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I acquired this tank from my work over two years ago, and decided at the beginning of this summer it was time to start building it. I had always wanted to use an air tank as they have a much thicker wall than an oil tank. This one is 5/32 thick. I had it all drawn up in solidworks, but when a...

My wife found another vise for me at a yard sale today. It's marked "Bloomfield manufacturing" A quick check on the internet looks like it might be one of the first products made by them called the "Anvil vise drill tool". Bloomfield manufacturing is now the Hi lift Jack company which makes the...

Maybe this is the wrong category to post this in because it's not actually a tool, but maybe somebody can steer me in the right direction. My brother and I were cleaning out an old barn for somebody here in central CT. last Sunday when we found this lock. With a little more digging in the box we...

I recently found a very small Pratt & Whitney gage block set at a pawn shop. It is in very good condition. The case is only 3" x 2". It has three carbide blocks in it, two .050 and one .100 block. I only live a couple of towns away from West Hartford and P&W blocks are pretty common around here...

My wife found another vise for me today at a garage sale. I think this is number 6. It is a Stanley Handyman 80-210 with the less common swivel base. I looked up the patent numbers on the base of the casting and it was patented in 1934. I haven't been able to find much history on it and when...

I picked up this nice Craftsman "Yankee" screwdriver at a pawn shop today. It is in near new condition. It is marked as made in West Germany. It is about 9.5" long. Any ideas on age?

I picked up this New Britain machine 1/2" drive socket set this weekend. Complete and in super nice condition. Most of the sockets have never been used. I did some research on the internet but there is not near as much info on New Britain machine as there is on Craftsman it seems. I know they...

My wife is a tag sale junkie and always amazes me at the stuff she finds. I gave her a list years ago on what tools to buy (brands/markings) if she ran across them. One was "any vise or C clamp marked made in USA" About three months ago she ran into a Wilton Bullet vise with four inch jaws and...