Thank you sir. That so much equipment was left was lucky indeed. Something I don't take for granted. If American Pickers had swept thought here before I got it...........
Thomas
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Thank you sir. That so much equipment was left was lucky indeed. Something I don't take for granted. If American Pickers had swept thought here before I got it...........
Thomas
Nah, it's just you. First off if you look at the air meter's outer surfaces there isn't a straight line in sight. It's all compound curves everywhere. Pretty tough to put a straight level on it to check or to visually line it up.
The only flat surface is the top on the base that the meter sits on. If that's level the meter will be also. The camera is distorting the image. Note how the right corner of the building tapers and isn't parallel with the sides of the picture? Much like the color of the Walker floor jack, what you see is not what you see............
I guess it's best if you just come out to inspect it personally. Keep me on my toes!
BTW for Joe, those are called "character" rust stains in the block.
Thomas
*Rich those cast steel covers are EXTREMELY rare. Hiball, our resident floor jack expert, has never seen one before in all the years he and his grandfather have been servicing jacks, numbering in the hundreds if not thousands. I know I've never seen one before, even in pictures. But more than that I feel the tool should stand on it's own merits. It is what it is. Taking dents out is one thing, it didn't come from the factory with those, but basically altering it by swapping parts I don't think is sound practice. I do understand your motivation and good intentions, not to worry my friend.
Also I'm pretty sure you'll find most commercial pilots tend to work to very high standards. It just goes with the job but thanks just the same for the thought.
*dmeray1 brainstorming out loud should never make you feel foolish. It's amazing how that can lead from one idea to another so don't ever hesitate. I don't know about a clear powder coat but the underlaying paint that is not powder would go up in smoke. The process involves heating to somewhere around 400 F (204 C) for about 30 minutes. Only special powder can survive that. Interesting thought however.
I have talked the situation over with the powder coaters since they finished the cover. We did it as a test run and in the meantime they too have given it some additional thought and have a couple of other ideas they're going to try this coming weekend. That's what I like about these guys, they won't give up too easily. They'll keep after it until it's to everyones satisfaction. They're stubborn like me.
Stand by.Thomas
Nuts
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Thomas you might consider just powder coating the cover blue and having a pinstripe guy do the lettering and embellish it with some striping. There several guys over on HAMB that would be just the ticket.
Doug
Doug
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HAHAHAHA....it certainly is a deadly vortex mate....and I have most definitely been sucked in and been inspired by it!
Thanks for your concern, but where I live is quite a long way from the devastion of the Queensland floods. It makes you very thankful for all you have when you see something like that....I feel terrible for all those involved! They are already starting the clean up and rebuilding process so I trust that things will be back to some sort of normality by the time you come down under.
Now....back on track....show us some more of your awesome work!!
PLEASE??!! All the best mate,
Aussie Paul (aka: Scarab)
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Hello all I am the powdercoater and yes there is a clear powdercoat the low temperature clear powder cures at about 325 for 15 minutes so we are going to try the cover 1 more time with a new perspective and if that don't work myself and Thomas will discuss the option of having it painted
markviii
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26 countries have now posted in (see pg. 97, post 1921 for update)
I'm back from my picture framing convention in Vegas - lots of Aussies, New Zealanders and UK participants in attendance. I learned lots of new things which I'll start producing Today! (I only mentioned GJ a few times - to known car people)
I've noticed that people who have regular jobs don't have lots of outside interests - they complain about being too stressed out or tired from their jobs to engage in other activities. It tires them out to hear all the things I do in the normal flow of my day, so I tend not to talk too much about it. I find the change in activities to be restful/refreshing.
Chris
I'm back from my picture framing convention in Vegas - lots of Aussies, New Zealanders and UK participants in attendance. I learned lots of new things which I'll start producing Today! (I only mentioned GJ a few times - to known car people)
I've noticed that people who have regular jobs don't have lots of outside interests - they complain about being too stressed out or tired from their jobs to engage in other activities. It tires them out to hear all the things I do in the normal flow of my day, so I tend not to talk too much about it. I find the change in activities to be restful/refreshing.
