Recent content by RidgeRunner

Smaller tool is a depth guide for filing the rakers on the saw chain. Ed

"Someday experimental project" has been under consideration, big wheel wide cart to roll my front to back into and secure for outside use and save the transition time. Current availability of needed materials to use in my scrap/repurpose pile and amount of outside use time needed have kept it...

I've been using both styles at home and work for over 50 years. Inside small shops with limited space and smooth floors the front and back has proven the handiest by far. On rough floors or outside over soft or uneven ground they get very hard to handle safely alone, very "tippy" and...

Anybody ever make a left handed version? Ed

Google "wood to metal band saw conversion" or similar terms and many links will come up to check out. One from right here on the GJ, reply #4 with pictures, explains the basics quicker than I can type: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=257207 Can be done many different ways...

Looks like it's set up on a good stand with plenty of room for jack shafts/pulley changes to slow it down for metal work if you might need it for that. A bit of surfing the 'net will bring up various ways of doing it. Ed [Cape May Hotel 56]

I was taught to trim a replacement maul/sledge handle to fit me to lessen over swinging and breaking the handle again. Place the head of the hammer on the ground and trim the handle to about crotch height. Has worked well for me ever since. Any knob on the end of replacement handles would...

On any visit to the area it would be well worth scheduling a visit here: http://industrialhistory.org/visit/testing-map/ Ed

Nice job on the clean up! Method used? Ed

I had a frozen brake line fitting near the gas tank on my truck that I had to break loose for line repair or wind up replacing everything back to the rear calipers. Didn't feel real great about waving my welding torch around in there so broke down and bought a little butane micro torch...

Kinda sorta - gallons per hour flow rate. Other numbers and letters relate to the spray pattern. I found more that I need to know now here: http://www.designheating.com/pdf/ACF454.pdf Ed

End of August 1960, $49.95 on special sale at Sears, 6 days wages from my summer job working field tobacco in my HS years. Craftsman 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 socket sets, open end and box wrenches, 3/8 and 1/2 rachets, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 breaker bars, 3/8 and 1/2 speed handles, all in a tool box with tote...

I have a hammer like that in my collection of inherited tools. Never knew what it might have been used for, thanks for the explanation. Ed

Any chance of mounting something to the van side door, maybe even padded, to take up that 2" or so? Apparently you have to open the side door to access the tool drawers anyway. Would be automatic with no extra time or effort beyond what you are doing now either opening or closing. Ed