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I recently picked up a Whitney No.50 angle iron notcher to compliment my Whitney angle shear but I've hit quite a major obstacle. How the hell do you take the damn thing apart? I wanted to clean it up since the previous owner decided that slurry would be a great substitute for paint and didn't...

like the the title says, i need to extend a tap in order to finish a hole in a 6.5" diameter pulley. All of my tap handles, T and bar style, will hit the outer edge before i can even start cutting. I know i could track down a long tap, i seem to have every size but 1/4"-20, but wanted to see...

Hey everybody, I attempting to pull this live center apart but it's proving to be nearly impossible. I've got the back cover off and bearing race removed but I can't figure out how to remove the taper shaft and bearing. The outer cover and point is solid so everything must come out the back...

I started a thread today about a Dumore hand grinder that resisted attempts at coming apart. Now that I have it broken down, I wanted to replace the brushes. They are a bit worn but a new set is a cheap investment to eliminate a replacement shortly down the road. My question is this: Can I...

I recently came into owning a older model (8028-210) Dumore hand held grinder and it needs some slight repairs. The foot pedal needed to be rewired, thats already been done, and the cord from the grinder itself has been severed and needs to be replaced. It seemed fairly straight forward...

I guess I'm in the market for a pin style face spanner wrench to repair a live center for my lathe but don't know where to start as far as brands and sizes. All I've seen so far are too large for what I need. The pin holes I'm working with are 1/8" and the spanners all have 3/16" pins. Does...

I'm currently in the process of making some lockdowns for a vise project and the steel bar I picked up is giving me some real headaches It drilled and parted off easily but now that it's time to tap the hole, I can see the tap visibly flexing while I twist. It's a simple 1/2-13 coarse hole...

I went to a sale yesterday and picked up a odd looking motor which I thought was a outboard. Once I started to look it over, I noticed there was no output shaft or prop. What the hell did I buy?:dunno: At least it can be used for parts I told myself and went on home. Fast forward to today and...

I was doing some digging this morning and found this little bit of cast iron attacked to a chunk of wood. As I was about to toss it aside, the lettering caught my eye and it read Chas Parker! I know they made tons of items but I'm curious what this was from. It's abviously a base, measuring...

I picked this 1/2" drive t-handle over the weekend and just now got some time to look at it. The writing is really but there is no obvious date code stamp on the tool. Do any resident tool hours have an approx date of mfg? It measures 11 3/4" long and is 7 1/2" across the tee.

I picked up this collet closer at tool Disneyland last year and never got around to cleaning it up. Now that's it clean, I can't find a single mark on it that betrays if manufacturer. It's rather short and accepts 5C collets. That's about all the info I have

Like the title says, I have a few Hardinge speed chucks that are in need of a good cleaning. I pulled apart a No.2-D6, gave it a wipe down with some solvent, regressed it and assembled it like normal. Now when the hand wheel is operated, it will bind slightly, or hit a rough spot that either...

Good evening everybody, or at least those who are interested, I'm looking for a bit of info on an anvil I picked up this weekend. Normally I would just ask my dad if I can borrow his AIA book but if I ask him now, it will raise a red flag I mentioned the anvil and a possibility of buying it...

I recently picked up a very clean Wilton woodworking vise in excellent condition, but after a close inspection, turns out to be missing a fairly important part The rear stop plate, which connects the support bars and centers the operating rod, is missing. It's not a hard plate to fab but I...

If found this little guy on my way home today at a sale I really didn't want to miss. It would of been a great early stop if work hadn't gotten the way but at least I made it there and got to shop for a little while. The sale was a bit picked over but I found some decent stuff in the garage...

A few years back I picked up a Buffalo 18 floor model drill press for 110.00 bucks at an estate sale but it needed some serious love. Due to my busy schedule, I never really got a chance to start on it and my dad started to take longer then normal looks at the press. I ended up letting him...

I found this in a large toolbox yesterday but never got a closer look until late last night The head screams Proto but the body is unlike anything else I've seen. There are turn marks that end right at the on/off lever and a dimple on the end from being held on a live center It's only markings...

Like the title says, I'm looking for some replacement parts for my Trav A Dials by Southwest Industries. Any source would be appreciated greatly but I'm looking for somebody that has a small fishing tackle box full of spare parts in the garage. Even a used one is fine with me:thumbup: I've...

This tool came with a handful of others and I have no idea what it's for. There appears to have been an id tag on the box but it's long gone The tool straps around round objects and has some strange looking inserts that are included in the box. They don't seem to fit on the tool so I think this...

I picked up this "tool" yesterday while shopping in my neighbors garage. It was near some other tools common in jewelery making so that what I'm leaning towards but have no idea what's it for The tool has the numbers 1-10 on it and each "T" will telescope out about 6 inches before separating...