in there! I can't wait to have my own space! Plus, we need to replace my trans lines in my car, replace the cam seal, put in a new modern radiator, and do metal work to it! His car needs metal work and a rear main seal put in too! The only way to replace the rear main seal is to drop the trans! PITA! Also, another good friend of ours gave us an old 1960's Remington PL4! I named him Charlie after the guy we got it from! Oh yeah, I also got an electric Craftsman chainsaw from a flea market that I haven't even looked at yet! As of right now, I'm currently working on a 1950's or early 1960's General Electric electric hand mixer for my aunt. She's getting married this Friday and doesn't leave my a lot time to get it done! We have to reshape the metal tag it's all kitty whomppis! That poor mixer was thru utter helvin! Ha ha! When I got it off of EBay, I plugged it in and when you turned it on, you could hear the motor but it wouldn't even turn! Someone also spliced one of the wires for the brush, they did a big no no! Also, a wire was bare and pulled away from the speed switch, so it had to be cleaned and re-soldered back into place! Now, we just discovered that one of the beaters is bent! Sammy has to do tedious metal work now to get it straight again! The rubber bumper it sets on was put on wrong, so Sammy had to re-heat it and shape it so it would go back together right! I'm done hand polishing it, just need to clean the metal plate and repaint the letters! Also, got an old fan at the flea market that I want to restore and paint it red and pink for my soon to be retro kitchen! That's on the list too, to repaint my kitchen, paint a metal industrial shelf for all of my 14 vintage stand mixers! Does this sound ridiculous yet??? Ha Ha! In addition, to all of that, I just ordered a whole bunch of Kirby parts to restore/fix my DS50 and HII, plus got an Olympia One, Teal/Aqua Model G, and a parts 1205 so I can fix my dear "Luxy" and my mom's "Lux"!!! What else, my computer quit working too! So, I'm using Sammy's for now, but I don't know how to find pics and download them on here yet! Once, he shows me how to do that, I will send you pics of Phyllis. I promise!!! Well I have to go work on my aunt's mixer so I can surprise her with it Friday! Talk to you later!
-Michelle
Hi! Phyllis is doing great! I haven't had a chance yet to even clean her up yet! We've been so stupid busy lately! Let's see, if you read above, the stuff I'm restoring doesn't even begin to top the list of stuff we're trying to get done! Besides that stuff I'm restoring, we were in need of a shed for storage bad! Our landlord/friend is friends with someone who just bought a house in our subdivision literally a block away. Anyway, there's 2 metal sheds on his property he doesn't want anymore, he said if we took them down we could have them for free! These are big and sturdy sheds! These things new at a store would probably be $1000 a piece! So, we took the one down so far, but they are rusting and need to be hammered and dollied because a tree branch fell on the one. Not a big deal since my husband can do metal work in his sleep! Ha Ha! I'm getting one of the sheds and will put a couple of windows in it and a small air conditioner for the summer and heater in the winter and I will be building and re-building all of my hobbies in there! I can't wait to have my own space! Plus, we need to replace my trans lines in my car, replace the cam seal, put in a new modern radiator, and do metal work to it! His car needs metal work and a rear main seal put in too! The only way to replace the rear main seal is to drop the trans! PITA! Also, another good friend of ours gave us an old 1960's Remington PL4! I named him Charlie after the guy we got it from! Oh yeah, I also got an electric Craftsman chainsaw from a flea market that I haven't even looked at yet! As of right now, I'm currently working on a 1950's or early 1960's General Electric electric hand mixer for my aunt. She's getting married this Friday and doesn't leave my a lot time to get it done! We have to reshape the metal tag it's all kitty whomppis! That poor mixer was thru utter helvin! Ha ha! When I got it off of EBay, I plugged it in and when you turned it on, you could hear the motor but it wouldn't even turn! Someone also spliced one of the wires for the brush, they did a big no no! Also, a wire was bare and pulled away from the speed switch, so it had to be cleaned and re-soldered back into place! Now, we just discovered that one of the beaters is bent! Sammy has to do tedious metal work now to get it straight again! The rubber bumper it sets on was put on wrong, so Sammy had to re-heat it and shape it so it would go back together right! I'm done hand polishing it, just need to clean the metal plate and repaint the letters! Also, got an old fan at the flea market that I want to restore and paint it red and pink for my soon to be retro kitchen! That's on the list too, to repaint my kitchen, paint a metal industrial shelf for all of my 14 vintage stand mixers! Does this sound ridiculous yet??? Ha Ha! In addition, to all of that, I just ordered a whole bunch of Kirby parts to restore/fix my DS50 and HII, plus got an Olympia One, Teal/Aqua Model G, and a parts 1205 so I can fix my dear "Luxy" and my mom's "Lux"!!! What else, my computer quit working too! So, I'm using Sammy's for now, but I don't know how to find pics and download them on here yet! Once, he shows me how to do that, I will send you pics of Phyllis. I promise!!! Well I have to go work on my aunt's mixer so I can surprise her with it Friday! Talk to you later!
