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This Montgomery Wards jigsaw was of the first jigsaws I ever picked up, along side a few of the ever-common aluminum Black and Decker clamshell body models. However, the build quality on this is actually extremely impressive for a split die-cast housing and blows the Black and Decker homeowner...

Regarding removing stuck ball bearings in housings, if you can't get a puller in: Heat the housing with a torch (heating only needed if original bearings were press-fit, not slip-fit and just frozen by dried grease) Bang on the perimeter of the housing with a wooden mallet if aluminum housing...

Later vintage models: The other vintage models have halved plastic or aluminum housings held together by screws. Their shafts ride in 1 or two bronze bushings (but are larger at 3/8" diameter or more). The shafts have wobble in the bushings and the bushings wobble in the housing because the...

I picked up a few vintage right angle adapters before I got an actual right angle drill, and they were all wobbly and erratic. For curiosity's sake, I decided to buy the original 1950's craftsman adapter which is a single, solid aluminum housing and was advertised as "no oiling" which I was...

This is relative to the flats of the cutterhead, not the clean circumference of the cylinder. On my Craftsman 6" jointer (NOT planer) from the 50's, which the seller said came from the estate of a friend who ran a woodshop, the blades are set at about 5/16" above the flats of the cutterhead. I...

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Finished cleaning up this find from a garage of a friend of a family member was was retiring and fleeing south to a warmer climate, abandoning much of his accumulated "junk". These are 1950's hedge trimmers that are a rather outdated configuration, with a switch on the cord instead of a trigger...

Additional info regarding blade/spring adjustment: The original projection of the blades beyond the flats of the cutterhead is unknown. The manual does not state this. The manual says to replace blades once they are down to 9/16" wide. My blades were 9/16" wide. I set them to project 1/4" past...

Planing down a piece of board used in a homemade router edge/circle cutting guide for a vintage industrial Black and Decker 2Hp router to get it to pass over the working surface.

More photos of the guts of the head casting and cutterhead/spindle assembly, as well as the new fence.

I finished setting up a 1950's-60's Craftsman 6" planer (not jointer...) that I bought two months ago. I got the planer without a stand or motor, and the seller had removed the knives for sharpening but then presumably found them difficult to install/align and never put them back in...

No, I just got the machine and original vise. I picked up the lamp separately, and bought collets from Little Machine Shop. I did realize once I was done that there seems to be no way to adjust the spindle to be square to the table in the Y direction. Am I missing any leveling screws on the...

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