Channel Title: Hand Tool Rescue Channel Description: Tool restorations and patent recreations. I rescue tools and put them back in the hands of people who can appreciate them. Check out what is for sale at www.handtoolrescue.com If you would like to send me something, you can do so at this address: PO Box 97 Schomberg, ON, Canada L0G1T0 <video> 1930s White Showers Inc. Sprinkler Description: </video> <video> The Mini Screwdriver Description: The perfect mini screwdriver is ready! </video> <video> 1891 Apple Peeler Description: #antique #restoration </video> <video> The 1960s were wild Description: Homelite XL-100 gas powered circular saw </video> <video> Secrets of the Sock Machine Description: Sneaky restoration technique for hidden gilding. #restoration #csm #sockmachine #knitting </video> <video> This is a $2000 machine Description: #antique #vintage #restoration </video> <video> Bird Cannon [Restoration] Description: This restoration is on a "ZON" bird cannon made by the B.M. Lawrence & Co. of San Francisco, CA, USA in the 1950s. This tool is also called an automatic scarecrow, carbide cannon, bird scarer, or orchard cannon and cost $60 USD in 1955 which is about $750 USD today. You can view the original patent here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3056376 The cannon works by the user mixing calcium carbide and water to create acetylene gas. Once the gas builds up to a certain amount, it is emptied into the explosion chamber and a flint is struck, igniting the gas and creating an extremely loud sound in hopes of scaring away birds and apparently human ears. This is the most dangerous tool I have restored thus far. The risk of creating shrapnel was present and real during every restoration decision. The main rubber diaphragm was completely rotten and needed replacing, but if I did not find rubber with equivalent thickness, strength, elasticity, and resistance to acetylene, I could accidentally create a massive problem for my limbs. If the restored firing mechanism jams, it may allow for multiple doses of acetylene to enter the chamber, and remove my face. If I accidentally let water enter down the pressure equalization tube in the calcium carbide chamber while moving it around, it could go off while I am holding it, making me deaf for life. Modern equivalents are made today, but use propane instead. I'd like to thank @CRCAutoUS for sponsoring this video. I've switched to a food-grade penetrating oil from them as a more safe alternative, and it as worked just as well as the usual penetrating oils I've used. You can check out the products from them used in this video in the links below: https://www.evapo-rust.com https://www.crcindustries.com/evapo-rust/ https://www.crcindustries.com/smartwasher/ https://www.crcindustries.com/food-grade-penetrating-oil-11-wt-oz/ Wrenches, screwdrivers, and socket drivers are now for sale at www.handtoolrescue.com Watch narrated videos and help secure more tools for future videos (if you want): https://www.patreon.com/handtoolrescue Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/handtoolrescue Facebook Group - Share your restorations https://www.facebook.com/groups/handtoolrescue https://www.facebook.com/handtoolrescue/ Reddit - Share your restorations https://www.reddit.com/r/HandToolRescue/ Podcast (with @jimmydiresta and Andrew Alexander) - https://anchor.fm/fitzall </video> <video> 1920s Lawn Mower [Restoration] - Part 1 Description: This machine was made by the Coldwell Lawn Mower Co. of Newburgh, NY, USA in the late 1920s. It claimed to cut and roll 3 acres on a single tank of gas using a 25" width reel mower powered by a 3.5HP Fuller and Johnson engine. It cost the equivalent of ~$7000 in current(2024) USD. This video focuses solely on the restoration of the engine portion of this tool. The engine was not in the worst shape I have seen for something its age, but it is a very odd design and not common at all. It fought me every single step of the way, to the point where it took me 4 months to fully restore. I made some choices early in the restoration that came back to bite me in the end. I decided not to replace the piston rings despite a light honing of the cylinder, since replacements were not available at the time and I really didn't want to make new ones like I did for the steam engine restoration. I also decided to use composite cork with a gasoline resistant coating for the carburetor float replacement. Lastly, I decided to lightly repaint the outside of the of the magneto. Unfortunately, all of these things were a terrible idea that set me back months of work and time. The piston rings did need a full replacement as compression was low and blow-by was showing up in the oilers. I found a single set in Australia. The coating on the cork float completely failed , so I tried coating it entirely in gasoline tank sealer, but that also failed. I ended up replacing the float entirely with one that I custom made out of nitrophyl, which is a plastic float resistant to gasoline. The original cork float was coating in shellac, which