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Good evening all, I collect several different things but old industrial lighting is up there as one of my favorites. I found this old Crouse Hinds fixture a couple months back in the wild and cleaned her up to look nice. That I wanted to wire it up to display in my garage but when I finished and...

Yeah I thought that upon first inspection but the little decorative brass handle on the backside of the card plate turns and puts tension on them rails holding the plate in place, very strange. I've restored and seen my fair share of these type cabinets but never seen a set up like that or even...

Has anyone mastered restoring an old craftsman, Kennedy etc box in the crackle finish like they came from the factory? I've always wanted to that and I've had several boxes come and go that I probably would've resprayed if it would look perfect. I still have two I'd like to do that way so I'm...

Here's that old box i did. I wish I had the before pics bc I thought the original paint was toast. I mean its obviously not perfect but this thing was completely brown with rust inside and out, you couldn't see a bit of blue so I was lucky to get what blue back that I did

Interesting. I tend to find a lot of boxes and cabinets that have beautiful original paint but also light rust so it's a hard balance to keep that paint and remove the rust. I had really good luck with CLR the first time I used it on a 30" craftsman carpenters box. It had that crackle finish...

I’m guessing some of you collect/rebuild these old door closers or have at some point. How big of a job is it and are the replacement parts fairly easy to find? This one hasn’t really been used in 20 years at least so I’m not sure how well it still functions but I never toss any of this old...

Does anyone recognize this exact piece? It came from a big church that was built in the late 1800s and was demolished about two years ago. These were used to keep the pews from siding or flipping over so they would mount to the floor and the other side would mount to the pew. I’m trying to...

Right now it just has the WD40 I used to clean everything well. I’ll probably do another wipe down tomorrow then a light coating of some 3n1 oil or whatever I have lying around, I’m not too picky on all that as long as prevents any future rust and I’ve had pretty good luck so far.

Haha lord no, I always leave my stuff bare with some sort of protectant wipe down. I paint for a living so I like the old stuff I own to be as original as possible. There was def something on it but not quite sure what it was, almost looked like a coating that was Got it about as far as I think...

Nah, this drawer was in for about 30 hours.

The citric acid and washing soda mix did pretty dang well even after just a few hours but I’m letting them soak for a day. Here’s one of the drawers after a quick clean up, really just wanted to see for myself what they looked like after the rust was gone. I’m just glad there is a little brass...

I thought about that earlier, the biggest thing I have is one of those ********* moving tubs with the yellow lid from Home Depot but I’m not quite sure it’ll fit but I may can do half at a time, probably my best bet huh?

Good evening all, I’m currently cleaning up this old parts drawer/catalog cabinet and I wanted to hear what methods you all would use to attack the interior of this piece. Originally I wasn’t going to mess with it but I was lying to myself. I’ve cleaned up dozens of old antiques and vintage...

Having a hard time identifying this one. I’ve slowly started restoring it. It’s in great shape but had a lot of surface rust. Any ideas? I figured the distinct drawer faces would help but no luck so far. Thanks for any help.

Anyone recognize this old steel card catalog/parts drawers? Can’t find anything on them so far. I was hoping the distinct drawer face would help but nothing so far. I know it’sa long shot.

Good morning all, I collect a ton of old stuff and vintage, antique and industrial lighting is pretty high on the list of stuff I love to find. I was picking this old building that’s been around since 1880ish but has been abandoned for at least 20 years and is about to be demolished. Tons of old...

Anyone recognize this jack? It came with two Nissan chocks but the jack isn’t labeled at all. Also, no Nissan from back in the day would need such a beefy jack. I’ve never seen one like it but I bet someone here has. Thanks for any help.

Does anyone recognize this jack? It came with two older Nissan chocks but the chocks color isn’t dead on. The only thing stamped on the jack is pat. pending, that’s it. Not to mention the jack seems too beefy for a Nissan or any car for that matter but I have no clue.

I collect different kinds of old glass and old windows. This here casement window is my latest find from the wild. Spent about a day total removing the soot stained paint on the interior side. This is from an old house that burned up last year killing an older gentleman unfortunately. The...

Good evening, I’m trying to find an image of the original ad for this Craftsman carpenter’s box or what I believe to be a carpenter’s box. I haven’t been able to find a single ad, sales post nothing. I’d like to find out the production year and cost at the time. A few in my Facebook craftsman...