Recent content by Momodem

Thanks Drivesitfar, I am up and running now with posts thanks. The plant is a "Gunnera" and it is taking over the garden. I`ve posted some stuff on the "More vintage tools" thread. Momodem

Some close-ups of a wonderful old vice...

Thought you may like to see more of the forge...

Hello chaps, I have a job for an old blacksmith near me and visited his forge today. It was like a trip back 200 years or more and when I asked what was the oldest tool there, he said the tyre former for the metal rims of horse drawn carriages. In the photograph, the top couple of girder pieces...

Not powered I'm afraid but probably due to its age...

Here`s my neighbour sharpening my shears on the old belt grinder!

Four photographs of the wood turning lathe used in the First World War and now in my shed! Also, the 80 year old workbench of my neighbour who owned it, and a photograph of his Drummond round frame metal turning lathe, treadle driven but he`d added a washing machine motor!

Thank you sir, built to last!

This shows the 100 year old motor better... Momodem

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Just a few more...

I am trying to get enough posts under my belt to post a video. Momodem

These were some of the tools in my neighbours shed after 80 years of use!

They look wonderful on those stands.

Hello all, I was given this bench grinder by a neighbour who lived to 101. He started his tool maker apprenticeship in the 1920s! It is powered by a Crompton/Parkinson motor he bought secondhand in London in 1937! If you've seen something similar, please show me as nobody else can believe I...