unfortunately will dissolve in modern gasoline, which contains ethanol. Lastly, I spent 5 weeks working on the Bosch BA-1 magneto, which decided to completely stop working after just painting the outside. This is a rare magneto with expensive and hard to find replacement parts, so I had to figure it all out myself. I ended up completely tearing the whole thing apart multiple times and investigating every part with my multimeter. Initially, it looked like the secondary coil needed to be rewound, which would have taking a professional several months, but once I got my hands on a more sensitive multimeter, it checked out fine. I also replaced the capacitor within the magneto, but that did not help either. After weeks of disassembly and reassembly, I found a hairline crack in one of the insulator parts that was allowing some voltage to leak and spark somewhere internally to the magneto. I also chose to restore the radiator for the engine in the next part of this restoration, as I can run the engine for a short period without it, and this video was already running quite long. In the end I learned that this is the first engine I've ever restored that has depression and truly hates all its original parts. I'd like to thank @CRCAutoUS for sponsoring this video. I've switched to a food-grade penetrating oil from them as a more safe alternative, and it as worked just as well as the usual penetrating oils I've used. You can check out the products from them used in this video in the links below: https://www.evapo-rust.com/ https://www.crcindustries.com/evapo-rust/ https://www.crcindustries.com/smartwasher/ https://www.crcindustries.com/food-grade-penetrating-oil-11-wt-oz/ Wrenches, screwdrivers, and socket drivers are now for sale at https://www.handtoolrescue.com/ Watch narrated videos and help secure more tools for future videos (if you want): https://www.patreon.com/handtoolrescue Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/handtoolrescue Facebook Group - Share your restorations https://www.facebook.com/groups/handtoolrescue https://www.facebook.com/handtoolrescue/ Reddit - Share your restorations https://www.reddit.com/r/HandToolRescue/ Podcast (with @jimmydiresta and Andrew Alexander) - https://anchor.fm/fitzall </video> <video> The 1920s Coldwell Model L Whip with the Polio Wheelchair ridin' on 22s. Description: #tools #restoration #lawn </video> <video> What's in the box?! 1890s Safe [Restoration] Description: This restoration is on the Key Combination Safe No. 40 made by the J. & E. Stevens Co. of Cromwell, Connecticut, USA in the late 1800s. The company started in 1843 and lasted about 100 years while making cast iron toys and coin banks. This specific cast iron curiosity seems to be designed for storage of some small valuable items like coins or jewelry. During my move to a new workshop, this was unfortunately left in a storage container that was not climate controlled, so the constant temperature and humidity fluctuations led to this item getting extremely rusty in a short period of time. Luckily, as we know from lesser restoration channels, short term rust does not damage the surface of the metal at very much. Concurrently, the safe was originally nickel-plated so the rust damage would have been limited. This was the first restoration where I just threw the whole thing into Evapo-Rust before taking it apart, as it would be easier to see where this thing was pinned together. The restoration itself was straight forward and the only known issue was a missing tooth on the combination dial. It was super neat to see the intricate, delicate, and beautiful castings and I was really happy to have this pass through the shop! I'd like to thank @CRCAutoUS for sponsoring this video. I've switched to a food-grade penetrating oil from them as a more safe alternative, and it as worked just as well as the usual penetrating oils I've used. You can check out the products from them used in this video in the links below: https://www.evapo-rust.com/ https://www.crcindustries.com/evapo-rust/ https://www.crcindustries.com/smartwasher/ https://www.crcindustries.com/food-grade-penetrating-oil-11-wt-oz/ Wrenches, screwdrivers, and socket drivers are now for sale at https://www.handtoolrescue.com/ Watch narrated videos and help secure more tools for future videos (if you want): https://www.patreon.com/handtoolrescue Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/handtoolrescue Facebook Group - Share your restorations https://www.facebook.com/groups/handtoolrescue https://www.facebook.com/handtoolrescue/ Reddit - Share your restorations https://www.reddit.com/r/HandToolRescue/ Podcast (with @jimmydiresta and Andrew Alexander) - https://anchor.fm/fitzall </video> <video> 1920s Lawn Mower [Restoration] - Part 2 Description: This video is the final part of the Coldwell "Model L" Lawn Mower Co. of Newburgh, NY, USA in the late 1920s. The other half of the restoration of this machine was much less frustrating than the previous half. Most repairs were just cosmetic painting issues although a few pieces were