Recent content by Badbob1919

Make sure it’s a cup, not just a segmented flat wheel or you may not have enough knuckle room to operate the trigger! (Funny but you know At the time its not funny) I run grinders nearly everyday. Some cups have large segment, some small. If you look real closely at the embedded diamond, and...

Collecting? Funny! And I’m keeping most of it. Love wrenching, etc. But just the sheer act of physically. Moving this stuff is daunting! I’m not as young as I was when I bought it!

Tell me what you like and I’ve probably got it. Slip rolls, bead rollers, welders, drill presses, big cp riveters, burr kings, all vintage AMERICAN! The good ol days! Now I stop to get gas here in California, can’t tell if the clerk is a boy or a girl.

Have a thing about punches. Big huge 100 ton Whitney’s, model 96’s, small little 20’s, and Rotex’s and weidemanns thrown in. It’s all manual stuff except a big old Bridgeport that I’ve abused by lack of attention. Most of this stuff I haven’t even seen for 20 years, and I’m amazed I humped...

Parker 848, atlas horizontal mill, 36” pexto, junior nibbler, Whitney no. 25. Care to see more?,

Hafta move. Wife says so. Neighbors delighted. My life *****. At one time calculated that I had 100 thousand pounds of equipment and tools in my garage. I got tired of having to literally climb over sharp pointy stuff, I got a couple of sea vans for the back yard. Filled those up so I...

I have this vertical compressor, buried in my shop that would make you laugh...looks like it was homemade by a monkey with a stick welder. Post a pic tomorrow I hope.

And this...circa 1955 I’m guessing....maybe early 60’s?

Found this old timer buried in my garage

Inspired me to go out in the driveway and take blurry dark pictures. Got a whole bunch of these out of Aerojet which is shutting down it’s Rancho Cordova facilities. Some came out of the ‘trim bay’ back in J zone, twhere they trim the energetic material after a pour from one of the vertical...

Maybe use it as a template to pump out a few of your own for family members. Stainless and then polish it would be cool. Patents aren’t for ever right? The type of patent etc. definitely not my area of expertise.

Thinking about it, this is on the installer (at least to this point). The corporate folk won’t do squat unless there some financial gain in it for them (duh!). ICI/Glidden owed me 30k for a job that went south. My rep wasn’t even calling me back. PPG bought them out and squared up with me...

Dying to find out what kind os system they used. Any destructive testing? Maybe way back in a corner? Putting something hard over something soft is glaringly apparent. Doesn’t look like it in this case. Some kind of crappy top coat is my guess. Crappy top coat over crappy top coat = still...

Looking for a job? Lol. As a homeowner, you did everything that I would have done. Overkill and attention to details are a art form. Looks like you even used the right cover, probably de-linted it and burned it just a little! Even cupped the cracks after filling them! You don’t know how many...

Probably 1100. It’s does have impressive flexural and tensile strength. Doesn’t like to be applied less than maybe 20 mils, no matter what your PDS or rep says. Sounds like a few I’ve done several years back before I figured it out...kinda. I have seen it yellow way back in dark corners and...