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Here is the back wall of my garage - old Land Rover undergoing a frame up restoration.

I just picked up another Lista cabinet at an auction today for $245 - its a little beat up but otherwise brand new. It was damaged in shipping with some minor dings, dents and scratches but is fully functional. Its the later style with the new drawer slides and slip on plastic handles. Some of...

It's the Viking ship emblem from a Rover passenger car. I think that one is off if a P5 Rover saloon - late 1950's.

It's the Viking ship emblem from a Rover passenger car. I think that one is off if a P5 Rover saloon - late 1950's.

I still need to add a few emblems to the front.

I have a problem with Lista tool cabinets, plus my old Kennedy top box that I've had for almost fifty years.

My old tool boxes were always Kennedy wrinkle finish dark brown but then I started switching to Lista cabinets, light blue with grey drawers.

I have a real thing for Lista cabinets, it was my decision to select Lista cabinets for the Tool Control program we initiated at Lockheed for the F-22 program. As a result we bought several thousand of them. When the F-22 program ended we recycled some into other programs like F-35 and C-5M but...

That looks great Tim - glad it went to a good home. I had two Wilton vises and I kept the 8/51 model since I'm a 51 model myself. I used copper based Never-Seez on the sliding surfaces of my vise to lubricate it. Decided to paint the Reed a dark green - its a working tool so I didn't want to...

I took a close look and measured the drive with a set of dial calipers and you are right - it originally was a 9/32" drive ratchet - someone has ground down the three sides of the drive other than the one with the ball in it to make it a 1/4" drive.Its just a little off in the two measurements...

I was able to remove the crud with a combination of my parts washer and the blast cabinet. I'm going to give everything a rinse in acetone and blow it off with compressed air before I mask it, prime it and paint it. Any suggestions on what I should do to the areas that I'm going to leave bare...

If the ratchet dates from 1945 there is a good chance that it dates from the Bell Bomber plant days when they were assembling B-29's in Marietta. Thanks, my Snap-on rep wasn't real sure about the date code.

I think I'm going to leave the nut alone - I really have no need to remove it and everything has gone pretty well so far - why tempt fate? Tomorrow - I start the painting process. I can't decide whether to replace the handle with something shiny or keep the beat up original that preserves some...

So today I started the process of removing at least a couple of layers of paint from the Reed 204R - everything was in mechanically good shape and a few passes with a flat file removed the burrs that made the dynamic jaw so difficult to remove. Now it slides in and out the way it should. I took...

I just want to say thanks to everyone who has contributed to the vise threads on Garage Journal - the knowledge is being put to good use as I started to restore the Reed 204R I picked up on Monday. Its dated 5/51 and I bought it at a surplus equipment auction at the Lockheed Martin Aeronautical...

I found an old 1/4 drive Snap-on ratchet with a G code on the handle in a bin in the tool crib at Lockheed. I gave it to my Snap-on representative to see if he could tell me how old it was and he said according to their records it dates to 1937. We guessed that it might have been shipped to...

Thanks - I'm sort of partial to Packard Green - the color used on Packard motorcar engines in the 1930's. I have some paint left over from my Land Rover restoration where I decided to use the color I liked instead of the light aquamarine blue that was standard. I was thinking of painting the...

Picture of the 551 date stamp. What color were Reed vises generally painted? This one had Air Force/Industrial blue as a base color. Or should I just give it a coat of old fashioned stove black?

Thanks, I spent the afternoon taking it apart after carefully reading the vice repair thread. The moving jaw was binding up as it reached full extension due to some meathead using the back of the arm as an anvil. I had to use a small hydraulic jack to extract the movable jaw but a few minutes...

I just picked up a Reed 204R smooth jaw machinists vise at a conservation auction at Lockheed-Georgia. They sell off surplus equipment occasionally and as a retiree I get to bid. This one is dated 5/51 which coincides with the year that Lockheed took over the old Bell Bomber Plant in Marietta...