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Had bought this parker vise and the sliding jaw had broken in two. With some prep work, lots of pre-heating, beveling, then the right nickel rods, and proper cooling it can live one more time! May not ever be as strong or pretty as it was, but grey cast iron can definitely be welded

I'm usually terrible at documenting any of the project endeavors that I've made, but this time I managed to do a little bit. For a while I had been using a small speedaire compressor w/ a 3/4 hp motor and it wasn't enough for what I needed. Ideally a 2 stage pump would be great, but god knows...

http://salem.craigslist.org/tls/5887386617.html Couple of things that could be wrong with this ad.... My first impression is that it looks an awful lot like a harbor freight box ($159 new i think) that someone painted, so either someone is trying to pull one over with this or Blue point really...

So I was screwing around with Inkscape and Autocad today and decided to make a vector version of the plomb logo off of my box. Also made a file for cutting on a plaz or laser. haven't converted the cad file to arcs, so it'll only work if your equipment supports splines because I'm lazy and lost...

For a long time I'd been searching for the perfect open wrench and a few months ago that search was over. Since this is my own preference I'm sure your ideal open wrench may differ from mine, so I'll describe my findings to give a better picture... I absolutely love plomb pebbled handles...

A few months ago I purchased an old Columbian 204 1/2 vise from my go-to tool guy and since haven't been able to really nail down a date on it. I did find from a few catalog snippets that show it was produced during the early 20's ($79 bucks then!), but that's about it. From those same...