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[indiansprings]

Chain Drive Vice, heck I'm not that strong, just as guilty as the next in taking a cheater and sometimes a cheater and a sledge to tighten a vice up.
I've got an old Amercan made massive 10" vice that came out of my great uncles filling station, prolly made in the 20's or 30's. It's mounted on one of the old cast iron sign bases that we cut off, the base itself prolly weighs in at 350 lbs. I don't think I'll ever break this vice, but have broken two or three of the six inch Lowes or Sam's Club specials, made in China. You can't believe these old chain drive vices, heavy and tough, not like todays throw aways.

 

[Brmorgan]

I'll have to take a pic of the big vise I picked up at the scrap for $20. Needs some reconditioning but will serve me well once the rust is gone, I think.

 

[7oaks]

Painter's tool

This is a painter's tool. Quite common and inexpensive. I use this one to clean the grooves in bars. Works better than anything else I've tried. I also us it to scrape stuff off of the bars (sap etc.)....

Used it today on an old bar that I thought was clean and it pulled out some black sawdust that was hard as stone.

 

[teatersroad]

This is a painter's tool. Quite common and inexpensive. I use this one to clean the grooves in bars. Works better than anything else I've tried. I also us it to scrape stuff off of the bars (sap etc.)....

Used it today on an old bar that I thought was clean and it pulled out some black sawdust that was hard as stone.

the half-moon cut-out is to squeegie your roller with, ifn someone didn't know.

 

[bigbadbob]

So now that we have our torches out can anybody shed any light on this??
you guys made me go dig out a dust old box of goodies, even have wooden salmon plugs in there and mahogony wooden fishing reels, but no more pics, game on!!!

 

[blackoak]

Here's a pretty nice old Stanley No 45 plane that I saved from the scrap pile. It cleaned up really well. I wish I had a before picture of it.

 

[blackoak]

What was this used for

I got this at a auction. It looks to be used for twisting wire maybe. It has a patent date of 1910 on it and no other marks. Any body seen one or know anything about it?

 

[bigbadbob]

Blackoak might be for fencing, twisting two end together???
Just a guess.

 

[blackoak]

A big Wilton vise

Here is my pride and joy. It was given to me by the old guy that I bought my house from. It's got 8" jaws and will open up to 10" I didn't weigh it but it was all I wanted to pick up and mount on the bench. I have a smaller Wilton mounted just behind this one. The old Wiltons can't be beat.

In the last picture if you look over the smaller Wilton back by one of my tool boxes there's a black blob. That is my jacket and it is covering another vise. It is a 6" Craftsman vise. It is a nice vise, but it's not in the same league as the Wiltons. Also in the back ground are my welders. Two Hobart mig welders. One is set up with gas, the other I use flux core wire. Below is an old Lincoln AC-DC stick welder. I wish I had a dime for every rod I have burnt with the old Lincoln. I have never had a problem with that old welder. I don't use it much since I got the two wire welders. If I have any thick steel that needs welded on I will use the old Lincoln. I will have to get a picture of my anvil and post it. It's not a real big one, but it works pretty good for all my hammering needs.

 

[bigbadbob]

Here is my pride and joy. It was given to me by the old guy that I bought my house from. It's got 8" jaws and will open up to 10" I didn't weigh it but it was all I wanted to pick up and mount on the bench. I have a smaller Wilton mounted just behind this one. The old Wiltons can't be beat.

Nice vice, I had a vice for working on wooden spoke wheels, the jaw dropped open to accept the wheel, it was 2-3ft high dont know where it migrated to.

 

[blackoak]

Blackoak might be for fencing, twisting two end together???
Just a guess.

That's what I thought it may be used for. I think that it was for maybe joining two pieces of wire together.

 

[jimdad07]

Great idea Jerry. I like the idea of a tool forum as well as a woodworking forum. I am a collector of any tools I can find for my shop, I am still pretty young so the collection is still small but has been growing faster since I started on this site.

 

[blackoak]

A group of very useful parts

Here is a shot of one of my "junk" boxes. It is nothing but assorted chainsaw screws, nuts, fuel filters, spark plugs and anything I thought might come in handy one of these days saw parts. This box weighs right at 40 lbs. This picture was taken a couple years ago. I have expanded my junk box to about twice that now. Most of the bolts and screws are from Stihl and Homelite saws, but there's also a bunch of other brands in there also. I will not throw away a chainsaw bolt or nut. There are 2 more drawers not pictured of nothing but bolt, screws and nuts. All of this has came from saws I have parted out over the last 20 years

 

[Brmorgan]

Here's a pretty nice old Stanley No 45 plane that I saved from the scrap pile. It cleaned up really well. I wish I had a before picture of it.

