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Can anyone help me with the vintage and manufacturer of this vintage Craftsman drill press? It turned up at the local Habitat Restore and was bought by a friend. Sorry for his crappy phone photos.. Thanks a bunch cheers

I've been taking some pictures for another group so I thought I'd share them with the GJ forum. This is inside the garage that's part of our house. More than 25 years ago we took down the garage door and built a wall in it's place. We put furring strips and 3/4" foam on the floor and covered it...

Death to Drawers: How a Mythbuster Organizes His Workshop. Step one is getting rid of tool boxes and drawers. http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/tools/a16811/adam-savage-workshop-tour/ .

I have a stump that was left after our tree guys cut down a big maple tree a few years ago. Can anyone tell me the best way to kill it so it'll stop putting our sprouts that I have to keep cutting off? The stump has a hole in the center, is there something I can pour in the hole that'll kill it...

I hope someone here can help me find this. I'm looking for a vintage box lid latch like the one shown in the photo below. I either need one with similar patina to this one, or a pair with matching patina. This is going on a very rare mid 1920s custom built RCA Radiola AR-812 super-het radio...

Hey guys, I wonder if you can give me some reccomendatios for a new HVAC electric heatpump for our home. I feel fairly sure our home warranty company is going to refuse to repair our upstairs heatpump. We've been keeping it patched together for years with the warranty but it looks like the...

We've had one of the three W.T. Tool stores in Charlotte for more years than I can remember, I know I went there the first time more than 30 years ago. I went there this afternoon looking for a tool I need, when I walked up to the door I saw a sign that said "This location is CLOSED". What are...

I'm looking for a tool that I don't know if it exist or if it does what it's called. I'll try to describe what I'm looking for; Think about a tapered reamer or a countersink that will bevel the inside of a hole. Now think about the opposite, something that'll bevel the outside of a round...

I'm working on the preservation of a 1918 Navy receiver, unfortunately the cabinet for it is missing. I think I can fab a cabinet it's just a box that holds the panel where all the radio parts are mounted. The main problem is the name tag/data plate is mounted on the side of the box. I have...

There's a thread here called "Your new/old Leathermans!". I clicked on reply and got a message saying I didn't have permission to access this thread... WHY ? ? ? .

Can anyone give me an idea where I can buy thread files? I've searched Northern Tool, Harbor Frieght, WT Tool, etc and so far no one has them. I don't know for sure what thread pitch I need, what I need it for is cleaning up the threads on the binding posts on a 1918 IP-500 which was a Navy...

Below are a couple of pix of my old Black & Decker hand drill that had been my dads. It may be 30s, I'm not sure. Included is a pix of the name plate if that'll help. Thanks a bunch. cheers. .

I thought for sure I had seen a thread for showing our garage wall art, but for the life of me I can't find so I'll start another one. If the mods know where the original thread is they're welcome to move this if they'd like to. Anyway I was in the shop and happened to have my camera so I...

I wonder if there would be any interest in a Garage Journal calendar with photos of Garage Journal members garages? They'd likely be expensive with a limited run, but they might be cool. I wish I had thought of this back in the fall so they could already be out but we could do what we can and...

Don't know this has been posted here before or not, but I found it kind of interesting, check it out; http://americaloveshorsepower.com/the-diy-car-lift-for-the-practical-mechanics-garage/ .

I thought you guys might like to see the photos that were taken at my good friends Enigma workshop. He's a world renowned expert at restoring Enigma cypher machines that were used by the Germans to encode their secret messages during WW2. Hitler was so sure the Enigma code couldn't be broken he...

I need to replicate a 1918 Navy radio receiver cabinet. The box is basically a rectangle about 14"X23"X 10" deep. The corners of the box are dovetailed. I went to Woodcrafters this afternoon, took the box I need to replicate. They have a dovetailing jig that'll do the job, does exactly the same...

I need to pick your brains about something. Back in the mid to late 70s one of the Popular magazines, Popular Science or Popular Mechanics ran a series of articles that were also a contest if I remember correctly about microsized workshops. Each month they'd feature a couple readers miniature...

I got a HF 21 degree Framing nailer as one of my B'day presents. This afternoon I unpacked it so I could check it out. I read the instructions, put a few drops of the included oil into the air inlet and hooked it up to my air system. I got a couple scrap 2X4s out of the scrap bin to try it out...

I've got a birthday coming up and my XYL has been asking me for 2 weeks what I want for my birthday. We've been married almost 40 years so we quit buying surprise gifts a long time ago, or for that matter very expensive gifts. Most of the time if we want something we just go buy it :) Last night...