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Happy New Year! I look forward to this being a great year for all you pickers. If this seems familiar, it is because I'm shamelessly plagiarizing from mikeinri's opening post from 2025. Welcome to the 15th annual edition of the Garage Journal Garage Sale Thread! Huge thanks to @mikeinri for...

I tried on my normal Duckduckgo and Chrome with similar results. Since I posted, our phone line developed noise, and the technician put in an order to have a new section of underground line trenched in. I'll wait and see if that helps. I'm further from the DSLAM than they recommend, so it is...

I have used old worn-out wood augers to bore holes in dirt for many years now. It started when I had to bore a hole under a sidewalk to run a drain line from a basement. I've even welded steel rod extensions on the shanks. It takes a pretty strong electric drill for a larger auger.

Remline offered "flying saucer" casters as an option on lowers.

I always wondered how the old guys sharpened the blades of their screwdrivers to a knife edge. Now I know it was this fixture, that is "IDEAL FOR SHARPENING BLADES, CHISELS, SCREWDRIVERS, ETC."

I first noticed that my father had this knife at least 40 years ago. I'm not sure where he got it, or that he ever used anything except the blade.

I know where a couple of drawerfulls are.

Also called a "seamer." Others make compound action versions very similar to this.

When I work metal back into shape, I try to imagine how it got into the distorted shape and reverse that. I don't try to "force" the metal back into shape. I try to "coax" it back into shape.

Nice pick Ed! You know where a 36" brake is.

It also is used to wiggle the shackles so the grease can flow out into the bushing area.

Yesterday was windy and rainy. Typical weather for the time of year. I hit the monthly flea market and found a few items. Less than $40 out the door: Ken Tool 33220A T20A tire iron 30" long Unmarked grease bar 16" long. This is shorter than my Plomb and Herbrand versions Plomb USA 1508 body...

Those are also handy to expand spring lock rings that don't have holes for the standard pliers.

Older catalogs from sources like Timken, MRC (Marlin Rockwell), and SKF will show that ball and roller bearings could be made to quite close tolerances fairly early in the 20th Century. This was accomplished by selective fitting components and grading the bearing based on runout and end play...

That is a certified ****!

The only place I see them is as the K7 on Schaublin lathes. Perhaps there is another name for them? Nothing turns up in a search for "oil ******," and searching for "oil fitting" turns up something close on McMaster-Carr, but with 1/4-32 NEF threads!

Where do you get those?

I bought an 026 Pro about 35 years ago, and loved it. I use a 20" bar on it and 3/8" chisel chain on all my saws. I used the 026 to fall, limb, and buck Douglas Fir trees up to 16" diameter in a thinning operation. It was great until it was stolen, and I replaced it with a MS260, also with a...

I picked up a pump oiler at an estate sale that has a very different nozzle than the standard Golden Rod one. It appears to be for a specific fitting similar to a zerk. The fellow was an avid woodworker, which may give a clue.

45/64 is .7031" and 3/8 Whitworth is .710" 53/64 is .8281" and 7/16 Whitworth is .820" 57/64 is .8906" and 1/2 Whitworth is .920" So none of these would be a good match. Not good matches for metric, either.