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I know a lot of GJ guys hate HF. I know a lot of what they sale is junk or worst. I'm needing a framing nailer, I have 3 smaller finish nailers and staplers but need to do some longer nails for framing. I'm just a light duty hobbyist so there's no need for a heavy duty pro grade nailer. Has...

I've been on GJ for a while now mostly reading others posts and making a few replies now and then. This is my first post about my workshop. My main shop is in about 1/4 of my detached 2 car garage, the rest of the space is taken up by year tools, lawn tractor, tiller, the most space is full of...

I've got an old Sears Roebuck Craftsman double shaft AC motor, I wonder if anyone can give me some idea when it was made. Here's the info that's on the data plate; Sears Roebuck CR260K20 115726 L4 51 I don't have a photo of it right now. I did a google search using this data and found...

I remember working with my dad many years ago using bolts that were designated NF & NC for National Fine and National Coarse. When were thread counts adapted for bolts designations? Last year I was working on a 1920 era Edison phonograph, it had bolts inside that were not the current standard, I...

It's marked GUNNIS PHILAD. There's a Gunnis common carpenters saw on a completed eBay listing, but that's all that I could find on the internet. The main body is cast iron and then there's the main toothed blade and another blade or scraper on the end. We thought that it may be a butcher's bone...

Does anyone know of any tool related shows and swap meets in North Carolina? Also of anyone is interested our antique radio club is hosting Antique Radio Charlotte & the Charlotte International Cryptologic Symposium in Charlotte coming up on March 20-21-22. You can find all the details about...

I really hate this cold weather, I have an unheated shop in my detached garage. I've got several projects I want to work on but it's just too damn cold in the shop to be able to get any work done. I have a propane heater but it takes too long for it to warn up enought to do any good. I would...

Does anyone have any ideas for a vacuum base to sand over that could be attached to my shop vac? I sand wood and shackling and the dust makes a heck of a mess. I'm thinking about a thin wooden box with holes, maybe pegboard as a top surface for the dust to be collected through. Any good...

In the past months since I joined GJ I've looked at hundreds and hundreds of posts with photos of guys shops. I remember seeing a workshop where almost every sq inch of wall was covered with peg board and it covered with hundreds of tools hung from hooks very neatly. The owner was a serious neat...

. A friend of mine ran across these views in the February 1862 issue of American Agriculturist and thought they might be of interest. .

Does anyone know of a source for a Pelican 1550 case that's affordable? I'd like to get one to mount my Hickok 752A tube tester is. Thanks a bunch. :rocker: .

I've just completed a new 2013 Photo Tour of my Radio Heaven antique radio collection that's housed in garage that's part of our house. These photos were taken in the first week of October 2013. I hope you enjoy the tour, if you're still using "dialup" this page might be too big for you to...

Hey guys, I found an old Craftsman jointer at the local Habitat Restore, it looks just like the one in the photo that I found on the web including the missing blade guard. I think it's from the early 50s. It looks like it's in pretty good shape except for the chips in the blades. They've got...

I have a real POS chinese bench grinder, turns real fast but has no *** at all, as soon as you touch something to the grinder it'll almost stop. I found an old Craftsman electric motor that was my dads, it's got to me more than 50 years old, I remember it being around at least that long. I found...

Can anyone tell me about a vice I picked up yesterday at a local antique shop. I spotted it Saturday when I was out with my wife. I thought about it over the rest of the weekend and decided Monday to drive back down there and get it. It was originall priced at $18 and was marked down to $15...

Has anyone figured out a way to control spider webs, "cob webs" what is a "cob" anyway in your workshop? I usually try to clean up the spider webs at least once a week and they just keep coming back. I also have a bunch of these giant mutant crickets, haven't figured out how to get rid of them...

I've really enjoyed seeing other guys vintage toolboxes. I thought I'd share mine with you. I got it after my dad passed away in 1994. It was built by his dad my grandfather. I'm really surprised that it survived all these years, for more than 35 years before I got it sat on the cement in the...

do you any of you guys happen to have a 1971 Sears Craftsman tool catalog? I'm looking for one showing tool boxes, specifically the black wrinkle and wood grain Rally box. I have one that I got for christmas in 1971 from my parents. I needed it for work, I had recently started my first...

I wonder if anyone could tell me where I could get one of the wall charts that shows drill tap and screw sizes. There were a couple of them in the machine shop section of the engineering dept where I used to work. I'd love to have one for my workshop. I've thought about using AutoCad to draw my...

I'd been reading the thread about old vices, I decided to redo my old vice I won as a door prize at a CB Jamboree back in 1970. It was funny how I won it, we were sitting in front of the stage and they were drawing numbers for door prizes, they had several nice radios and antennas, I looked at...