Recent content by brute84

Yes, I have a couple of the green cases. They have the oval image.

Took less than 5 seconds to reproduce each image. I know we should all be fearful of our soon to be overlords, but I am pleased with this use case.

Ok, calculator talk. I remember when i was getting my engineering degree in the early 80s, there were two kinds of engineering students. The poors who had Ti 30s and the rich students who had HP 41CVs. Unfortunately, I fell into the former grouping, which was not unlike grade school where I...

Picked up this old air cylinder today. My knowledge of this tank is from an eBay listing. Bought it because it was cool looking. BTW, the eBay listing states that it is stainless steel, being nonmagnetic, I assume aluminum.

After seeing this thread yesterday, I was motivated to shoot a few pics of my slim pickins. The first two pics show Miracle Power Racks. One populated with 8 oz cans, the other populated with Novelty battery radios. The last pics show old kerosine? cans. All three look like they had cork...

Bought this heavy-duty cabinet from FB Marketplace. it does not have any identification marks, but it does have Equipto style drawers. It should clean up nicely. I do plan on reinforcing the floor so I can stabilize the casters. The cabinet is around 48" long. Drawers are too small to be...

Bought a Shure workbench about a month ago. It was missing a top and had a lot of surface rust in the back. It was pretty flimsy without a top. I noticed that the bottom shelf did not have a floor, I assume it is because these work benches were probably placed against a wall with all of the...

I bought a Precision-Built grinder from Spiegel last week. One of my oddball collections is collecting all of the Speedway 117 clones. Simple one-piece elegant design. The only one I thought I was missing was the Western Auto version. With this Spiegel find, i am sure there will be others...

No, not the same company. The microphone company oddly enough seems to be a little older. One thing i noticed on my Shure is that the label has a zip code. I know zip codes have been around for a while but seems to indicate that the toolbox was produced later than the 50s and maybe later than...

Picked up this workbench today. Minimal dings, surface rust on the back and as the pics show missing a top and I assume a floor. I need to research what the top should look like so I can replace it. I am sure it is probably missing a few other pieces. Have a few projects ahead of this one...

Picked up this old icebox on FB about a month ago. It was in pretty solid condition. I sanded the top, cleaned and painted the inside and added casters. It only had two legs. I think I will leave the rest of the exterior as-is. Maybe the back was the original color. Think I will use it for...

Restoring and old bumper jack that i found on my property. I would like to recreate the decal but cannot make out the wording beneath "Service Chief' or beneath 'Blackhawk'. Has anyone seen a clear shot of that decal. I searched the interwebs, so far the best shot I have found is the first...

Here are some after-and-before pictures of metal boxes I picked up in 2020. From the looks of them, the cabinets definitely had had a useful but hard life. From left to right, there is a Wards Quality Master, Waterloo, Kennedy, and a Craftsman. In an effort to make them more uniform, I...

Grabbed these two sets off of eBay last week. I am guessing 1980's???

One of my favorite threads had fallen to page 7. Back to the top. Picked up these two tool cabinets from a Facebook listing --- Craftsman and Wards. Good candidates for restore. No bad dings, just surface rust. The metal badge plates look to be in excellent condition underneath the flaking...