The_Yellow_Ardvark
Established Member
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 into hot citric acid.
More to follow.
Rusty and also seized.
When we get tool like this, we try to see if they can be made to move. If not they are broken for spares or scraped.
Doesn't look much. But that small amount of dirt was enough to seize the worm gear. So it is cleaned out and the the gear worked back and forth. Until it is free to move.
Then with a blow torch all the old oil, grease and wax is burnt of.
Then a hot citric bath.
A nice WD hand vice.
But we soon found and issue when it was striped down.
The screw is striped and bent.
Odd for a tool made in 1944 the thread was M8. So it must of bean replaced in its life.
So we replaced it.
The Hot Citric acid bath.
All three were then removed and given a polish up with a brass wire wheel.
They are then placed on a hot plate to dry them out.
When spit bubbles on them, a mix of Oil and wax is applied.
All 3 are ex WD tools, all stamped as well.
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 into hot citric acid.
More to follow.
Rusty and also seized.
When we get tool like this, we try to see if they can be made to move. If not they are broken for spares or scraped.
Doesn't look much. But that small amount of dirt was enough to seize the worm gear. So it is cleaned out and the the gear worked back and forth. Until it is free to move.
Then with a blow torch all the old oil, grease and wax is burnt of.
Then a hot citric bath.
A nice WD hand vice.
But we soon found and issue when it was striped down.
The screw is striped and bent.
Odd for a tool made in 1944 the thread was M8. So it must of bean replaced in its life.
So we replaced it.
The Hot Citric acid bath.
All three were then removed and given a polish up with a brass wire wheel.
They are then placed on a hot plate to dry them out.
When spit bubbles on them, a mix of Oil and wax is applied.
All 3 are ex WD tools, all stamped as well.
