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Hey Mr x I responded to your private message you sent me. I often don't come on this site for long periods of time and just saw your message

ne never seen that ad! pictures appear to be a 40s model tool mobile with the early lock design and white stripe on a green box. very cool. never actually seen an ad for a pressteel labeled tool mobile before. only seen catalog pics of the work benches from a later catalog

this weekends score. got another nice tool mobile and 42-44 9998. spent the whole day yesterday cleaning it and doing a tune up on the sliders. the 9998 came with all the drawer dividers, which none of my other ones have. this is my 3rd current 9998 and my 5th 40s tool mobile I currently have

to those that are also on Facebook, please join my "pressteel enthusiast" page on there. there's only like 40 members. would be cool to grow it and make it more active.

there it is. next up is the two job carts i have

Another beach I got a month ago that I'm about to redo In Grey

theres the creeper, back from the powdercoater. i would not have been able to do this resto without help from the pics of the other creeper, found earlier in this thread. i love this thing. one of my favorite pieces i own

heres the creeper ive been working on. i found it through a connection down in LA. the only other one ive seen is the one posted at the beginning of this thread. i used those pictures to figure out how the stock castors are supposed to be. it had huge heavy brackets welded on to the skin of...

Thanks, guys, for the compliments! I'm still on the hunt for a pressteel desk in northern CA. I'm restoring a pressteel creeper right now. And two single drawer job carts.

work bench i just finished

I got hooked up with a mint 3 drawer box this week for cheap. Probably real late 40s or even very early 50s. Has a neat locking system like the mid box has. Bottom cover also hase tabs to lock it in place once the drawers locked. Also has reinforced plates around castor mounts. Definitely...

Here's a before an after laquer thinner rub down to remove a repaint. Box had a factory defect where the track lip caused binding issues, which I've seen more than once. Fixed that. Got replacement castors out of McMaster carr. Lock from Amazon. Took my time scrubbing and keeping the panels...

loo lotta paint to remove with blasting tho. the shell skins on these stretch so easily. you may want to use paint remover and then spot blast any tough areas, or just sand tough areas with a DA. ill take a pic this weekend of my most recent early 40s plomb tool mobile i just stripped with...

T hanks! Jim Lovelace did the decal for me upon request. They are now also available on ebay

I just had a spray bomb one I brought back this week. More often than not you can just take a rag with laquer thinner and you'll be able to take it all off. Keep the surface wet with laquer thinner in a spray bottle and rub with a rag. Stay away from scotch brites and sos pads.