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We live in Wisconsin, but my wife's family is mostly in Guelph, Ontario, and we do visits at least once a year. For me, Canadian Tire is just about my favorite store there. It's such a collection of interests under one roof. We never make a trip where I don't spend an hour+ in there and about...

Ararat's hot-cut chisel idea sounds convincing to me. I have a spike maul and the long end of the head is both round and has a flat hammer face. Also, it's long enough for a gandy dancer to drive a spike fully home when standing on the other side of the rail.

I keep two solvents handy for most jobs like this: Ronsonol/Zippo lighter fluid (= naptha, mostly) and Goo Gone. Also mineral spirits, WD-40, and others mentioned above. Having a plastic paint/paste scraper with a sharp(ish) edge lets you scrape (and scrape and scrape...) without damaging a...

Agree about knurling — glad to see it. Though to be truthful, I've never run into a screw with these drivers that needed more than basic wrist action on my part. But who knows, eh? Any day now something could come out of the designs of those who seek to improve on the Phillips design. But...

Me, I use the turquoise/aqua handle ones on Phillips screws and they work great. I bought the #1, 2, and 3 size — love them for Phillips and other screws with recesses that are Phillips-ish in shape. (What? No, I'm not a mechanic in anybody's shop. Just a DIY homeowner.)

I had one like it (ReStore item for a few bucks) which had a hatchet handle on it, certainly not the original. I don't do framing, and after de-rusting the head and cleaning up the handle, I redonated it to RS on the catch-and-release principle.

The Goodwill store idea is clever and there are similar low-cost sources (Sally Ann, St. Vinnie's). I got a 5/16" thick glass bathroom shelf (8" x 20"; frosted on one side) at a Restore for I forget how much but no more than a couple bucks. I've used that for several years as a flat surface for...

Thanks to this thread I went scouting yesterday for Stanley #60s at several local Restores. Found only a half-inch one, but for just $1 although it really needed some work. Almost an hour with a jig and a coarse diamond plate followed by a 220 plate, and that was just getting a straight-across...

The "auto wrench" or "Ford wrench" (as they are generally termed) are also usable as general wrenches, although they lack the angled head that the Crescent design has. In addition, the ones I've handled tend to have looser actions — more play in tightening — than a Crescent style does. There's...

Thanks, Olli — I have 8 of these things in various sizes, which is probably 5 to 7 more than I truly need. Although this IS Garage Journal — I think I'll rest content with those I have now. Thanks again. ----------- Edited to add: This afternoon, using a spring-loaded #30A I put a 1/4" bit...

Olli, what's the driver you are using with the bit adapter? Much of it looks like a Yankee model, but details are a little different. (And yes, a hard & fast deployment can be a nuisance.)

Yes, I've seen comments that effect online, but I don't recall exactly where. My own collection has a total of 8 Yankee screwdrivers (some North originals and some post-Stanley acquisition). They are — #30: one driver, built w/o spring #30A: two drivers, had springs, both removed #130A: one...

I learned RPN first on Wang calculators with Nixie tube displays back in the 1960s. After those I found that RPN on the HP-35 — bought new in 1974 and still working — ruined me for ordinary 4-bangers and subsequent models with that entry mode. And it still causes me to stumble with them.

On a badly rusted WW1 vintage Stanley Bedrock 605 (ReStore find for $15) I used black paint (Rustoleum's Farm Implement spray, I think), which is too shiny but nevermind. Doing real japanning would have gotten me kicked out of the house because the process is close to coating the metal with...

I picked up one of these in the local Restore, saw the Lodi brand name, thought ????, bought it anyway and put it into the same drawer as the couple of Schollhorn/Bernard pliers I have. Why? It just looked like it belonged there. And so it did, as I now find out. Thank you, RTM.

The Alloy Artifacts site has a lot on the company. http://alloy-artifacts.org/diamond-calk-horseshoe.html

If you don't find a buyer, you can always list on eBay. OR — simply donate them to the nearest Habitat for Humanity ReStore shop and use the receipt when tax time comes around. (You need to put a valuation them when you file.) ReStore locations (which are also donation centers) can be found by...

The straight (upper?) jaw has a narrow channel cutting across the serrations. This is to grab and hold wires or similar small round shapes. In addition, the Kraeuter Victor has Button's patent notches for shearing wires on the opposite side of the pivot from the jaws.

Toward the other end of the weight spectrum is this lttle nose-heavy 5 oz. hammer I got at the local ReStore. (It was $1, minus 20% because the price sticker was from last month. As my wife says, "Did they pay you to take it away?") When I got it home I wire-wheeled the head because I really...

You may get some odd links coming up with "vice" spelled that way. Yeah, I know, pedantic. But if you don't find what you want, try "vise".