-Michelle
luxy1205
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tolivac
We have a 1963 Wright model B520! Our landlord gave it to us. It had sat at his work place for I think 15-20 years! Eventually we will re-build and restore it! I love that it has a governor! The Wrights are very unique! I've never used one personally yet, but you gotta enjoy a 2 stroke with a governor and a reciprocating blade! I know I do! Ha ha! -Michelle
We have a 1963 Wright model B520! Our landlord gave it to us. It had sat at his work place for I think 15-20 years! Eventually we will re-build and restore it! I love that it has a governor! The Wrights are very unique! I've never used one personally yet, but you gotta enjoy a 2 stroke with a governor and a reciprocating blade! I know I do! Ha ha!
-Michelle
super-sweeper
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'need a shed BAD'
I'm right there with you! One can only fit so many vacuums in one's house!
I went to the Flea Market on Sunday, saw 2 old Sunbeam mix-masters (one with EXCELLENT paint, spotless beaters and a white glass bowl, the other with barely any paint left and 2/3 of a plug! In the same both as the paint-less mix-master was a Bell & Howell slide projector, in the same both as the perfect mix-master was a chrome G-E perculator! There was also a BEAUTIFUL 1950s Hotpoint fan, with perfect pink and white paint, mounted on it's original chrome dolly! Of course,I HAD to ask, and it wasn't for sale! Drats!
On my final stroll of the Flea Market, I saw a nice older wall-phone (I just got a 1984 dial-tone phone the other day at a thrift shop for $2, with that classic, loud ringing sound that could wake the dead!). Imagine my surprise when I lifted the handset to find a rotary dial IN the handset! Then imagine my surprise when the price was $15 for an UN-tested phone! I walked away, but did leave the Flea Market with 2 new 45 RPM records! About a month ago there was a nice Atari computer at the Flea Market, with both the 5 1/4 Floppy Drive and the Tape drive! It however did not have the power cable for the computer nor the cable to plug it into a television.$75! I asked him just WHERE did he get that price from? His response 'Well, I've seen complete sets on eBay for $200.....'
Could've guessed!
I'm thinking on building a shed the pioneering way, I have plenty of trees for a log shed!
I'm right there with you! One can only fit so many vacuums in one's house!
I went to the Flea Market on Sunday, saw 2 old Sunbeam mix-masters (one with EXCELLENT paint, spotless beaters and a white glass bowl, the other with barely any paint left and 2/3 of a plug! In the same both as the paint-less mix-master was a Bell & Howell slide projector, in the same both as the perfect mix-master was a chrome G-E perculator! There was also a BEAUTIFUL 1950s Hotpoint fan, with perfect pink and white paint, mounted on it's original chrome dolly! Of course,I HAD to ask, and it wasn't for sale! Drats!
On my final stroll of the Flea Market, I saw a nice older wall-phone (I just got a 1984 dial-tone phone the other day at a thrift shop for $2, with that classic, loud ringing sound that could wake the dead!). Imagine my surprise when I lifted the handset to find a rotary dial IN the handset! Then imagine my surprise when the price was $15 for an UN-tested phone! I walked away, but did leave the Flea Market with 2 new 45 RPM records! About a month ago there was a nice Atari computer at the Flea Market, with both the 5 1/4 Floppy Drive and the Tape drive! It however did not have the power cable for the computer nor the cable to plug it into a television.$75! I asked him just WHERE did he get that price from? His response 'Well, I've seen complete sets on eBay for $200.....'
