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Engine is a FE or FT series, probably a 360 or 390.

Thank you Adam C. You explained that far more clearly than I could. When I said flexibility, I meant how many degrees you could turn the ratchet handle or breaker bar before hitting an obstruction. Twelve points allowed you to position the socket and handle in the optimum position.

I use a cookie sheet for things like carburetor disassembly. The raised edge keeps screws and small parts from rolling off. I use the cheap Sterlite storage containers for storage.

I used one of those galvanized pieces of angle iron with holes in it intended for garage door installations. Screw the vertical flange to the wall and use the horizontal flange between the tape and belt clip. Use the rest of it to store screwdrivers.

Unless you never use a socket over 3/4 inch, you're short changing yourself by not owning a 1/2 drive. The longer handle gives you more leverage and less straining. Add an 18 inch breaker bar and you'll wonder why you waited so long to buy one.

Years ago, a 12 point socket and 36 tooth ratchet were the norm, and the 12 points allowed you a lot of flexibility in tight places. Now most use a 6 point with ratchet that has 72 teeth or more. The extra teeth in the ratchet give you the flexibility lost by the socket. I use the 12 point...

It's not just the tongue length, but the distance from the axle to the coupler. Long length, like a boat trailer, reacts slower to steering input and is easier to back up. Short trailers react quicker and tend to jackknife easily. A longer tongue, as measured from coupler to the front of the...

I found an SK 45170 ratchet, a Snap On ratchet with 3/8 drive in 1/4 body, and about 15 SK and Blackhawks sockets. I liked the SK ratchet so much I bought a new one just like it.

I used the drawer liner sold at Dollar General. It's intended for kitchen silverware but it's inexpensive and works well in a toolbox.

If it's allegedly a simpler system, why create units that aren't used?

Fahrenheit temperature is actually easier to use. The degree marks are closer together so decimals are rarely needed. With distance, just because some Frenchman created a distance measurement of his own and divided by ten doesn't make it better.

When I learned it, I had to learn millimeters, centimeters, decimeters, meters, dekameters, hectometers, and kilometers. In the thirty years since, I've never used decimeters, dekameters or hectometers, so I believe at least half of it is useless. So much for being "better".

They were built in different sizes depending on whether they were intended to be a barracks or warehouse or some other purpose. Some had a short "knee wall" which would allow you to put stuff right up next to the wall. Otherwise, you'll lose some floor space if the wall arch starts at floor level.

You might try a web search for W F (William F) and John Barnes. They built treadle and line shaft lathes in the late 1800s, to about WWI. They were usually about 4 to 6 feet long and could be disassembled and shipped by wagon.

Blackland is also called "buckshot" in east Arkansas, as in Buckshot Mudder tires. It packs like concrete when dry. Some people pour sand in the cracks around posts, but it is a never ending job.

What is the age of this house? Did it possibly have a boiler for steam heat or a well and this is to drain water in case of a tank rupture? Or a bin for coal with a wash out drain?

The 25/32 wasn't a Ford thing, it was just a heavy nut for a 7/16 rod bolt. The small 32nd sizes are still used in electrical work, but 11/32 is about tops. Most of the original heavy sizes have been changed to 16ths or larger increments in modern times. The last 19/32 I used was on a 1951...

It has nothing to do with metric or Whitworth sizes. Before bolt makers had high strength alloys, they increased the bolt head size or nut size to make it stronger. There was a formula for heavy sizes, something like 1.5 times the normal size, so you get into odd sizes like 19/32, 21/32, 25/32...

The 11/32 and smaller 32nd sizes are still fairly common in electrical stuff. Most of the larger sizes were phased out during WWII, but you can still buy the sockets for working on old stuff and "heavy hex bolts". Wrenches are harder to find. Any similarity to metric sizes is purely coincidental.

I used to look down on round head ratchets as obsolete until I found an SK 3/8 drive on the side of the road. I liked it so well I bought a new one, then a 1/2, then a couple of Williams and then a Wright. They may may be 1950s designs but they haven't been cheapened up and quality compromised...