Recent additions to my antique shop tool collection

I enjoy using vintage tools to work on vintage cars. Here's a couple of my recent scores. I like pre WW2 stuff. Here's a pic of my recently acquired 1913 Manley screw press/ arbor press and my Marvel number 2 horizontal powered hack saw.



The press was built for auto service and has tooling on the front to check the truness of crankshafts and driveshafts.

Got some old stuff? Post it up. Ill be posting more tools too.

 

Here's my Buffalo drill press. I believe its a post war Buffalo 15. Works great and I love the look. Old tools are like sculptures. Sorry for the chaotic backgrounds in the pictures but I'm in the process of moving.

 

I like the drill press a bunch. Here is some junk I recently picked up.
Racine hack saw, a few 3ph grinders, punch and a large vise.
Your background looks pristine compared to mine. Spring cleaning that looks like it's going to last through the summer.

 

I got this one

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that press is slick, it would be cool to find something like it in CA... anymore pics of the screw mechanism and/or manufacturer labels? any idea how much pressure can it handle?

i find decent stuff out west, but most of the sale ads with turn of the century/early 1900's machinery seems to be in the east coast. it pays to live in an area that dominated manufacturing prior to WW2.

 

Powered hacksaws have multiple uses...Near me about twenty years ago, there was a garage run by a crusty old geezer. He had a '32 sedan in there, and it was often parked outside to make room for customer cars.
Not surprisingly, it drew every passing undesirable (like me) hoping that it might be available cheap for some inconceivable reason.
Whenever such a pest walked in and mentioned anything relating to the '32, the old guy (deaf as a post himself) walked over and switched on his hacksaw. It was set up with an entirely worn out blade chewing on an old water pipe.
It made a long, slow, dismal squawk that must have set teeth on edge for a hundred yards around and of course repeated as long as necessary. Within a minute, the old guy was working in peace...

 

I have a small Craftsman power hacksaw of early 1950s vintage... its been used on multiple projects. Beats turning on the bandsaw for small stuff.

 

Was at a local swap meet and picked up this neat tool. Its a split rim spreader. I haven't tried to kill myself using it yet but its real cool to look at. Handles been repaired but it seems functional

 

I don't think so. It is actually an old tire changing machine. Instead of the ones we see in use today where either the tire or center spindle of the machine spins. This one sat on top of the wheel and tire and spread apart bringing the tire over the wheel rim as it spread. Thus nothing had to spin and accomplished the same task as two tire irons. Technology!

 

It is called a rim spreader...but the way it works is that it goes" inside" of a "circa 1920s" outer rim that has a split. To get the tire off that rim, you use that tool to pull one side of the split, towards the center of the rim. Then, one side of the split tucks under the other side of the split, which makes the rim itself, a smaller diameter. Then the tire can be removed..

After the new tire goes on, that spreader helps get the rim get back to where the split ends are lined up again...by spreading the rim back to original diameter.

My 75 yr old friend showed me that tool use last summer when I was getting a used tire from him for a doodlebug. Works a lot better and faster than when I got home and had to "collapse" my rim to put his tire on, (without that tool).

 

I love old table saws. Nice solid base. Keep some butcher's wax on that table and fence.

 

Great info thanks. I'm definately gonna try this thing out.

 

Vin Dutch? is that Von's brother? HRP

 

Love those old tools , but respect them , they can snap a wrist fast !

 

They called that style drill a "Widow-Maker" for good reason....

 

Love seeing your old tools have to get pictures of what I have on here..

 

We have my great great grandfathers first chain saw

Also an apprentice's construction hammer.


My grandfather collected hay cars and numerous other things hanging on our shops walls.

 

Star riveted brake relining center.