Recent content by Bugeyed Earl

I never did follow up on my Dazor that had one pesky fluorescent tube which refused to light. It turned out to be a bad connection to a ballast. The little twisted wire pigtail that's soldered to the main winding had come loose, but I had to peel back the cardboard covering to see it, and...

Here's a little crown top caliper I picked up at a flea market yesterday, it'll go in the small tool kit that lives in my office.

Spotted this at a flea market this morning. Seller was asking $10, but some of the small plastic parts at the back were broken, and I think my two 79-001's are all I need. It does offer a nice sized work surface though...

It's funny, I've been considering getting another one with the aluminum H frame for over a year, and suddenly two of them materialize days apart. When it rains, it pours.

Same flea market three days later, different Workmate. Looks like this one has all-plastic handles. I didn't ask for a price, two is plenty :)

How not to do it, from the local flea market: gigantic top heavy pipe/scrap combination, with a cheap grinder welded to the top (welding cast iron to steel is always a recipe for success, right?) Best of all, the grinder is at chin level, so easy to see what you're doing.

Ah, looking at your site, I see that the notch pattern did change, so this is may be the factory top after all! It has some evidence of a coat of shellac it varnish, but that probably helped it stay together all these years. I need to get around to replacing the jaws on my type 1, they're...

I'm not certain, but I can't find a type stamp underneath the top on the "new" one. Also, the jaws only have a vertical notch on one side of each jaw, one on the left of the moving jaw, and one on the right of the fixed jaw, is that how they came on this version?

Went to the flea market this morning, and the seller who's had this out for a few weeks finally opened with a fair price (he was asking $50 a few weeks ago, which is also quite fair, but at $20, I couldn't leave it behind.) And then there were two... The new one is on the right, someone...

Nice, that paint job is amazing!

Wow, I'll bet that's a heavy sucker, it looks indestructible!

A bit too tiny for a helmet :D I actually bought it when we used to use photo paper, I had my own darkroom at the time.

That's a great idea, my wife just emptied 3 of them to take some documents to the shredder. Thanks!

I found this old "paper safe" (for storing photographic paper as used in darkrooms) in a thrift shop years ago, and thought I could press it into service to store sandpaper, but unfortunately it was made for a max size of 8x10". I'll find another use for it eventually. The steel tambour door is...

Yep, you're correct. I didn't realize they made them out of aluminum, but in the period before aluminum was being conserved for the war effort, the aluminum cans were common. I also learned that the lining is just linoleum, and not something more hazardous as I suspected.