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It will dry out before its ineffective. Ive also seen guys add some cutting oil to pipe dope thats drying out in a pinch. I have a can thats probably 10 years old at home and its fine.

I received a small package from Poland today. Top 2 are mint.

I'm stuck home this weekend with a head cold so I spent some time in the basement refelting the drawers in my machinist box and cleaned and regreased the slides. I just couldn't bring myself to go with the green. Not bad for a $4 upgrade.

I had a 1941 power tool catalog show up today. I love the inside cover!

Nice work! Thanks for sharing your research

Union pipefitter here. The biggest variable is how the threads were cut. You should be able to spin a fitting onto the threads 3 to 3.5 revolutions by hand with no dope to check the settings. I like three wraps of tape and then a quality dope like loctite 567. It comes in a squeeze tube and...

Maybe its my wife that needs a cool off period. Lol.

I had a pretty good first month of collecting vintage Craftsman stuff. A couple weeks ago I scored the drill press. The following week I picked up a 50s 1/4 horse grinder and a 1/3 horse grinder both with the King Seeley pedestal. Yesterday the drill index came in the mail and today my machinest...

My first but not my last. Now I need to get it loaded with bits and find a place for my 1955 King Seeley Craftsman benchtop drillpress to stay.

I ran across a handful of W German made unmarked wrenches and a Gedore India today at the Habitat Restore. I first saw the Chrom Vanadium marks and thought I was about to score a few Hazets but no such luck.

My 1941 catalog. Not quite as mint as the last one I posted but still really nice.

Night pictures are harder to pull off than I thought.

Heres my near mint 1949 catalog I picked up a few weeks back.

Awesome find. Ive been collecting the hand tool catalogs and have a few from the 40s and a few from the 50s.

Not a bad year for growing my new Hazet collection.

I picked up my first vintage grinder yesterday. A 1958 1/3 horse on a pedestal. I snagged the 1957 1/4 horse on the way home. The tag on the 57 is super crispy. I can see these becoming addictive.

A terrible translation of the chop shop

I used some salvaged bookcases from an elementary school for the one sidewall. Great fit