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Found this on marketplace, 15 inches for $250. Thought it'd be fun to get for my desk just for the oversized collection but I believe it may be a bit over the weight limit and take up at least 50% of the surface area. So I'm probably not going to get it unless they happen to drop the price...

I've been seeing more posts on marketplace and this one on eBay saying Challenger(made by Proto) is actually Snap On("pre snap on") before they had the Snap On name despite it being obviously 1970-80s tools. Obviously it's not true, Snap On does apparently own Challenger Lifts now which is...

Pulled this out of a retaining wall at my grandfather's home. He used to hoard railroad and military equipment so I believe this was probably from the railroad. It has two pivot points on the sides and looks to be adjusted by smacking the plates to swing the pivot arm from locking onto the...

Got this vise today and wanted to see if anybody knows if there's supposed to be any bearings/washers on the spindle. Dropped the spindle nut screwing the spindle out to remove it from the table it was on and while the debris padded the fall I didn't think to search for anything beyond the...

Got this at an estate sale along with some blacksmithing and woodworking tools. It was on a 24 inch tree branch handle that had seen better days and a few generations of termites but the socket looks similar to a small viking pattern hatchet in size and shape. It's forged, a bit roughly, like...

Got another little adjustable wrench last week and realized I had two Craftsman one's now. Thought it was kinda funny that one's metric though. Should I toss them both in the box so I have imperial and metric adjustables?

I've had this axe for years now, was sitting in a 8"x8" hand hewed log after my first run at cleaning it up, and I've decided I'd make another run at it since it was my first attempt at restoration and I've done quite a bit since. It started out as a block of clay with some wood showing when it...

Got this in yesterday to add to my collection of homebrews. (Pic didn't want to upload, coming soon, please refer to second pic till then) Not particularly refined but it'd still take some time to toss it together. It's got a 4 inch long 1 inch diameter head and it's 7 inches long. Couldn't...

Got a new kit for the ratchet while letting the original gear soak to see if it'd break free(it was frozen via compaction welding on the pawl). It's been a few days so I decided to pop it out and see if it'd work and it's free but I noticed some differences between the new gear and old and...

Got a few mauls, a pickaxe, and a cobblers stand out of a shed that needed torn down(guy didn't want anything that was in the shed other than a mower, also had a nice white grinding stone sitting against a tree but it stayed too) and finally got around to working on them a bit. The guy that had...

Got this today because it was something I haven't seen before and to add to my hammer drawers (after removing the "like new" spray job the seller uses on everything metal of course). The face is convex almost like a ball peen but squashed a bit while the other end is flat like it's not meant to...

Got these today and don't have any idea what they're for. Figured electrical but they don't match up with the usual wire cutters I've used. They're actually more like shears you'd use to do gardening(or a century ago shear sheep), two slightly offset parallel blades that pass over one another to...

Friend pulled this out of a pile of stuff dumped at a worksite and gave it to me. It's a 5" Wilton but it seems to have an odd setup for the locking plate compared to the examples I could find. This one has an actual plate on the outside of the dynamic arm but the others have a smooth section...

Finally found a few vises on marketplace on my work route, 8 specifically but only one replied after 24 hours, and brought home a Reed No. 103R for $40 with a random meat grinder and screw jack tossed in. Vise looks to be in decent shape, spindle and spindle nut is clean and no visible cracks...

Coworker's kid got an old partial tap and die set(Greenfield 1-1/2 & 2-1/2 NC from probably around the 50s) from his school when they were cleaning out old inventory so he brought it to me to clean up and figure out what's missing to potentially try completing it someday. This piece was in it...

Been looking at bench vises, specifically ones I could set up as quick mounts(pop it on the bench or a mount that's not in the way when needed), and was looking at using a hitch vise since a hitch mount is easy to set up and would be the least difficult way to go about it. Was looking at...

I've been looking for a clamping setup for working on ratchets and other various tools that, at the moment, requires a bunch of padding to distribute the force somewhat evenly or have to be awkwardly clamped in ways that are prone to forcing the piece to try flying before the repairs are done...

This thread is for all of you who wish to argue about, debate, or otherwise discuss the physics of tools and other things whether it's the structural properties, forces acted upon, if a tree falls in the woods, etc.. This thread is a place to take these discussions to limit overcrowding other...

Got these pieces in a recent lot and haven't been able to find much info on them yet. Wondering if anybody knows more about them here. "1/8-C" punch(?) Mystery tool with roller bearing(1/4 opening) "1/4 B&D-VD" 4 flute punch Brass ruler, part of caliper(?) "J. M. Waterston Detroit" pry...

Had this box for a year or two but didn't have the keys due to it being sent to scrap by a corporate R&D lab. Got the side box along with two other side boxes a month ago and noticed all three were keyed to Mac locks(with keys) and eventually realized they were the same locks as the Mac...