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A Railroad tool...grinder you ask? Well yes, they make a handy sized hand crank grinder for using 6 inch stones. But lets back up a bit... Once in a while I scour my local KIJIJI for tools, cause you never know what can comes up sometimes! Missed on a few good deal on some rarely seen tools, but for the most part, I have been happy with what I found. This one came up in my regular hand tools search in Nova Scotia: The infamous Railroad tool grinder. An Elephant in a China shop?? Decent looking, as far as I could tell from the pics, but would have to be seen in person, since we are paying cash, so if nothing serious, it's a good price. Well worth asking price. Here is another, broken handle, worse paint loses etc, for US $100 I'e seen them all day long on Ebay around US $70-90 range, and of course sometimes ridiculous asking prices... Here are the photos from the original poster's ad, the one I got As they are mostly found, it is missing the tool holder, only a part of it (t...

Now that the BBM is “mobile” around the shop, I was able to clear my bench and dry mounted the boring till in place. I wanted it to be in line with the top of the big plane cabinet on the other side of the window.  Measured and put a mark on the wall and window trim. In place and just resting on the mallets & hammer’s top on its rack, put it in, at just about the right height.  Maybe max 1/4 in lower as is? Took a few pics for references and tested my reach around it. There are obviously no tool racks installed yet, but the two pieces of painting tape on it are, were they will go. It’s a bit high, but I am  a Six footer... With the bench top cleared and cleaned, you just knew it was asking for Crapolla on its horizontal surface ... With Spring around the corner, Jean is itching to start growing from seeds. That of course will commandeer most horizontal surfaces downstairs in my Man cave. So good time as any to start cataloging all my recent acquisitions, that would cl...

With the BMM reassembled, I can now move around the shop easier.  So, next project to give me more room is to hang the Boring till. Ready or not, once hung, it will sure free up some space. Some of these steps involved waiting in between, so.... make myself short daily list 4-5 items. NO 1 Today was Finish the brace bits that soaked overnite in Evaporust. I was so impressed the other day, how my BBM bit came out of the Evaporust, I have been dunking various bits in a variety of conditions from light rust mark to solid piece of rust. Pretty cool. Works great and practically sharphen itself in the process. A very rusty Irwin type bit. The other one still has plating  but light surface rust Two basket case nose bits? The 4 bits out of Evaporust  Top one was the rusty one. Bottom one was the plated one after a few minutes with Rust eraser fine.  Both bits after rust eraser  That nose bit has a damaged edge but it makes no difference to its operations  Nice edge...