Could've guessed!
I'm thinking on building a shed the pioneering way, I have plenty of trees for a log shed!
Luxy1205--GREAT you do have a Wright--tell me how it works after you have fixed it up-inquiring minds want to know-bet it will work as good as the one from the Demo I watched.My Dad would not buy the saw--"We have three healthy boys-don't think I need to buy another power saw when you guys cut the wood just fine with a bowsaw!"DARN!!Sounds like you want to get that machine up and going!!Bet you will like it!And the blades are easy to sharpen with a file.Just follow the orig grind on the teeth.Or if you don't like filing you could sharpen the blade with a Dremel tool.
luxy1205
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super-sweeper
Cool finds! I love flea markets! We just went to one a few weeks ago. That's where I got my vintage fan and electric Craftsman chainsaw. Also, at that flea market I got an avocado 1970's Sunbeam Mixmaster stand mixer for $8.00! All it had was the turntable, but it looked like it was hardly ever used! I ended up buying an original large stainless steel Sunbeam bowl on EBay and I bought dough hooks on EBay for it too! What's a really nice coincidence is a few days before the flea market, I bought a harvest gold 1970's Sunbeam Mixmaster stand mixer that arrived and it came with both stainless steel bowls, beaters, turntable, and detachable power cord. So, I can borrow the power cord and swap beaters and dough hooks between the two! I'm all excited to make some home made bread this weekend! Sammy's gonna show me how and I can't wait! So, the flea market you went to you said there was Sunbeams there? How much were they? Just curious, I don't find stuff that often that I collect. I can't wait to get our sheds done! Very cool that you're gonna build one! I would love to see a pic when your shed is done! -Michelle
Cool finds! I love flea markets! We just went to one a few weeks ago. That's where I got my vintage fan and electric Craftsman chainsaw. Also, at that flea market I got an avocado 1970's Sunbeam Mixmaster stand mixer for $8.00! All it had was the turntable, but it looked like it was hardly ever used! I ended up buying an original large stainless steel Sunbeam bowl on EBay and I bought dough hooks on EBay for it too! What's a really nice coincidence is a few days before the flea market, I bought a harvest gold 1970's Sunbeam Mixmaster stand mixer that arrived and it came with both stainless steel bowls, beaters, turntable, and detachable power cord. So, I can borrow the power cord and swap beaters and dough hooks between the two! I'm all excited to make some home made bread this weekend! Sammy's gonna show me how and I can't wait! So, the flea market you went to you said there was Sunbeams there? How much were they? Just curious, I don't find stuff that often that I collect. I can't wait to get our sheds done! Very cool that you're gonna build one! I would love to see a pic when your shed is done!
-Michelle
luxy1205
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tolivac
I'll keep you informed on the Wright. My husband knows more about it than I do, so I'll ask him and share with you what I find out. I love hand filing our chainsaws bars! We actually don't have a bow saw or a two man saw yet! Those are on the list! -Michelle
I'll keep you informed on the Wright. My husband knows more about it than I do, so I'll ask him and share with you what I find out. I love hand filing our chainsaws bars! We actually don't have a bow saw or a two man saw yet! Those are on the list!
-MichelleBow saw-those are as close as your nearest Lowes or even a sport goods store.Two man saws are still available-Esp the "competition" ones that are used in contests.A pair of good men with one of those can actually cut faster than most chain saws!We have one at our workplace-looks like it hasn't been used in years-in the tower riggers shop.You should be able to find those saws in the same places where you find old chainsaws.Do you collect axes,too?Some folks who like woodcutting tools collect axes as well as saws.I don't but others do.Two man saws are sharpened by hand filing,too.I was good a sharpening circular saw blades in the school woodshop.BUT--some BOZO would cut a board with nails in it on my freshly sharpened blade!Really bad if someone planed a board with nails in the planer when I just sharpened its blades!!The blades would get nicked-but you can reverse them in the cutterhead for a fresh edge.You would have to grind out the nicks.Don't want "stripes" on your planed boards!!Many types of carbide saw blades and planer cutters are more tolerent of nails.But still they are not good.
