Recent content by skorper

I've got a pole barn garage and the man-door is a salavge door that came off an older building. I want to put weatherstripping on the outside the door and have not been able to locate the type that I want. I'm looking for the old fashioned exterior weatherstrip that was made out of an...

I go to estate auctions a lot. Kids at auctions are fine as long as they are well behaved or well supervised. If they are neither then it it the parents fault. (Or grandparents or whoever are bringing them). I've seen some kids at auctions that have not been a problem at. One time I...

Hello gentlemen. In digging thru my boxes of estate sale purchases that I've aquired over the years I found this C-clamp. It says "JH Williams" "Drop forged in USA" on it and on the other side it is marked "Agrippa No. 108". I am surmising that Agrippa was the name given to the line of Williams...

Yeah, Here's a pic of my typical mess. (Let's see if I can get this picture posting thing to work).

Wilton made dang good vises. That one would serve you well. I had one on my bench and used it to hold a front bumper from a 1976 GMC pickup while I hammered out a bend in it with a sledgehammer. The vise was bolted clear thru a 2x8 board and I ripped the bolts out of the board but the vise was...

Just found this site and it is very interesting. I really don't have enough time to spend ON my garage, but I spend a lot of time IN it. I mostly fool around with mechanical work as I am by no means an expert mechanic. Fooling around is OK though, sort of therapeutic, if you know what I mean...