Recent content by driftpin

I hope that I have about a year which may be enough time to sell-off my acquisitions before I croak. I just cannot bear to think of someone throwing into a dumpster a collection of gauges like that after I'm gone. I have a single set of S-W gauges I took off a long-ago Dodge van, back in the 1970's.

I use my Porter-Cable Tiger saw which adjusts via two swivels into all-sorts of blade positions. Dunno if it's still available. I bought mine after I saw it written-up in Fine Homebuilding. A great tool for me. A pic of one: Look at that big knuckle forward of the gray body. It moves like a...

I worked fire-rescue in an Atlantic Ocean-front FL city. The population was elderly retired towards the ocean, in high-rises, and younger families by I-95 in metropolitan Broward Co. (Ft. Lauderdale area). We visited some local businesses frequently to take care of the people experiencing...

Powr-Kraft/Wright Tootsie-Roll handle 3/8" ratchet (& metric socket set), a present from the parents when I was in my mid-teens, 16 I think. Look closely and you can see a split socket I never warranteed. I added some Craftsman pieces in that Wright steel box over the years. The set is probably...

A Costco business member for many years. They are not close to us, 7.5 mi 1-way. Their quality I think is better. We often buy large appliances there, most recently a Maytag upright washer and side-opening dryer for a rental. They cost $900 for both out the door. I got a couple of young...

The reason you replace points is that the rubbing block on the distributor wears, why would you want or need to 'surface' one? There is always the points pitting, and wearing because of the capacitor's energy characteristic is changing, causing the pitting on one point or the other. (Charges the...

Looks like some sort of french cleat, where the leather lanyard is there to be a point of attachment for some other type of lead. Turn it upside-down and the J-piece could hook-over a rod, and the movable piece locks the device in-place, w/the leather strap accepting another flexible lead.

In 1980 I bought a So. FL CBS home built w/ductile cast iron (DCI) DWV pipe. I installed new shut-off valves on all the sinks and the 1 toilet. I don't mind soldering, I used an acetylene plumber's tank. The fittings out of the wall came from galvanized steel pipe. I used several wraps of...

Congratulations on moving where you want to be instead of staying where you are. I'd like to see some structural pics of the barn & etc. please. When you have the time. I'd call-in a good engineer and find a competent local contractor to get things needing it fixed before the winter. That...

In a 100 year old house this year (if it still existed, I demolished it ~19 years ago) I did a repair of a ductile cast-iron (DCI) sewer pipe to the backyard alley main waste line. I cut off the hub so I had a 4" I.D. DCI pipe. I bought what the local old-time plumber's supplies business called...

I think your 1907 Model 3 'strap tank' bike picture will look good on my garage wall, asking permission to make a print and hang it, please.

That looks like a good piece of machinery, I hope that you get good use out of it. Is there any particular product you're going to set it up for? I grew up in the metro Rochester NY area. We had some great school field trips to places of industry, in the 1950's/'60's. Eastman Kodak General...

I am surprised that OMR didn't claim, "It's a power supply for an electric saw set & sharpener." We had a transformer similar to that in the dining room of a mid-'50's ranch-style 1-story home, for the doorbell. It was removed during a whole-home re-model preparing for retirement; we're into...

Patina, or restoration? Wall hanging, or objet d'art on a pedestal for 360 degree consideration of its components?

The link wouldn't generate for me... . I tried 2X.