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Very cool-I love the retro look.

Amazing job on the resto! Nice floor in your garage too.

Ridgid Pipe Wrenches I have only one close-up before picture on these. All of them had a good amount of rust on them. The 10" & 14" belonged to my grandfather and the 18" I picked up at a garage sale. The !0" is a Craftsman version. Note the overlapped 'D' & 'G' on the Ridgid logo on the 2...

CL find today. $50 for both the Craftsman jointer and tablesaw. It also included the cart & motor. Table saw is 103.22161 Jointer is 103.23340

You may want to consider brake cleaner. I've used it to good effect. It melts away all the old grease, oil and crud. It washes right off. I use the CRC red can stuff-about $4 at Walmart.

Wetterlings 3½ lb Axe - circa 1970 Here's one of the first axes I restored a couple years ago. It was in rough shape when I got it. The bit was shaped funny with some bad filing. The heel of the bit had been filed down a lot more than the toe, so the geometry wasn't too good. The poll had...

Four.cycle: :) Model A: Yes-you can use beads in a blasting cabinet, it's more gentle on the steel. I find sand it too abrasive.

All: Thanks for all the kind words on Parker 271 1/2. It was a lot of fun to restore and I use it weekly, if not daily. Here's a link to my restoration thread, with 19 pics if you're interested. Link My vote for best vise is bagged89s10's Wilton 840. The transformation is simply amazing! Link

Thanks and it's good to know there are at least two of us :o

Link to the new thread.

Parker 271 1/2 - circa 1935 Restored February 2015. One of the first threads I found and followed on GJ was the vise thread. I immediately took to the Parkers. I love the design and style. Living in SW Idaho, we don't get many Parkers listed on CL. In fact I had not seen a single one listed...

A few years ago I bought a new hatchet from a box store. It wasn't long before I discovered how poorly made it was. The edge would roll over on softer woods and it wouldn't stay sharp very long. After doing a little research on the web, I found that people were restoring old vintage axes...

I will, but rather than revive this thread, I thought I'd put it in a new thread where I'll chronicle all my resto projects. I'm actually working on the thread now and the first project in the thread will be the vise. I hope to have it up later tonight.

Very cool top handle saw- you don't see much in the way of chainsaws here. I've used that saw and like it a lot for smaller stuff. Earlier this year I completely restored an 028 that my dad and I used to cut wood in the early 80's when I was a kid. I think it runs better now than it did then...

Sweet! Congrats! and you ****. :p

I decided not to post it. But I'll make it available on request. PM your email addy to me.

Very nice! Did you print a new label? Or just paint carefully around the original?

I just put a Norton 3X 80 grit K wheel on a Raptor R3X bushing and fired up the 1/2 HP flat top I'm restoring. The wheel seats very tightly on the Raptor bushing. On the first spin there was some vibration although not bad. I trued up the radial runout and it runs very smoothly. There is...

Part of the problem may be that the acrylic is water insoluble while the decal absorbs water and then shrinks or expands causing stress with the acrylic. Pure conjecture and not a solution, but food for thought. Maybe?

I replaced the gas tank on my 12 year old mower. And the labels were no longer available. So I made one up in Photoshop. I painted the steel a gloss white prior to applying the water slide, but there is no reason it shouldn't work applying it directly to the metal. You could even put a gloss...