Recent content by 2002p51

I also Googled this thing without much success. The tag says 500 rpm, yes I have a chuck key, and it does smell like an old Lionel train when I run it! :)

My bad, it does say "Shop Mate" and Portable Electric Tools Co. The tag is pretty dirty and messed up so it's hard to read. Any idea how old it is?

My wife and I were reorganizing and cleaning up the garage and we found this drill motor. The tag says it's a "Drill Mate". Anybody know how old it is or anything about it? And surprise, it works! I'm not going to sell it and we have several modern drills so I'm not going to use it, but it's...

I have this little Ford accessory light. Looks to be from the fifties based on the logo. I looked these up on eBay just to see if it's worth anything and there are a bunch of them on there around $20.00. This one appears to have never been used.

This is the "clean room" next to the rest of the garage. The windows let in a lot of light and make it really nice to work in there.

Always closed except when driving in or out. I don't need just anybody seeing what's in there.

When we were selling our house in California a woman and her adult daughter came by for a showing. When they saw the three car attached garage all they could talk about was how they could turn that into two more bedrooms and third bathroom! My wife and I just looked at each other in amazement...

What! Next time, bring them to me. Uh, I'll take them to the landfill for ya!

I like it!!!!!! Might be a tough sell for the wife though.

See that ugly brown support column in the photo? I know I can't get rid of it so I'm trying to come up with some ideas for what I can do with it. Can it be made to look like something it isn't? Can it be decorated in some way to fit the rest of the theme in the garage? Let your imagination...