Recent content by Rust Collector

Those vintage flashlights look like an addictive collectible :bounce::) Here’s a photo of the flexy light, needs a clean up and will probably fit on my old Craftsman 150 drill press

Those extinguisher tags are a work of art!!

Thanks, I did suspect this was not the manufacturer, the .inc threw me. Appreciate the history on it, much like the CE stamp I’m more used to in Europe. No other markings, but looks to be one of the generic offerings shown in Craftsman catalogs of the time

That Dazor looks perfect for the lathe! Can never have enough light when making chips! I also have one of the flexible “Underwriters Laboratories Inc” ones that I’ll probably use on my 150 drill press, just needs cleaning up.

:lol: :lol: :lol: yes, prefer the green one too!

:lol: Sage advise from humber2. Bugnut, thanks for the tips :rocker:

In this case about 5mins should do it :)

So seems like these vises have a habit of multiplying! I went to look at an old lathe a while back and came back with another Wilton that was thrown in. This one was seized up, but a week long soak and some gentle persuasion freed it up. Went with Massey Ferguson grey this time. Beer testing...

This old Sear light came with a bunch of old parts I picked up, perfect for the lathe! Cleaned up the rust as best I could whilst preserving the original paint, decal still pretty clear, unfortunately the paint on the hood just clean fell off as I touched it, so tried a match but not great and...

Thanks all, seemed like an obvious question I guess :lol: I’ll knock up a few from some paper, certified grocery bag sounds like perfect material! was thinking I’d be able to get a few for a few cents somewhere, certainly not paying $15 for 10 little rounds of paper. Appreciate the paper...

Thanks, but they are a kind of special hard wearing non metallic “paper” but probably not paper at all, they need to hold up to oil and shaft turning without falling apart. Anything soft will introduce backlash into the feed. Could use a metal shim, but the originals were intended to give...

I’m rebuilding an old Craftsman drill press milling table and need to replace the paper shims on the adjustment shafts, specs are 1” x 1/2” and 1/64”. Anyone know where to buy new ones, McMaster list some that are close but $15 for 10 seems crazy for a few paper washers. Thanks all

Thanks WWShop! :thumbup: And FarmerJ your 100% right, looks like Wilton were years ahead of the game with their integrated beer holder and recycle crushing device. :bounce: More testing planned for Friday evening :beer:

:bounce: Crayola certified paint!!! Results are in, after the first round of testing I can now confirm that the Wilton easily holds any regular size of beer at all liquid levels, full to empty, significant testing may have taken its toll on me though ...:beer: This Marlinspike Porter was a...

Thanks, it was an old can of Krylon Como green satin I had on shelf, came out well. Got the Wilton vise bug now :drool: Testing ongoing....