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Sure, I'll revive my own old thread to answer a couple of old questions! :) The screwdriver Matt asked about is a AZPH 4 x 200. I think I've only used it on some old Ford door hinges. To vela, the felt is available at any fabric store; it's cheap, comes in colors, and is very easy to work...

...in time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble, they're only made of clay... unfortunately that quote of Moose's above doesn't look like it shows the date, so let me remind everyone that it was 11-27-09! But hey, that's water under the bridge; look at all the goodness! Really sweet...

Thanks everyone. Tex, this pic will hopefully show how they lay in the drawer. The long center strip is just 2 layers of 1/4" foamcore laminated, with slots cut into it for the screwdriver shafts to rest in. It was then covered in the felt on two sides and the top and then double-sided tape...

You can leave the big regulator "outside". At the air cap means final pressure at the gun. There is a pressure drop that depends on the pressure at the regulator, the length of the hose between the regulator, and the diameter of the hose between the reg. and the gun. Most painters install a...

If you have the room, consider a double basin. I have one side for all the sloppy junk, the other side stays pretty clean for washing up car washing towels and occasional hand-wash clothing or the turkey roaster that's too big for the kitchen, soaking potted plants, etc.

I do similar with plastic bag, but use rigid container instead. I have a doughnut sized magnet that just fits in the bottom of a cottage cheese container that I can hold comfortably and wave over the area, then stand over trash and remove magnet momentarily. A nicer version is found in...

I removed one on each side, and took a sliver off the remaining one on each drawer. It helps A LOT.

You were already an esteemed member of the Garage Journal Pantheon of Screwdriver Collectors and I have little doubt that when you've vetted out these latest acquisitions and merged them with your existing collection that you shall ascend to the Throne with your mighty assemblage to be presented...

Oh, stuff is still slipping away at a sad rate. Most of those idled knitting machines were probably purchased by Chinese and shipped there. Sometimes it is to save literally one cent on a pair of socks. Loss of a job, loss of a factory, of a town, can happen to save a penny on a pair of...

Things that can still be made in the USA and remain competitive are those items that have minimum human labor involved, which includes a fair bit of plastics, I believe. Your socks were probably made in the U.S. because making them uses the same machine here as it does in China with only a few...

It is all among the benefits of being "blue" (if they were a State in the U.S.), not that they don't have some of the disadvantages, too.

If it's easy to get to your building dept., like mine, you can take in any old thing and they will then say that's fine except for this and this. Now they've told you what they want and it's probably easy to comply; I had one trip where I just re-sketched at their office and walked back in...

Wonderful collection in a beautiful presentation case!

In a perfect world, they should. At some point it would have been more efficient to develop a standard for drivers and fasteners. Of course a slotted screw is probably not a good design in the first place for any but the widest and shallowest of screws.

Other poster is right; use oil based products, huge difference over water-based. Try Benjamin Moore's alkyd underbody over raw wood, coats beautifully, sands like plaster. Top coat with gloss of your choice or for superior look and feel use high gloss and sand/rub/polish it to your desired...