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Valve Organizing Yardstick Never heard of one of these before: My wife surprised me with this from a shop she and friends were at in Jacksonville. We Googled it and a couple of hits came up with it sitting on the bench with valves stuck through the holes. Said it was given out by parts stores...

Singer Hand Vacuum I was given this by my Mom, and I remember my grandmother using it when I was a kid. The cloth bag had rotted to nothing so I put a small paper vac bag on it with some zip ties, and it works perfect. I am guessing at least 75 years old, maybe more. It is a shame these old...

Jig Saws, Scroll Saws and Sanders Left is a Stanley, and I have no idea where it came from. Next is a Craftsman Vibratory Straight Line Sander, and your hand goes numb real fast with it. Again, I have no idea when or where I got it. Same for the Craftsman Scroll Saw next in line. The Shopmate...

Demagnetizers! Remember these? The one on the right is a Radio Shack for 8 track players. Why I still have it is a mystery since I don't have any 8 track tape decks anymore... the other one is for VCRs. I found a bunch of old home movies we made on VCR tapes and my son bought a gizmo to play...

As I continue to open boxes that have been sealed for years, I find tools I don't recall any details about and some I do. Here are some of the drills I have unpacked: The 1/2 drive at upper left I bought from Graingers in Fort Worth when I got married, 49 years ago. I have 3 identical Craftsman...

Finally making progress on my 2800 sq ft shop remodel - add on. I have dreamed about a long workbench I could work on from both sides, so I built one 16' long with a 6' bench across one end. Tied them all together with 5/8 OSB and then nitrile rubber over the top. This will mostly be for chain...

Found a box full of old ignition parts, mostly small engine, such as coils, points sets, condensers. So I decided to make some shop art. I will be interested to see how many younger visitors will actually know what the parts are!

I built this coffee table my senior year of high school wood shop in 1976, for my Mom. It had a big oval piece of glass in it, which my younger sister broke twice, and then years later my niece broke twice, so mom was done and it ended up in the shed. I brought it home with me when I closed out...

Thanks guys! I meant that I did not see any TAMU drill presses posted here at the Garage Journal, and not much on Google either. Nor have I come across any other college programs that did something similar, although there may have been some somewhere. I got my degree to be a shop teacher but we...

I graduated from Texas A & M in 1979. I took two Engineering Technology classes my senior year that resulted in this: Another class did all the sand castings, which I did not take. The first class I took we machined all the rough castings to spec. The second class we machined all the rest of...

Yes Geoff, that was how this was used. It came off the assembly line at STIHL Inc. and was used for some task back when they built the 028 saw, which went out of production in 1993. If you look at the front jaw it has a corner milled off, and there is a notch in the back jaw that is not visible...

Thanks RoninB4, I appreciate the info. Lots of history to be discovered in any of these old tools we all enjoy collecting and sharing.

When you put something in between the jaws, you can spin the arm and just barely tighten on the part, just enough to hold it. Then pressure must go into the line at the bottom front of the cylinder, which moves the rear sliding jaw forward 1/4" unless there is something to clamp down on. If...

Post 2 I needed this station to be moveable so I copied a YT vid idea with some mods for this application. There is plenty of leverage so very little effort is needed to raise it up and the prop slides in place by itself. Just kick the prop back and the table drops back in place. And this...

Retired now and building out my final shop. I have always wanted a dedicated miter saw station to do accurate and repeatable cuts. Watched at least 15 YT vids with everything from fine woodworking cabinets with raised panel doors, drawers, folding wings, to against the wall setups with long...