Chris
johno
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Does anyone know how this compares to the vinegar soak method?
gasgas17
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Once you start to actually experience the goodness that is inherent in many older tools you get a little spoiled don't you think?
Thomas
After 22 years of carpentry, I have seen first hand how the quality of hand tools has deteriorated. It's near impossible to find any quality hand tools these days. Some of the nicest tools I own have been found at flea markets when I was starting in the trade. Even those are hard to find nowadays.
PS I really really like your tire inflator. That is a very nice piece of equipment.
Oi. I've so far only read the 10-15 first posts in this thread. Thought it was a quite usual shop refurbish, nothing wrong but not very exiting. Then I saw it being one of the 2010 favorite threads and had a look at the last pages.
There we go! How long will it take? I've got 116 b-y pages to look through now! GJ is dangerous to your mental health. Now I must keep on with my studies. I have an exam tomorrow. Mathematics. Must. Now. Must. Must.Exam.Tomorrow!
Oi Magnus, we all want to know...............so how did the math exam go?? If you got to page 98, post # 1957....
Terminal velocity = function of weight and drag coefficient.
An object which is falling through the atmosphere is subjected to two external forces. One force is the gravitational force, expressed as the weight of the object. The other force is the air resistance, or drag of the object. If the mass of an object remains constant, the motion of the object can be described by Newton's second law of motion, force F equals mass m times acceleration a:
F = m * a
which can be solved for the acceleration of the object in terms of the net external force and the mass of the object:
a = F / m
Weight and drag are forces which are vector quantities. The net external force F is then equal to the difference of the weight W and the drag D
F = W - D
The acceleration of a falling object then becomes:
a = (W - D) / m
The magnitude of the drag is given by the drag equation. Drag D depends on a drag coefficient Cd, the atmospheric density r, the square of the air velocity V, and some reference area A of the object.
D = Cd * r * V ^2 * A / 2
Drag increases with the square of the speed. So as an object falls, we quickly reach conditions where the drag becomes equal to the weight, if the weight is small. When drag is equal to weight, there is no net external force on the object and the vertical acceleration goes to zero. With no acceleration, the object falls at a constant velocity as described by Newton's first law of motion. The constant vertical velocity is called the terminal velocity .
Using algebra, we can determine the value of the terminal velocity. At terminal velocity:
D = W
Cd * r * V ^2 * A / 2 = W
Solving for the vertical velocity V, we obtain the equation
V = sqrt ( (2 * W) / (Cd * r * A)
where sqrt denotes the square root function.
... you'd seen that math is part of this thread. Therefore reading it would have helped you prepare for your exam I'm quite certain. You'll have no guilt reading the rest of this now, right?
Good luck anyway.
Thomas
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This is Don's powder coating work on the air meter covers.
There was faaaaaar more work involved than just cleaning the old cover paint off and powder coating these. They are original covers that were badly pitted in some areas under the paint that was removed. Without getting technical, Don and his crew spent many hours creating the beautiful finish you see here. It couldn't be too thick a finish or the face plate wouldn't fit and the covers wouldn't fit into the frame correctly. He and I worked back and forth until we had it to our satisfaction. As I told you Don, it's worth the extra effort. Look how nice the meter turned out after all was said and done. Nice work!
I have every expectation we'll figure the Walker floor jack out also...unless I drive you nuts first that is.
Thomas
johno
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Hey Thomas
I'm still working my way thru the posts here, up to page 80 now. I'd be further along , but with all this jack talk, I had to stop and and buy one.
I told my girlfriend I blame you, ( ya that'll work,you see,I had just bought a new HW 2 ton). So now I'm the proud owner of a Walker 4 ton , same style as yours.
Won't get it for a while yet,but she's mine.
Lots of good info on repairing,dismantling here, and other threads, so good for me.
How did you repair the cracked handle,I haven't seen that addressed here?
What happened to the old Studebaker, was it there when you bought the property? I have a modified 53 Stude coupe, so I'm always curious about old Studes.