cracked and needed to be brazed back together. I did end up remaking the drive roller cover as the previous one had a large hole in it. The largest issue was the need for a new drive shaft that was longer than the max capacity of my lathe so I had to hire that job out. I was incredibly grateful that the radiator did not leak and actually worked, although I did use RV anti-freeze instead of water as I didn't want the whole cooling system to start rusting again. The helical cutting blades were a "reel" pain to sharpen as I used grinding compound and spun them by hand twelve million times so make sure they worked perfectly. As for the actual function of this mower, it's insanely fun to use and has a surprising amount of power. The lack of reverse makes it somewhat difficult to maneuver if you happen to get stuck, and the whole thing weighs 350 lbs so pushing around when it's not running is tough. Having super smooth rollers is great for flattening the grass, but if it hits a patch of gravel it gets stuck immediately. I really wish this had a chair and some steering as I would have loved to drive this around my lawn. I'd like to thank @CRCAutoUS for sponsoring this video. I've switched to a food-grade penetrating oil from them as a more safe alternative, and it as worked just as well as the usual penetrating oils I've used. You can check out the products from them used in this video in the links below: https://www.evapo-rust.com/ https://www.crcindustries.com/evapo-rust/ https://www.crcindustries.com/smartwasher/ https://www.crcindustries.com/food-grade-penetrating-oil-11-wt-oz/ Wrenches, screwdrivers, and socket drivers are now for sale at https://www.handtoolrescue.com/ Watch narrated videos and help secure more tools for future videos (if you want): https://www.patreon.com/handtoolrescue Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/handtoolrescue Facebook Group - Share your restorations https://www.facebook.com/groups/handtoolrescue https://www.facebook.com/handtoolrescue/ Reddit - Share your restorations https://www.reddit.com/r/HandToolRescue/ Podcast (with @jimmydiresta and Andrew Alexander) - https://anchor.fm/fitzall </video> <video> Mesmerizing 1930s Artillery Sprinkler [Restoration] Description: This restoration was on a unique 1930s sprinkler made by White Showers Inc. of Detroit, Michigan, USA. Old advertisements claimed it could spray water 50 ft and cover an area of 2500 sqft. Most of this tool was made of brass, but some of the steel components were painted. The original colours are unknown as I can only find other photos online that show a spectrum of different colour options and no mention of what they would have originally been in the advertisements. The articulating spraying motion is powered entirely through water pressure. You can read about that specific mechanism in the patent here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1751640 Multiple parts needed to be brazed back together as well as completely remade. I also chose to lap all the valve components like they were engine valves to ensure the best performance. Naturally, I also replaced some steel parts with brass because steel and water do not play nice together over time. In the end the sprinkler works amazingly well and is currently in use in my personal garden. I'd like to thank @CRCAutoUS for sponsoring this video. I've switched to a food-grade penetrating oil from them as a more safe alternative, and it as worked just as well as the usual penetrating oils I've used. You can check out the products from them used in this video in the links below: https://www.evapo-rust.com/ https://www.crcindustries.com/evapo-rust/ https://www.crcindustries.com/smartwasher/ https://www.crcindustries.com/food-grade-penetrating-oil-11-wt-oz/ Wrenches, screwdrivers, and socket drivers are now for sale at https://www.handtoolrescue.com/ Watch narrated videos and help secure more tools for future videos (if you want): https://www.patreon.com/handtoolrescue Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/handtoolrescue Facebook Group - Share your restorations https://www.facebook.com/groups/handtoolrescue https://www.facebook.com/handtoolrescue/ Reddit - Share your restorations https://www.reddit.com/r/HandToolRescue/ Podcast (with @jimmydiresta and Andrew Alexander) - https://anchor.fm/fitzall </video> <video> What Do You Know? Description: Confidently Incorrect. </video> <video> 1877 High Gizmosity Saw Set Description: Hand cranked saw set patented by Disston in 1877. #antique #restoration #machine </video> <video> Mesmerizing Saw Set Description: BeMaCo Rapid Saw Set from the late 1940s #antique #restoration #vintage </video>

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Tool restorations and patent recreations.

I rescue tools and put them back in the hands of people who can appreciate them.
Check out what is for sale at www.handtoolrescue.com

If you would like to send me something, you can do so at this address:

PO Box 97
Schomberg, ON, Canada
L0G1T0

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