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I just ordered this set of screw drivers and picks, I have a couple black powder revolvers and I really need to get into the guts and clean em up really good. Regular screw drivers will mess up the screws and finish, these Grace Drivers are hollow ground, made for guns, once I get em in my hands, and use them I'll follow this up with a review. These picks will come in handy too.
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In spite of harvest activities, We have made it an annual activity to go out the second weekend in October for a fall festival somewhere. The last several years, it has been Illinois' Spoon River Drive and we did so again this year. The day was beautiful and I found a few cool items too! Most of these items were 1 or 2 bucks and were found at roadside sales throughout the drive area. The group of vises and the rotary table set me back 40 bucks for all. The egg beater is a Goodell-Pratt 259 and Millers Falls hand vise added 10 more. The drill appears to be very well built and has a ball bearing spindle, ratcheting crank, and shiftable gearbox. The breast drill I picked it up for parts. The pig stickers were picked to add some sizes to ones already in my shop and the back saw was a request from my wife's uncle. It is cleaned and sharpened and ready for him to take home. The leather shears are kinda cool and show an 1859 patent date on the brass cap. They also have been through my tank. And did I mention the NOS Saw files with superficial rust? They got an overnight vinegar soak and look very sharp and usable now. I will test them soon enough! There is also a skew rabbett plane with good iron and a broken wedge that will need replacement and a fence for an early Stanley 46. Family, food, finds, and fun! Not ready for winter!
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To call it a Fathers Day tradition may be a little premature, but, the last several years, I have been taking a Friday off to go exploring the garage sales with a couple of my daughters. There is a 100 mile garage sale near our house on that weekend each year and, although we don't find a lot of tools, we have found a few good buys on occasion. I hit one small sale on the roadside where I found these. A Stanley 46 and a neat little saw bench. I am getting closer to handsaw work with this little find. I included a before and aftershot of the 46. Unfortunately, it came without its irons as they often do. Fifteen for the plane and five for the bench! I have been hunting for irons since June and bought some on Friday via the auction site! Cant wait to try this plane. I have read that 46's are a decent plane. I certainly hope so as the irons made this thing much more of an investment! I also found a nice Skil wormdrive saw the following day! Sorry...no pic of that one right now.
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Not all that exciting but here are a few estate sale finds of recent. Brown and Sharpe, Starrett, and Craftsman in the mix. The box scraper is Stanley Sweetheart. Most of these were cleaned by me before pictures.
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Bought a set of six wrenches one day. Two were just common 1/2" combo style wrenches....@ 25 cents each One was a Snapon XV-3842 Box end 1-3/16 x 1-5/16'' (Trailer hitch ball?) Two LOOK like they were in a FORD Tool Kit. And lastly, a "spanner" wrench? It is marked as a Fairmount USA # 464 3/8. Thinking the 3/8 is the size of that pin sticking out there? Not sure WHAT it goes to. Lathe chuck? Ford Tranny? Handle has a slight off-set to it, too. BTW: each of these wrenches was just 25 cent a piece. Any of the above worth keeping around?
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Out on the Rust Hunt again today Found an expensive pair of tools The Visegrips will clean up ok. Same with the nutdrivers. Now, about that Non-hand tool rehab? Found a pile of parts in a clear plastic tub. Spent a whopping $10, too. It is the same age as I am. A 1953 AMF Red & White Tricycle! Needs a wee bit of TLC, though. But, all the parts are there. Might take a little bit longer to do than the usual day a hand plane takes, Ya Think? Will be posting a step-by-step blog of some kind for this, IF you people would like. May now be a hand tool, but, I might use a few to restore this old bike.
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And a couple old rusty tools. Found an 18" long Craftsman Backsaw for a dollar bill. And, a Stanley #70 scraper plane. The saw can wait a while, until I have the right sized files to sharpen the DULL teeth with The Stanley #70: It has a curved sole and a cambered iron. Used to scrape off painted labels on wooden shipping crates. This one was very nasty looking. Wire wheels on the Drill press to clean most of the crud and rust off. Gave the iron the once over. Might have used the force, too The chisel came from FeeBay, an Eagle Brand 7, 1-1/2" socket firmer chisel. It needed a handle, and this was all I had on hand. I might try to see what I could turn, if I knew what the original looked like. Stanley #70 had a surprise when i cleaned up the iron, under the "STANLEY" there was a heart with the letters SW inside. The so-called Sweetheart era. handle got a good clean up, then a BLO/Varnish coating. Not too bad a day Tried to upload a few of the finished photos......NADA
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