Thanks again for the good reading.
John
I'm still working my way thru the posts here, up to page 80 now. I'd be further along , but with all this jack talk, I had to stop and and buy one.
I told my girlfriend I blame you, ( ya that'll work
,you see,I had just bought a new HW 2 ton). So now I'm the proud owner of a Walker 4 ton , same style as yours.Won't get it for a while yet,but she's mine.
Lots of good info on repairing,dismantling here, and other threads, so good for me.
How did you repair the cracked handle,I haven't seen that addressed here?
What happened to the old Studebaker, was it there when you bought the property? I have a modified 53 Stude coupe, so I'm always curious about old Studes.
Thanks again for the good reading.
John
I ran across a old 3 ton Walker floor jack on ebay the other day, I think its got a couple more days left.
http://cgi.ebay.com/WALKER-3-TON-LO...pt=BI_Pipe_Threaders_Dies&hash=item1e6122479c
http://cgi.ebay.com/WALKER-3-TON-LO...pt=BI_Pipe_Threaders_Dies&hash=item1e6122479c
johno
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Some more before/after photographs of the shop under construction. I'll start with the area I'm going to detail, the floor space that eventually became the booth/kitchenette area.
This is that area just after I bought the property. You've seen this picture before; my daughter took it in Nov., 2005. Behind the key rack to the right is the doorway to what was the coal room, now the bathroom. Centered behind the rack, in green, is the old furnace which I mentioned earlier that had almost burned the building to the ground in the late 1970s. Here's the story on that quickly as related by my buddy who was in the shop at the time. The fuel source for the furnace was propane which is, generally speaking, heavier than air. Mr Johnson never left it on at night, turning off the propane when the business closed for the night. Each morning he would have to light the pilot to get it up and running. That furnace pilot was hard to light and this particular morning it was even more troublesome than normal. All the time the pilot wouldn't light, propane continued to leak into the shop settling to the floor. Mr Johnson became distracted during this procedure and when he finally returned to it and lit a match, there was an enormous ball of fire and a loud whoosh. My friend said it only lasted a second or so. He and his dad then spent the next hour putting out cardboard fires and other combustible items that smoldered. Fortunately not enough propane had leaked to create an explosion and once the fireball consumed all the oxygen in the shop it went out. You have to wonder how many shops were lost to accidents like that?
Sorry for the poor quality photograph, but it's the only one I have. I'm sure you recognize the view. Centered above in the back is one of the new furnaces, clapboard siding of the original shop behind it and behind the step ladder is a window opening from the old shop. The other ladder on the left leads to the attic space. In the foreground.........the horizontal band saw that got moved all over the place during the reconstruction. Behind the saw you can see how thick the insulation batts were, R40 in the ceiling. The doorway in the back right leads to the bathroom.
This was taken around January, 2007, about a year after the one above. That 12 bolt axle would be installed in the Chevy II in a few months. I had just started work on the car.
This is almost exactly the same perspective the first picture was take from.
The cabinets are beginning to be installed.
Of note is the large board installed on the end of the shelving units in the center.
That is a piece of salvaged 1" Walnut plywood I took out of a dumpster when the University was doing some remodeling. It not only helped tie the two shelf units together, but provided the mounting surface for the coat rack.
The coat rack was made up with these antique coat hooks I had bought many years earlier. They are cast iron and I had them brass plated and clear lacquered to keep them from tarnishing. The hooks are installed with solid brass oval head screws....NOT clocked.
It's also good practice to hang the floor broom. I found a really cool, old solid brass hook for that. The plywood was installed with carriage bolts to provide a somewhat finished look.
A friend of mine showed up one day with the booth seats in the back of his pickup and said " I heard you were looking for something like these." Ah...yah, un huh.
The tins to the right of the gum ball machines are full of nickels so when kids come to the shop they just can help themselves.
The booth table I found down in Louisiana. Perfect height.
