Recent content by Jay F

Several years ago a friend gave me a Roll A Car jack made in Racine WI, which is pictured in one of the ads. It worked well so I cleaned it up and used it a few times. It works by ratcheting, is very powerful and I thought is was real neat. However, it's very heavy, very long overall so takes...

Great job and you have a great TOS lathe. The only TOS lathes available in the US are very large industrial types which are unsuitable for a garage, so I'm happy with my South Bend lathe.

Would love to post some pics of my Parker vise, but I'm a klutz with computers and can't figure out how to up/down load them. Tried once but got a message saying it failed or something like that. Now if my daughter was here to do it for me.....

I bought and have cleaned up a great #1 Parker Vise with patent dates in the 19th century (1854-1880s). It's been fairly straight forward, but I notice that some others who have posted photos of vises in this forum have painted the raised letters and numbers in the casting a different color...

When in the same position in the '90s (had to have a lathe but little knowledge) I took a twice a week night course in lathe operation at a local (Atlanta area) tech college. After a couple of months I had some basic knowledge. They had mostly large LeBlonds and Logans in the shop except for...

Bought a No. 1 Parker vise on ebay to restore, and while looking up info on it on the internet came across the Garage Journal. Glad to be here. Am also into antique cars, fans, lathes and in general working (or as my wife says playing) in the garage/workshop. Will have some questions on...

My Taig lathe came from Chandler.