11 thoughts on “I found an anvil and a vise for Phil, he has been wanting a set for a long time.”
Fuckin’ tease!
WANT!
Cool
a long time ago, you could find all sorts of old vises and stuff at the local scrap yards. hell, one time I bought a old jap rifle at one for 5 bucks, needed a bit of work, but the damn thing shot well enough to get me a few deer with.
you would not believe the machine tools dumped in scrap yards back in the 1970’s
it was after damn near all the machine shops started closing down. had the cash to buy a lot of stuff, but no place to put or store it.
one time, no shit. got a old south bend 10 lathe for 2 cases of beer. cleaned it up and got it working right and then sold it for 600 bucks to another gearhead.
I never buy another lathe bit again, they dumped them by the ton.
I have a small shaper, atlas, but if I had the space to put one, could have bought a lot of bigger ones by the pound.
it is the only thing i miss about philly, checking out the scrap yards for metal stock. and paying pennies on the pound for it.
You just want to remove the rust, Phil!!
Yes, and to put them back to work.
A can of naval jelly, a spell with a wire brush, and a few shots of WD-40, and all that’ll buff right out.
All tools have a life, restore it and bring it back to life.
Man, that’s beautiful.
-rightwingterrorist
A chain drive vise, genius! USA! USA! USA!
That’s heavy duty, all right. Bet I couldn’t lift either one of them.
That’s a thousand bucks to buy right there. Looked for an old anvil long ago. The cheapest I found was 600 bucks. I’ll stick with my piece of train rail for now.
Fuckin’ tease!
WANT!
Cool
a long time ago, you could find all sorts of old vises and stuff at the local scrap yards. hell, one time I bought a old jap rifle at one for 5 bucks, needed a bit of work, but the damn thing shot well enough to get me a few deer with.
you would not believe the machine tools dumped in scrap yards back in the 1970’s
it was after damn near all the machine shops started closing down. had the cash to buy a lot of stuff, but no place to put or store it.
one time, no shit. got a old south bend 10 lathe for 2 cases of beer. cleaned it up and got it working right and then sold it for 600 bucks to another gearhead.
I never buy another lathe bit again, they dumped them by the ton.
I have a small shaper, atlas, but if I had the space to put one, could have bought a lot of bigger ones by the pound.
it is the only thing i miss about philly, checking out the scrap yards for metal stock. and paying pennies on the pound for it.
You just want to remove the rust, Phil!!
Yes, and to put them back to work.
A can of naval jelly, a spell with a wire brush, and a few shots of WD-40, and all that’ll buff right out.
All tools have a life, restore it and bring it back to life.
Man, that’s beautiful.
-rightwingterrorist
A chain drive vise, genius! USA! USA! USA!
That’s heavy duty, all right. Bet I couldn’t lift either one of them.
That’s a thousand bucks to buy right there. Looked for an old anvil long ago. The cheapest I found was 600 bucks. I’ll stick with my piece of train rail for now.