Recent content by JustinL

I have one that I restored, it’s a great drill press but I have to agree with others here $300 is a bit a high $200 is the max I’d go. Unless you need a floor model or have lots of space I’d get a bench model.

Looks great! Heres my slightly newer model I restored recently.

I painted it with a foam roller and foam brush dabbing it on. I read it was a good way to get the hammered finish and it seemed to work so I stuck with it.

I just bought it on their normal site, it came in a few days. But you're right I don't see the green listed anymore.

Mostly the sand blaster, some of the smaller parts on a wire wheel bench grinder. The head of the drill I did with a cupped wire brush on a grinder or sanded by hand. With the sand blaster sand ends up everywhere obviously so I was a little worried that I wouldn’t get it all out of the little...

I bought it on Ace Hardwares website. My local ace hardware has a bunch of it but didn’t have the green.

Hammerite, I believe it’s called emerald green. It was the closest to the original paint I could find off the shelf. I'm blown away at how tough it is, I had a 3 foot long piece of metal in the little machine vise when I bent down to crank up the table I accidentally knocked it off onto the...

I picked this 1950's Atlas 1060 drill press up for $200 a few years ago and finally got around to doing a full resto on it. It was completely torn apart cleaned and painted. I put in new bearings, rewired, and lubed hopefully ready for another 70 years of use. Someone had stuck an old...

I pulled my old Walden apart to clean and lube and found the ratcheting mechanism pretty interesting compared to every other one I've taken apart. The pawls spin and the teeth are fixed.

Cleaned up, re lubed, and re lined my old Rick Mears box. Unfortunately some of the staining is burned into the paint from some kind of chemical spill.

Nailed it! Thanks!

I don't think a Dzus tool I've posted it on several tool forums and the same thing keeps happing whatever the first person says everyone else just agrees haha. But each forum has come up with different things the most popular one is that it's a valve seat cutting tool. But moving on anyone...

I had some leftover Evaporust so I tossed this really rusty wrench in for two days to see what it would do, I'm pretty impressed!

My father recently passed away, he was a lifelong auto mechanic that owned his own shop. I just spent the last eight weeks taking on the monumental task of cleaning out the shop he's owned since 1993. I've found a few tools that I have no idea what they are and wondering if anyone here can help...