I've been absent for a few years, following a nearly fatal bicycle accident, but not utterly inactive either, and happened to notice this, about one of my favorite tools. I've had and used an old, low horsepower, high precision DeWalt for many years, and still have all my digits too.
I've cut...
I would imagine it's somewhat dangerous just because anything that large is going to turn pretty fast, but it looks as if he has it pretty well under control. I note that at the start, when the log is very irregular, he scrapes, but once it's gotten round, he pares with a straight chisel...
I don't know how big those jointers are all told,but many years ago I had a 6" Walker Turner jointer (actually still have and use it) whose tables had goen out of true. Because it was incapable of doing accurate work, it was given to me free. Not particularly concerned about appearance and...
While looking in to all the suggestions above, I would add that you should make sure your car is not contributing. I have had a couple of cars that, while the seats seemed pretty comfortable, were killers on sciatica. My wife too had a Honda that she liked dearly but that was doing in her...
I wondered about an OD hone or some kind of shaft brake, but what is the function of the ball bearings and the channelled mounts? Would there be some outer piece used to force the jaws together? The blocks inside are definitely not stones, but a composite material similar to what would be on...
It's clear from my mystery sheep shear part that you guys are good at this, so I present another recent mystery tool I'd love to know the purpose of.
It's based on a standard Stanley spring clamp, and other than that has no information, numbers, etc. anywhere on it. It was bought from a...
Thanks to all for the quick replies. Sheep are indeed pretty common up here, but I've never seen the shearing done. Now all I have to do is think of something interesting to do with it (not involving sheep).
I don't know if the gear here was ever used for anything, or what it came off of, or anything about it. It was in the shop of an elderly handyman and motor repairman which i was helping to clean out. There is no sign of where it came from, and he, now in his 90's, seems to have no...
Meant this to be a response to the suggetion of "Old Scout mail truck..."
Unbeatable traction but the older ones have a godawful turning radius, as do old Jeeps. I would not go for any vehicle that has the old style closed front steering knuckles with king pins.
I've had script issues in the past with Flash, and more recently with "plugin container," some of which are better after an update but not all. What I've taken to doing is to keep Task Manager open, and when FF stops responding, I go there and kill Flash, or whatever is causing the problem...
If you're not too worried about authenticity, I'd go with adding a new sole, and then putting a plate in front of the blade. It's been close to 40 years since I salvaged the two old Sargents shown here, but they've worked pretty well for a long time. On the top one, I did not have the best wood...
I have an assortment of odd impact sockets from various sources, including Metrinch, Williams, Mac and others, all of which look correct and fit the driver well, but the ones of which I have nearly a full set are Cornwell, which were old 40 years or so ago. They are still in business, and their...
The best stuff I've found for shoes and sandals and slippers is 3M Emblem and Trim Adhesive. This is a very tenacious adhesive that looks and smells much like Shoe Goo, and behaves much the same, but is a good bit thinner, and lasts in the tube for a very long time. It seems to remain more...
For that once in a blue moon oil smoke, I had a Chevy truck with the 350 engine, and from the time it was nearly new it would occasionally start with a big cloud of smoke. It never used oil between changes, started and ran just fine, but I think it must have had one leaky valve seal, and it...
The location became a Costa Rican national park in 1970, I believe. It's seaside rain forest, with navigable canal frontage, which before that was logged. There's a fair amount of rusty machinery lurking in the bushes, and I suspect that whatever was installed in the park was simply picked out...
That's just what they are now. Tortuguero was once an active logging town, but like much of Costa Rica its economy has shifted quite radically toward conservation and tourism, and bits of its industrial past have been converted into sculpture in the seaside park.
Just got back from a trip to Costa Rica. Though accessible only by boat or plane, Tortuguero village seems at some point long ago to have had a little bit of machine work, perhaps in boat repair. I think the machines are a little past their shelf life, though.
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