Thomas
This is that area just after I bought the property. You've seen this picture before; my daughter took it in Nov., 2005. Behind the key rack to the right is the doorway to what was the coal room, now the bathroom. Centered behind the rack, in green, is the old furnace which I mentioned earlier that had almost burned the building to the ground in the late 1970s. Here's the story on that quickly as related by my buddy who was in the shop at the time. The fuel source for the furnace was propane which is, generally speaking, heavier than air. Mr Johnson never left it on at night, turning off the propane when the business closed for the night. Each morning he would have to light the pilot to get it up and running. That furnace pilot was hard to light and this particular morning it was even more troublesome than normal. All the time the pilot wouldn't light, propane continued to leak into the shop settling to the floor. Mr Johnson became distracted during this procedure and when he finally returned to it and lit a match, there was an enormous ball of fire and a loud whoosh. My friend said it only lasted a second or so. He and his dad then spent the next hour putting out cardboard fires and other combustible items that smoldered. Fortunately not enough propane had leaked to create an explosion and once the fireball consumed all the oxygen in the shop it went out. You have to wonder how many shops were lost to accidents like that?
Sorry for the poor quality photograph, but it's the only one I have. I'm sure you recognize the view. Centered above in the back is one of the new furnaces, clapboard siding of the original shop behind it and behind the step ladder is a window opening from the old shop. The other ladder on the left leads to the attic space. In the foreground.........the horizontal band saw that got moved all over the place during the reconstruction. Behind the saw you can see how thick the insulation batts were, R40 in the ceiling. The doorway in the back right leads to the bathroom.
This was taken around January, 2007, about a year after the one above. That 12 bolt axle would be installed in the Chevy II in a few months. I had just started work on the car.
This is almost exactly the same perspective the first picture was take from.
The cabinets are beginning to be installed.
Of note is the large board installed on the end of the shelving units in the center.
That is a piece of salvaged 1" Walnut plywood I took out of a dumpster when the University was doing some remodeling. It not only helped tie the two shelf units together, but provided the mounting surface for the coat rack.
The coat rack was made up with these antique coat hooks I had bought many years earlier. They are cast iron and I had them brass plated and clear lacquered to keep them from tarnishing. The hooks are installed with solid brass oval head screws....NOT clocked.
It's also good practice to hang the floor broom. I found a really cool, old solid brass hook for that. The plywood was installed with carriage bolts to provide a somewhat finished look.
A friend of mine showed up one day with the booth seats in the back of his pickup and said " I heard you were looking for something like these." Ah...yah, un huh.
The tins to the right of the gum ball machines are full of nickels so when kids come to the shop they just can help themselves.
The booth table I found down in Louisiana. Perfect height.
Thomas
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hondad
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The booth table I found down in Louisiana. Perfect height.
Thomas
Try as I might, I can`t seem to picture you or your wife sitting at the booth. You both have too much energy. I`ll wager that it doesn`t happen very often.
I`ve been enjoying this thread from day one. Thanks so much for posting.
Earl
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I love the booth. It reminds me of when I was as kid and my mother made my brother take me with him to his hangout to put a damper on his love life??? Maybe thats why he gives me a little punch in the arm when we see his old friends. lol.
It looks like a great place to bench race.
It looks like a great place to bench race.
Hey Thomas
I'm still working my way thru the posts here, up to page 80 now. I'd be further along , but with all this jack talk, I had to stop and and buy one.
I told my girlfriend I blame you, ( ya that'll work
Won't get it for a while yet,but she's mine.
Lots of good info on repairing,dismantling here, and other threads, so good for me.
How did you repair the cracked handle,I haven't seen that addressed here?
What happened to the old Studebaker, was it there when you bought the property? I have a modified 53 Stude coupe, so I'm always curious about old Studes.
Thanks again for the good reading.
John
Good deal John, you'll need to post pictures of course once you've got it. Hiball is our resident jack expert here at the Journal. Should you need it, he can provide kits for renewing the internal hydraulics or you can get the jack to him and he'll do everything. I've already posted (page 63, 68, post#1245 and #1341) how to remove the release knob on the handle.
Part of the handle repair can be seen on page 67, post#1331 and below.
