Recent content by Brian R.

Oh! And Birchwood Casey gun blue on the adjuster nuts.

Thanks Allfast! I use a pretty gentle method. Degrease with hot water and POR15 Marine Clean with a toothbrush scrub. Then I soak in Evaporust for a half day using scrubs of 0000 steel wool to help things along. Basic Rustoleum satin black goes on the painted areas. I like it because it...

Love them Don! I wanted a sharp and smooth jaw wrench hence my inclusion of the Trimo on the Ridgid thread. They look so nice together. Your 12" Trimo is clean with the original paint. Wish mine had a hanging loop. :)

160 years between the two of them. Cleaned, painted and greased for another century. :)

Oh man. Those are steller! Are those late 50's or early 60's maybe? Every time I see a lathe do it's thing I want to get one. Nothing seems to work as well with these types of restorations.

Haha! Fantastic Bert! I knew everybody would get the reference. :)

"1000 Watts!!! Marty! How could I have been so careless! How am I gonna' generate that kind of power!"

I swear I would be the guy who would break every single one of those bulbs unless the were 20' off the floor. :)

i still say Blue72's fluorescents are the craziest lights I've ever seen.

Love those Bert. When did fluorescent lighting come into use I wonder? Preheat?

Bert, you likely saw this too in the course of your research... https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=1217&pos=70&pid=41881

Those bulbs are nuts! They must have cast nice wide light. 10' wing span. I vote for calling them Albatross fixture.

Yep! Inglewood CA. It says it on the sticker on one of the 18" fixtures.

Nice! Oh man. We could start a whole thread on Dazors. I have a number of them. I'll take pics. I have an 8 ft. work bench. I have a brown Dazor in the middle and a very cool silver magnifier down at the end of the bench. It looks like something from War of the Worlds. :)

Whoa! That worked out! And, you've educated me. I had to search "spun aluminum lights" to see exactly what you meant. I love them.