Vintage Milton air inflator restoration.

[59Sled]

Sometimes you do something so ridiculous it makes you giggle. You’re looking at it. And before you say “Why” I say “Because I can”.
Vintage 1960’s Milton air inflator. —— Orange pumice hand cleaner for cleaning up the hose. Was able to save the original Milton logo on the hose. Also polished all the brass end fittings. For the inflator I used polishing pads starting at 600 then worked up to 3000. Then a bench buffing wheel with white rouge. Then a bench buffing wheel with Mothers metal polish. Then hand polished with more Mothers. Painted black inside the Milton. It’s all displayed on a piece of phenolic wood I had laying around. I could possibly be the only person to polish quick release fittings and to mount a air inflator as a display piece. Haha.

 

[FJ 432]

Very nice, looks new.

 

[cgrutt]

Very cool whats the gauge look like? I have pretty much same one but its probably early 2000s. Surprised design appears substantially the same.

 

[59Sled]

Very cool whats the gauge look like? I have pretty much same one but its probably early 2000s. Surprised design appears substantially the same.

They are pretty much unchanged. Hard to find much info on them. But what I can find is the older ones had Pat Pending on them. From what I can find is the patent was filed after 1943. And seems like it was granted in the 70’s. Once the patent was final. They marked them Made in USA. And dropped the chicago from it. Then the newer ones they dropped the made in USA. Newer ones are labeled inflator gage and Milton industries. Also the newer ones dont have Milton on the hose and they are only stamped with a number. Possibly a date code.

 

[cgrutt]

Yeah I just checked mine says Milton Industries no USA or Chicago. Milton is stamped on the hose though. I didn't see any date codes or numbers.

 

[Zrxrunner]

I love it! I had 1 of those, amd just got 2 more in a lot that came with the blue point digital inflater I was originally bidding on. The whole thing mainly being brass and aluminum just screams "POLISH ME!!!!" LOL

 

[Schurkey]

I was hoping for a restoration of functionality. I have one similar to that, but it's unreliable--gotta shake the thing to get it to read proper pressure. And then I "hope" it's accurate.