It's such a tight fit between the handle sheet metal and the casting it attaches to...
..that you can't build up much material inside.
The repair was TIG welded and once powder coated should look very nice.
Those handles get cracked by jerking those big, heavy jack bodies around. The 4 ton jacks weigh 187 pounds (85 Kgs) and with the long handle you can get quite a bit of leverage. Easy movement., not sudden jerks are much more to their liking.
The Studebaker was long gone before I bought the property. All that was left were...
...these rims. And they are now gone. I did find a pair of rear doors from another Stude....
... and I'm fairly sure I saved them because they were in decent condition. Once they turn up again I'll contact some Studebaker people to make sure they don't get wasted.
Psssst John, BTW there is a 1951 Studebaker 2 door post, business coupe in the 2 car garage right now.........but don't tell Chris, OK?
Thomas
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markviii
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I know about that "secret"; it's the others I don't know about because I don't go poking around the unfinished buildings (no time...and no curiosity!). But they wouldn't be secrets then, would they?
Also, the diner seating does get used, but usually when we're touring someone through or I'm sitting and waiting for Tom to finish up and get home. Work crews used it daily during construction of the new barn when I took lunch out for them. Lots of good reading material (old car mags) make sitting/waiting easier and more interesting. I'm trying to find an appropriate table-top juke box that uses CDs, but am not satisfied with what I've seen so far.
But, you're right, hondad. We're not much for sitting down!
Chris
Also, the diner seating does get used, but usually when we're touring someone through or I'm sitting and waiting for Tom to finish up and get home. Work crews used it daily during construction of the new barn when I took lunch out for them. Lots of good reading material (old car mags) make sitting/waiting easier and more interesting. I'm trying to find an appropriate table-top juke box that uses CDs, but am not satisfied with what I've seen so far.
But, you're right, hondad. We're not much for sitting down!
Chris
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Thanks 3bay for the link, still has 0 bids with less than a day left. I hope someone winds up with it and here's why. I called the company selling it and had a short discussion about it. They told me it has no issues at all, works 100%. It is already packed up so they could not give me any information from the data plate, or even if it was still attached. Here is the sobering part of the discussion. If it doesn't get any bids, they might list it again, maybe not. If it gets no bids they will not consider anything less than what it is listed for. If there are no bids it will be SCRAPPED period, junked. The gentleman was very frank about it. In his words, "It's business, we don't mess around. We won't take any less money because that would undermine our business. Nobody cares, period. We don't care what the equipment is, if it doesn't sell for our minimum price we scrap it and move on. Nobody gives a $hit." He wasn't being nasty or anything, just stating the cold, hard facts. Non emotional, it's just business.
That's how these wonderful, old pieces of equipment are slowly being lost. Sadly this is a fully functional jack that looks awful with that paint, but still has much life left in it. One more thing. Looking closely at the cover plate tells me it's likely a cast steel cover plate, only the second one I've seen, making this probably a very early production jack. While I want to make sure it at least doesn't get scrapped, I sady can't save them all.
With any luck someone will recognize the value here and bid on it. Thomas
Try as I might, I can`t seem to picture you or your wife sitting at the booth. You both have too much energy. I`ll wager that it doesn`t happen very often.
I`ve been enjoying this thread from day one. Thanks so much for posting.
Earl
Ok Earl, you've got us pegged correctly. I've seen Chris sit there twice and myself maybe 1/2 dozen times and I do have to dust off the seats from time to time. But I'm confidnt "in the future" we'll make more use of it.
Thank you for the "observation".
Thomas
johno
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Thomas
Thanks for pics of jack repair.
Thanks for pics of jack repair.
