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Ancient Black & Decker Metal Shear Rehab

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After seeing some of the other vintage Skil tool restores from Bree Stephany, I deceided to have a go.
I won this on ebay. B&D made similar tools in England back then, and appear to be similar quality to the US made ones.
I think it might be from 1930s to 1940s vintage
It works well, but it had many scars from usage.
I wanted to clean up some of the ugly stuff without eliminating the character.
 

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So I broke it down, using a cratex wheel and some elbow grease took out the larger dings and dents and sent it off for a process called vapour blasting.
This is a process similar to glass beading, but it mixes the abrasive with water to make a slurry that leaves a uniform satin finish. Its a nice process for bare alumunim castings.
Here are the photos after it came back from the blaster.
Now I have to put it all back together.
 

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Very Nice! I have a similar, but a little different B&D model 16 shear. What a fantastic tool. I always wanted one and it just worked out that I got this one for a song.

Keep close track of your cutting blades. I had a fastener failure on the lower blade, the blade took off into oblivion (never did find it) and have been unable to get a proper replacement since. B&D says they don't support them anymore and have no info. Dewalt is the wrong size. I have found too big and too small. Will be modifying the too big to fit while using the too small in the interim.

I disassembled and relubed the gearbox with John Deere Cornhead grease, but did not do a full resto.

Another of those great old electric tools that will likely outlive me.

Can't wait to see how yours turns out.
 
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Thanks Rustyman,
I also have an old electric unishear that the bottom fastener holding the cuuter came loose and got chewed up pretty well. It looks like is was a replacemant made from a piece of high speed steel, like a metal lathe would use.
I can post a photo with dimensions of the bottom cutter on the B&D if you like. You might be able to have one made up someplace.
 
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Thanks for the info. I have a replacement that I will grind to fit the pocket. Just a bummer that the original disappeared. I will probably find it buried in something years from now.
 
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Today's progress was to fabricate a strain relied for the power cord.
I stole the end off the lawn rake. I would like to find a good source for a fabric covered power cord, will use this one for now.
 

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My latest update, I ordered some cloth covered power cord, but will go with this for now.
Just need to put the cutting bits and brushes back in.
 

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I found a B&D Globler on Ebay and when it came in took to the local B&D repair place and they could get enough parts to fix the nibbler on it and get it back in good condition. Is a marvel that can do 3/16 steel like most of the new one do HVAC duct. They just don't really make tools like that any more and they are getting rare to find any still repairable.
 
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