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Sometimes you find nice things that you weren't even looking for. As a beginner hobby machinist, I'm buying machinist chests to accumulate nice old tools, usually they come in a Kennedy box. This time, a very decent condition Gerstner. These are very nice, I see first hand the attraction...

Prototype really. I'm new to home shop machining, and also new to a desk job, so i made a prototype pen for my desk job. I wanted a steel, dense, tool kinda feel. No kit, just studied up, and built it around a Fisher Space Pen refill. Made from easy machining 12L14 as a test, but liked it, so...

New to me Benchmaster "mini mill." Been chasing one for awhile. The CL seller must've known that based on his asking, which i paid of course. I liked how complete it looked, felt, and loaded. Even after loading, hauling, and unloading, it trammed way close enough for me! Sent from my iPhone...

New to me South Bend heavy 10, dated 1942, shipped to Lear Avia, private ownership for most of those years I believe. I tore it down for clean up (little needed!), and re-wicking. I highly recommend the package and book available on eBay. My first step up from a mini lathe and it's nice to...

Found this at my favorite dump, had me curious as to wth??? No markings other than PS 2 AND PS 3, and you can just guess what Google turned up there. I have it mounted to a piece of angle iron in the pic, but it's clearly designed like a clamp on vise. The anvil looking tool does index with a...

UPDATE: Solved, below. Please help if you can. I had bright idea to disassemble and clean my mechanical digital Starrett 216 mic, thinking the barrel just threaded off like all the others. In hindsight, this makes no sense, as it engages internal gears. It threaded out, counted the numbers to...

Grabbed a poorly stored Central Tools micrometer set through -4" on CL for $20. Some pitting in places that you wouldn't want, but the entire set cleaned up very nice with wd40 and scotch brite. Before and after in the pics, hard to see the difference though. More info as to dating the...

Cleaning up this Craftsman 10 drawer, 16 inch deep, top box to set up for my growing machine tooling. Been looking for this exact box oddly enough, and it showed up on CL mislabeled as a snap on. So, of course i had to pay his $50 asking because his phone was blowing up for snap on. Curious...

Any watch makers on the board? Huge CL ad that I came across. As a beginner machinist, I wanted to want stuff, but could only recognize the huge amount of stuff available, but none of it was for me. Not mine, do not know the person, just hoping to connect buyer and seller of cool stuff...

Cool to me at least, but not tool related. I grabbed these neat old plumbing fixtures from a friend's scrap pile. Figured I'd clean them up and return them to him for a smile. He was remodeling a building on his very old property, a nursery type facility. The fixtures had a heavy coat of...

Just bought a new Yamaha PW3028 and have a few questions. Seemed to be some PW learned folks on here when I was doing my initial research. 1) I fired it up at dusk for the first time and noticed that my muffler was glowing red after less that 10 minutes of running, maybe as little as 5. Does...

Thankfully I spied this vintage Craftsman 1/2 HP tool motor in a scrap heap at the local outlaw dump pile. Brought it home, re-cord, blew out minimal saw dust and sprayed some contact cleaner about, gave her a good scotch brite/ wd40 scrubbing, and fired her right up. Runs nice, smooth, and...

Grabbed these rusty old 24 " Ridgid bolt cutters from a scrap metal pile at a local dump, looked like they'd been living in the river. I just soaked them in diesel for the initial clean up, then vinegar for rust removal, with frequent wire brush treatments. Was pleasantly surprised to uncover...

So from time to time I regain my sanity and not buy any vises more or old tools that need restored. Well, after regaining my insanity and picking up an old arbor press, I discovered my rustoleum rusty metal primer to have a 1/4 inch solid top. This has happened to me with the paint enamel as...

Been wanting a small press, picked up a ridiculously huge Dake compound recently for cheap but still needed a smaller one. Grabbed this for $ 10 and a quick road trip tonight. Look forward to cleaning it up and getting some use out of it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

New to me Dake Model 1-1/2 from CL. Way bigger a machine than i thought i was getting. Looks to be all there, but wasn't questioning at the price. I'll figure out later. I think the 1 1/2 is 3 ton, but the markings are confusing, 202, 2 1/2 P, 214.It was all i could handle to get it out of the...

Did a restoration on my 1980 Rockwell 15-665 drill press. I know from the posts that a few of you have one so I decided to post up my resto. I'm quite pleased with it. I got it for free about 10 years ago and just used it occasionally as i got it, cut down floor model pole and all. My recent...

Though I seem to have a collection of vintage tools, I'm more interested in buying usable tools for my future that are of high quality. This leads me to a garage sale recently where I spy a set of vintage looking compass/ calipers that are bail twined together with 2 sets of pliers type tools...

Didn't know if I had anything special here, but didn't really care. Happy to replace my Chinese plastic level with this USA 24 inch level that I pulled from someone's curbside. One shattered external glass piece that' easily replaceable. A good bit of cleaning up should make it nice. Could be...

So I built a coat hanger antenna using plans found everywhere on the net, but it doesn't work. Getting Zero channels here. I'm only like 20-25 miles away from Pittsburgh City network stations. Trying to use this inside though. I copied the measurements exactly. Though I did run out of crimp on...