r/toolporn

5" total length.
2.25" length of shank. 5mm wide just the tip.

I have more important things to spend money on, I hope the urge passes soon

2 years ago I picked up a well used 1950's Skil 107 'Orange Label' 10" worm drive saw for a very reasonable price because it was labeled as "for parts only - non-functional" due to a broken wire at one of the brush holders.

I stripped the saw down, cleaned the general gunk off it, wire wheeled it and then, shortly after, my partner and I moved to a new state and I started working some pretty insane hours for the last year and a half, so up until 2 weeks ago, it sat in a tote in pieces.

In February, I got a new job with a much better work life balance and slowly began finishing up projects I had laying all around the garage.

2 weeks ago, I opened the tote, took the housing parts out, mixed up a bucket of boiling water and dawn soap and began scrubbing the saw clesn. Wiped it down with solvent, masked it off and put on 2 coats of primer, 2 coats of metallic aluminum base and 2 coats of high gloss 2k clear.

I made new gaskets out of 1/8" cork rubber felpro gasket material and 1/16" nitrile gasket material, applied a thin coat of Permatex 82180 ultra black RTV and began reassembly of the saw.

I fixed the broken brush holder clamp on the field, let the brush holders sit in the freezer for a few days to shrink just enough to fit back in the housing and started rolling on the rebuild.

I replaced the gaskets, blued the blade washer and bolt, angle adjustment bolt, strain relief spring, fill cap and switch, fixed the broken brush holders field clip, put heat shrink on the original cloth conductors, installed a new cord, refilled it with Skil 80111 worm drive lube and got a set of reproduction nameplates made for it.

I cut a diamond KO into a new Freud Diablo 10" blade with a dremel, replaced the brushes and brush caps with new ones from Eurton and today just finished reassembly when the new nameplates came in.

Very happy with how this restoration turned out. Mechanically it was in excellent shape. Bearing and leather input & output shaft seals showed very little, if any wear, so I mostly reused everything but the gaskets, cord, blade, brushes, brush caps and nameplates.

Overall, I am VERY happy with how it turned out. Its like brand new and has yet to leak even a drop of drive lube.

Check out the full resto on GJ!

I've been testing screwdrivers across different standards — ANSI, ISO, DIN, and JIS. The subtle differences matter more than I expected, especially with JIS screws.

One comparison led to another, and somehow it came to this.

My wife saw the pile and laughed. Turns out she's the standard I'm most compatible with.

This is the 2nd PB Swiss Ratcheting Screwdriver (Long and Short blade) I have purchased and neither has the bar code. No purpose or function, I just think it is kinda cool. Is it an Amazon thing..?

Found an old pic of my tool box when it was new. I'm buying a new box because I'm out of room. I also have a 6 drawer mac slide top cart and a Macsimizer 4125 "cart" loaded. New Snap on guy is unreliable so I'm getting a Macsimizer and was going to trade this one in as well as the slide top cart.

I was considering keeping it and transforming it into a transmission teardown table with storage. Add a 30"x70"x 3/8" or 1/2" steel top. Tilt it, add a drain, a vise and a small swing arm crane because 5500 transmissions are heavy.

I know I could get more for trade in than a transmission table is worth, but I think a crane would tip a normal table and I would get extra storage this way.

Am I nuts for thinking this might be a good idea?

And had someone custom make a 3D printed holder for my KTC Nepros ratchets and my extensions (in another drawer).

Also pictured are a full set of Astro Pneumatic stubby impacts. The sockets are mostly Craftsman and Vevor (for the impacts) with Tekton filling in the skips that were missing. There’s also two hard to come by 1/4 size, 1/8 shallow and deep sockets I found from SK. Just needed to fill the set in hahahaha.

Old brain couldn't figure how to put 2 pics on the post or put a pic in comments. Jeez. Old n wheezy aint easy.