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My Father gave me an old Spokeshave that he's had for a nice while. It's rusted pretty bad and I'm in the process of restoring it. I disassembled it and put it in a bath of Simple Green to get rid of all oil and residue, I gave it a cleaning with a stiff bristle brush after the simple green...

I just got back from Canadian Tire and they have all their Estwing Hammers, Mallets, Pry Bars etc. either on sale or clearance. Definitely worth a look!

I might have to pick up one of those leather handled ones to add to my collection!

This thread is addictive. I'd love to find some of the deals you folks are getting but I'm afraid that we only have the one home depot in our province. Sent from my SM-G920W8 using Tapatalk

Canadian Tire has a sale on Estwing hammers, I couldn't help myself. Sent from my SM-G920W8 using Tapatalk

I feel completely inadequate posting after Outlawmws. Here are my finds from a flea market today. Sent from my SM-G920W8 using Tapatalk

Also after using evapo-rust how do you guys usually oil your tools? Dump them in an oil bath or just spray on wd-40 and wipe clean? Sent from my SM-G920W8 using Tapatalk

I'm thinking I'd have to. Sent from my SM-G920W8 using Tapatalk

Can I put a ratchet in a simple green bath or will I need to treat it after? Sent from my SM-G920W8 using Tapatalk

So after doing a bit more reading on the molasses method I've heard that the bath can get moldy. Since my daughters like to help me with EVERYTHING in the garage and one of them has a severe allergy to dust and mold, I'm going to have to switch to Evapo-Rust. Picking up some today on my lunch...

I've got a couple of projects with the same amount of rust, looking forward to working on those too. I've never tried aluminum foil, I'm going to have to give that a go!

Well after the simple green bath I'm shocked at how clean my wrenches came. The Indestro ones aren't as bad as I thought. Anyways I rinsed them off and they're now in the molasses. They shouldn't take long but my heavily rusted snail wrench I expect will take some time. I've got another batch of...

Thanks man, I actually put these in last night and left them there. I'll take them out when I get home this evening after work. Should be good and degreased by then, haha.

I've heard that vinegar can be a bit too corrosive if you leave the part in there a little bit too long, it'll start eating the chrome. From some of the posts I've read, the molasses is compared to using Evapo-Rust, it just takes a lot longer. Evapo-Rust isn't common around here so I figured...

I've decided to try and clean the rust off of some old tools that I have. I just put them in a simple green bath to degrease them. How long should I keep them in there? The next step will be to soak them in a molasses solution. I'm using regular kitchen molasses that I bought at Walmart. I've...

Here are my latest finds. Going to pick up some molasses to try and clean these up. Sent from my SM-G920W8 using Tapatalk

No offence taken my friend.

I don't see any markings anywhere on it. I'd like to clean and repaint it just to say I did it, haha. I don't really care if there's no monetary value there, I'd just put it up for sale to give someone a deal who could use a vise and not be able to spend much.

I'm going to take it home and clean it up. If it's not a good one then I'll just use it as a test bed to clean up and paint and then I'll resell it.

It's sitting in my car trunk right now so I haven't had a good chance to mess around with it. Seems like there's a little bit of play in the movable jaw. It was originally red, you can see the original color underneath.