Recent content by austin870

HD/Lowes prey on more areas with slow or zero growth that don't have any real lumber yards. They also have the advantage of being open 7 days a week and holidays. Oh until 9PM. Most lumber yards are open bankers hours because they cater to contractors who do the same. The DIY guys are also...

Thanks for the info. I was told by a capacitor manufacturer/distributor the values from a 70 year old start capacitor would not be reliable. They would be better than nothing but not much. They also said older ones would have significantly different values than more current ones given same...

How do I find a new capacitor if there is absolutely zero information on the capacitor available? I don't even have a starting point for the 20/80 rule. There might not even be any information inside so if I took it apart. With it working fine I could then be screwed. Someone here replaced...

Thanks for the tip on the values. I looked all over for those. My capacitor is inside what looks like the cardboard inside a toilet paper roll. Same size too. I didn't have the guts to pull out that can of worms to check inside because I thought it might disintegrate in my hands or would not...

Nice... a 5. I also suspect all of them started off with a distributor label on them like that one. That is why there is no brand identifier on the body. So a dozen distributors could just put their sticker on them and have some degree of exclusivity. I think Duracraft was one of those first...

Thanks for the link grouseman. I found this one that is pretty much a dead ringer. It also only has stickers. Says Made in Taiwan 1970. Mine also has the hole at the tube end but mine is on top his is on the side. Lots of other writing on the bottom white stickers but I can't read it. My...

Here is an interesting one. This is some kind of Wilton Bullet clone thingy with 4” jaws. It has the same weight within a couple ounces and strangely appears a very similar build quality. There is absolutely zero writing on it anywhere. Probably had a sticker that is long gone. My mother...

On that note though has anyone figured out what the "Type CNO" means on the grinder label? Absolutely nothing comes up in Google searches. I can't find any bench grinder or small electric motor related definition for the CNO.

Ohhhh... went right by me. Nothing surprises me with paint jobs.

The period color was a dark blue body and black wheel guards and quench tray. Some models had the center band brushed metal and others painted blue. Here is a pick of what the last coat was as I stripped it. There was only the gray painted over the blue. Here are a couple pics of ones I...

Here are some pics with a before and after.

That is interesting losdudes... I picked up a similar model from the same time period as your green one just 3 weeks ago. Mine has the original switch as well as the quench reservoir and light. It weighs 78lbs. I restored mine over the last couple of weeks. Mine is a model 1156842. Made in...

Here is my restored Long C grinder. Vintage 1944. It actually came with a huge long C in large letters all along the entire length of the quench tank in the front. I am working on reproducing that.

What I really enjoyed seeing on your grinder was the light. Mine has the same exact light telling me it is probably the original. The odds of two 75 year old grinders having the same exact light mounted the same way to the same place and not being original is real slim. I believe the lights...

My son made this one for the 1943 Craftsman grinder I just restored. He even managed to duplicate the etching with the bottom information. It is just printed on some vinyl paper so it didn't cost anything but some of his time. I used a 5 minute two part epoxy and it held well. It didn't melt...