Thanks 3bay for the link, still has 0 bids with less than a day left. I hope someone winds up with it and here's why. I called the company selling it and had a short discussion about it. They told me it has no issues at all, works 100%. It is already packed up so they could not give me any information from the data plate, or even if it was still attached. Here is the sobering part of the discussion. If it doesn't get any bids, they might list it again, maybe not. If it gets no bids they will not consider anything less than what it is listed for. If there are no bids it will be SCRAPPED period, junked. The gentleman was very frank about it. In his words, "It's business, we don't mess around. We won't take any less money because that would undermine our business. Nobody cares, period. We don't care what the equipment is, if it doesn't sell for our minimum price we scrap it and move on. Nobody gives a $hit." He wasn't being nasty or anything, just stating the cold, hard facts. Non emotional, it's just business.
That's how these wonderful, old pieces of equipment are slowly being lost. Sadly this is a fully functional jack that looks awful with that paint, but still has much life left in it. One more thing. Looking closely at the cover plate tells me it's likely a cast steel cover plate, only the second one I've seen, making this probably a very early production jack. While I want to make sure it at least doesn't get scrapped, I sady can't save them all.
Thomas
That is sad, if I didn't have a couple good jacks already I'd bid on it. Most cars and trucks worked on today...you don't need anything bigger than that one. Yep...It'd make someone a nice one.
As for the key maker...the last time I had a key made I had to make 2 trips back to the store before I got one that would work. Would've been nice to have been able to make my own.
Rich
kbeitz
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The hammer is used to bust up the long icicles that use to hang on the shed....
hobbitss
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The Walker Jack didn't sell but was re-listed so there is a little more time...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130481260189
kbuhagiar
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Hello Thomas,
Permission to speak freely, sir?.....Thank you.
The fact that the jack has been relisted, plus the seller's early admission that the jack was 'already packed up', leads me to believe that perhaps the seller was not very forthcoming with you.
Perhaps he sensed an opportunity to place a high-pressure sales pitch, one which would extend to 'collectors' beyond the boundaries of his Ebay auction.
Plus, if he intended to 'scrap' it if it didn't sell, why would he go through the trouble to 'pack it up', keeping in mind it's no mean feat to 'pack up' a 90-lb. jack.
Now, that's just my inherent cynicism stepping front and center...and, like you said, it's just business.
Cheers, Ken
willy3486
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I think you have that one figured out as far as the ebay seller. I have tried to buy stuff and heard stories such as this. Anyway what would scrap value be for something like this,maybe ten bucks? I have seen people who will have something and not sell it for less than they ask no matter if it rots to the ground. As far as price for one,what would they run? I don't buy "collectables" so to speak I buy stuff I actually use. I have seen jacks here for 50 to 100 at the top end. So I am also wondering if he is trying to sell to the collector who will pay a good price.
hoopty388
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most scrap yards I deal with would pull it aside and resale it (usually for 2x rate.) so it probably won't die just set at a more reasonable price, and probably friendlier customer service. If they aren't willing to cut a piece of tape to help the customer, they obviously aren't to interestded in selling it.
places like ebay are killing customer service.
places like ebay are killing customer service.
Yep, he still has it listed in the wrong area:
Business & Industrial > Construction > Tools & Light Equipment > Pipe Threaders & Dies > Pipe Threaders
Chris and Thomas;
After spending the last couple three days reading this thread (or non fiction novel) i have come to the following conclusion: This thread need a warning sticker "Caution all who enter, this thread is addictive, informative, entertaining, inspiring, and Awesome".
A post on the OWWM.org site pointed me to this thread originally, and I thought I would browse through quickly, not so I read every post. And, I joined the GJ to view all of the attached pictures.
To say I am impressed is an understatement. Your efforts truly represent the best of what is possible, both in building a magnificent shop, and at the same time preserving the historical underpinnings of the property.
I will add some other comments in another post.
Again, I add my compliments to a long line of others.
After spending the last couple three days reading this thread (or non fiction novel) i have come to the following conclusion: This thread need a warning sticker "Caution all who enter, this thread is addictive, informative, entertaining, inspiring, and Awesome".
A post on the OWWM.org site pointed me to this thread originally, and I thought I would browse through quickly, not so I read every post. And, I joined the GJ to view all of the attached pictures.
To say I am impressed is an understatement. Your efforts truly represent the best of what is possible, both in building a magnificent shop, and at the same time preserving the historical underpinnings of the property.
