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This morning I had a little extra time, so broke one of my rules and went to the first day of an estate sale. There was only one thing I was interested in but though I arrived 45 minutes before opening, I was 30th in line. It took half an hour after the first people went in before I could...

Shapiro Supply in St. Louis. Lots of drops, odd sizes of tool steel blocks, do a lot of mail order business. (and full size new steel, aluminum, brass, stainless) Fascinating place to explore if you're near enough.

This is the right forum; there is a thread already on jack repairs/parts/techniques/identification and many on particular jack problems. Use the search feature to search for threads with Jack or Floor jack in the title. Shouldn't be too hard, did it myself a few weeks ago. In the blue bar...

Yes...and no. It does scroll, does lock straight ahead, and turning the top knob does rotate the blade. But unlike other C'man scrollers I have or have seen, the blade is centered on the drive plunger, so it is not an auto-scroller. The scrolling action is pretty well damped, so it only goes...

First Estate Sale in quite a while in the pix I saw what I hoped would be my entree into the Craftsman 519X club! Alas, it was not to be. The vise in question was still there half price Sunday, but it was the older bullet-nosed brother, a 5169. Still, it's a solid 4 incher that tips the scale...

I have a 15-081 You don't say whether yours is a floor or bench model. Mine's a floor - if yours is a bench, they could have the same powerhead. No such luck. Yours is quite a bit more recent than mine. Here...

Welcome to my world - St. Louis, where French place names (like, ummm... St. Louis) are mangled with great regularity.

Thanks, 3Bay! Don't know how I missed it- now that I know it's plain as day. I have a few Westward wrenches, but no sockets.

Sorry, I disremembered a bit. It takes three extra pulleys: one added to the motor, and two on the jackshaft. Still just two belts. Going straight from the motor to the saw pulley gives 26% of motor speed. Going from the jackshaft to the saw pulley gives 2% of motor speed. Motor speed 1728...

Not much of the label on this little tray is legible - about all I can make out is the bottom line "9 PIECE METRIC SOCKET WRENCH SET" - maybe someone will recognize it. It's 6 1/2" long and the black paint is original. Thanks!

aaaaannnnnndd here it is, the final tally! I was quite surprised to restore 90 sockets to usable condition. All but a few are Craftsman- Fleet was the next most common brand. I wasn't counting hours but it seems like it really didn't take too long. They spent days soaking the the E-tank and...

Cap'n- yes- what I do is blow them dry with compressed air and then spritz them with WD-40. That gives good protection, and of course repeat as necessary. De-rusting such things as vises which are particularly bad about flash-rusting, I tried hair dryer and heat gun which didn't work very...

Cap'n- yes- what I do is blow them dry with compressed air and then spritz them with WD-40. That gives pretty good protection, and of course repeat as necessary. Doing such things as de-rusting vises which are particularly bad about flash-rusting, I tried hair dryer and heat gun which didn't...

One extra belt, one extra pulley on the motor and two extra pulleys on a jackshaft is all it takes. Do the math to select your blade speed, and with the flip of a belt you can do wood and aluminum fast, and steel slow. Yes, there are shortcomings, but one, cutting rounds, is easily taken care...

This ought to increase the value substantially. It's not just a junk pile, it's got a LOGO!

Yeah, you're just trying to get me written up in the "Craigs List Dreamers" thread.

The $5 RustBucket is bearing fruit. The first batch is done, and it came out much better than I'd dare hope. It turned out that on most of the sockets that still showed some chrome, the rust and **** was from others. It mostly just wiped off, leaving minor rust or none at all. This batch of 40...

The Art Deco styled DOE is a Barcalo. Some are so marked, some aren't. The bigger ones, 1" and up are pretty uncommon, so you've got a good start for a collection:rocker:

The $5 RustBucket is bearing fruit. The first batch is done, and it came out much better than I'd dare hope. It turned out that on most of the sockets that still showed some chrome, the rust and **** was from others. It mostly just wiped off, leaving minor rust or none at all. This batch of...

Gee, I hadn't thought of that! And on top of it all, the scrap value of the dead sockets. Let's see... a nickel a pound--Fat City!