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Hey everyone, I'm replacing the bearings on an older Baldor 812RE 8" grinder and there are some thin metal shims/spacers/washers between the bearings, the spring washers, and the felt washers. There are five of these shims on the left side and three on the right. Does this seem correct, or...

Hey everyone, I picked up a couple vintage bead rollers (well, at least I think that's what they are) at a garage sale recently. One has a nice brass name plate for Brown Boggs Co. Hamilton, Canada. I'm always attracted to old tools like this and they were fairly cheap, but I honestly don't...

Hi everyone, I posted this over at owwm.org, but haven't had any replies. I found some discussions here about Powermatic drill presses, so I thought I'd try here as well. I went to look an 1150a variable speed drill press the other day (see pic below). The seller warned me that it made some...

Can anyone here tell me anything about this little square jaw adjustable wrench with a screwdriver tip? There are no names or maker marks anywhere. I was searching online and could only find one other example like it, and it sold on eBay last year for about $70USD (Almost $100 Canadian). I was...

Hi everyone, I've picked up some used oxy-acetylene equipment at garage sales over the last year, including the following four Victor regulators: SR-460A, SR-450D, SR-410A, SR-400D. I don't know the history of these things and they look like they've been sitting around unused for quite awhile...

He everyone, I bought a Craftsman Jointer model 113.20682c on the weekend and it has an electric motor with oil ports on both sides (see pics below). I'm wondering how much oil to add? The motor sounds pretty good when it is running, but it did squeal a bit when it was first starting and when...

Any Tormek owners here? I'm going to look at a used T-2000 tomorrow and it comes with an older square edge jig SVH-60 that is missing one of the knobs. Does anybody know what the thread pitch is on this Tormek jig? I'm hoping it's a fairly common size so I don't have to special order a knob from...

I've collected a few vises over the summer and need to thin the herd. I have the four bench vises pictured below, a 10" Columbian woodworking vise, a blacksmith's leg vise, as well as an assortment of smaller vises. So I think one or two of the large bench vises can go. From left to right in...

Anybody here have a Record 75 vise with the removable pipe jaw? I bought a 75 recently, but the jaw is missing and I'm wondering if I might be able make a replacement. I've found a drawing of one and it doesn't look very complicated, but it would be nice to see an actual picture of one and...

Hi everyone, I bought a couple vises at an auction today, including a vintage Columbian 10" woodworking vise with an odd looking screw. It has threads missing on one side and I've never seen anything like it before. I've been on Google trying to find a similar vise and so far I have come up...

Hi everyone, I bought a box of rusty old tools at a yard sale this weekend and I'm curious about one item. It's an old tire tool and one side is marked "Clincher Tire Plow Co. Detroit" and the other side has the patent date "June 2, 1914". I've been googling for awhile now and haven't been...

I peeled back some insulation in my mom's attic today looking for places to air seal and found what looks like burn marks on some tar-paper faced insulation (see attached pics). The marks follow the path of a wire running to a track light in the kitchen. It used to run four 60W bulbs, but I...

I have a Porter Cable Circular Saw model 617 that I bought new back in the '90s. I used it a bit back then, but it was been sitting unused in the case for a long time. This saw has a grease cup at the rear of the gear housing and the manual says that every 50 hours it should be filled with...

My father inherited some old tools in the '60s from a machinist who lived next door to us. There's a bunch of morse taper drill bits, calipers, taps, etc, but there are also several odd looking tools that look like they're handmade from old files (see pics below). One is labelled "Kraeuter...