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I have two of these exact wrenches, Bendix 66852 adjustable spanner, 6-3/4 to 8-3/4 inches. They came from a friend's estate, and he certainly bought things from Lockheed and Douglas aircraft surplus, the Lockheed Burbank plant was not far away from his house. I am suspicious though that these...

I'd always thought the 3-D printed parts would be a bit brittle until you got to a high end printer - apparently not - that's good to know. What printer and filament did you use?

there were a lot of wrenches of this general style, though I haven't seen that particular one. they are good for larger hex nuts and square nuts, I keep one by my metal lathe because I make faceplates by welding disks to appropriate nuts, and when facing and machining I put them on a fixture -...

usually on a buffer, so you have more working space, and also so the work doesn't get trapped between the wheel and the tool rest, yanked out of your hand, whirled around the interior of the wheel guard and either flung out the back through the vent or hard against the shield (or worse, into...

there is another site, owwm.com, that is for people who restore vintage machinery - you will find a lot of info there on, and pictures of, restored grinders. That looks like a very nice grinder and you have history with it, you most assuredly should fix it up. if you have 220 in your garage...

I am going to have a new change gear chart made for my 12" Logan Powermatic lathe - if anyone else has a similar lathe and would like a new one (my old one is illegible), please get in touch with me -if 5 or 10 folks join me, these will cost around $50 each. The lathe looks generally like this...

this thread has been super duper helpful - my local independent automotive store and machine shop is closing, the family can make more money renting the building than operating the business, and they are all getting older - one of the things that they discarded that I picked up as scrap for use...