Look what I found!

[shadowjack1]

Originally Posted by asphaltgambler

Good stuff all! Any here remember when there was a metal oil fill adaptor to a mason jar? You would: A) Already have glass mason jars for canning ( your mom) B) buy this metal oil pour adaptor C) pour oil from the can into the qt mason jar, screw the metal adaptor onto jar.

Then when adding oil to your engine use the set up above, as the adaptor was an inverted funnel - way back machine!

I forgot all about them Thanks

[GH85Carrera]

I have one of those oil can spouts hanging on my garage wall next to my dwell meter and timing light. I also have my first cordless drill, a brace next it it.

[cabmandone]

For no more room that that old oil spout takes up, I'd hang onto it. Kinda cool.

[wdfifteen]

More moldy stuff from the attic.











It's pretty obvious what this is in general. It's a folding hand cart. On the handle it says, "Folding Railroad xxxx." The xxxx is not legible and I have not been able to find what the it is. It's kind of cool that the "tires" are rope wound around the steel wheels.








This is an old Planet Junior vegetable seed planter. Planet Jr. was a major supplier of farm equipment to truck farmers and market garden farmers in the first half of the 20th century. The original company is long out of business but Planet Jr equipment was so well designed that it is still in production by other companies.
All the gears turn freely on this one and I might plant some corn with it this spring.

[wdfifteen]

Oops. Left out the photo of the cart wheel detail.

[vash]

my brother still has my can of orignal Quaker State. perfect for the can puncher. (just texted him..yup, he still has it. full can of quaker state.)

what i do love are those old oil cans with the flexible pour hose found in vintage gas stations. there was a station in Pacifica that still used one...i asked the guy how his wasnt stolen yet, the way he left it around.

[vash]

like this!

(his had a lid)

[Evans, Marv]

Those old implements in such good shape are real treasures.

[herr_oberst]

Patrick, in your spare time, if you want to read the stenciling on the folding cart, try this:

Save out the highest quality 16 bit RGB image you can get off of your camera, (edit - into Photoshop) then convert the RGB to LAB. Give the LAB image as much contrast as you can without losing detail in the 3/4 tones, (use curves or levels or some such attribute - maybe even try threshold?), then scroll through the LAB channels one by one to see if the stencil on the image becomes clear enough to read. You can make tonal adjustments in the individual channels, even invert them or add some sharpening to improve legibility...(I know, I'm not telling you anything, this is just a reminder that LAB sees things that may get lost in other GAMMA.)

Or, don't worry about it and leave it as a mystery. I tried to do it from the image that you posted, but too much detail has been lost in the conversion to web protocol.

[wdfifteen]

Try as I might I still cannot make out the words. I'm having second thoughts about the word "railroad." It may be "Patent"
I this is a mystery I'll keep working on in my spare time

[porsche930dude]

My grandmother said when they were in germany before WWII they always used rope for tires on their bicycles. It looks to say "Folding Railroad Truck"

[porsche930dude]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Ha! I know. I still regret getting rid of my big torque wrench. I bought it at a government surplus auction for a few bucks. It had a 1 1/2 inch socket drive and was 8 feet long - four feet on each side of the socket drive. Took a good strong guy just to lift it and at least two men to use it. I measured up to 3000 ft lbs or something ridiculous like that. After keeping it for 10 years or so I scrapped it after realizing I had no earthly need for it. In retrospect I realize that was a dumb idea for getting rid of something so cool.

heres one in action at the 4 minute mark

[wdfifteen]

Found some things while unpacking my tools this week. Some golden oldies that I haven't used in 40 years. I can probably sell them as antiques on ebay.



How many of you have ever used one of these?



I don't remember which one is used on which make.







I don't know what these things are. Can anyone help?

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by porsche930dude

heres one in action at the 4 minute mark

Looks like they're just using extensions to crank that thing down. I don't see a dial or anyway to adjust the "clicker" if it has one. But yes, from a distance that's what it looked like.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I don't know what these things are. Can anyone help?

Looks like some fixtures to drill holes to insert dowels in wood joints.

[scottmandue]

Wait... you put oil in your engine? How does that work?

[Scott Douglas]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Found some things while unpacking my tools this week. Some golden oldies that I haven't used in 40 years. I can probably sell them as antiques on ebay.



How many of you have ever used one of these?



I don't remember which one is used on which make.







I don't know what these things are. Can anyone help?

That first picture looks like it'd be handy for adjusting the dwell on a Chevy distributor if the hex drive is the right size.

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

How many of you have ever used one of these?

Well how else are you going to adjust you tach and dwell? That one is a fancy one.

[MBAtarga]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I don't know what these things are. Can anyone help?

Those are dowelling jigs used to drill mating holes in wood to align the pieces together when gluing up.
The holes are offset from the side for use with different widths of lumber and typically you would use a dowel 1/2 the width of the piece of wood. 3/8" dowel for a 3/4" thickness of lumber. The hole selected for use should be the one that is lines up with the center of the board.

[JackDidley]

I used the crooked distributor wrench this week and actually used the points adjuster less than 2 years ago on a 1971 454 Chevy. I also recall being a poor kid getting his ass shocked off setting points with an allen wrench.