BEFORE & AFTER....A Tool Polisher's Haven

[jimmie jam]

WOW, I'm impressed....

 

[z-edition 006]

I got a old pipe vice a while ago.

 

[Slednut]

If you haven't heard of, or used POR15 paint... this is how you have to store it so it doesn't harden. this can of paint is at least 5 years old...

I never open the cans of POR-15, I put a couple large metal roofing screws in the lid.

 

[harley jim]

I have been working on an old grinder. Hope to get it finished this week.

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[Bears Fan]

Gentlemen

Awesome job on these restorations! Great to see these pieces put back to better then new condition and being used again! I don't think most people realize the time and effort put into bringing these pieces back to life

 

[losdudes]

That grinder turned out beautiful.

 

[bonneyman]

+2 Those projects came out great, guys!

 

[harley jim]

Thanks guys

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[harley jim]

I M really enjoying retirement my shop is finally starting to look like it should.

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[lis2323]

The CP vise looks awesome Jim [emoji106]

 

[harley jim]

Thanks lis,
I just started a build thread for it. It was missing a lock and needed a bunch of cleaning.

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[harley jim]

Before and after

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[Roju1985]

I have been working on an old grinder. Hope to get it finished this week.

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Came out amazing! What Paint did you use on the frame?

 

[harley jim]

Re: BEFORE & AFTER....A Tool Polisher's Haven

That is antique silver powder coat. Here is a later pic. I'm still waiting on the covers and the pedestal they are going to do it a darker gray

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[lis2323]

I like that gray in the last pic, Jim!

 

[harley jim]

Thanks lis.
They are slammed at the shop and cant get to my stuff right now. Commercial stuff first. I'm getting excited to see it finished.

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[Old Radar]

I just stumbled across this thread and spent the last two hours wiping the drool off my chin. Don, this floor jack is worthy of a place on a pedestal at the Indy 500 museum! Inspirational!

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I spend most of my GJ time on the Garage Sale threads posting my acquisitions and sometimes my restorations. You folks are out of my league, but I plan on implementing your techniques on future work and may go back and rework some things when I finish my dual grinder stand and outfit it with buffing wheels. I'm currently polishing up the semi truck brake drum I'm using as a base. It's shining up but no where near the mirror finish I've seen on some of the projects here.



Here are a couple of things I've worked on in the past:

A screw jack from the Illinois Iron & Bolt Company. The second pic is after the vinegar bath.



An old Roll Rite creeper

 

[lis2323]

BEFORE & AFTER....A Tool Polisher's Haven

Old Radar what is the finish on that screw jack?

 

[Old Radar]

Nothing more than Rust-Oleum Flat Black. The lettering is Krylon Champagne Nouveau Satin left over from my CM Pre-Block grinder resto.

 

[drivesitfar]

GREAT WORK GUYS!!

Angry Beaver: i've wanted to use Por15 and heard some of the old guys say they buy only what they want to use for one project cause they could never get the can open again. THANKS FOR THE TIP cause I do like buying in volume since i've got a ton of old stuff that is rusty and would look better with paint than BLO.

carry on and keep posting those before and after pics cause it's inspirational!!

 

[harley jim]

Nothing more than Rust-Oleum Flat Black. The lettering is Krylon Champagne Nouveau Satin left over from my CM Pre-Block grinder resto.

Old Raider
That looks great

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[harley jim]

I have been working on some pipe wrenches that have been in an old box for 25 years. Time to get things moving

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[Old Radar]

Old Raider
That looks great

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Thanks! Nice job on that wrench! You might think about lightly buffing the paint off the high points of the knurling to set it off. Or, if you use it, it will naturally wear away...

 

[protegeV]

Damn that pipe wrench looks pretty. Nice job.

 

[harley jim]

That would look good
Think I'll do that tomorrow
Thanks

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[harley jim]

Damn that pipe wrench looks pretty. Nice job. [emoji106]

Thanks


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[squirrel 99]

Remarkably well done work Don, must be great every time you look at them!

 

[budget76]

However, if anybody knows how to clean up the white on the handles, I'm all ears. They are not supposed to be dingy tan, and it seems the guys on the chainsaw forums haven't found the secret yet either.

i know there were a couple other suggestions, but my first thought was a restoration of a video game syste. I saw a while back. It may have been this website http://www.retrofixes.com/2013/10/how-to-clean-whiten-yellowed-plastics.html or this one https://www.howtogeek.com/196687/ask-htg-why-do-old-computers-and-game-consoles-turn-yellow/

 

[trijeff]

Vise I did for my dad to match his '66 Stang

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[Shelbylex]

That’s a beauty, Trijeff! Great job!

 

[drivesitfar]

TJ: i love the vise and I bet your dad will too. the extra mustang bling is nice, but is the 289 just taped on for the pictures or does it just get removed when using the vise?

 

[trijeff]

thanks, drives. they're actually leather-backed with magnets underneath

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[drivesitfar]

TJ:

 

[OCD]

Found this on the net while utubing... It's an old soviet anvil restoration...

 

[Old Radar]

Just a quick update on my dual grinder stand progress. I covered the journals in grease before dumping the whole crankshaft in vinegar. I was a little concerned about the vinegar eating away the smooth finish on the journals so I only left it in the bath for 14 hours. It didn't eat through the grease but the short soak time didn't do much for the rust either. Don't bother with the grease trick--definitely too much trouble.



I decided to rinse, dry it off and attack it with the angle grinder staring with a 40 grit flapwheel. It's really a PITA to hit all the surfaces of the counterweights--and of course, even a 7" flapwheel doesn't reach everywhere.

This is after two days work...



I'll try working through 60 and 80 grit tomorrow and then see if I feel like going further...oh, my aching back!

 

[Loose Ctrl]

Citric acid bath or navel jelly works better for me than vinegar. Smells better too.

 

[Old Radar]

Citric acid bath or navel jelly works better for me than vinegar. Smells better too.

Believe me, I looked for the good old-time Naval Jelly but all I could come up with was Rust-oleum Rust Dissolver Jelly. The two pictures above are AFTER using that ****. It actually rusted the metal--and I'm not talking about flash rust either. Here is a pic of what the crankshaft looked like before using the rust dissolver.

 

[Loose Ctrl]

Weird, I've always had excellent luck with those. Navel jelly is getting hard to find.

 

[harley jim]

Not a tool but I polished the **** out of this one

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[Old Radar]

How cool! Did you convert it yourself or was it always a motor-bike? What's the long appendage coming out of the front of the engine?