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If you wish you can buy high temp insulation for the shop made coils. In practice in industrial settings, the coils are uninsulated copper. it doesn't take much care to use it without shorting it on anything. Your mileage may vary, but I've not had any issue with moderate care.

You can make your own inductor ends from heavy copper wire. I have done that. You can also make open sided ones if access is an issue. It won't get you to OA heat, but you can get to 1200-1500-ish degrees if everything is right. I did some experimenting with a cheap chinese one for a heat...

I'll throw in a WAG. Setting device for adjustable parallels. One fixed stop on the side of it and one adjustable stop that was adjusted to make it square the moving rack. End/side of the parallel set up against the stair step of the width you choose. Move the rack back and forth to...

I'm late to the party on this one. One of the machine shops I worked at, we used to machine down 316ss 3/8 bolts and make the hex 7/16" rather than the original 9/16. They were then assembled inside a close fitting cup washer at our customer where they were fabricating the rest of the...

I had an old old craftsman with similar handles. Different box, but the handles look the same to me.

Yep, that is a Die lifter. They are very handy to have around. I have a Big Joe, so an electro-hydraulic one, but at work we have the hand crank ones. You see them in machine shops all over. A real back saver. Nice find.

Nicely done. Blocking a guide coat is absolutely tedious for me. That is a lot of car to prep for paint and you did a nice job on it. Hat's off to you Sir!

Commonwealth Edison. Most likely.

From an estate sale today. Herbrand ignition pliers. Next to a Snap on Vacuum Grip needle nose of normal size for reference.

A socket set from an estate sale today

A few Snap on items from today's estate sales. One Blue Point, and some Par-X sockets in there.

Not pre.... But a very nice pair from today's estate sales

A group of four Trimo monkey wrenches from today's estate sales. Could not pass them up for $2 each. Big one is largest I have seen personally.

From the Mother's day estate sales with the fam. Tiny Blue Point ignition wrench.

Silly thought, but at least in fittings, POL I always was lead to believe was Prest-o-lite. They seemed to have standardized that style of fitting, particularly on acetylene and propane. With those size openings, and the square opening, it looks like it would fit all the fittings on MC or B...

The shop we moved into was originally built as a Keebler Bakery. The third floor was the area they made the dough in, and that is what they converted for the machine shop. Structural engineer gave it the OK for the weight, but when the big punch presses downstairs would run, you could feel the...

The Riggers The Best one: Ray Sagan and Sons. I watch them work just to learn new things. They are amazing riggers and keep their equipment absolutely tip-top. Their semi's are from the 80's and look like new. The bad one: US Machinery Movers. PM'd the shop name

When we were bought out by a corporate entity and had to move our machine shop into the third floor of their building, the machinery riggers that they hired moved our Logan 13" by slinging around the chuck and lifting. I strongly protested that maneuver, but the foreman of the riggers refused...

https://vintagewireandsupply.com Peruse here for fun. Lots of possibilities...

Yeah, that's annoying. I was picking them up locally anytime I could find them. Not all the locations had it and even when they did it was only one or two cans.