Recent content by Moldyjim

US Patent: 274,544 - patented by Frank Armstrong of Bridgeport Connecticut on 3/27/1883

Found the patent, https://www.datamp.org/patents/search/advance.php?id=13841&set=301

I found this pipe wrench at the flea market, paid too much but WTH, why not. Looked at this entire post and unless I missed it this should be a first of this particular wrench. It has a series of teeth on the spring loaded catch and the main arm of the wrench. Similar to some others here but...

Saw this table lift setup on an already sold drill press this morning. It uses a bicycle chain with a circular flange to allow it to rotate with the table. It looks much older than the DP it was on. Anyone have ideas of where this could have come from? I couldn't get too close to try and see...

Long shot, but here goes, Is there anyone reasonably near Eugene Oregon that would be interested in loaning me one of the pedestal sets to use to make a an aluminum sand casting copy? I can do small stuff at home, but I have access to an industrial foundry I used to work at that might let me...

Love these old films. So much effort made to educate people to understand the basics. Too bad this isn't a part of the schools curriculum these days. The kids that start working on their own bicycles and cars are the ones that can identify problems and use their brains to come up with solutions...

It looks like these two fit in here. I picked up these massive 1950's Craftsman tools. The saw weighs 19lbs. The advertisements tout its light weight! Came in the original metal tool box with accessories. Even a tube of the original grease 90% full. The belt sander is cool too, has a little...

Ha, I just got back from the recycling store. I bought a Craftsman 8"saw just like that. Box and all. They had a sander and a belt sander too, I bought the belt sander cause it looked cooler of the two. They both have the steel boxes and the aluminum looks nice and well cared for. I'll post a...

I do, I think both the large and the smaller reflectors.

A number of people are using a 3D printer to make a rigid part of thing like bellows, making a silicone mold and casing urethane parts that way.

I won't tell you how close I came to losing a foot working on an injection mold as an apprentice. Let's just say, my shoe came off...

I probably have a dozen different die grinders, pencil grinders air tool and at least 3 Foredom flex shaft machines. I wore out my first dremel in the early 70s. Sent it off for repair and they sent me a new one. I've done a lot of plastic injection mold work with Dremels or flex shafts. R&D...

One of these days I want to cut a bunch to one length and stack them up for forging a pattern welded Damascus billet. The hex might make an interesting pattern and the material is decent carbon steel.

Wow, they want $69 for the same thing at Bimart in Oregon. I saw the ad (without price) and went to get one, but that's too much. For $22 it would be worth it.

I'm in a somewhat similar situation with a 100 + year old barn. Though the only utilities are a power line and the well head next to the building. The roof is caving in and one end is collapsing inward. The siding might be worth a bit of cash, old barn wood. There is some old growth lumber in...