I will add some other comments in another post.
Again, I add my compliments to a long line of others.
markviii
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We're honored to have you join us for your first post on GJ. It truly is a very eclectic group we've gathered here. Welcome to the vortex!
That vintage machinery site will be added to my list of "must see" sites. So much material out there and so little time!
Chris
That vintage machinery site will be added to my list of "must see" sites. So much material out there and so little time!
Chris
Chris
Thanks for the welcome! I grew up in Dwight Illinois, and in one of the posts (I forgot which one and didn't write it down) some one mentioned "buzz the gut in Dwight", well I was performing that ritual long before it was an organized activity.
And during my first dual cross country flight (Dwight International to Bloomington, Peoria, Champaign and home) I landed on the long runway on the numbers, an excellent landing. After thinking I did a great job, the tower asked me to "fly the plane down to the first turn off, because a DC-9 was behind me on final".
On the OWWM.Org site I think you will find several folks with the same attention to detail on machine restorations, that Thomas has.
Mike
Thanks for the welcome! I grew up in Dwight Illinois, and in one of the posts (I forgot which one and didn't write it down) some one mentioned "buzz the gut in Dwight", well I was performing that ritual long before it was an organized activity.
And during my first dual cross country flight (Dwight International to Bloomington, Peoria, Champaign and home) I landed on the long runway on the numbers, an excellent landing. After thinking I did a great job, the tower asked me to "fly the plane down to the first turn off, because a DC-9 was behind me on final".
On the OWWM.Org site I think you will find several folks with the same attention to detail on machine restorations, that Thomas has.
Mike
After "Buzzing the gut in Dwight" we would stop down at the local Texaco for a fill up. The station was run by a guy who was a couple years ahead of me in high school. He worked his **** off and eventual built a new station out on the newly completed section of I-55.
Phil then restored the old station and gave it to the city as the headquarters for the Visitors Bureau. It is on the original route of the historic Route 66, sinc then a 66 bypass was built about 1/4 mile south, then I55 Bypass was moved another 1/2 mile further south.
Here are a couple of pictures from my last visit home.
Mike
Phil then restored the old station and gave it to the city as the headquarters for the Visitors Bureau. It is on the original route of the historic Route 66, sinc then a 66 bypass was built about 1/4 mile south, then I55 Bypass was moved another 1/2 mile further south.
Here are a couple of pictures from my last visit home.
Mike
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meatsis
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hey thomas did you ever get around to restoring that old reed vise?
bluestripe67
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Thomas, Chris, This is only my second post on the GF. It has taken me several day to read, view and enjoy the incredible journey you layed before my eyes. I can relate to many of the smaller events that you have taken on with great results. I plan to redo my small two car garage, one half is home to my '67 Vette I have owned for 37 years, and 210K miles.
I am looking forward to all of the documented events coming in the future. If I can fit it in in the future, I'll drive/tour in your area and visit too see your working shop. I actually had a tear in my eye when I looked at the faux champagne celebration on the Rotary Lift. My hats off too you two!
Dennis
I am looking forward to all of the documented events coming in the future. If I can fit it in in the future, I'll drive/tour in your area and visit too see your working shop. I actually had a tear in my eye when I looked at the faux champagne celebration on the Rotary Lift. My hats off too you two!
DennisMr. Merk
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brings a tear to my eye as the bay looks very similar to a place my grandpa would take me as a child when he was getting his truck fixed, he'd buy me a pop out of a machine very similar to that one and he'd ******** with the mechanic, the only one in town
ambenz
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Yup, cool station too! Was there on my way to the Route 66 Mother Road Festival at Springfield, Il last year!
You are most welcome. Those pictures were not the completed repairs but it gave you an idea.
When doing that welding on the inside of the handle you need to be aware there is not much clearance between the handle itself and the casting it fits into. Note the crack above my finger. When that weld repair was completed where it was built up too much clearance had to be ground back into the radius of the corner. In the next few days I should get some more information and pictures of the jack status out here.
Thomas