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A friend sent me a nice table. It was bubble wraped, backed in packing media, wrapped in brown paper. Then placed in a plastic shipping container, then packed with more bubble wrap and packing media. Then that was sealed into shrink wrap. The Grunting Evri driver left this, in a clear plastic...

Recently I was given a whole host of tools, by a grand daughter of a Men In Sheds member. look for a white box, the member was difficult. But I got to know him. He drank gin I enjoy the rum.

This was a pain from the start. Badly repaired, badly restored and in a poor shape. Rust remover. More bad repairs. Black paint, as it was stamped WD 1944.

A red Lens Rail Lantern, yes it is bent, very rusty and missing a bit. The tank and burner, but fear not. I have a spare. Caustic soda had the paint removed, citric acid did for the rust. A wash off and a dry and we have the paint going on. Yes I left the dent in...

What does £5 get you? Plus......... After a bit of work. A bit of hot caustic soda had the paint off. A bit of fresh paint. Blue rattle can paint. A bit of gold leaf.

Fit for Scrap? First look yes. But a few minutes and it showed me it was still true, no bad pitting and still sound. Warm Citric acid, dyed red for safety. Using Nuclear Fission to cure the clear coat. Fit for another few years.

£0:50p, from a local scrap yard. Rusty, but complete. No need to take this to a Surface grinder. But grinding paste and plate glass. All done.

The two planes are the Record Rebate Plane and the Stanley Plane. As you can see it is rusty, worse the sole was pitted. So a trip to a friend with a Magnetic surface grinder. This removed the rust and trued the sole up, sot it is a 90Degress to the sides. A few coats of French...

At Men In Sheds we get a range of donations. Some very good and the all the way to the very bad. This Grinder was donate and we were told it was fully working. Inspection soon showed that it may of been working. But it was not going to be, in this state of repair. The cable clamp has...

This Baily No5 Plane was gifted to me. For a Local Men In Sheds. At first look it seamed to be ok, a bit of rust. That is easy sorted. Getting it to bits I found the rear hand fixings were bent, the fron was jammed, but worse. It had been dropped, had and the sole to sides were bent...

This one was a lot simpler, as it worked. Again, pulled from a skip. No bugs either. Works as well.

Pulled from a skip. It is complete, but it does not move. Nothing moved, even the bugs were dead. This is the crud, it is a bit soft now, after drowning it in de greaser(Gunk) Do not force the parts, it will make the repair a lot harder. As parts will break. The parts will be hard to...

As the title, what is this.

Today this lot was mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, it will go to Men in sheds.

This complete Monitor Camping stove was mine the other day, yes I know there are 3 items that are not meant to be with it. It leaked badly. The NRV was also not working. The Burner to tank is a lead washer. It will be replaced. You can buy a service kit for theses stoves, that...

Set aside for me at a scrap yard. The blade was bent, the paint was failing and the guides were stuck. The reason the guides were stuck was some sort of waxy oil substance was covering all the parts. Make shift vapor tank. This will remove paint, oil, grease and wax. Hot caustic...

These come along so often at Men In shed, we hardy do much with them. Until I made contact with Haynes motor Museum. Now they take them of use and sell them to classic car owners. All are bunged solid with old grease. We pull out as much as we can. Then we boil the rest out with soap powder...

This came my way. The only thing that moved was the sliding handle. The red paint was so thick it had jammed all the parts. The dirt was even painted over. Last year it was on sale for £98. Last week mine for £10. Modern paint remover made a dent. But in the end it was boiled up in caustic...

Again a WW2 item. But it was painted green. something that was never done in WW2. Why? The paint can flake and may cause injury. I know seams petty but that was what it was. The old paint was removed with a cabinet scraper, made from a old saw blade. After the scraper with wool was...

At Men In Sheds, we get a assortment of donations. We try to save as much as we can. Here is a good example of saving some hand tools. Done my some members at my workshop. Rusted and seized. Also bent. This was heated to red hot, placed on a anvil and tapped back into shape. Then...