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I have an England made 110v 6" bench grinder probably 50's vintage. Long story short, they are nice smooth running attractively designed machines. The switch they chose ***** and usually breaks, which probably sends a lot of these to the dumpster and scrap yard. More bright folks have simply...

I bought two early B&D drills on ebay from two different buyers. I always wanted one of these early "hexagonal era" of B&D drill. But why have one when you can have two? The first one with the chuck key on the chain, im 99% sure it is the "Light-Duty" model, but I GUESS that Black and Decker...

I took the crappiest plastic 14v 6 1/2" battery powered circular saw on the planet, and tried it with a 12v sealed lead acid battery. It worked pretty good on some pine stock! It struggled a bit with some hard maple. But I don't think this saw was ever very good even at its rated 18v anyways...

I have this poor old 1957 electric jigsaw, it was thrown out at a scrap yard. Cord cut off, busted off blade, busted off blade screw. I removed the rear housing, that gives you access to the back of the motor, switch and brush holders. It was supposed to be held on by two screws, one is...

I got this at a thrift store today for $12.00. it weighs probably 50 pounds. Its got a cast iron base, and the steel blade is 20". Maybe 50s vintage, not a single robertson head screw. But all of it is made in canada land. Ive never heard of this "Clyde" brand and googling the name and model...

I have this vintage 60s or 70s 6amp Shopmate drill. I replaced the cut off cord with a new groundrd orange one and a nice vintage grey Hubbel plug. And and put a new rubber cord protector on from a trash picked 6amp crapsman China made resipricating saw. The saw was maybe less than a year old...