You found that in the scrap?!? WTF is wrong with people??? That's almost tantamount to the 041G I found in the scrap. I'd love to have an old 55 with the full complement of knives to go with it; they're amazing tools but from what I gather, you almost need to take an apprenticeship to learn to do everything that they can do.

Have you seen "The Handplane Book" by Garrett Hack? It's chock full of old-tool pr0n.



Blackoak, those old pliers look fairly similar to some barbed-wire tools I've seen at old ranches around here. Not identical, but similar designs.

 

[Brmorgan]

Oil Cans & Vise

Here are some neat old GoldenRod oil cans and a funnel w/ can opener that's about the same color, but I can't find any info on it:

All dug out of the scrap bin over the last few weeks for free. Both oilers work just fine; the little one in fact a bit more than fine - it'll shoot a jet of oil a good 20' without much effort.

As promised here's a couple pics of the big rusty vise I have:

It's actually only a 6" jaw. But it's still a heck of a lot better than the 5" I have right now and was definitely worth the $20 (assuming I can restore it, that is). It has a swivel base AND a rotating head, along with pipe jaws on the reverse side of the head. I wish it had a bit more substantial of an anvil, but beggars can't be choosers. Rust notwithstanding, it's in excellent shape. The jaws hardly look like they've held anything of significance.

A closer look at the pipe jaws on the underside:

It's like someone bought the thing and it spent the last 25 years sitting out in the sun and rain. Hopefully a good de-rusting and oiling will get it back into service. It's one heavy SOB, I can tell you that!


Regarding the old torches, I have an old "mug"-style soldering torch downstairs that I got out of the scrap. Never tried it; it's in far from perfect condition and I don't know a thing about them.

 

[blackoak]

You could be right on the barb wire tool. I can see how it would twist the barbs on a piece of wire.That is a nice vise. I bet if you take the carter pin out of the nut on the back and take it off the entire screw assembly will screw out. Grease it all up including anywhere metal moves together. A good wire brushing and a coat of paint and you'll be good to go. I really appreciate how well the old tools were made. To bad it's not that way today.

 

[Brmorgan]

You could be right on the barb wire tool. I can see how it would twist the barbs on a piece of wire.

The bypass jaws should be able to cut the stuff too. If they can't then my theory may be wrong. Fencing pliers aren't much good if they can't cut it!

 

[pioneerguy600]

Jerry,that is great news!I would definitely appreciate pictures of those setup's!I think they are special clamps that attach to the ferrules are they not?Not just regular hose clamps.
Would you happen to have an owners manual that you could copy?
Many Thanks
Lawrence

There is special clamps made for connecting hoses that supply acetelene to the torch head but I have seen more connected with regular gear clamps or even twisted wire, anything that keeps the hose tight on the ferrule. I have never seen a manual for them, when I bought mine there might have been some paper with it but we never read any instructions unless we can`t figure out how it worked. It was just a simple, connect the acetelene tank, turn on the fuel and light it.
Pioneerguy600

 

[WesternSaw]

Now Were Rockin!

Fellas,this thread is really starting to move along!You have all put up some real good tools the last little while.It would seem to me that for the home handyman or hobbyist finding those old tools that need a bit of restoration is a far cheaper way to go when building up your tool cache than buying new.Granted that when you buy new your keeping people employed by producing tools,but those of us that use the older stuff are doing are part for the recycling effort.I realize some of the tools would not be the cost efficient way to go if you were a tradesman on the job.

Any of you guy's that have new or newer tolls we want to see those as well as old.Anything Tool's that does not have a specific forum to place it in.
Thanks for contributing!
Lawrence

 

[joe25DA]

Kennedy Tool box

Heres my old Kennedy fold out tool box. It was my grandfathers. Its in great shape. He made a socket holder for it you can see in the second pick. Also got it loaded with a bunch of nice tools including the S-K sockets, a nice tap and die set in a case. I keep my "specialty" tools in here. My Dremel, electronics tools and punch set among other suff.
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