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So I've been restoring old tools for a few years now and figured I'd give Evaporust a try. Works great, but no matter what I do, I cant get rid of this really weird smell it leaves on the metal, I assume held in the pitting that I cant reach with wirebrush tools. Anyone else have this problem...

Got this bad Larry off ebay, probably one of the easier restorations Ive done. I've done a good number of wrenches now, and I'm still going back and forth on the best way to get them running smooth again. My normal method is to take wrenches completely apart and really scour the rust and...

I bought this wrench for $5 and tried my best cleaning it, but since I couldn't take it apart due to the pin being peened in place, it wasn't quite good enough. It ran all kinds of rough and required two hands to use. So I drilled out the peening, really cleaned what I couldn't previously reach...

I got these parallel jaw pliers at a store recently, the second pair I've come across, though this one is in much better condition. It's coated in this hard layer of what I assume is grease that isn't present on the older ones. Should I leave it on or try and get it off?

I got this little ford automotive wrench for something like $5 recently. The pin holding the thumb screw in place seems to be peened in, and I haven't quite figured out how to remove it, so I had to leave it together for the cleaning process. Thing is, even after I cleaned it, the thing runs...

Here's the vintage tools I've collected (Or hoarded, depending on your perspective) over the past couple years. These wrenches make great gifts too, and I've managed to part with about 6 or 7 that aren't pictured here. Knowledge or insight about any of them is always appreciated!

So I got this wrench at a shop in New Hampshire, and finally got around to doing some research on it. Its a Coes wrench, which is fairly common around here in New England, and generally marked as just "Coes Wrench Co" (I've got a few of em, mostly made, from what I gather, in the mid 30's-40's)...

So I've got this B&C wrench, and I'm having trouble dating it. Its suprisingly hard to find information on B&C, regarding production dates or even catalogues that depict their wrenches. The only markings on there besides the obvious logos and "Made in Springfield, Mass" are the numbers 5, 11...