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Finished the stand for my vise today. My neighbor got the base from a yard sale. It's a flywheel with square tubing bolted to it and it was holding a big industrial fan! My best guess is it's a flywheel from a semi truck or bulldozer or something like that because the damn thing is HEAVY and...

My wife has a family member that works in a demolition company. He was on a crew in Alabama tearing down an old airport and found this in one of the maintenace hangers bolted to a table. This thing is pretty big, I've got my Record #6 in the background for scale. Looks pretty much unused and...

So I goto this garage sale 3 weeks ago. The wife's buying antique ball jars and I'm milling around for some tools. Guys got a new adjustable Ridgid basin wrench in the package. I think to myself "I don't need this damn thing, I haven't used the one I got, but for $5 bucks what the hell!" So I...

Finally got my NOS Record 6" vise mounted on my bench today! This is one of the nicest vises that I've used so far, smooth as butter and solid as hell! :thumbup:

Found this at a flea market the other day. I tried not to RUN over to it and ended up checking it out for about 3 minutes. I finally asked the guy "what's the best you can do on this?" After replying $15 dollars (much to my amazement that his price was right in line with what I would pay for...

I bought a bottle jack today at the local habitat for humanity resale store for $12.50 which I thought was a steal. After getting it home I tried to find info on it researching the numbers I saw on it to no avail. I tried to clean off the paint to see a label but that didn't work either. So, I...

Hi guys, I'm new here and have been reading and gaining all your wonderful information and wisedom for awhile now. It's great to look up info or personal reviews about tools and such (and the occassional laugh - like the gentleman with the red truck, duct tape, and the holes in the...