Show off your "Before and After" Iool restorations

[JoeFin]

Here is my L&W dividing head as I got when I dragged out of a old timer's shop

and here it is all spruced up

and here it is "Working"

 

[justanengineer]

I dont take many before pics, I tend not to like being reminded of how bad many of my tools were when I got them, plus Im terrible about remembering to take pics in general.

Here's one of the more dramatic changes, my Buffalo 10" camelback. I literally tripped over it in a shed, mostly buried in the mud. I dont have a pic of it reassembled and its currently sitting in my brother's basement until I find or fab a matching 3-step flatbelt pulley.




My Elite fully mechanical (not hydraulic) floor jack that is now decorating a buyer's wall.



And for diversity, a hammer I got in a lot of body tools. Being the cheap SOB that I am, I cannot let a good hammer go to waste, even covered in bondo. 5 mins with the wire wheel revealed a really nice hammer.

 

[nine4gmc]

Great Job JOE!!

justanengineer, my scrap guy has a camel back rotting away in his warehouse, next time I get over there I will see if he has a 3 step pulley. Are you looking for the top or motor pulley?

 

[evintho]

Here's a couple of my restos with before and after shots.

Wilton vise.............





$20 Milwaukee chopsaw..............





$35 Hein-Werner floorjack............





Craftsman 150 drillpress..............





No before pics on these two, only after pics.

$10 Milwaukee hammerdrill...........



$20 Milwaukee sawzall...........

 

[solitaire]

What did you use to clean the red plastic on the mikwaukee sawzall? I have tried goof off but it just turns the red into a white chalky color

 

[Jswain]

Looks like fresh paint but I could be wrong...however I have found that Purple Power or whatever it is called the HD degreaser in the purple bottle diluted with some water and a toothbrush to scrub works amaaaaaazing at cleaning plastics.

 

[shooting4life]

Don't have before pictures, but here are three pipe wrenches I fixed up. They were all over a couple decades old covered in the usual pipe dope, rust, etc.

 

[jakemac]

I didn't take before pics, but these can be found the the 2013 garage sale finds thread.

The first pic is some 6" clamps that were greasy, grimy, and rusted up.

The second pic are some dollies that I've picked up over the last few months. They were rusted up and full of dings, gouges, and scars from abuse. A little time on the sander and some new paint and they're good as new.

 

[evintho]

What did you use to clean the red plastic on the mikwaukee sawzall? I have tried goof off but it just turns the red into a white chalky color

Yep, Jswain nailed it. I scuffed it with a 3M pad and painted it with Rustoleum.

 

[ZRX61]

That looks just like my 1930's valve grinder sitting next to it.

 

[bisley45]

1936 Delta 17 drill press

 

[ffemtdisp]

All I can say is WOW!