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I have a very old Baldor lathe that I just finished restoring. It wasn't very pretty when I bought it, but now I think that it looks a lot better. It runs silky smooth, and I'm glad I was able to save it from the scrap pile (yes, they were actually going to scrap it). Now I'm trying to find the...

I just acquired a very old metal lathe and I'm scratching my head about who may have built it. There are no markings on it of any kind that I am able to identify. No numbers or letters anywhere. No tags. No raised lettering in the castings. Nothing. I'm hoping someone here may recognize the...

I picked up this 14" Boice Crane band saw recently. It had been sitting outdoors in upstate New York since last November, and the seller advertised it as yard art. I was the first person to contact her and was very fortunate to buy this saw. I have been looking for one of these for years. The...

I’ve been using Rustoleum hammered paints for painting vintage bench vises and other equipment for years. It looks beautiful and coats well, but isn’t very durable or impact resistant. I’m looking for a more durable impact resistant paint that can either be brushed on or comes in a rattle can. I...

I picked up an 8" logan shaper yesterday. Attached is a picture of the shaper with the base sitting behind it in my trailer. I also have the vise for it, but it was removed from the shaper before the picture was taken. When I arrived the fellow had another machine sitting in the driveway that he...

I have a GE 1/2 hp electric motor with a bad start capacitor. A pic of the capacitor and the motor label are attached for reference. Normally the capacitor has the microfarad rating range stamped on it so finding another is not a problem. But this one doesn't. It has some sort of identification...

I just picked up this Thor impact wrench yesterday along with a Wilton bullet vise with 3” wide soft jaws and a Baldor 3/4 hp electric motor. I rarely come across elctric impact wrenches, and this one looks like it might be quite old. But it seems to run just fine. I’ll be replacing the...

I just got a Ryobi pressure washer, and I’d like to use it to finally wash the white plastic fence around my in-ground pool and the vinyl siding on my house. Several years of bird droppings are sitting on the top of the fence in some areas, and I’d like to just pressure wash that away if...

I have a couple of Charles Parker vises that seem unusual to me, and if anybody here can shed some light on the time frame in which they may have been built it would be helpful. The first one is the number A vise. I know that Parker had this weird system early on where the number designation...

I finally upgraded and purchased a used Delta Unisaw this past year. It was manufactured in 1956, and still has the original 1 hp motor in it. It was set up to run on 220V. Since I don’t have 220V available in the garage I pulled the motor out of the saw and reconfigured the wiring so that it...

I picked up this 6" Craftsman planer in Buffalo years ago along with a lot of other equipment, and finally decided to mount it up, attach a Craftsman motor, and put it back into service. It's a little unnerving at first since it is a manually fed machine, but I'm impressed with how well it...

I bought this lathe several years ago, and finally found the time to move all of the various pieces down into the basement from the garage. Over the course of the past two days I put everything back together, cleaned and oiled all of the working surfaces, and adjusted almost everything. I still...

I got this attachment with a Lathe I purchased last year. It was manufactured by Walker-Turner, and the markings on the underside are DDP 66. It appears to be an attachment for a drill press, but I don’t know what it is designed to do. Can anyone here explain what it is for? Maui

I just picked up a vintage Boice Crane shaper earlier today. It is a surprisingly heavily built machine. Unfortunately it didn’t come with the fence or any cutters other than the one that is mounted on it. The owner said that his father purchased it new around 1950 or so, and used it for years...

I picked up this William Foster anvil a few days ago when I went to look at a bench grinder. The guy selling it told me about the anvil sitting on a stump outside his garage while I was looking at the grinder, and that he wanted to sell it too. He got it for free, so he didn't have any...

I just picked up this Craftsman 1 hp bench grinder a few days ago for $100. It looks like it was barely used. The bearings are smooth and quiet, and it takes quite a while to spin down after the power is shut off. It is set up for single phase 120V but can be set up to run on 220V as well. It...

I just picked up this Delta 768 10" band saw at an estate sale yesterday for $75. It came with what looks like the original Wagner 1/2 hp motor and a very old sewing machine stand. The stand has cast iron legs that even have the flair painting still in tact although you can't easily see it in...

I was looking at the various projects that I’ve been working on lately in my basement, and here is a snapshot of just a portion of the vise restorations that I have nearing completion or completed. It is surprising how many of these I’ve had in process at one time. The Reed 2C was just...

In the process of restoring a Reed 2C vise I ran into a problem. During disassembly the pins that hold the pipe jaws in place did NOT want to come out. I used a punch and ball peen hammer to pursuede them to finally dislodge. When they finally came out they were badly bent and there were metal...