Recent content by mmotodad

Just a DIYer myself but I will throw in my 2 cents - if your portable compressor runs on 110 at 20A or under, it will run on roughly half the amperage at 220V (10A or less). You can search here on GJ for a thread debating whether it is worth changing a 1 - 2 HP motor to 220V. Some say it runs...

I have an old motor sitting in the corner of the shop that came from the estate of a woodworker. I would like to know what tool, machine or equipment this motor would have been originally used in. The original data plate is present but hard to read. What I can make out is that its a type RY...

I am in need of what I would call the dust cover for a Snap On FR-42 ratchet. I purchased this off ebay a few years ago. It was sort of an impulse buy while I was actually searching for a modern round head 3/8 SO ratchet to replace one that was left in a customer vehicle some years ago :mad...

This is the style of packaging they came in when sold at Walmart in the late 80's. I had misplaced the original pouch at some time wrenching on my first car but have since purchased a few new old stock sets from fleabay. The vinyl pouch was made by SI Jacobsen out of Wukegan IL and is has a...

This is one of several surplus military sets that I have. For a while I couldn't help myself from purchasing them. Some of them like this one have one or two KAL wrenches which are identical, some have had SK mixed in. I have also run across a few identical single wrenches on Ebay that were...

On December 26, 1987 I returned a shirt that I received as a Christmas gift from a well meaning aunt to Wal-Mart. As I did not have the receipt they gave me a store credit for 9 bucks and some change. I scoured the clothing looking for something I might actually wear before giving up and...

Bonneyman, thank you thank you. Your description of how the spring interfaced with the fork of the selector knob is what it took for the light bulb in my head to illuminate. As I fit the spring into it I actually felt rather dumb. Its all back together lubed up and working well. Not my...

Can anyone tell me how the spring or springs are oriented inside a Proto Challenger/Fleet single pawl round head ratchet? I finally found a decent one with the selector that is the full width of the head on the ratchet and it came to me in non working condition. When I opened it up it was dry...